This article comes from the WeChat public account: Mo Yiji, author: Mo Yi, original title: "Thoughts on the theater viewing environment and theater movies in recent years", the title picture comes from: Before AI generation, I always felt that watching movies no matter where I wa

This article comes from the WeChat public account: Mo Yiji , author: Mo Yi, original title: "Thoughts on the theater viewing environment and theater movies in recent years", the title picture comes from: AI generated

Before I always felt that watching You can watch the movie no matter where you are, as long as you [see] it.

But since I really changed from watching movies to understanding movies and making videos myself in 2022, I found that I was wrong. If you want to truly experience a movie, a movie theater is essential.

cinema is the life continuation and the only space carrier of movies.

Why do you have to turn off the lights when watching a movie?

Because after turning off the lights, the surrounding becomes pitch black, and in a dark environment, all light sources are concentrated on the screen, people's attention will not be affected, and thoughts will radiate around the screen. Every frame, every second, every minute on the

screen becomes our dream in reality.

This realistic dream space constructed by a special environment is the most important prerequisite for us to watch movies.

This environment allows us to temporarily forget all the troubles in reality: work is so difficult, family is so tiring, love is so troublesome, life is so hard, study is so tiring... These can all be temporarily forgotten in this environment, and we only need to relax. , leave everything to that big screen and projection equipment.

dream has continued at this moment.

Thinking of this, I gradually understand the dislike of many film critics and senior movie fans for screen shooting, taking pictures, looking at mobile phones, and chatting.

Because although this dark environment is large, it is also fragile.

A little sound or a little light will make the mystery, atmosphere and dream created by this darkness disappear. People only need to pick up their mobile phones, click on them, and turn on the screen, and this dark environment will instantly seep into the erosion of reality.

But as ordinary viewers, we are very helpless.

Personally, I really hope that banning cinema screens, taking pictures, and chatting loudly will be included in the law, because these factors will greatly destroy the integrity and sanctity of watching a movie, but this is obviously impossible.

But on the other hand, I seem to be able to understand those film and television workers. It can be seen from the theater movies in recent years that the movie market has been very unstable in recent years, and the theater movies are even more anxious.

Let’s take a look at the styles of theater movies last year: " All or Nothing " " She Disappeared " " Parrot Kills " " The Eighth Suspect " " School Dad " " Hot Search " ...These movies are essentially designed to attract attention and traffic. Although they also have certain social significance, they are more about form than spirit. They only touch on the real issues and ignore them.

cannot effectively point to the real pain points of society, nor can it complete the plot by constructing flesh-and-blood characters. It can only promote the plot through various curiosity and shit-making jokes, which eventually leads to the collapse of the plot.

Movies are like this, what can theaters do? It is already very difficult for people to spend money to go to movie theaters. What about those who take photos and videos?

Last year I lived in a very remote place, and there was a newly opened cinema downstairs. Because it was so remote, there were basically no people. Every time I go there, the venue is basically reserved and I feel extremely comfortable. Because it's so close, it only takes five minutes to walk there, and I go to see any movie I'm interested in.

I really enjoyed the moment when I turned off the lights before the movie started. It was like entering a dream that was unique to me. All the equipment in this theater was for me: screen, seats, projector, stereo, air conditioner. ...all built for this dream of mine.

At that moment, watching movies became a kind of pilgrimage, an ancient and sacred ritual.

In fact, what we need most is not movie classification, nor blindly blaming the censorship system. Some things cannot be changed for the time being and can only be changed randomly.

What we need most is to reshape the movie environment and improve the audience's viewing aesthetic. Less A little empty, a little more thinking.

In such an environment, it is not easy for anyone. But for the audience, the darkness during the movie should be sacrosanct. In , what we need is immersive content with the creator’s strong self-expression and thinking, rather than jokes, Internet memes, packaging of random social issues, and a happy ending with dumplings.

In China, from the 1980s to the 2000s, in my opinion, the domestic film market was the most open, free and trendy 20 years. The film market is very diverse in creation. The films I watched this year were "All the Guests", "Crazy Town", "The Stubborn Master", " If You Have Something to Say " and " Taking a Bath ". They were all shot during this period. They were full of satire, content, depth and depth. It has regional characteristics, rich characters and thoughtfulness.

has basically disappeared now. Although there are off-site factors, I think there is still some possibility. Within this scope, we can make content that we can think about and sublimate. The educational issues involved in

's " Catching Babies " and the middle-aged men's jobless food delivery involved in " Retrograde Life " are all things that everyone in this society can see, touch and feel. However, the characters, plot, and ultimately the root cause of the social problem were all exposed in the end. seemed to have created an extremely sharp knife that broke into pieces at the last touch.

Ma Jiye's emotions should have been angry and depressed, but in the end he seemed to have accepted that he was a rich second generation. All the anger that had been foreshadowed before was eliminated by Shen Teng's words about not coming back for dinner, and the character instantly lost his soul;

Xu Zheng The fundamental contradiction was transferred to the "Single King" personally, and the second transition was completed through Passepartout (possibly) . The suffering of the character and the hardship of real food delivery were diluted by chicken soup.

I very much look forward to more movies on social issues like this, but I really don’t want to deal with these living and complex people in this way, or to condemn a certain person to death. softens the real issues. This is the greatest harm to the movie and the greatest misleading to the audience.

Of course, we are fortunate that we still have the "Space Exploration Editorial Department" and the introduction of movies like "Oppenheimer".

Therefore, I will still go to the cinema to have a dream in the future, but I hope that such a dream can be purer.

Perhaps that day, everyone can be less angry and have more discussions.

For movies, for dreams.

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