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A Simple Life Movie Analysis

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I. Introduction
A Simple Life, is a literary film, directed by Ann Hui and released on the 68th Venice Film Festival. Its actress, Deanie Ip, won the Volpi Cup - Best Actress and Ann Hui had the nomination of the Golden Lion of the big event. Besides, this film made a huge box office receipts about 17.5 million dollars. Its humanistic value had been highly appreciated by SINGIS Award (Special mention) and La Navicella Award.
1. Director: Ann Hui
Ann Hui is a famous female director in Hong Kong for literary film and her consistent chasing for the thinking of life and the society- the living environment. A well-known film critic, Luo Ka, said that an important topic in Ann Hui’s all work is the suffering of being forcing to wander from place to place. Her early experience makes her sensitive and anxious. Hong Kong is …show more content…

Without exaggerated plot setting, everything in the film like the things around you and you never know what would happen next second, just like the life itself.
II. Analysis and Comments
1. Film Aesthetics
A Simple Life is a realism style film, realistically showing the story between main characters and other people around them. Not only the narrative method but also the shooting angle and lighting setting make contribution to the real reflection and immersive feeling.
A. Narrative Method
The film builds up a tree-like narrative structure with characters as the main body and events interconnecting with characters as decorations. It mitigates the dramatized effect, weakens binary opposite elements, like the past and the future, life and death, and facts and false appearance. Then it combines the emotions of characters, like absurdity and helplessness of a single life, with the natural and unadorned narration. There are also some fragments, which seem to be useless, scattering in the film in order to add some thoughts. Lots of details make the film deep and

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