Analysis of the shots of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days directed by Christian Montgomery, won the gold medal at the 60th Montgomery Film Festival. Movie. Cannes. The director said he was a little filmmaker Country 4 Three months, three weeks, two days is a low-cost realistic film, shooting team in the the film and most of the scenes were shot over the phone in Beijing: the film won a gold medal, making realism headlines. Before the appearance of this movie, realism films have mostly flowed underground in recent years and appeared on small screens. The success of this film has also allowed realism films to return to the public eye. This film is about the illegal abortion of Gabita, a pregnant college student. Her friend Otilia found a man who could have an abortion. This is a silent murderer who claims to be a baby. He helped Garvey pull out his children. His rigorous academic style, calm and even cold-blooded narrative techniques, and high-level use of long shots make the film full of tension and bring high-intensity viewing impact to the audience. But the problem that must be raised is music No, almost all scenes are long screen movies. How can we produce strong viewing effect. The director and his photographer use long lens, handheld photography and other documentary photography methods to shoot women. The children’s daily life created an anxious atmosphere for the film, which also reflected the social atmosphere of Romania at that time.

The movie 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days uses a large number of depth-of-field shots, and shots of this length do not often appear in today's films. The movie does not know, it does not use music to adjust feelings, but it attracts people to the extent that the environment is cleaner than the film. In fact, these scenes lack the artistic quality that the public usually thinks, lack the exquisite pictures, and the colors are gray, but this is precisely a victory of the film's aesthetic choice. The aesthetic style of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is meticulous. It avoids the boastful perspective of God. There are neither close shots nor unclear motives of camera movement, and none of them do not change with the character's posture. From the angle, there is no sign or metaphor. The picture lacking a sense of form has not weakened the power conveyed by its film language. The continuous serious long shot creates a sense of urgency. This continuous shot in a small space makes people afraid of what will happen next. The director has set the tone and style of the entire film well. 

One of the most exciting scenes in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is 01:11:30-01:21:38, when Otilia attends her boyfriend's mother birthday party. First of all, a very interesting point is the background of this scene: this is a bookshelf, which implies that Otilita's boyfriend's family is a scholarly family. The bookshelves are full of books and the small tables are crowded with people, which makes the whole picture feel extremely uncomfortable and narrow, and this is exactly how Otilita feels right now. First, he took a bottle of wine to the left of Ottilita, and took a cigarette, a man sitting next to his father, took a little wine and brought it back. It was Ottilita's mouth. He's like a big man, right under his mouth, who can't open his mouth for him. Then, after he turned the water, the man started smoking Otira in front of his parents. It's not just a mental state, it's a physical condition. It's shown by Delma psychology and physiology. This scene shows that the director is skilled in film language techniques and faithfully presented Bazin's realist film theory on authenticity. Everything in the scene serves to explain the scene well.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, they think of space viewers. In different languages, the film feels like the viewers of the life of two heroes pushing the coffin, with each other's needs. They face and explore each other's borders. Siegfried Krakauer once said: "We are living in an increasingly technological era. Everything we experience has been mediated. Our experience is shaped by ideology, so the real Illusion is the world we live in. Movies have a power. When it is fully utilized, it can call us back to reality and remind us to see the things that other media try to make them invisible." Mengji used reality The cinematic language is to tell the story of Gabita and her friend Otilita, who was pregnant in April, 3 weeks and 2 days. The power brought by the realistic lens language is not only intuitive visual shock, but also a profound revealing of the complexity of human nature. His awe, introspection and thinking.

The success of this film is to all of you, how powerful and convincing Lines is the real film. It will. The inspiration of the audience is not only that it has expanded the creation of real movies, but also that it has injected more specifications into real tests.

In a real realist movie, reality is free, not something that can be created. The audience can put their real experience and emotions into a richer and more detailed movie world. As a realist movie, it is not life itself, but another way of discovering life, an endless dialogue with life.

Reference

Uricaru, I. (2008). 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days: The Corruption of Intimacy. Film Quarterly, 16(4), pp.12-17.