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Involving society, visiting the park is a luxury. Compared to boring to do the work at the desk, or catching up with the project at the desk, going to a corner on the edge of the city to waste time is really not a serious matter.
The last time I went to the park was a year ago. At that time, it happened to be a rain in early summer, and it was so hurried that tourists in the forest path rushed around holding their heads. I could only go to a corner of a snack station to take shelter, a cool breeze blew the rain across my body, and the leaves above my head rustled.
©️ “Go left, go right”
I don’t know when the young people in the park disappeared, and gradually only the aunts who danced in the square, the grandfathers who played chess, and all kinds of magical fitness people were left behind. Taxi. Sometimes I mentioned to my friends that I like going to the park. My friends say that this hobby is very “healthy”.
The paradox is, The park was originally a place developed with the development of industrial civilization, but it was folded by modern life.
Pretend to travel in the open air meal
“Parks are not always green.” Mariam Garcia, a Spanish landscape architect, said that she believes that people’s imagination of parks is actually very narrow.
Some adventurous designers will treat the park as a green belt with stitches. Mariam said that after a building is completed, it only needs to be maintained as it is, and the park has no specific time for completion. The climate changes and changes, so it is more like a living body.
©️ “Blue Door”
The suburbs can be regarded as parks in a broad sense, where there is more vigorous wildness than the small woods that are raised in captivity between tall buildings. The movie “Birds in the Suburbs” attempts to capture this wildness. Although the shooting technique is realistic, it is actually a somewhat mysterious movie.
On one side, an engineer named Xia Hao followed the team to detect sudden ground subsidence in the suburbs. The work was boring and boring. Sometimes they would bet on the slope of a building to kill time; on the other side were a pupil named Xia Hao and The playmates walked around in the woods together, digging out bird nests, playing games, and falling in love.
©️ “Birds in the Suburbs”
The two threads are intertwined occasionally, and the child Xia Hao appears in front of the engineer Xia Hao from time to time, and when the engineer Xia Hao finishes his work, it happens to be the starting point for the child Xia Hao and his friends to step into the woods.
A puzzle with no clear answer recurring in the movie: “Which thing in the world is important, but often forgotten?” The nonlinear narrative of the movie itself has been very obvious, and the answer is “time”.
The park is a variation of time, which may be understood as such a man-made natural landscape, which always maintains sensitivity and compliance to the changing of the seasons. But the other mystery of “Birds in the Suburbs” lies in: what is “time” anyway? It’s the dragon.
©️ “Birds in the Suburbs”
Jia Hongsheng, the protagonist of “Suzhou Creek”, often dreamed of seeing a dragon when he was schizophrenic. He would talk to and quarrel with the dragon by the cloud and in his mind. He said in the autobiographical documentary “Yesterday”, “When I was trapped in a dark time and space, it stood in front of me and guided me.” What does a dragon look like? “It looks exactly like me,” he said.
People think Jia Hongsheng is cool, but in fact he is very painful and tearing. For a period of time, he rode a bicycle from his residence in the Asian Games Village for an hour every day to wander in Ritan Park. No one knew what he was going there for. Ritan Park is small, the altar is empty, covered with mottled moss.
©️ “Yesterday”
In the entire documentary, Jia Hongsheng is eager for an answer, even though he didn’t even think about the question.
In the temple of the sun, he sometimes walked against the wall, turning around like an animal’s stereotyped behavior. Sometimes sitting on the steps without saying a word. Going to the park can bring him comfort, escape from reality and return to nature. Although it is short-lived, it is very real to re-examine his sense of security in silence. As a “lunatic”, Jia Hong’s voice was very quiet at this time.
©️ 《一一》
The park does not appear systematically in the history of movies. It is just a place suitable for wandering in a daze. Occasionally thinking about the philosophy of time and the meaning of life, no matter how much it can carry. Some directors prefer to go for a walk in the park, just like they love daydreaming, this is two sides of one thing.
reciting poems in the park
Speaking of the documentary “Wushan Spring”, director Zhang Ming said jokingly: “The changes in China over thousands of years are a history of poetic disappearance.” The life experience gained is gradually replaced by the instrumental rationality of the city. The poetry of the forest was unsustainable, so Zhang Ming went back to the forest.
This is “Pluto Moment”. The film is adapted from Zhang Ming’s experience in the deep mountains of Hubei many years ago. A group of strange men and women roam in the damp dense forest, as if they were looking for something, but they didn’t know what to look for. Zhang Ming understands the forest as a projection of desire, and people are lost in it.
©️”Pluto Moment”
Lou Ye cannot be avoided at this point. The sixth-generation directors have nothing in common. The uneasy state may be considered a little bit, but the reasons for each director are different. In Lou Ye’s movie world, desire is logic, and this is the source of people’s uneasiness, such as “The Summer Palace.”
It is said that the movie was called this name because Lou Ye was very satisfied with the scene of Yu Hong and Zhou Wei rowing a boat in the Summer Palace. This scene was less than five minutes long and was one of the most sophisticated and romantic scenes. Lou Ye said that this evening was the happiest time for Yu Hong, but we could still perceive a hint of worry in her trance.
©️ “The Summer Palace”
The Summer Palace was originally a traditional imperial garden, and there are many tourists with distracted eyes everywhere. It is also here that Yu Hong and the reckless love of youth reached a brief peacesolution. Once you have watched this movie and then go to the Summer Palace, you will be tempted to enter the ambiguous atmosphere.
©️《一一》
People often misinterpret Lou Ye as lyrical, but he is good at realism. When he made his first short film “In Shanghai” while holding a DV, almost all of his life scenes were captured randomly.
In the middle, he photographed a family wandering in the park, just wandering, no faces were photographed. But the family still came over angrily to block the camera, and rudely drove Lou Ye and his friends away. Lou Ye should be ecstatic when he was driven away. The more people wanted to cover up, the more likely it was that something was real and crucial.
On the other hand, the men and women in Lou Ye’s lens are obsessed with fantasy, such as Sha Fuming in “Tuina”. Du Hong said impatiently when he rejected Sha Fuming’s pursuit: “You think this is love, but it’s actually your vanity infatuation with a concept, nothing more. That’s not love, you should know it.”
©️ 《Tuina》
The life of a blind masseuse is often only two points and one line, rarely appearing outside the massage parlor. Their lives are reduced to the simplest level by the visually impaired problem, and Sha Fu, who often goes to Xuanwu Lake Park to recite poems, is obviously a stranger. He likes Haizi, likes to dance, and is eager to get attention in the crowd.
In his imagination, this little park pavilion is a lively dance party. As long as he recites poems sincerely enough, there will be people willing to embrace him.
©️《Tuina》
Waiting for the miracle to come
We are used to walking into the park with an urban standpoint, hoping that it can give some fresh things, light, shadow, sound and color, and any feelings that are different from the era of mechanical reproduction. In the short two hundred years since the park was born, it has gone through a process from private gardens to public gardens, from nobles to common people, and gradually demystified.
In addition to being too busy and running out of time, the lack of vitality of the same parks in the city, and the similarity of each year, is also the reason why it is difficult to attract young people. In other words, there is no stranger experience in the park.
©️ “Sunny Day”
Speaking of the director who is in the park, Zhang Lu deserves it. As the mainstay of the “Strolling School”, Zhang Lu is also an author and director who “uses Rohmer as a method”. He is a Korean, born in Jilin, teaches in South Korea, and often goes to Japan.
He has natural curiosity and confusion about identity consciousness, and he filmed a cold and harsh “Doman River” in the early days. Now it is as gentle as a different person. People of different identities, regions, languages, and even people of different sexual orientations in the movie have a self-explanatory tacit understanding.
“Dougan River”
He moved the elaborate dialogueIt took a walk around, after all, East Asians are not good at words. Wherever Zhang Lu and his crew landed, it turned into an endless park, causing these movies to look like tourist literature at first glance. The heroes and heroines have their own minds, and they have no time to watch the scenery, walk and walk, silently waiting for the miracle to come.
A park is a place where people meet, and the next step is to create unfamiliar experiences, such as “Fukuoka”.
Sudan left the uncle he was traveling with and walked around the street, and saw a woman sitting on a park bench with red eyes crying. The strange woman recommended Haruki Murakami’s new book to her in Chinese, and Sudan told her in Korean that she was reading the Chinese “Jin Ping Mei”. The barrier-free communication between Chinese and Korean transcends cultural boundaries and adds a touch of surrealism to this mediocre work.
©️ “Fukuoka”
The long-awaited release of “Yuanchuan” is also named after a city. The brief introduction of the story is similar to “Fukuoka”. Two men and one woman travel together in foreign countries. Maybe it’s the surreal moments of daily life created by casual dialogue.
“Gyeongju” is the most complicated part of his “city trilogy”. On the surface, it was about a university teacher revisiting Gyeongju where he had an ambiguity with the teahouse proprietor. The one-night stand is limited to a woman rubbing the earlobe gently for a man face to face, and a suggestive crack in the door, which is another typical story of nothing happened.
©️ “Gyeongju”
Zhang Lu is very patient with portraying people loving each other. After the teahouse closed, they wandered all the way to the royal tomb in Gyeongju, an urban enclave between a cemetery and a park. Two high-rise graves were thick green like oil paintings.
This place is surrounded by the shadow of death. In a solemn atmosphere, daytime fantasy, spring paintings and hot tea slowly flow back into Yunxi’s sleeping body. So the man next to her couldn’t help but want to approach and kiss, but he only listened carefully to her breathing. This movie is so contradictory, like a lucid dream.
©️《Gyeongju》
When talking about why he wanted to shoot “Gyeongju”, Zhang Lu said:
“People think about death and grief at funerals. When they cry, they also have many strange thoughts. Taking myself as an example, one-third of the day is in a state of being out of the body. If you don’t daydream, how can you survive in this suffocating world.”
©️《Gyeongju》
This article is from WeChat official account:NOWNESS now (ID: NOWNESS_OFFICIAL)< span class="text-remarks">, Author: ROSA