It's rhythm or death. It's from Andre Bazin that the special value or rhythm of the film itself is finally determined.

andre bazan, a French film theorist, once asked a question: What is a film? It seems that he died of leukemia in Bree in 1958 before he could fully answer. Bazin has been engaged in film criticism and film theory research for only 1 years. However, in the whole era of classical film theory, Bazin was the peak of attention at that time and countless later generations. He founded the Film Handbook in the early 195s and served as the editor-in-chief.

When Bazin's theory was translated and introduced to us, it shouldered the ideological responsibility of reflecting reality and was added with revolutionary significance at the sociological level. Bazin advocates the restoration of reality. He believes that the technology of the times has made it a real thing for us to restore reality. Image is internal, facing the individual and human spiritual self-help; As an art, the image of restoring reality is fundamentally powerless to the change of social system, so there is no need to use images to undertake the responsibility of ideological propaganda.

In Bazin's reality, reality precedes meaning, which is very similar to the existential "existence precedes essence". In fact, the most important thing in Bazin's philosophical background is existentialism. Therefore, Bazin's realism is existential realism. In Bazin's view, reality is internal. In this way, we can better understand why the reality in French New Wave movies with Bazin as the spiritual mentor can be so subjective and arbitrary, but we will never succumb to any transcendental concept.