's first vertical screen movie "Firework World" was released on January 13. The exuberant and fresh atmosphere of life is extremely moving. On the evening of January 25, the film held a post-screening meeting in Nanjing, where director Sun Hong had a conversation with Nanjing film critics.
"Fireworks" is not only a movie, but also a social experiment and a visual feast.
For many viewers, what do they think about watching short videos on mobile phones on the big screen in a cinema? Before stepping into the cinema, the reporter also had this question.
When the movie is released, the question will naturally be solved. The movie will cut the big screen into five equal parts, which will bring five vertical screens. Depending on the plot progress and picture requirements, one or two vertical screens will appear on the big screen. Three vertical screens, or five at the same time. When five vertical screens appear at the same time, it can not only serve a large scene, but also present multiple different materials at the same time.
Some viewers commented that every vertical screen is like a window, allowing us to get a glimpse of civilian individuals who are often ignored, but quietly struggle and shine in life.
Let’s talk about the content of this documentary film.
is formed by selecting more than 500 short videos of amateur life materials from more than 50,000 pieces for secondary editing, and is arranged according to five chapters of "food, clothing, housing, transportation, and home".
The characters presented include rice farmers, boat runners, female textile workers, long-distance freight drivers, construction workers, excavator masters, etc. The lives of these ordinary people are vividly presented on the big screen, and the breath of life comes to our faces lively. It presents a portrait of the struggling contemporary Chinese people.
It can be seen from this that these 509 ordinary people are the "directors" of this film. The materials they took the initiative to record their lives also provide another dimension of reality. These lively and funny stories are full of pyrotechnic humor, and the shots involve Heilongjiang , Guangxi, Hebei, Xinjiang, Tibet and other places’ landscapes, past news stories, daily labor and life scenes such as planting rice seedlings, laying bricks, feeding cormorants, picking cotton and having reunion dinner, wearing Hanfu, visiting relatives and friends -
Construction workers used their breaks to practice "gymnastics horizontal bar" on the construction site, falling thousands of times in muddy water, and developed muscles that were no less than those of gym instructors; excavator drivers "showed off their skills" by putting their mobile phones on the ground. The "arm" that controls the excavator accurately presses the buttons on the mobile phone; the farmer planting rice in the field waves his hand towards the harvested rice fields and declares domineeringly, "This is the country I conquered"...
Moreover, the plot of this movie, It is not a coherent narrative in the traditional sense, but a prose poem that cleverly connects the life moments of people in different times, spaces, and professions.
For example, the last chapter is "Home", going home to celebrate the New Year. Home is the direction of the New Year and the direction of the heart. In this chapter, it is difficult to buy train tickets for the Spring Festival travel rush, to squeeze into the Spring Festival travel train, to enjoy the reunion with relatives. time, in the ocean of short videos, the creative team salvaged real and warm moments.
After reading all 5 chapters, you will find that life under the lens is bustling with people coming and going. Countless ordinary "us" form the background of this smoky world. Most of these video materials are taken from the perspective of selfies or spectators. Although the sound and picture technology is a bit rough, they have a real and unmodified texture derived from life. On the big screen, the audience saw real visual "spectacles" such as cargo ships swinging from the shore and sliding into the water, cement workers using spatulas to write powerful characters, clouds around tower cranes, and rice sprouts emerging.
When Sun Hong, the director of "Fireworks in the World" talked freely with the Nanjing audience, she talked about the original intention of the creation. She hopes that ordinary people can be seen, remembered and cherished. "Although we will encounter many twists and turns in life, and even face the suffering of life, we do not lose the courage to be human in the suffering, and examine the beauty of life in loving and being loved."
Sun Hong said: ""The World of Fireworks" is like a mirror, allowing you to find a familiar self in a somewhat unfamiliar world and feel the hopeful and steamy world.As the ending song "The World Is Worth" says: In hindsight, when we grow up, we will face the bitterness and sing gentle songs. "
(Source Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Kong Xiaoping)
