Jacqui Reis Markey Film Consciousness Of The Underlying Analysis Test

Aki Kaurismaki is called Finland maverick director who can make a perfect balance between arts and business, content and form. From Aki Kaurismaki’s all works, we can know that he always fixes his gaze on the little man, then displays the little men’s substantial life and the spiritual life, and reveal their joys and sorrows of life. So we can say that the greatest feature about Aki Kaurismaki’s movies is paying attention to the underclass. Therefore, this paper makes "underclass" the breakthrough and chooses the perspective of "consciousness of underclass" to make a deep and general analysis on his movies.Above all, combined with Aki Kaurismaki’s life experience, this paper describes consciousness of the underclass in the content of his movies, which includes the little men’s living environment, attitudes and destination of their emotion. Secondly, it analyses its performance in the film language, such as the underclass features of living space, sharp colour contrast, characteristic sound, restrained facial expression and flexible motive shot. Thirdly, it expounds the meanings of consciousness of the underclass, which includes social value, ideological value and artistic value.