What kind of emotional stories are expounded by the collision of human nature in the films A Trip to Busan and Asian Funeral?

A trip to Busan is a disaster movie with the theme of zombie fighting, which was filmed by famous Korean director Sang ho Yeon on 20 16. This film has caused a sensation since its release. On the first day of the release, more than 870,000 people set a record for the number of people watching movies on the first day in Korean film history. Later, it became the first movie with a box office of over 10 million in 20 16 Korean cinema, setting a number of box office records.

This film has won numerous awards internationally and won more than 30 nominations and awards, including the Asian Film Award, the Canadian Fantasy Film Festival and the Spanish Sitges Fantasy Film Festival. At the same time, the film was also selected for the Top250 list of Douban movies. Up to now, more than 6.5438+0 million people have seen Douban, and nearly 650,000 people have given comments, with a score of 8.4. This shows its popularity.

The story told in the film is very simple. A train in a closed space broke into an unknown virus-infected person, and all kinds of characters in the carriage were forced to start a journey of fighting against zombies. This is a commercial genre film that combines disaster movies and family movies. It takes the struggle between human beings and zombies as the main line and the struggle between good and evil of human nature as the secondary line, and tells the story of human resistance in the doomsday terror environment.

As "the first funeral film in Asia", the beauty of A Trip to Busan is not limited to the story. Behind the zombie massacre, I see more thinking about human nature, including good and evil, selfishness and complexity.

So today I will interpret the deeper movie charm and layout metaphor from the perspective of characterization and film language processing. In the third part of the article, I will share three commonly used ways to express the director's emotions based on my own experience in watching movies.

0 1, characterization: In the collision between good and evil of human nature, we can understand Sang ho Yeon's thorough and philosophical thinking on human nature-difficulties will destroy some people's conscience and inspire the brilliance of human nature.

Zombie movie is one of the classic Hollywood movies, which has left a deep impression on the audience with its shocking visual impact and thrilling plot development. As an oriental disaster movie, A Trip to Busan has made some innovations and breakthroughs in the theme of zombies, and has integrated the unique humanistic care and observation of oriental culture. This part of the content, I will discuss from three aspects: contradiction, complexity and brilliance of human nature:

Contradiction of human nature: Shi Yu, the male host, radiates the light of human nature from selfishness to selflessness. Shi Yu, the male host, is the most representative image among many figures. At the beginning of the film, the director showed the audience an image of selfishness and disregard for family through a few simple pictures. From his behavior of accusing his subordinates of caring about the rights and interests of retail investors, promising to attend his daughter's parents' meeting but reneging on his promise, and giving the gifts he bought to his daughter by mistake, we can see an image of a nobody who is indifferent and mercenary. Therefore, it is not difficult for us to understand that in the face of disaster, he will close the door of the carriage to protect himself and put a couple in danger.

At Daejeon Station, when a cowardly beggar trapped a zombie in front of Shi Yu with clothes and saved his life, when Shang Hua Shengjing and his wife helped their helpless daughter, Shi Yu's mentality changed a little. When he saw that Shang Hua sacrificed his life to protect his wife and other survivors, he was deeply moved and finally gave his life to protect his daughter and pregnant woman Shengjing in Shi Yu.

At the end of the film, Shi Yu was attacked by a zombie, checked the carriage device with her only willpower to ensure the safety of pregnant woman Shengjing and her daughter, and then died peacefully.

In my opinion, this disaster provides an opportunity for Shi Yu to return to humanity. This trip to Busan is not only a zombie massacre, but also a growing process of Shi Yu from egoism to altruism. In the face of disaster, under the condition of high mental tension, Shi Yu had strong contradictions and conflicts in his heart, and his subconscious sense of responsibility and morality was aroused. When he gave his life with his love for his daughter, we saw great fatherly love and selfless light of human nature.

Complexity of human nature: the villain Jin Zongchang sacrifices others, but yearns for his family. Jin Zongchang is the only complete villain in the whole movie. At Daejeon Station, he forced the conductor to leave the passengers and drove away, causing the passengers behind him to lose hope of survival. At that time, when Yu, Shang Hua and other lucky people crossed zombie car to reach the safety car, Jinchang encouraged everyone to stop the safety car artificially, resulting in the death of Shang Hua, Dajie and others; Later, he even intensified, pushing the flight attendant and high school girl Jane Xi as his "human shield" to zombies and seeking escape opportunities for himself; The kind conductor tried to save Jinchang, but he was turned into a zombie by the ungrateful Jinchang.

Jinchang, who took several lives, never felt guilty on the way from encouraging others to commit evil to committing suicide. In the face of disaster, Jin Zongchang developed from selfish and evil to vicious, and the ugly face of human nature was vividly interpreted.

However, such a selfish ghost with a bad record is obsessed with living to see his mother. Attachment to family has become the last fig leaf of dark humanity, which makes people feel sad.

There is a yearning and expectation for beautiful feelings hidden behind the ugly human nature, which has had a huge emotional impact on the audience and aroused people off-screen to rethink human nature.

The bright spot of human nature: pregnant woman Shengjing and teenage girl An Xiu symbolize the hope and beauty of mankind. Pregnant woman Shengjing and teenage girl An Xiu always maintain a kind and sincere heart. They are the hope in the film.

When the zombies hit, Shengjing immediately urged her husband to save people; When her husband and Shi Yu had an argument, Shengjing gently persuaded her husband; At Daejeon Station, the girl An Xiu was separated from her father, while An Xiu was always protected during her escape from Shengjing. When Jinchang taunts beggars, An Xiu will speak for beggars; In the carriage, An Xiu did not forget to give his seat to his sister.

In my opinion, Shengjing, which is gentle, kind and tolerant, and An Xiu, who has a sense of justice, exude the light of humanity in this disaster. The pregnant woman Shengjing is pregnant with a new life, and the girl An Xiu represents a thriving life, which means the inheritance and hope of life. At the same time, they shine with the light of human nature, and they represent the beauty and hope of mankind.

02. The handling of film language: The tense and striking narrative rhythm affects the audience's thoughts, and the director skillfully uses audio-visual skills to create a film with a strong oriental social and cultural atmosphere.

① Setting of background: the framework of supernatural phenomena in real life, and the zombie symbol is an allusion to real life.

An ordinary train bound for Busan hit a woman, and an unknown virus spread, which triggered a doomsday escape. Zombie setting is an unnatural phenomenon, framed in the background of real life, which strengthens the allusion to real life.

The word zombie comes from voodoo in Haiti. It first refers to the human body "resurrected" by witchcraft. They have empty bodies, but no human feelings and consciousness. In A Trip to Busan, zombies refer to the products of virus infection. They act quickly and have a strong attack, but they lose their thinking ability and attack the living human beings with their teeth bared.

There are countless scenes in which human beings collide with zombies head-on, and the scene in which baseball player Guo Rong confronts his former teammate who has become a zombie has the most emotional tension. Guo Rong, Shi Yu, Shang Hua and others have been calling from car 9 to car 15. When Guo Rong saw the zombie incarnate as his former teammate, he burst into tears and could not bear to fight again.

In sharp contrast, teammates who have long lost their humanity launched crazy attacks against Guo Rong and others. There is a sharp contrast between Guo Rong's unbearable heart and the cruelty of zombies. On the one hand, Guo Rong's simplicity and kindness show the beauty and brilliance of human nature, on the other hand, it also reflects the ugly and hateful side of losing human nature.

In my opinion, a zombie that dehumanizes human nature is a reflection of human weakness. The director not only satirizes the disappearance of human nature, but also implies a deeper metaphor. In A Trip to Busan, zombies are extremely aggressive and contagious, and a large number of inhuman zombies gather in a short time. The proliferation of zombies alludes to the phenomenon that most people are easily assimilated by society, drifting away from the world and losing themselves.

Audio-visual pleasure: cool tone with sports lens, telling stories with pictures.

Color is an expressive artistic language. In A Trip to Busan, director Sang ho Yeon used a lot of cool colors and dark colors, and the main color was yellow-green, which created a hazy doomsday atmosphere for the film. Deep and steady colors can calm the mood of the audience in a highly tense atmosphere, so that the anxiety of the audience can be calmed down.

In addition to the flexible use of color, director Sang ho Yeon is also very good at telling stories in camera language. In the narrow and closed carriage space, the director is not limited to using close-range fixed shots and short shots, but combines long-range shots with long-range shots to speed up the narrative rhythm.

For example, in the early stage of the film, before the zombie virus spread widely, the director used close-ups to capture the form of zombie biting and the transformation after the virus was infected. When the virus spread in a large area, hordes of zombies emerged like a flood. At this time, the director used a telephoto lens and a powerful motion lens to present the picture of zombies jumping and running in front of the audience.

In the narrow space, through the use of position, sound, color and other expressions, the scenes that the carriage passes through are colorful, and the fate of the protagonist always holds the hearts of the audience. Through the extreme use of color and dynamic motion lens, the director presented a visual feast for the audience.

03. Emotional sustenance: revisiting Busan increased the sense of sexiness, and combined with my own understanding of the film, I shared three emotional expressions and metaphors directed by Sang ho Yeon.

① Breaking the happy ending of Hollywood classic, the sacrifice of Shi Yu conveyed the spirit of introspection and tragedy.

At the end of the movie, the actor Shi Yu still didn't survive. When he boarded the safety train with his daughter Xiuan in his arms, he was bitten by Jin Changzhi hiding in the front of the car and turned into a zombie in order to protect his daughter and Shengjing. Before the temporary, he remembered the joy and anxiety of being a new father and died peacefully with love for his daughter.

This tragic ending is a breakthrough and innovation in the classic happy ending of Hollywood, and it also conveys a sense of introspection and tragic spirit to the audience.

The sad ending will aggravate the audience's impression and reflection on the coming disaster. The setting that virus pollution leads to the end of the world will make the audience respect and reflect on nature more than on human nature.

② Pregnant women and girls become the ultimate survivors, representing the inheritance of hope.

Pregnant woman Shengjing and teenage girl An Xiu are kind and beautiful beings in the film, and they also become the ultimate survivors of this doomsday escape. The film ended with An Xiu's childlike voice. After a large-scale zombie killing melee, in the broken track, weak women and children walked hand in hand through the darkness and reached safety.

The director's handling of the ending abandoned the traditional ending of the Hollywood genre film "Heroes Save the World", but let the weakest women and children survive by inheriting hope. This is Sang ho Yeon's unique directing style: seeing the big from the small, integrating rational emotion and moral emotion into his works, and directly arousing people's inner resonance.

The handling of this ending is meaningful, injecting a trace of warmth and light into the atmosphere of sadness and destruction and rekindling hope when the audience is desperate.

③ It perfectly presents the original rich characteristics of human nature under the background of doomsday, and brings the audience into the film, which is thought-provoking.

Different from the setting of superheroes in traditional Hollywood movies, director Sang ho Yeon did not portray the image of the savior, but focused on the simple and ordinary image of a nobody.

On this train to Busan, there are fathers and daughters of single-parent families, inseparable couples, sisters with deep feelings, United student groups and so on. This group of people from different classes, different ages and different identities, in the face of disasters, everyone shows different reactions.

The director expresses different human nature through different roles' different reactions to dangerous moments. Through the depiction of different images, the multifaceted nature of human nature is exposed in the face of disasters, and the collision between good and evil of human nature runs through the whole film. When little people are in the extreme environment of disaster, their choices about survival show the changes of human nature and are thought-provoking.

Write at the end:

A trip to Busan has neither grandstanding propaganda nor eye-catching special effects, but it can become a new type of film in Asia with a small production cost of less than 60 million. The artistic connotation and practical significance behind it deserve our deep thinking. In my opinion, the success of A Trip to Busan lies in the rich and in-depth thinking on human nature in the zombie element that stimulates tension.

In the narrow carriage, there are zombies fighting with human bodies, and there are also fierce collisions and confrontations of human nature, which inject a touch of warmth unique to oriental culture into the aesthetics of violence. Therefore, in order to truly understand A Trip to Busan, apart from the story, we need to understand it from the director's portrayal of characters and the use of film language.