Study On Aesthetic Characteristics And Significance Of Lu Chuan’s Films

Lu Chuan, as a film director, he had a few films. But he gave us a big surprise every time.The thesis is to research three films of Lu Chuan, named “The Search for a Missing Gun”,“kekexili:Mountain Patrol” and “City of Life and Death”. It focus on their creating experience,aesthetic characteristics and significance.First, it’s a dividing line when a film had finished. He has experienced three stages. From1998to2001, ego anxiety because of his first try; From2002to2004, the simulationexpression after calm down; From2005to now, mainsteaming after understanding reality.Second, it’s from content and image and narrate to refine aesthetic characteristics of LuChuan’s films. By analysing the movie text, it’s to induction content features, theentertainment and seriousness of the theme. It’s to express the serious theme that to add someentertainment elements. Another is a distinctive or implicative subject. It’s easy to know thedistinctive subject, but it’s difficult to know implicative subject. By analyzing the images incommon, it’s to induction images’ features. It’s to create realism space and time, to displaypsychological change of the roles vividly, to form ideographic of the rich camera language bylong lenses and defamiliarization modeling. Also through the natural light, the throughoutfilm actors and the rhythm to make the audience unfamiliarly. By analysing the narrate moviein commom, it’s to sum up the narrative characteristics, the reasonable selection of narrativeperspective and the clever arrangement of narrative structure. It’s to convey the narrator’sidea and it’s easy to agree with mainstream psychological need.And last, the aesthetic significance of Lu Chuan’s films is expounded in the thesis, theideal feelings revealled sincerely and the speculative colour performed strongly. Lu Chuanexpressed the ideal feelings about life and death, the significance of life and human naturerespectively. From concrete to abstract, it kept asking like a step to get a deeper essence.