It is unbelievable how incompetent this film director is! Pierre Schoendoerffer certainly doesn't know his business, AT ALL!
Everything is inept: the camera doesn't know where to go (say, meaninglessly aiming at a puddle of water in the wirport; or, again, meaninglessly shooting against lumination, from the back of a platoon of soldiers......), the soundtrack never wakes up from the director's reverie of his school-yard drill, and the "actors"---if they can be called that! The plot is non-existent: the director apparently believes that, since Dien Bien Phu was such a catastrophy for the Gauls, no plot would have made the audience feel anything like a purpose anyway; so why bother?!
Some say that this movie talks too much. Let me assure you you will be very misled to think it is some stereotypically clever French dialogue that cheats you out of more gutteral pleasure ---no Sir! You will be totally safe from the fell contamination of any intellect from those drab, obvious, stupid conversations!
For those who wish to get a shot of adrenalin from this movie: DON'T. If you are really desperate, you will be better off bringing a tape recorder to anywhere in downtown Shanghai, next Chinese New Year: when the happy Shanghai-nese start to set off the fire-crackers, the sound effect will be so much closer to battlegorund experience than anything this kindergarten movie has ever accomplished!
电影看完，想说的还挺多：n1.再次向我印证了电影这个新兴艺术媒介载体的多层次多维度，通俗的说，电影的魅力所在n2.这部电影讲述的是很残酷的战争，但我似乎并没有被导演的叙事给打动。平行叙事的结构，交响乐和记者贯穿始终，或是导演试图在以客观的视角去讲述这样一段历史，让电影具有较高的反思性。可惜至少，我在这方面没有很深的感受到，四平八稳平平无奇，目前他给我感觉是这样的，也或许是我没有欣赏到导演的匠心之处n3.电影考验着导演讲故事的能力和视角，同一个故事或同一段历史，不同的导演处理方式会有很大的不同
4.导演的立场视角问题，这是战争题材电影中很值得玩味的一个话题，关于电影的意识形态分析n5.最后想说一说战争片/战争题材的电影，好不夸张的说，各国导演中热衷于此的不在少数，犹以二战、越战题材等炙手可热，有写实的，有抽象的，约略回忆下，这方面的电影看得还不少，倒真是可以做个专题小结了。例如苏联有《伊万的童年》，美国有《全金属外壳》《现代启示录》等，英国有《桂河大桥》，欧洲更是不在话下，若仔细分析分析，没准能写出一篇不错的小论文，找寻出其中的共性和特性来。
Everything is inept: the camera doesn't know where to go (say, meaninglessly aiming at a puddle of water in the wirport; or, again, meaninglessly shooting against lumination, from the back of a platoon of soldiers......), the soundtrack never wakes up from the director's reverie of his school-yard drill, and the "actors"---if they can be called that! The plot is non-existent: the director apparently believes that, since Dien Bien Phu was such a catastrophy for the Gauls, no plot would have made the audience feel anything like a purpose anyway; so why bother?!
Some say that this movie talks too much. Let me assure you you will be very misled to think it is some stereotypically clever French dialogue that cheats you out of more gutteral pleasure ---no Sir! You will be totally safe from the fell contamination of any intellect from those drab, obvious, stupid conversations!
For those who wish to get a shot of adrenalin from this movie: DON'T. If you are really desperate, you will be better off bringing a tape recorder to anywhere in downtown Shanghai, next Chinese New Year: when the happy Shanghai-nese start to set off the fire-crackers, the sound effect will be so much closer to battlegorund experience than anything this kindergarten movie has ever accomplished!
And will save you 8RMB, too.
特点如下：
群像式描绘
具象征意义的画面
松散的结构
粗颗粒的战斗画面
用光力求捕捉氛围感
有感染力的细节