Which expert can analyze the clip of Gu Liguo singing Nanhai girl in "Butterflies"? From pictures, music, people and so on

Swallowtail butterfly is an ordinary butterfly with English name "Swallowtail Butterfly" and Japanese name "Shangyu". Swallowtail butterflies are pupae and larvae when they are young, and when they grow up, they transform into wings and want to fly. The flight of swallowtail butterfly follows some erratic curves, which are beautiful and fragile. The movie Swallowtail Butterfly tells the story of a girl's growth and unrequited love, the story of a pair of lovers who are eager to fly but eventually lead to tragedy because of illusory flight, and the story of many people dying in the illusion of flying. It is a well-constructed modern myth, in which the environment is a surreal "swallow town", and the swallowtail butterfly is the core metaphor representing life and desire. Surging in the turbulent and fragmented video stream, we can clearly feel a feeling of longing for flying and mourning for flying. But this kind of escape is actually something alienated by reality. It is a "my way" that hangs in front of everyone but cannot be fulfilled. It is guided by countless currencies called "circles". Sober people "killers" and people who are content with the status quo "are both Japanese" survived. They didn't live in a dream, let alone try to turn their dreams into life. But those guys who are energetic, imaginative and eager to fly are often miserable, because the world has long since stopped promising happiness beyond the horizon. In order to catch any real flight, you must either follow the rules or be crushed like a butterfly. These people make us rejoice, feel ashamed and pity. They are full of human nature, rich in emotions, fresh and painful in desire. For example, Huo, who died at the end of the film, is simple and kind, looks old but childlike. At some moments, he poetically "talks about the soul or flies". At some moments, he is greedy for money and infatuated with it, and has a good dream. In times of crisis, he does not lose the blood of men. He died poetically.

Shunji Iwai's film Swallowtail Butterfly tells the story of some energetic "round thieves". Narratively, there are three main lines. One is about the growth story of the unknown girl "Papilio". After the death of the prostitute's mother, she was taken in by the prostitute "Guliguo", got the name "Butterfly", and was introduced into "Blue Sky", met Hong Fei and Lang Lang, and lived a gypsy life with them, collecting garbage, selling cars and opening an open-air bar. Later, Hong Fei accidentally got a tape to make counterfeit money, and made a fortune. She followed him and Guliguo into the city and opened a "living house", which witnessed the disillusionment of Hong Fei and Guliguo's dream of flying. After experiencing a series of events, such as unrequited love for Hong Fei, drug abuse, tattooing, inability to save her happiness with money, "inability to buy back the club", the bursting of the star bubble of Guliguo, "exposure of prostitute's identity" and Hong Fei's death, her emotions and hearts have been baptized and grown. She confirmed her identity, changed from a caterpillar to a swallowtail butterfly "an adult woman with a firm heart" by tattooing, and finally chose a pure and simple life (when Liu Liangkui finally asked her what to open a shop to sell, her answer was silence, indicating that she finally rejected the "selling" rules of the real society). In addition, Papilio also undertakes the function of the narrator in the whole story. Hong Fei, Gu Liguo and the whole story of Yanzhen are observed and told from her perspective, but the whole film is not preserved from her perspective.

The second clue of the story, that is, the main line of the whole film, is the tragic experience of "round thief" lovers Huo and Gu. Gu and Huo lived a humble and lyrical life as thieves. For example, in the film, the life clips of MTV's "Blue Sky" such as "Cheating Man" sung by Gu at the thief's open-air party, hanging clothes, practicing boxing, picking up garbage and playing the piano to go home, are all praises to their bohemian "thief" life. But a tape "My Way" found in the bodies of murdered John and underworld member Sudo changed all that. The magnetic sensor with counterfeit money hidden in the magnetic tape seems to indicate an easy opportunity to realize your dream. Accompanied by Hollywood-style transition music, they left the paradise-like "blue sky" and entered the city center symbolizing their dreams and desires. Hong Fei formed an alternative band embodying the spirit of "Round Thief" according to his own ideal, and opened a live studio to let Guliguo show his singing talent and start making money. However, the indifferent city "mainstream society in Japan" has its own dehumanizing operation logic, crushing the naive dreams of thieves bit by bit. The record company stepped in. In order to "sell well", it first tampered with Gu Liguo's identity as a thief, packaged her as a lifeless Japanese doll, and then gradually alienated the couple. Hong Fei was also arrested by immigration because of the informant of the record company. When he "inexplicably" regained his freedom and galloped in the street, he finally saw the realization of his dream-the swallowtail butterfly stabbed in the chest of Guliguo, as an advertisement of Yentown band, hung over the city. The swallowtail butterfly seems to fly, but what kind of artificial dead flight it is, which is different from the happiness in my dream, Wan Li, which makes Hong Fei feel at a loss. Then everything got worse. The band broke up, the club closed, and Guliguo and Hong Fei were hunted by the underworld. Hong Fei was caught by the police while changing counterfeit money on the way to escape and died of torture.

The third line of the story revolves around the magical tape My Road, which is another core metaphor about the road of life in this film. Liu Liangkui, the rogue king and underworld leader of Yan Town who started as a forger, hid his forged 10,000 yen magnetic sensor in this "my way" and was later stolen by Teng Xu of Gershbang. Su Teng violently attacked Butterfly and Guliguo when he was whoring with prostitutes, and was killed by Aaron, a former black boxer who heard the news. When burying the body in secret, Lang Lang found the tape from Su Teng and cracked the secret. Hong Fei made a fortune on tapes, and went to the city to find a dream with Guliguo and Papilio. At the same time, Liu Liangkui and his gang are also tracking down the whereabouts of the videotape. Later, after the club closed, in order to save the old life, Papilio asked Lang Lang for tapes and conducted a large-scale counterfeit currency exchange activity. But she didn't save anything from the money she got. Liu Liangkui's men caught up with Hong Fei and Guliguo respectively. Gu Liguo was saved by Lang Lang, but Hong Fei died at the hands of the police [counterfeit money abandoned him at the most critical moment]. Finally, Butterfly returned The Possible Way to Liu Liangkui, and Liu Liangkui, who finally got the tape, was only one minute away from death. This magical "May Road", which can magnify paper money ten times, has brought illusory bubbles and real disasters to the owner. Only those who despise it can be saved, such as butterflies and wolves. 【 Wolf lang engaged in assassination activities is also a dark line related to the plot, but it is very weak.

In the film, the three story lines are intricate and organically intertwined, forming a seamless story, and it is difficult to really separate any of them. Almost all the details are suggestive or causal, the characters are interrelated, and the plots are interlocking, which fully shows the superb skills of director Shunji Iwai in grasping complex narratives. In fact, the theme of this film is nothing special. Nothing more than showing the money-oriented society and the harm of money greed to life and emotion. The contempt for money is manifested in the details of teenagers tearing money and butterflies throwing money into the fire. Shunji Iwai told this mythical "thief's story" in order to criticize Japanese society's money supremacy, indifference and death. Compared with thieves who are full of energy and emotion, the Japanese in the film are almost inhuman, humble and cold. For example, Asakawa, who was overwhelmed by debt and worked hard, only knew how to "sell well" record companies, secretly reported other people's female brokers, female journalists who dug people's privacy, Japanese police who abused violence, and even Japanese underworld were ugly in front of handsome and elegant thief and rogue Wang Liangkui. In fact, the lifeless Japanese society is not worth being used as a place for thieves to "dream". Indeed, thieves are eager to make money, get rich and even show greed, but unlike the Japanese, they don't take making money as their ultimate goal. They have dreams and hope to create a "real life" with money (of course, this is illusory). For example, Hong Fei opens a live studio, sings with fruit, Liu Liangkui wants to go back to Shanghai, and Butterfly wants to buy back the club. They also bring touching human brilliance. In sharp contrast with them, Japanese society is dehumanizing and morbid.

However, the reason why Butterfly is a good movie is not its theme, but that Shunji Iwai can weave a fairy tale with fluent narration and express its theme in such a highly stylized and poetic audio-visual language. This is a very complicated film, which combines many elements of youth films, gang gunfights and even musical films, and fully integrates realistic and surreal situations, dreams and memories, actions and psychology. The whole movie is full of dazzling events and actions, but it maintains an overall lyrical atmosphere from beginning to end. The two emotional lines symbolized by Swallowtail Butterfly and My Road make the whole film consistently shrouded with a deep sense of sadness, which has become the emotional tone that plays a stabilizing role in the film. Shunji Iwai is not only a "handsome image", but also an out-and-out "lyrical handsome image". If The Swallowtail Butterfly does not have this strong lyricism, then these complicated characters, stories and action details, including Shunji Iwai's turbulent and fragmented photography and editing style, will all be reduced to pieces, and the film will probably be out of sight.

The four protagonists in the film all have their own lyric passages, such as the passage in which Hong Fei gallops in the street after he is released from prison and finally looks back blankly in the middle of the road; Butterflies visiting prison, tattooed jokes; A passage sung by Gu Liguo several times; Liu Liangkui recalled how to name his lost sister "Guliguo". In order to create an overall lyrical atmosphere, Shunji Iwai showed amazing skills in controlling the rhythm of movies, and achieved a balance between narration and lyricism. This is manifested in the arrangement of action section and lyric section, which is often a turbulent and dazzling action section, followed by a relatively stable lyric section. In terms of image style, swallowtail butterflies also have rich types, including swaying, subjective quick shooting and editing, and very stable long shots [for example, butterflies go to the police station to claim Hong Fei's body, butterflies and solid fruit make a wreath to commemorate Hong Fei, and fix the shots for 30 seconds], as well as MTV passages accompanied by music, and the arrangement of color, light and sound also changes accordingly. Sometimes in the same paragraph, the image style is also changing, such as the one with the butterfly tattoo. The tattoo scene is a calm and warm picture and color, full of peaceful atmosphere of exploration and explanation; Memories is a dark and turbulent fast-paced flashback, which begins with a subjective shot of a flying swallowtail butterfly, accompanied by accelerated anxiety (the acceleration of editing and the shaking of the camera), and conveys a traumatic experience of being claustrophobic and eager to escape. Finally, when the swallowtail butterfly's wings were squeezed out by the window, the rhythm suddenly slowed down, and the broken wings slowly fell on the little girl's chest, as if branded with an unforgettable pain, a lingering complex and a tragic sense of life. In this intersection of reality and memory, the image style and editing rhythm fluctuate like music, which makes the whole paragraph full of sad poetry. It can be described as one of the two classic paragraphs in this film (the other is Hong Fei's Looking Back on the Road). In a word, the pursuit of image style in Butterfly adapts to the story content and emotion, and is not limited to a single routine.

Besides, we can't notice the music in the film. Music plays a vital role in creating the overall lyrical atmosphere of this film. The film is full of subjective and objective music, complicated pop songs, including Chinese, English and Japanese, and even many paragraphs appear directly in the form of MTV. Music styles are also rich and varied, including string-themed music [violin as the main theme], clear and soothing piano music "Visiting Prison" which shows butterfly's secret love, and Hollywood-style rich transition music which shows life changes. The main theme of the harmonica (Hong Fei left the blue sky with the butterfly and butterfly to buy back money from the club) was changed for the second time, and the momentum and speed slowed down, and the volume of the harmonica increased. Various popular songs are also selected in the film, such as Teresa Teng, the old English song My Way, modern Japanese rock music and folk guitar female voice. Of course, the most unforgettable song is My Road, which is the theme song of this movie. This old English song tells a man's attitude towards life in a confessional tone. There are many roads in life, and it is difficult to make a choice. Although he has experienced difficulties, hesitation, tears and laughter, he still plays My Road with perseverance. This is a compliment to the thieves and a lament to them. This song mainly appeared four times in the film, which not only changed the form of each appearance, but also expressed different emotions and atmosphere. When My Road first appeared, Hong Fei and his friends came back to play the tape they had just found on the tape recorder in the car. They began to sing along gradually, and the songs were mixed with fatigue. At this time, it is a kind of melancholy mood that is vacant and uncertain about the future; When Hong Fei appeared for the second time, he had just opened the "Live House" and the band was formed. They are at the peak of their dreams, so accompanied by a rock band, Guliguo gave a complete performance of My Road (accompanied by the hearty intermission and ending of percussion instruments), which was a happy, confident and hopeful mood [perhaps only Guliguo's depressed voice has an ominous sign]; The third time was in the form of subjective music. Hong Fei was beaten by the police, and his life was dying. At this time, in the vigorous male voice of the original song My Road, I flashed back to the fragment of Hong Fei running in the street and looking back blankly, expressing a strong sadness and sigh. The last time they appeared, Guliguo and Butterfly were weaving a wreath in memory of Hong Fei, while humming "My Road" gently, just like the sound after the end of the song, which was a sad calm after vicissitudes and blows. The four appearances conveyed the theme and emotion contained in My Road incisively and vividly, forming a complete lyric line. We can also learn some clever and artistic ways to use the theme song.

The flight of swallowtail butterfly has fallen, and the world has lost some vitality and poetry. But after all, the movie left us a hopeful figure, a girl who finally found herself. In the dirty and sinister world, her image is not only strangely unpolluted, but also constantly strengthened, which can't be said to be a miracle or another dream.

Fragment: I still love Shunji Iwai's warmth in the heartless world, which can't be concealed in all his films, especially when his camera is aimed at the crowd, there is a sentimental and almost transparent concern in the picture. When Gu Liguo sang "Nanhai Girl" by dim light, the camera began to move slowly from right to left for a short distance. This action and singing have brought us so much emotion, even when we switch angles, it corresponds to the ups and downs of the melody. The most touching effect is the slight jitter of the camera, and the warmth and purity at that moment are still so wonderful.