"The Heart Of The Blue Theatre": The Old Shanghai Floating World Painting

In the heart of the blue heart theatre, it was the stormy time of old Shanghai. The rickety black and white picture led the audience to go back to the old market in an instant. In the 40s of the last century, the island of Shanghai was like an open-air theater full of all kinds of secrets. People of all kinds played different languages and traveled in different eastern and Western styles. Lou Ye took the story of a sense of the times with great tension and portray the image of an era in the one hundred and twenty minutes of the floating world.

The Chinese title of the movie is the landmark of Shanghai, which is specific and straightforward; the English title of "Saturday novel" gives people more imagination. The structure of the film makes a steady move in the two points of truth and fiction. The opening stage is a stage drama into real life, ending with a life like a stage, with a mixture of people in the middle, as if the dream of floating life before the spring tide is coming. The movie comes from the famous actor's return to Shanghai. What is the purpose of this great female star who came to Shanghai? The movie did not rush to give answers, or Lou Ye never thought that the origin of things was single and pure. Thus, the men around the women regarded themselves as the reasons for her appearance. In this sense, the theatre of the heart of the LAN is not so much a floating world painting dedicated to portray the chaos of the times. It is rather a drama about women.

Lan Xin theatre. Data map

Gong Li plays the violin in the voice and shade, but takes the star status as the cover. The job of the newspaper reporter is between the left wing director, the foreign foster father and the Japanese officer. The motives of her actions are always vague, or open, which makes her actions particularly free. Not only can she be protected by different people in every corner of Shanghai, but she can also travel freely between fiction and reality in the world of images. She is the greatest creator of the film, writing her footnote for the ambiguity of the city with her dual identity.

In recent works, Lou Ye has shown more control over genre films and more aggressive image creation. After the All-Star card, he once again used the ultimate lens to make a commercialized story full of artistic sense. The women in the film, whether in cordix or her worshipers, Bai Mei, are wearing self protective masks, hiding their true identity, hiding, observing, and taking advantage of the situation. The city of Shanghai itself shows a completely different style under Lou Ye's footage, which is the accumulation of modernity in the city from the end of the Qing Dynasty.

In the early 40s of last century in Shanghai, all the secrets were written under the sun. The film undoubtedly captured the most touching atmosphere of the times. The Lan Xin theatre is a gathering place for the elite. It is also filled with the politicians in the Huamao hotel. Lou Ye chose two very concentrated fields and made repeated use of them, patiently letting characters and spectators get into every complex space through the revolving door of architecture. In the light and photography, he worked with the long-term co operative photographer, Zeng Jian, who continued the uneasy rocking movement and the fixed mirror pushing mode. This set of filming methods in the era of independent cinema to create Lou Ye's iconic image style produced a wonderful chemical reaction with Shanghai in the specific era. Black and white photography not only displayed beautifully, but also rendered the city's skin texture intense and poetic.