Chapter 11 Comments on the third part

Nothing can be seen, nothing can be written, nothing can be said.Really, it's the inability to do anything that makes this movie happen. —— Duras If it is necessary to find a film as an epoch-making milestone for the transition of Western films from the classical period to the modern period, then this film should undoubtedly be.With its modern themes, ambiguous themes, shocking expression techniques, and the close connection with the New Novel School, it has inspired and created modern movies in multiple senses. In May of 1959, Alan Resnais brought his new film completed last year to Cannes, France, to participate in the twelfth film festival held here. The film was like a blockbuster and immediately caused a sensation in the entire West. film industry.Some people think that this is an "unprecedentedly great work", "the end of classicism", "ten years ahead of schedule, and makes all critics lose their courage."

It tells the foreign love affair between a French actress filming in Japan and a Japanese architect, interspersed with Hiroshima who suffered the atomic bomb and the love tragedy between actress Girls' Generation and German soldiers in the small French town of Nevers during World War II.It is said to be the turning point of the film. For the first time, a bold and novel narrative technique appeared in the film. The film seized the territory already dominated by literature. Narrator-based realism performances implement a rupture.A monologue by one or more characters takes the place of the narrator.The world is no longer depicted, but reflected in people's minds, and audiences have to experience these films in new ways.

At the end of the 1950s, a group of new French directors set off an anti-traditional film movement, known as the "New Wave". The young directors headed by Godard despised all traditional film narrative methods, and the films they shot had obvious modernist colors. .The "Left Bank" film group that emerged at the same time is usually regarded as a branch of the "New Wave". Alain Resnais is a representative of this group. Their films focus on exploring people's inner consciousness and use a lot of modern colors Very strong "stream of consciousness" technique of space-time inversion.

The relationship between the Left Bank School and literature is very close, and most of the writers of the "New Novel" school that prevailed at that time were members of the "Left Bank School".Such as the representative of the "New Novel" faction, Marguerite Duras. The writers of the "New Fiction" school brought a strong literary style to the "Left Bank School" films, so the "Left Bank School" films are also called "writer's films". The term "writer's film" has double meanings in a broad sense. One means that the director of the film is the creator of the film, and the film must have a strong personal style; Original scripts, most of which are scripts created by writers for movies, many of the expressive techniques in the film come from the reference of literary expressive techniques.Written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Alain Resnais, it has undoubtedly become a masterpiece of left bank writers' films.

The interweaving of love and anti-war and anti-militarist themes benefited from the original script of Marguerite Duras, but looking at the creative process of Alain Resnais, contemporary historical events (the Second World War and the Later events) and the impact of war on the destiny of mankind are always the focus of his selection of materials.Created in 1950, "Guernica" draws on Picasso's painting of the same name to strongly protest against the inhumane bombing of this famous ancient city in Spain by German fascists in 1937. In 1955, Alain Resnais shot "Night and Fog" again, re-editing black and white photos from the archives, and newsreels in order to reproduce the cruel scenes of the Nazi concentration camps.And it is the logical continuation and destination of these two works.