Roman Polanski's Traumatic Experience And Image Salvation

Roman Polanski is a director who had greatest artistic achievements in the history of the film world,and his life is controversial.He can make many kinds of movies,but he has his own style in each genre.This is because his films contain traces of his own trauma.Polanski tried to redeem his trauma by making films,he also expressed his feeling of life in these films.This paper is divided into three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.Introduction: explain the reasons for choosing the title of the paper,show the problem consciousness of writing,sort out and comment on the research achievements of Polanski so far.The concept definition and theoretical development of trauma,experience and salvation are respectively sorted out,and the research ideas are constructed by applying relevant theories such as trauma theory,psychoanalysis,psychology of art and literature and film narratology.The main body part: find the reasons for Polanski's traumatic experience,its presentation in the image,and he try to self-salvation in image process.The first chapter explore Polanski's traumatic experience in his living situation,and how he developed his keen perception ability and stimulated his strong creative impulse.This chapter mainly talk about director's growth in the Second World War,many tribulations of love experience and the lam after commit a crime.His distrust of religion,isolation from foster care and the shackles of Poland red political power.These left Polanski first traumatic memories.He was abandoned many times in love,and his wife was murdered,which left a scar on his heart.He fled after a crime,he was put into prison,and his spirit drift,which inevitably like dyes to dye in his life.The second chapter mainly analyzes the image expression of Polanski's traumatic experience.The complexity of Polanski's situation made him suspicious of everything and good at spotting paradoxes in life.Polanski chose to express his trauma in the film,and he tended to juxtapose contradictory elements in his images.These factors gave his films a distinctive strength.As shown in the movie are contradictory characters,the meaning of enclosed space and the aesthetic style of horror.Polanski chose to pin his trauma on the film.Polanski's living in a paradox,so his characters often face a dilemma,in the context of dilemma,in the paradoxical anxiety.The closed space in which he lived in the Jewish ghetto and the cognitive closed space under the pressure of Poland red political power.Polanski explore the meaning of narrative in the closed space.The grief and anguish of the death of a loved one,as well as his own confusion and fear of death,inspired Polanski's fearsome style in his image.The third chapter mainly analyzes the image salvation of Polanski's traumatic experience.Iprobe into Polanski's attempt at salvation from four aspects in this part: facing the trauma directly in the scene scheduling,acting out trauma in the color and shadow,purifying the trauma in the scene of violence,and sublimating the trauma in the moving music.First,Polanski's courage to confront trauma is expressed through calm,controlled long shots and sober,objective,hand-held photography.Next,he uses colorful warm and cold contrast and the contrast of light and shade to act out his inner trauma.Thirdly,he used the violent scenes in the movie to vent and purify his pain caused by trauma.He showed romance in bloody violence,conveyed humor in banter violence,and reflected on human nature in absurd violence.Finally,he gave special meaning to the notes in the film,celebrating freedom,soothing the mind and baptizing the soul in moving music,thus he sublimated the trauma.Conclusion: “salvation” is not a completed state,but a dynamic process.Polanski's attempt at salvation in the image is already a sign of his reconciliation with the past.Polanski has been exploring his unique world of images,conveying his unquenchable creative passion,trying to redeem his scarred heart,and comforting millions of audiences who also love movies.Finally,the paper points out the shortcomings.