A Study On The Character Construction In Chung Mong-hong's Film

Zhong Menghong is a creative director with the characteristics of "author" in the past ten years since the "Taiwan Film Revival ".He uses poetic audio-visual language,grotesque creative style and exquisite drama structure to show the political,cultural,life and spiritual plight of the ordinary people in contemporary Taiwan society.The artistry of his works is widely recognized,the works mainly focus on the themes of family emotion,gender status,kinship care,urban change and so on,but with the popularity of his works and the stability of the quality of creation,it gradually attracts many scholars to study his works.Most scholars take Zhong Menghong’s film case as the research object,from the film creation level,analyzes the narrative theme,the narrative space,the esthetics style,the regional culture and so on content which the film presents in the film,some scholars from the author’s film angle of view,analyzes its personal work image style causes.Whether it is the "wasteland consciousness"in his works or the discussion on the "ghost film ",his works always revolve around the relationship between characters and the change of human emotion.The similarity and unity of themes,characters,narrative techniques and audiovisual language in many of his works construct the unique charm of Zhong’s film.As one point after another in Zhong Menghong’s film,they construct a huge and interesting network of characters and weave a post-modern social picture.Based on psychoanalytic film theory,this paper takes Zhong Menghong film as a pure text research object,focuses on the role construction of his works,and probes into the deep unconscious expression in his works.The role of unconsciousness in image creation and film viewing mechanism and the cultural function of film media.This paper analyzes the uniqueness of the role construction of his film works,deconstructs the design mode of the characters in his works,and the role of the role construction in the viewing mechanism.The first chapter mainly expounds the research background,significance and the feasibility of role construction based on psychoanalysis theory.The second chapter analyzes the characteristics of the role foundation construction in Zhong Menghong’s film from three aspects:identity attribute,personality structure and performance design.The third chapter analyzes the inner spiritual dilemma of the characters,and reveals the inner conflict of the characters from three levels:cause,presentation and breakthrough redemption,thus deconstructing the text coding method in Zhong Menghong’s film works.The fourth chapter discusses the clever connection between the role construction of Zhong Menghong film and the audience’s watching psychology,which satisfies the audience’s voyeurism and psychological and identity.Through the study of Zhong Menghong’s film role construction,it is convenient to understand his writing about broken family,death and other motif,as well as the internal coding method of film text.In his works,he constructs a network of characters in spiritual distress,narrates his sufering and growing up,and depicts the estranged relationship,sadness and loneliness between people with "Edward Hopper" light and shadow.And with the elements of violence to tear the film characters and the audience’s inner pain.With the help of black humor,through fragmentation,multi-linear narrative,let the audience walk in the psychological mechanism of multiple viewing,with the mirror way and the perspective of omniscience to eliminate the role and audience’s spiritual dilemma,to achieve emotional healing.The slow narrative rhythm of his works also hinders the marketization of film works,which is doomed to be difficult to be accepted and recognized by most viewers,and difficult to balance commercialization and artistry.