Has anyone seen Tucker Eternity? what do you think?

I. Summary of the story

This film is adapted from natalie babbitt's best-selling novel. The story tells the story of a young girl named Yun Ni who longs for a free life. In order to escape the strict control of her family, she chose to run away from home. When she got lost in the forest, she met a young Jesse, so she got to know the Tuckers. During this time, she fell in love with Jesse, so she knew the Tucker family's secret. They found a magical spring, which can make them live forever. Their families have thus extended their lives for many years, but eternal life has also become an endless torture. They kept moving, avoiding the strange eyes of ordinary people. With the arrival of Winnie, their crisis began, because a man in yellow knew the secrets of the Tucker family, and planned to seize the spring water for profiteering, even threatening the girl's family to get the title deed of the whole forest, and was finally killed by Jesse's mother. Winnie finally chose the original world between natural reincarnation and eternal life for Jesse's love.

Second, appreciate

After reading The Fountain of Youth directed by Jay and Russell, I feel like a clear spring flowing quietly from my heart, moist and quiet. But like a calm lake, it was rippled by a small stone.

At the beginning of the film, the first thing to show is a picture of a modern town with a unique French style, a small street where cars come and go. Ella's lens makes the main image of a man riding a black motorcycle gradually clear. He stopped in front of a small shop, but the picture did not show the appearance of the shop, but gave the man a close-up of his head, which made people a little curious about who he really was and what he looked like. However, the director did not give the answer immediately, but switched the picture to a path with shade on both sides. The man's panoramic view appears in the picture, and then stops at a small manor from the side, and the man's direction and line of sight are photographed from the side, which can be seen clearly. Then the camera took a close-up view of the man from the front. When the man took off his helmet to reveal his true face, the camera pushed forward a little, but he still shot it in close range, which made people feel a very complicated feeling in his expression. Close-ups can well depict the expressions and inner world of characters. This is also reflected in other parts of the film. For example, when Winnie's mother was called "Winnie Fred", Winnie's impatience and disgust with the name was photographed at close range. There is also a picture of Myers talking with his father after returning home. The director fully shows Myers' worries to the audience by taking a close-up shot. In addition, when Miles told Winnie the reason for their immortality and his story, the film was also shot for Jesse and Winnie at close range. This treatment also distinguishes and expresses the different actions of Jesse and Winnie, so that the audience can see their different feelings when listening to Miles' sentimental narrative. For Myers, the close-up shot is adopted, and the inner pain and struggle of the characters at this time are vividly shown through the details of their words and facial expressions. This close-up eliminates the interference of the external space and draws the audience's attention to the true essence of immortality, which is lyrical, meaningful and intriguing. This expression makes the whole picture conform to our real life and makes people look realistic.

The man's close-up shooting mentioned just now makes the picture switch at any time and let it enter another time and space, that is, when another picture appears, it is already the scene of the last century. What appeared in front of us was a beautiful small manor. With the camera overhead, a little girl in a long white dress was lying on the grass wearing a garland, and the narration was accompanied by the movement of the camera, from near to far, from close-up trees to distant mountains, running water and morning light. The narrator's soothing and calm tone combined with the quiet and beautiful scenery vaguely entered the audience's heart, but when the camera turned to the Woods again, another family of the story-Mei appeared. She went to town to pick up her son whom she hadn't seen for ten years. In the dusty streets, carriages, stalls, women in long skirts, a unique French style appeared in front of us. Mei's uneasy expression and simple and simple picture seem to imply her separation from the small town. Now, through the close-up picture of their mother and son meeting, it is enough to show all the excitement and yearning that they have not seen for ten years.

When the picture turned to Winnie playing the piano next to her mother and grandmother, Winnie's usual life was presented to the audience in the annoying and urgent sound of the piano. The soothing narration made people understand the little girl's troubles at once, and also surprised her at the French people's pursuit of beauty and living in those red tape. When Yun Ni and her mother came to the town to order French dim sum in a jeep symbolizing wealth at that time, the close-up showed Yun Ni's envy of the boys playing football and the boys' ridicule of Yun Ni, so she got up the courage to get off and play with the boys. However, her happiness is short-lived, and traditional etiquette does not allow her to indulge freely. Her life is repressed, as can be seen from the close-up of yelling at her mother. At this time, the Tuckers are happily immersed in reunion. Yun Ni's close-up expression stopped by his mother suddenly turned to another picture, realizing the transformation of space, which is a function of close-up. The duckling, who showed the beautiful sunset and played happily in the lake, was gradually pushed to the lake house where the Tucker family lived. Beautiful rural scenery, leisurely, which is in sharp contrast with Winnie's life. However, when the younger sons Jesse and May were laughing happily, the older son Miles ruined the atmosphere. With his memory, we saw the process of being followed by a man in yellow when they returned. This process was arranged by the director in a dark night, at a mysterious railway station, a train was about to leave. The man in yellow is like a ghost. Through the Tucker brothers' line of sight, we saw a panoramic view of the man, from outline to close-up. This film deals well with the image of a man in yellow. Darkness surrounds men, but a small amount of light forms a sharp contrast, adding a mysterious atmosphere to the characters, making the audience nervous and fully arousing the curiosity of the audience. Actually, it's not just here. Throughout the film, the man in yellow who is obsessed with getting the secret of immortality is almost full of mystery and some frightening colors every time he appears. Every time he appears, it's either his back or his eyes. Even in action and dialogue, he is so calm and confident. However, all the pictures he appears are relatively gloomy, which makes the audience more curious about this person's identity and intention, and also has more imagination space. It can be seen that in the whole film, the supporting role of the yellow man plays an irreplaceable role in the mysterious atmosphere of the film. It was this yellow man's tracking that made Tucker give the order not to get close to strangers and bring back anyone he met. Without exception, this naturally laid the groundwork for Winnie at the back of the film to be caught. At this time, Yun Ni, who caught fireflies in the manor, met the man in yellow for the first time. The dialogue with this person is basically shot at close range, combined with the light, the eyes and gestures of the characters are well handled, so that the audience can understand the hearts of Yun Ni and the people in yellow. Later, Winnie's mother joined the conversation in the same way. It was this meeting that paved the way for Winnie's parents to reach an agreement with the man in yellow to find Winnie in the movie. When it comes to contrast, we can associate the pictures that Myers recalled in the film are all black and white. This pair of reality and reality distinguishes between reality and memory, which makes the picture performance of the film more exciting. Furthermore, the contrast between brightness and sound is also very obvious in the last scenes of the film that rescue Jesse's parents, but the lightning at this time makes the environment bright and the characters dark. This kind of shading makes full use of the law of contrast, which not only obtains a balanced picture tone, but also is quite innovative.

The manor in the dense forest is beautiful and quiet, but Winnie's mother didn't hear her voice first. They want to send Winnie to Midhouse, a so-called lady who cultivates knowledge and manners, but for Winnie, it is like a prison. Winnie resisted. She didn't want to go. Her previous study was to get out of this fence. The film tells Winnie's wish through narration, but her parents don't understand it. It was this incident that made the depressed Winnie walk out of the bar and into the forest. When she felt the forest, the narrator once again used its soothing tone to tell the attraction of the forest to Winnie, and also hinted at some upcoming things. She got lost in the forest and met Jessie. In her conversation with Jessie, the camera is separated. Ask and answer, the picture is separated. Taking Xiao Jing as the figure's back gives the picture more space, which makes the figure appear real and kind in the picture. This is not the same as squeezing two people's conversations into the same picture. This kind of treatment will express their first meeting more naturally. Then came Yun Ni's escape, Jesse's chase, and even Yun Ni's arrest and Jesse's chase. The film used the techniques of following the camera, leaning forward, leaning back, and slow motion, which enhanced the subjective and spatial sense of the picture, maintained a relatively stable picture scene, and made the audience feel immersive while moving with the camera. At the same time, it also vividly shows the eagerness of the protagonist Jesse, the fear of Winnie and the tenacious psychological activities of Miles. It is particularly worth mentioning that in the scene where Jesse is running, the film uses a telephoto lens to blur the background, reduce the depth of field, blend colors, and simplify the background well; There are some trees in the forest as the foreground between the protagonist and the camera, which enhances the sense of space and movement of the picture. Foreground is used many times in the film. For example, before Yun Ni's mother called her name for the first time, there was such a painting. An iron fence clearly appeared in front of us, from which we could see the White House. At this time, the grating is a prospect, a framework prospect, and the grating itself has a certain formal aesthetic feeling. This prospect enhances the artistic conception of the picture and focuses the audience's attention on the White House in the picture, thus introducing the following plot. In addition, there are several pictures about sunset in the film, which are also applied to the foreground, but the foreground is not so clear at this time. Fuzzy peaks and fuzzy leaves are all to set off the beauty of the sunset. The whole picture is blurred, but it adds a bit of hazy beauty to the picture.

After her arrest, Winnie felt unprecedented freedom at Tucker's house. This kind of life is what she yearns for for for a long time, and so is love. In order to achieve this effect, the film tells this little life in a very quiet and harmonious tone, and expresses this happy and free life with many beautiful scenery pictures. It is light and elegant, like a relaxed song, which makes people feel very comfortable. When shooting the picture of Jesse Lavenny's rock climbing, the director kept switching between the overhead shot, the overhead shot and the side shot, which made people see the hardships of their rock climbing on the one hand and feel their happy mood on the other. When they climb the mountain, the camera gradually raises the angle from the horizontal angle of their backs. Taking the rock as the background, the top surface of the subject becomes visible and expressive, showing the three-dimensional sense of the characters, and then reflecting the relationship between the subject and the surrounding environment in a panoramic view. The whole picture is clean and comfortable, which is very in line with the protagonist's mood at this time. The overhead lens is also used many times in movies. For example, at the beginning of the movie, when the hostess Yun Ni first appeared, she set the grass as the background. Shooting Yun Ni's appearance from this angle is not only to simplify the environment, but more importantly, when the hero and heroine and Yun Ni are running on the grass, the foreground is used in the picture, thus strengthening the sense of space, forming a formal contrast and enriching the picture language. The use of the follow-up lens makes the picture full of motion and makes the audience feel the happiness of the protagonist. Then, they show their running in the stream with their backs and panoramic views. There is not much scenery, but it makes the relationship between people and the environment closer, which explains the cheerful atmosphere at this time.

In addition, in dealing with the main body, many films use the golden section composition method. For example, when Jessie and Winnie met for the first time, Jessie's position ended up in the right third of the screen, and the rest were the surrounding plants. This composition makes the picture appear balanced, stable and harmonious, and gives the space a sense of hierarchy. In addition, the symmetrical composition method is also adopted. For example, when Yun Ni's parents want to send Yun Ni to study in Midhouse, they will take photos of her parents. Parents are symmetrical around the table, which shows that in Yun Ni's family, the status of father and mother is equal, which can also reflect that some men and women were equal in bourgeois society at that time.

Besides the composition of the picture, I also want to talk about the structure of the film. 1, the film tells the story in flashback, which creates great suspense for the audience at the beginning and further develops on the original storyline at the end, echoing from beginning to end, making the storyline of the film complete and wonderful. The music box in Jessie's mother's hand in the film is a clue to the story. From the first time Mei saw her son, to the first time the yellow race saw Winnie and played music, to the first time Mei saw Winnie, and even to the first time Mei was put in prison, many of these firsts were related to the music in that box. It seems that this music has influenced everyone. This music is a clue. The narration that had to be mentioned in the film really promoted the development of the story. It can be said that without these narrators, the story will not go on; It is these soothing narratives that push the story forward, express some profound and thought-provoking words, and show some hints and mysterious feelings. Just like the narrator at the beginning: for many people, a moment is a lifetime; And some people's time is fleeting.