What makes us to have the interest to watch a movie normally? Before we watch a movie, we will go through some of the details parts of the movie. For instance, we will go through the genre, synopsis and others details parts on itself that make us to watch it. There are diverse kind of movies and they targeted different kind of target audience based on what their needs and what their expectation on the movie itself. Besides that, we also look at some terms on it for example the French expressionism. To further understand the influence of French Expressionism on contemporary media, we will look in the movie named as "In the Mood of Love". Now we will look at the avant-garde style and the movement of the film itself.
French impressionism is generally considered to be a spontaneous method of painting in which an artist attempts to capture the impression of light in a scene. French Impressionist Cinema, also sometimes known as The First Avant-Garde or Narrative Avant-Garde, is a name for a loose association of French films and filmmakers operating primarily between 1919 and 1929. Although different scholars have reached different conclusions as to whether French Impressionist Cinema can even be classified as a cohesive movement, it is generally considered to be one of the important branches of early international cinema and its influence today is widespread.
The synopsis of "In the Mood of Love" is talking about a journalist and his wife move into an apartment, but his's spouse is often away on business. He makes the acquaintance of the alluring with the protagonist, {Maggie Cheung}, whose own significant other also seems preoccupied with work. Afterwards they two realize their husband and wife are cheating on them, they begin to fall for one another but however, they do not want to same as their spouses who unfaithful towards their partners so they just remain as friends even though they fall in love with each other. Actually this movie is quite sad.
French impressionism was an avant-garde style that operated in the film industry. The cinematography of the movie give audience a sense of voyeurism, I feel like I am want to know more on the two characters as they develop their secret relationship and spy on them. This sense of voyeurism into the character’s life is due to the film’s plot which hiding a secretive affair among them. Voyeurism is found in the movie by the framing and the positioning of the camera and also the camera’s eye-level tracking shots of the characters’ backside.
In addition, the camera is positioned behind a grilled window, portraying the sense that the audience is peeking in during a very intimate exchange between the two characters. However, this type of framing can also be interpreted in such a way that the characters are trapped and confined in the secrecy of their affair. Besides that, there are many scenes of the main character in which the camera follows them from behind with an eye-level tracking shot. They use this kind of shot to make me feel like the director want us to follow them within a distance to watch their movement and make us feel wonder what's happening at the middle and the ending of the story. This had created a sense of voyeurism. Much of the film was shot using the normal lens as it “seeks to avoid noticeable perspective distortions” (Bordwell and Thompson 169), giving the audience the feeling of “being there” with the protagonists.
The background music plays an important role in telling the story begins and how the story will happen in the movie of "In the Mood of Love". I like the part where the background music where the female character walks down the street to buy noodles and it keep on play repeatedly. It show a sense of sadness mood and where she met the male character at there too and they keep on passed by without any dialogue while they saw each other. Besides that, the editing for this movie is more slow pace to show the sense of feeling that what the story will slowly begin on and this movie is really good. I like it so much.
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