"Beautiful Heart Realm": Under the perspective of ordinary people, there is a unique world of blind people
Beautiful Hearts is a film directed by Polish director Anjay Yakimowski, released in 2012. Although the film is a bit unpopular, it has surprisingly obtained a high score of 8.3 on Douban, and it can be seen that everyone who has watched this movie has given high praise to this movie.
How do you feel about the world when your eyes can't see? The film is about a blind protagonist, Ian, who takes us to perceive the world in his own original way.
The film tells the story of Ian, a blind man who comes to a clinic in Lisbon, Portugal, as a teacher, and uses an unconventional teaching method to teach navigation skills to the parents of blind children with visual impairments. The clinic has doubts about Ian's unconventional pedagogy, but there are also expectations.
For Ian, localization starts with the brain and imagination, and then is driven by sensory perception, so as to achieve the purpose of navigating to a certain location. Although his methods are effective, there are certain risks in this kind of teaching. Thankfully, Ian's difficult teaching path has inspired countless people.
For this movie, different viewers have different views, if only from the film's story content to interpret, it can not fully reflect the true charm of this movie, need to be analyzed from multiple angles, multi-level, in order to understand its deep meaning.
Therefore, this article will be deeply interpreted from the three aspects of "narrative method, shooting method, and theme meaning". In the third part, I will explore the film's enlightenment for our lives in the light of real life.
01. The combination of the simple storyline and the blind world highlights the emotional state of the protagonist to the audience
The film begins in pitch black, with only a familiar sound that we can't remember what it is, until a puppy appears, oh, it turns out to be the sound of a puppy breathing... The film allows us to enter the film from the perspective of a blind man, as the male protagonist later said, "If you want to take my class, you have to blindfold yourself." "Or that's the only way we can feel the world of the blind more truly."
The story line of the movie is also quite old-fashioned, a blind teacher who likes to play open teaching, a group of blind students who follow enthusiastically, and a serious and rigid "principal", plus a small love story. This kind of plot can be found in almost any education-related movie, and there are countless similar movies. However, the clean, small and fresh storyline makes us feel that the world can be so simple, pure and beautiful.
(1) The teaching plot plus the emotional plot makes it easier for the viewer to feel the emotional needs of the blind world.
The man is a blind teacher who quit his job and took a job at a clinic in a seaside town to tutor the blind children who live here. As a maverick blind man, he walks without a cane, and like a bat, he uses his voice to judge his surroundings and the location of obstacles, and comes and goes freely in the town.
The unique way of living and teaching attracts great interest from blind children. So, under his guidance, children also began to learn to "see" the world with their voices. Although the lack of vision limits the children's range of activities, it is impossible to imprison the hearts that yearn for freedom. Even when they are closed in a small room, they will reach out and feel the sunlight coming through the window.
In order to strengthen the emotional needs of the film, the plot also added an emotional link between the male and female protagonists. Although love is not the theme of the film, this love constitutes the closed-loop mode of the film, which can make us feel more - in fact, the blind world also needs emotional investment.
(2) The director sets an open ending, which can give people more imagination space.
The ending of a film is probably nothing more than three: a perfect ending, a regretful ending, and an open-ended ending. The perfect ending has an atmosphere of reunion. And the regretful ending often makes people feel uncomfortable when they think about it, but there are endless thoughts in it. As for the last open-ended ending, it is the most exciting to people's imagination.
"Beautiful Heart" is a film that adopts an open-ended ending, which has no clear ending, but it is the most thought-provoking.
When the end comes, a passing tram takes us out of the world that we have been observing and examining. The director has always emphasized Imagine, the blind man's understanding of the world originally stems from the imagination, and then it will be formed and burned in his own mind. And we see the world through our eyes, but we don't have the rich imagination of theirs.
Therefore, when the tram takes us away, all that is left needs us, the viewers, to close our eyes and imagine, in order to feel the kind of ending set by our hearts.
In my opinion, this kind of narrative method helps some friends who are engaged in writing to observe, learn, and understand, so as to achieve the effect of improving writing skills.
02. The director uses exquisite lenses and sounds to reflect the cleverness of the blind film shooting method.
Under the theme of a "blind man" that has long been told badly, this film is special, and its special feature lies in the use of lens and sound. Since the blind can't see anything, how to express the blind man's perspective in the visual art of film? Before watching the film, this problem has been haunting my mind, and I can't think of a particularly good solution. After watching this movie, I have to admit that the film did it.
(1) The use of close-up shots of character expressions makes it easier for viewers to observe the emotional changes of the characters in the film.
One of the most common shots in movies is the panoramic lens. Panoramic shots are often used to illustrate the surrounding environment to help the audience have a certain understanding of the background environment in which the story takes place, so that the audience can better understand the film.
In this film, however, the director does not do this, but uncharacteristically follows almost all the shots closely to the blind man's face. We can see every subtle expression of the characters, but in the absence of the camera's explanation of the environment, we, like them, do not know what is happening around us.
It is precisely because of the close observation of the expressions of the characters that it is easier for us to appreciate the subtlest emotions of the blind people in the film, and successfully let us achieve empathy in the process of watching the movie.
As the story ends, the film pushes the camera to the entire panorama for the first time, and the only time in the entire film. The moment you see the panorama, the viewer will involuntarily let go of the moment.
(2) The sound effect is deliberately exaggerated and amplified, so that the viewer falls into the character to feel the subtle sound changes in the blind world.
As a film with the theme of blind people, the film's performance of sound can be said to have reached the extreme, and every sensory response is clearly visible and audible. As a result, we are "forced" to discern everything around us through sound, just like blind people.
The film also deliberately amplifies the sound effects a lot, so that we, the visually sound audience, can also be keenly aware of every subtle sound change, such as: identifying the sound of the ship shaking with blind people, and groping with bated breath on the steps of the harbor... Maybe when you accidentally close your eyes during the process of watching, you can also fall into it to feel the world of the blind.
In my opinion, this approach to close-up shooting and sound amplification is really special, and the effect presented is also very good, but it also has its limitations, after all, it can only be applied in such films that involve the theme of "blind people". However, I hope that some excellent filmmakers can carry forward this kind of shooting method so that more audiences can enjoy different types of films.
03. Based on the movie "Beautiful HeartLand", I will talk about my thinking about life in combination with real life
I once watched another blind movie "Flying Backlight", the male protagonist is a blind young man, he through his own heart, "see" the beauty of the world that is not seen by others, therefore, he has never given up the world.
Like "Beautiful Heart", this kind of blind film is very inspirational, not only can move people, but also let us see the bravery of blind people, see the brave power of bravery.
(1) All men are created equal, and blind people want the same.
In fact, blind people in our normal world, there will always be discrimination, but they do more to prove that they can not need the sympathy of others, and there is no difference between themselves and ordinary people.
I look at these vulnerable groups from the perspective of a healthy person, I will worry about them, I am like all "good" people, I hope to help them in all aspects of life, but the premise of these "good" is that I have treated them as aliens in my heart. I think it's this kind of "kindness" that invisibly hurts them, and they really and very much want to be treated as normal people.
All men are created equal, and God closes a door to someone and opens a window. And our respect for them may be just a ray of sunshine from that open window.
(2) As long as you feel the world with your heart, anyone's world will be different.
To be honest, our society is so impetuous that most people are unwilling to listen to others and feel the world through their own hearts. Blind people only imagine because they cannot see; and even if we can see, we do not have the kind of thoughts that we imagine with our hearts.
This movie is just telling us —
Some people can see but limit their sights to their own small living space and do not observe everything in the world; some people have lost the light, and they must also perceive the world with their ears, nose, and hands and feet, and use their hearts to experience and imagine this world.
To summarize:
Blind movies like "Beautiful Heart" seem to be incompatible with our so-called "entertainment first" society, but I still hope that everyone can watch this movie and let their impetuous hearts sink.
I remember that there is a saying that says: How big the mind is, how big the world can be, how big the world can be, can see the endless beauty of the world, and can appreciate more beauty and value in this world. Remember: how rich the imagination is, how big the heart is, the heart is open, and your world becomes vast.