The Research On Aki Kaurismaki’s Films

Nordic unique geographical environment and cultural makes Nordic cinema with special qualities, such as the emergence of film master Ingmar Bergman. However, the development of the Nordic film can’t be called prosperity. Since the eighties, Aki Kaurismaki’s international film-awards films won worldwide attention again for Nordic cinema, particular Finland cinema. He also became an important pillar of the Finnish cinema.Aki Kaurismaki’s Films performance the figures of contemporary Finnish underlying society alienation lonely situation, showing the tragic plight of the people living in Finland with its unique comedic way, his films has a wealth of humanitarian concern, as well as the thought of industrial society, consumer society, cultural invasion and other social issues.Aki Kaurismaki’s Films have a very strong personal style and artistic research value. This article will analyze Aki Kaurismaki’s Films movie style and artistic value by aspects of cultural theme, narrative feature, narrative structure, audio-visual language.The article consists of six parts:introduction, four chapters and conclusion.In the introduction, first sketched the Aki Kaurismaki’s Films history, followed by a brief sort of the Finnish cinema history, analyze Aki Kaurismaki’s contribution to Finland cinema. Finally, outline the domestic research status of Aki Kaurismaki’s Films, resume the research methods of this article, and raised the following questions: What’s the qualities and artistic value Aki Kaurismaki’s Films have? What’s the cultural theme Aki Kaurismaki’s Films narrating? How Aki Kaurismaki complete performance and narrating of his films?The first chapter analyzes the three culture theme of Aki Kaurismaki’s Films: The humanistic concern of individual’s life at the bottom of society in his realism films, the absurd expression of individual style sense of belonging in his surrealistic films, the reinterpretation of classic literary in the social dimension of modern Finland. Analysis how the three cultural themes of this topic is reflected in Aki Kaurismaki’s films, then brief analysis of the causes of these three cultural themes.In the second chapter nvestigate the tragic and comic and the balance between them in Aki Kaurismaki’s Films, consists of three sections. The first section analyzes the film "Cold humor" comic trait and causes of comic, emphasis on elaborate comic "cold". Section two analyzes the tragic characteristics in his films and the causes of tragic. Section three is the focus of this chapter, discusses how the tragic and comic fusion and balance with a single plot point and with a the overall plot point, how his figure’s action being tragic and comic in the same time, and brief analysis the relationship between tragicomic fusion and the cultural themes embodied in the films.The third chapter analyzes the narrative features of Aki Kaurismaki’s Films, how he narrative these cultural themes, consists of three sections. The first section analyzes the omitted narrative strategies, analyzes and summarizes Aki Kaurismaki’s omitted narrative strategies from three angles:the narration of overall films, the narration between several shots, the narration in one shot, and the significance of this narrative strategy. Section two is used to summarize Aki Kaurismaki’s constant Narration mode: constant character set with a constant action mode of figures. Brief analysis the reflections of this patterns in his films, and the Finnish national characteristics of this narration pattern. Section three analyzes the symbolism and metaphor in Aki Kaurismaki’s Films, and how these symbols playing the role of narration and express poetic in the meaning time. The fourth chapter analyzes the characteristics of Aki Kaurismaki’s Audio-visual language. How do these characteristics in coordination with Cultural themes and Tragicomic form, consists of three sections. The first section analyzes the minimum performance characteristics, the cause and expression of these stagnation characteristics. Section two analyzes its calm and restraint camera language. Summarizes the two kinds of highly personal approach of camera in Aki Kaurismaki’s Films, and investigate the relationship between the position of the characters in the composition of the film pictures. Section three describes the music characteristics in Aki Kaurismaki’s Films. Analysis of multiple identities and multiple meanings of music in his Films, how music carries the significance meaning of narration in his films, and how he mixes a variety of different styles of music in one piece of work.The conclusion part will summarize article, briefly interpret the artistic pursuit of Aki Kaurismaki and the revelation to small domestic film production.