Love is the most complex and deep emotion in life. It is like a double-edged sword, which can bring endless happiness and endless pain. From ancient times to the present, people's definition and understanding of love are like that strange white light, falling from the sky, which is unpredictable.
The movie "The Man Caught by the Light" uses a science fiction way to ** the authenticity of love, allowing people to see the other side of love. In the Yijiang urban area in this movie, a strange white light fell from the sky, and a large number of residents disappeared with the light, leaving those who stayed in a panic.
However, in the midst of panic, they also discovered the true meaning of love. This film teaches us that love is not only a source of happiness, but also a source of pain, and it requires us to understand and experience it with our hearts.
On busy streets, taxi drivers are shuttling;In quiet classrooms, students are learning;In the lively square, elderly men and women are square dancing. However, they all suddenly disappear, leaving only one common trait - they have love.
If those who are taken away by the light have true love, how will those who remain face this situation?When the beam leaves reality, life plunges into an even greater crisis.
How can they save themselves, how can they face themselves, and how can they examine their relationship with their lovers?Through various character settings, the movie allows each character to constantly explore the true meaning of loving and being loved, trying to reveal the various possibilities of love.
Does this beam of light full of science fiction illuminate the truth of love, or does it bring a greater haze?
The Man Caught by the Light is a film that is difficult to characterize, it has elements of a science fiction film, revolving around a mysterious beam of light, but at its core it is deeply imprinted with the emotion of a romance film.
The movie is on the theme of love from beginning to end, creating a strong literary atmosphere. The beam in the movie is set in the whimsy of director Dong Runnian's childhood: if a mysterious white light suddenly appears one day and captures some people in the world, how should the rest of the people respond?
Based on this setting, the movie tells several touching love stories.
The film is skillfully interspersed with a large number of news shots, through people's narration, popular science knowledge, through the authoritative interpretation of the official **, for the public to explain the formation of white light, so that the audience can feel the charm of science.
The connection of white light with quantum mechanics and quantum entangled states adds a touch of mystery. And the joke of "indecision, quantum mechanics" also makes people laugh.
The power of white light is powerful, uncontrollable, and it impacts real life in an irreversible way, leaving behind a group of people who ponder and question in the silence of the night.
Although science fiction elements are the main line of this film, there are not many relevant shots, so it is difficult for us to classify it as a science fiction film or a romance film, it is more like a movie with science as the background, **human nature and emotions.
From popular sci-fi blockbusters at home and abroad, such as "The Wandering Earth" and "Gemini Killer" to Hollywood masterpieces, we find similarities in their story cores. No matter how the technology develops and how shocking the special effects are, it is difficult for the plot of the movie to jump out of the framework of its predecessors.
Where does this sci-fi light come from and where will it point? The movie never gives a clear answer. The director adopts a non-linear narrative, using the coming and going of light as a clue to tell the love exploration journey of several couples of men and women.
On an ordinary day, a beam of light suddenly appeared and took many people with it. Subsequently, scientists struggled to trace the source of the light, tried to interpret the light, and tried their best to find the people who were taken away by the light, hoping to restore people's former lives.
Light and love, these are the two souls of this film, they are ethereal and elusive. If it is said that the light takes away the people who sincerely love each other, then how to define true love, love, love, and those who stay?
If the person who is taken away by the light is the one who loves each other, then the one who remains loses the love, and the light pushes the survivors to a desperate situation, forcing them to prove themselves. In the process of proof, someone hurts someone they love, someone loses face, someone has no way out, someone chooses to commit suicide, someone collapses, someone goes to killing, what is it?
What is love? This is the puzzle that the film leaves for the audience. From the clever use of montage and the fine adjustment of light and shadow, we can see that the production team is skillful, and the director skillfully uses the chiaroscuro of the tone to highlight the twists and turns of the characters' hearts.
Huang Bo plays the film's protagonist, who is similar to many middle-aged men, with an uneventful marriage and a stable but not very satisfying career. His life is like a pool of still water, plain but lacking in waves.
Before the light came, he maintained his dignity and the balance of his life day after day, but after the light appeared, the people around him fell into a struggle between love and non-love, and he inevitably fell into the dilemma of self-proof.
In order to prove that he is the one who is loved, he spends a lot of money to buy fake tickets and puppet **, and even shows his private life unabashedly at the drinking party, which makes his wife feel very embarrassed.
When the director filmed the middle-aged couple getting along, he deliberately treated the color tone very darkly, and used cold colors to present the backwater-like life of the characters in the film.
Although the middle-aged couple is not as sensitive to the importance of love, they are able to sustain themselves through the trivial things of daily life. However, Li Nan, played by Wang Luodan, has a completely different view of love.
In her opinion, love is an indispensable part of marriage, and when her husband began to cheat frequently, her heart gradually became cold. When her husband disappeared in the light, Li Nan held the determination to find the truth, and her husband was small.
Three, small. Fourth, the fifth child embarked on an absurd journey to find the missing person together.
During this journey, Li Nan always thought that her husband was with other women, and she wanted to know what kind of woman her husband was with.
As she gradually reveals the truth and encounters more and more rivals, she gradually loses the motivation to find and chooses to live an ordinary life. However, just as she decides to give up, she receives the news that her husband has died unexpectedly before the light comes.
At this time, she was already at ease and completed the final farewell for her husband. The story is full of drama and bright images. It has been said that in a marital relationship, infidelity may only happen once, but it can also happen countless times.
Li Nan's husband is a portrayal of this reality, he has a gentle, independent wife at home, but at the same time keeps in touch with all kinds of women outside.
In depicting this plot, the author created a number of highly representative female characters. Their images are profoundly displayed through clothing, shapes, light and shadow, color tones and highly representative symbols, allowing readers to better understand and feel their complexity and diversity.
A woman who meets for the first time, lives in poverty but is keen to pursue love. She dresses up in a vulgar manner, has a fiery personality, and often cries and makes a fuss in the streets. She firmly believes that her lover will not be with other women, so she constantly seeks out and persecutes herself and others.
After learning the news of her lover's death, she still insists on self-deception, firmly believing that love is above all else, and even preferring to believe that her lover has passed away rather than accept the nothingness of love.
In the process of exploring the life of men, the two ladies discover a pure first love with a simple appearance, a gentle personality, and a soft-spoken language, and a married woman who is calm and rational.
The director is shooting small.
Three, small. In the confrontation scene of the fourth and fifth children, the changes in the relationship and psychology between them are cleverly expressed through the change of composition. Although the plot is dramatic, it happens repeatedly in real life, and loyalty and consistency are quite difficult for modern men and women, and sharing dreams and dreaming in the same bed may have become the norm for some people.
If the marriage of Wu Wenwen played by Huang Bo is compared to a pool of chicken feathers and a pool of stagnant water, and Li Nan's marriage is deception, betrayal and ***, then the love between young men and women Liu Jiayi and Wang Yang is like the warmest flame.
The director uses montage when dealing with the relationship between several people, and the stories of the same time and different time and space are spliced together through parallel montages, which is amazing.
Li Nan decided to divorce her husband, and while waiting in front of the Civil Affairs Bureau, she met Liu Jiayi, who was dragged out of the Civil Affairs Bureau by her family. The girl is rebellious, paranoid, and confidently expresses her affection for her boyfriend to her family, believing that love can overcome all difficulties and is willing to come together with her boyfriend at all costs.
Her frantic screams and hysteria disappeared after the light came, and while the light didn't take her or her boyfriend, everything had changed.
Their love is as hot as fire, but it also hurts like a knife. She is convinced that she is the one she loves the most, but her boyfriend makes her suspicious for various reasons. Despite her boyfriend's repeated attempts to explain, she still couldn't let go.
In the end, the boyfriend chose the extreme way and jumped off the balcony as a way to prove his love. Although the young couple did not appear many times in the film, their love was like a shining meteor, piercing the night sky, leaving endless shock.
They quarrel with their families because of love, hurt each other because of love, and they are willing to prove their love with death. Although the chopsticks played by Bai Ke do not appear much, he has left a deep impression on people with his fierce expression and casual dress.
His words and deeds are like a ruffian, shouting and killing all day long, but who would have thought that deep in his heart there is a person he loves deeply, a person he is willing to protect with his life.
Although he is cold on the outside, he is full of longing and persistence for love on the inside.
Chopsticks entered the police station while fighting for other people's belongings, where he met a researcher with a weak appearance. Through conversations with the researcher, Chopsticks learns the "facts" behind the white light and the story of the researcher's murder of his wife.
The researcher calmly and indifferently recounted how he ended his lover's life with his own hands, and the director used short strokes and a few minutes of time to deeply dissect the researcher's tyranny and paranoia through close-ups, revealing his *** tendencies and cruel violence.
The researcher has a paranoid personality and ends his lover's life with his own hands, then chooses to turn himself in at the police station, deciding to end his future with his own hands. On the verge of madness, he actively seeks destruction, a scene that is very abrupt in the film.
On closer inspection, we will see that Chopsticks and the researcher have something in common – they are both paranoid. Why did the director arrange chopsticks to meet such a person in the police station?
Eventually, we understood the director's meaning.
Chopsticks embark on a path of destruction after the mysterious disappearance of their loved ones. The researcher is actually the director's foreshadowing, the projection of the chopsticks' heart. The bizarre encounter at the police station explains the bizarre nature of the arrival of the white light, foreshadowing the end of the chopsticks killing people and killing themselves.
Chopsticks are the same as the love brain mistress in Li Nan's marriage, when the lover leaves and he is left alone, it doesn't matter whether the lover is dead or alive. When they fall in love, they must confirm to themselves the loyalty of their lover and the truth of their love, and they fall into self-paranoia in the process of confirmation.
Chopsticks think that someone killed their sweetheart, while the third party thinks that someone else hid their man, and they are unwilling to admit that they are the one who is not loved.
At the end of the film, the scientific staff made a new explanation for Bai Guang, saying that Bai Guang had nothing to do with love, and everything that had been done before was just a rumor, stopping this farce of proving love.
Wu Wenwen let go of the so-called obsession, took his wife's hand, realized the preciousness of his lover, and Wang Yang, who jumped off the building for love, was rescued by the doctor and got his girlfriend's true love confession.
Director Dong Runnian said, in fact, it doesn't matter what is captured, the important thing is that we think about it in turn and those who are not arrested, and the rest of the people.
Dong Runnian believes that the light is like a mirror that illuminates all beings and the depths of the heart, which can make the characters in the film see themselves clearly and make the viewers reflect.
The film shows the various states of life through a multi-line parallel narrative, returning to the setting of the whole film. Although the official news in the film refutes the rumors about the existence of the so-called light of true love, this light is given a deeper meaning.
If you really believed that there was a light in the world that could test love, would you choose to turn it on?