关键词: 奇观电影, 视觉快感, 悬崖之上

Abstract:

With the development of film business, besides the narrative film, a new film form named “Spectacle Film” gradually developed, and finally occupied a dominant position and became the mainstream in the film business. Due to excessive emphasis on “visual pleasure”, the spectacle film is apt to overlook the rationality of the story, and as a result, many plots cannot stand scrutiny as they lack a strict coherent logic, thus weakening the film’s narrative. Therefore, Douglas Kellner, an American professor of the philosophy of education, points out that in the confusion of the widespread “entertainment” caused by the “spectacle”, “most people” will alienate from their own critical thinking and creativity and become enslaved by the “spectacle”. A film named Impasse directed by ZHANG Yimou also fails to escape from such a curse and has become enslaved by the “spectacle”. The article intends to take Laura Mulvey’s “spectacle film” notion as the theoretical basis, to analyze some downsides in the film Impasse.

Key words: spectacle film, visual pleasure, Impasse