movie " Golden Video Store " today (23rd) exposed the "Soul of the Movie" feature film. The film is directed by David Redmond and Ashley Sabin and is currently being screened on the National Art Film Exhibition Alliance special line. The film was nominated for the Future Innovation Award at the 39th Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, and received a high reputation when screened at the Beijing Film Festival in 2023. It was hailed as a "must-see for movie fans". It also became a 2024 film with a high score of 8.7 on Douban. The highest-rated film of the year.
The film tells the story of the rise and fall of a legendary video store "Kim's Video Store" in New York, USA, from the perspective of director David. In the movie, boss Kim Young-man finally decided to donate 55,000 movie discs to a small town in Sicily due to the decline of traditional media. However, when director David came to Sicily to look for traces of the video store, he found that these precious film collections had been randomly discarded in abandoned warehouses.
In the feature film clip released today, David summoned his "accomplices", wearing the masks of famous filmmakers such as Chaplin, Godard, Hitchcock, Jackie Chan, and transformed into the "soul of the movie" together Carry out a ridiculous and real movie rescue plan. Inspired by the movies he had watched, he "stolen" all 55,000 discs back to New York on the pretext of filming a fictional movie with the plot of "Stealing Discs." When Mr. Jin, the owner of the video store, saw his video tape returned to New York and learned of David's plan, he said: "Godard has helped you. I have no reason to refuse. Godard does whatever he wants." That's right."
Perhaps when Jean-Luc Godard, the founder of the French New Wave film, turned into a "ghost" and joined this plan to steal movies, his determination, radicalness, love for movies, and free spirit The pursuit also comes with the movie soul mask.
In the film, David said that he had auditory hallucinations before conceiving this plan. He heard the call of movie discs and heard their cries for help. "I hope these collections can continue to make a sound, because it helps me understand the sounds surrounding my ears..." Their call blurs the boundary between reality and fantasy, opening up the barrier between the calm and objective shell of documentaries and the dramatic structure of feature films. , giving the story of the audio-visual tape returning to New York a layer of surrealism, just like the movie brought to it, making it difficult for the audience to tell whether it is fact or fiction, and also making the audience watching the movie wonder. Jie Zhong participated in this "Soul of Movies" plan to save movies.
"Movies are not fiction, but real." "Movies are proof of existence." Director David said in the film. Film art itself is a fictional creation, but the spiritual core of film is the recording, mapping, proof and interpretation of human history. In the long history of the development of film art, every movie fan has probably opened the door of "Jin's Video Store" at some point in his life, rented a certain disc, and felt the exuberant emotions that movies bring to him. Mental strength. The movie world provides everyone with an escape from reality equally. The interweaving of light and shadow contains vigorous vitality and infinite existence. We can also feel and connect the past, present and future from this world.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang
editor/Gong Lifang
