Special feature of 1905 film network The film is the director’s second feature film. It won two awards, namely "Best Director Honored in Fei Mu" and "Best Director Honored by Young People" at the 5th Pingyao International Film Festival, and was also nominated for the biweekly director unit of the 74th Cannes Film Festival and the rookie film competition of the 46th Hong Kong International Film Festival.
The film tells the story that the crew of the film "Yong ‘an Town Tales" stayed in the shooting location, which brought a little wave to this originally quiet town. However, after the wave, everything returned to peace. The whole film is divided into three chapters — — Waiting alone, looking beautiful, The Moment of Pluto.
01. Three seemingly ordinary stories
In terms of content, The Tales of Yong ‘an Town stirred up ripples in a quiet town with three seemingly ordinary stories. Although there are no great waves in these stories, the inner drama conflict of each character makes the whole film full of profound meaning.
The first chapter, Waiting Alone.
The proprietress (decoration) of a restaurant in Yong ‘an Town suddenly came to the film crew in the town, and her heart began to stir, eager to break the original boring life day after day. Being chosen as a fitting model by the crew made her feel that she could be the heroine, but with the arrival of the real heroine of the film, the bubble of longing was punctured and she returned to her original life.
The second chapter, "It looks beautiful"
The actress chenchen (act the role of actress) was hindered in her career progress, so she took the opportunity of filming a new film to return home. She originally wanted to go back to her hometown to find the lost past and relive the old warm time, but she found that the warm hospitality of her childhood friends or the reunion of her first love after a long separation when she was young actually had other purposes, and going back to the past was just her wishful thinking.
The actress who can’t go back to her hometown and the proprietress who can’t leave the town, two women who seem to have completely different status, also have the same predicament and sorrow.
The third chapter, The Moment of Pluto.
The filming is about to start, but the director (decoration) and the screenwriter (decoration) are still arguing over the revision of the script and the shaping of the actors. Based on artistic ideas, commercial considerations and other factors, they are constrained by each other and finally fail to get an ideal script when they start.
The collision of their creative views not only reflects the dilemma of the current creators, but also includes the conflict of the previous two stories, which are progressive and interlocking.
The three parts will connect the behind-the-scenes of the film preparation, and also turn Yong ‘an Town into a microcosm of the real society, where everyone wants to have a little "different life". But the movie doesn’t tell you what the right answer is. It just shows every choice of life. When life is dispersed by the occasional ripples, what should people do?
02. A movie about movies
In terms of creative techniques, Yong ‘an Town Tales takes "metafilm" as the creative concept and co-ordinates a three-stage narrative structure.
The concept of "meta-film" is simply to explain "movies about movies", that is, to directly quote, draw lessons from or refer to movies related to other movie texts or movies themselves. Many well-known films are of the narrative structure of "metafilm", such as director, director and director, etc.
And the ingenuity of this film is to make what we see and experience just right. The main content of the film is that a crew entered Yong ‘an Town to prepare a film "Yong ‘an Town Tales" which happened in Yong ‘an Town, and it was this "Yong ‘an Town Tales" that we watched.
Through the dialogue between the director and the screenwriter in the film, we can know that the content of Yong ‘an Town Tales, which is planned to be filmed in the film, is that a hotel proprietress who wants to change her quiet life and a pair of first loves meet again after several years, and what we see on the screen is exactly an uneasy proprietress and a pair of men and women who meet again in Yong ‘an Town after many years. In other words, Yong ‘an Town Tales are actually the same movie both on and off the screen.
There is also a very interesting time shift in this film. The last scene of the film is the launching ceremony of Yong ‘an Town Tales, and for the audience, this film has just been finished. This setting of "play in play" has brought a richer impression to the audience. A large number of directors and screenwriters’ discussions about plot creation in the film have become the creators’ interpretation of our audience’s plot, which is like watching a movie with a "sound" barrage.
In terms of content and creation, The Tales of Yong ‘an Town is not so much a literary film as an absurd comedy film. When we see the end of the Tales of Yong ‘an Town, it seems that we can appreciate the artistic charm of this kind of "if you don’t say it".
Nothing may have happened in Yong ‘an Town, but we saw the hope of future Chinese films in the Tales of Yong ‘an Town.
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