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Dancing in the Dangerous Road Jewelry Retouching

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When director Chen Hongyi first conceived the structure of "Self-Portrait", he set the actor's identity as an artist, a creator who is not limited by secular moral norms, but who perceives this era more deeply than ordinary people. Chen Hongyi led the entire crew to work closely with the artist Zhong Jiangze, not to make a biography of an artist, let alone a so-called "art film", but a thriller and suspense feature that closely follows the pulse of the Taiwan era, whether it is the interpretation of the topic or the shooting. The methods are extremely bold and deeply topical. And Zhong Jiangze's involvement for nearly a year has opened a new chapter in the cross-border cooperation between film and pure art.Chen Hongyi obviously has his unique pursuit of formal aesthetics. He divided the entire film into seven chapters based on the Catholic "Seven Deadly Sins", and commissioned Zhong Jiangze to create seven large-scale paintings based on these, as visual metaphors throughout the film. The "Seven Deadly Sins" is a time-honored cautionary dogma in the Catholic system, developed in the thirteenth century by the important scholastic philosopher and theologian St. Aquinas (St. Thomas Aquinas) carried forward and has been passed down to this day. Looking back at "Self-Portrait", from the citation of philosophical allusions to the challenge of shooting techniques, it is not difficult to see Chen Hongyi's intention to continue and pay tribute to the classics.


He also creatively used paintings belonging to the category of pure art throughout the seven chapters. On the one hand, he increased the thickness of the characters of the hero Jiang Zhongze (played by Lin Zhexi), and on the other hand, the extremely violent painting style brought suspense and horror to the plot. Here comes the endless imagination of gorgeous and sensuality.Abandoning the linear narrative, Chen Hongyi and the experienced co-screenwriter Wei Yingjuan boldly used chapter segmentation to deal with many issues involved in "Self-Portrait", each chapter corresponding to one of the "Seven Deadly Sins" and a specific character in the play. Behind these complex and dense layouts, the partial layer dissociated images of the seven paintings Jewelry Retouching are used as nodes on the screen, presenting a very good and beautiful visual effect. Ghost director Quentin. Tarantino (Quentin Tarantino) is a rare director and screenwriter who is good at this kind of technique. His famous 1994 black comedy "Pulp Fiction" is a classic.Zhong Jiangze, who is behind-the-scenes painting, has a very distinct personality in his own artistic vocabulary. For him, creation is a kind of continuous breakthrough and renewal, thereby maintaining a state of self-preservation. His brushstrokes are wild and unrestrained, good at deconstructing the meaning of images and rebuilding new worlds. Image In his paintings, images and spaces are staggered and overlapped with each other, and time loses its original linear order. The characteristics of the paintings undoubtedly strengthen the visual power of the film and respond to the brokenness of the characters facing many issues in the play. The large-scale painting of "Seven Deadly Sins" as the main visual is specially drawn by Zhong Jiangze to match the plot of the movie, and several characters in the play are also used as the objects of depiction. Although it deviates from the artist's creative mode, the power emanating from the painting is still powerful and contagious, and a gorgeous swirling song is intertwined with the development of the plot.


In such a splendid arrangement of forms, there are clashes and struggles on taboo topics such as sex, desire, politics, and gender. The beginning of the movie is the scene of the frightening criminal case. Yang Jie (played by Zhang Hao), a third-year political student, lived in the corpse. Her eyes were gouged out, leaving two dark holes full of blood on her beautiful face. , The beautiful naked body was covered with oil paint. The police searched for evidence in the apartment where the oil paintings were stacked. One of the canvases was depicting a life-size deceased. In perfect condition, proudly displaying charming beauty. This gorgeous and horrific murder scene took place in Taipei on the day of Taiwan's presidential election in 2016. Since then, the film has begun to trace back to the once splendid young lives in this disturbed society, revealing the darkness and despair in sex, violence, politics, ideals and love.The plot boldly challenges people's senses and moral boundaries, and exposes the dark human nature hidden in the light. The performance of several actors is quite remarkable. Zhang Ao's gleaming eyes and the corners of her delicate mouth aptly interpret the beautiful, intelligent and stubborn girl Yang Jie in the play. She stepped into the world of the enigmatic artist Jiang Zhongze, and experienced political visions and disillusionment of close friendships. It looks like a proud girl, but she is full of scars. And Zhang Qiaoxiang's role as Yang Jie's close friend is a boy and a girl, touching on the hot gender issues in recent years, and even more hot topics due to the actor's own transgender identity.
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