What was the first time you saw Stephen Chow's film, and what year?

The first time I saw Stephen Chow's film was A Chinese Odyssey, in 1995.

The basic space-time framework of A Chinese Odyssey is based on three leaps made with a one-month optical treasure box from 5 years ago to 5 years later. In the film, the treasure can use the moonlight box to reverse the time and appear in two collages at the same time.

For example, 5 years later, Supreme Treasure saw the scene of the Monkey King and Guanyin fighting 5 years ago. The scenes 5 years ago and 5 years later can be "collaged" at will in the montage jump. In the process of time-space transformation, the time-space of the film becomes blurred. The time-space crossing force of the moonlight box supports the time-space logic of the whole movie.

It makes people feel that the transformation of time and space is illogical, but it is omnipotent. It is through the time and space of the moonlight box that the film contains modern people's love, hate, horror, suspense and all kinds of jokes. The audience was dazzled and laughed, while feeling the sadness of the Monkey King, with tears in their laughter.

In addition, the film also uses a lot of collage techniques, such as memories and dreams, to stitch together relevant details and hints to form the narrative framework of the film.

As a matter of fact, the story is often not very clear when it is read for the first time, because its narrative technique adopts the "defamiliarization" technique, which makes the audience feel distant and strange from the development of the plot, which increases the difficulty for the audience to appreciate, and at the same time increases the freshness and attracts the audience's attention.

Stephen Chow's film language is not the accumulation of gorgeous words, but rooted in grassroots life and reality. It expresses the essence of events in a humorous way.

In a specific context, this humorous language, through exaggeration and modification, can play a bonding role, occupy people's hearts, and make people subconsciously identify, imitate and spread.