A Short Film Script:
The Gift
A short horror story inspired by Van Gogh follows a boy and a girl whose shared passion for art seems to spark a genuine romantic connection during their encounters in an art gallery. However, subtle hints reveal a darker side to their story, culminating in a shocking and horrific twist at the end.
Future Project Plan:
The Proof of Our Love
It is a story about a shopkeeper in a film shop who begins to peep into a regular female customer through her developing films and then falls in love with the customer. In an open ending, the shopkeeper is lost in the film world.
A Short Story:
Ashes in the North Pole
It’s a short story about a couple embarks on a journey to Iceland to witness the enchanting aurora, but as they navigate breathtaking landscapes and local legends, a tragic twist threatens to turn their dream into a haunting reality. With love intertwined with loss, can the ashes of their shared memories shine as brightly as the northern lights?
It’s about the ashes of the sun, the ashes of memories, and the ashes of a human being.
A Film Review: Blow-Up by Michelangelo Antonioni
"There's a moment when one grasps reality, but the next moment it eludes us." It's the description of Blow-Up (1966) by Michelangelo Antonioni. I always have a fear of death. Every time I delve into the feelings of death, I begin to doubt the reality of the world. What if the people I see and the flowers I smell are not real? What's the meaning of our life if we are all born to die?
It was my first time realizing that films could deliver thinking and philosophy, not just drama. The guitar from the rock band, the corpse in the enlarged photo, and the mimed tennis game... They are all pieces formed to tell a story rather than the plot—films are more than plots.
Also, Blow-Up has a charm that portrays abstract feelings through art and surreal expressions. What Antonioni tries to tell us is that the truth does not exist. The form of the mimed tennis game is a mixture of both truth and falsehood in and of itself. Thomas picks the tennis ball up as if merging both the real and sham world. The end is incredibly brilliant that I understand something that makes movies surpass books: their ability to visualize abstract philosophies. Later, a question arose in my mind: When we do imaginary and false things, will our desires really be satisfied? After searching on the internet, I found that auto-suggestion and Lacan's imaginary order might denote it to be right. What about the mental desire? It would be interesting but ironic to see the protagonist fulfill their dream through mime.
Blow-Up led me to create a story that doesn't focus on a single person but reflects the entire society and human beings. The world is big, but the truth behind us may be the same. Whether it be Tyler Durden in Fight Club, who employs violence to revolt against social rules, or the so-called oddballs riding the NYC subway defying the societal code of what is considered normal, they allow me to see a pressing need for attention, release, and compassion. And I wish for my camera to be a medium for cultivating a society that is not only for the well-put-together but for everyone.
Antonioni's Blow-Up was released In 1966. He used the unique medium of film to express his meditations about the world. Fifty-seven years later, there is still a group of people, like me, enthralled by his movies, mulling over his ideas. I think that's the beauty of movies, and I want to be the kind of director whose work, no matter how many centuries later, still strikes a chord in the hearts of human beings and is talked about for generations to come.