How to Write a Professional Film Review?

This is a complex issue, and I will try to be brief.

First of all, we need to know some basic movie knowledge.

Film is a comprehensive art, through collective creation. In an excellent film, every department involved in the production is an important part of the narrative, or it can be said that costumes, props, makeup, photography and so on together constitute the film language. Any single level of interpretation is one-sided, narrow and non-cinematic.

The first touch of a movie is the picture, but the picture is objective. Only with the intervention of sound can the objective picture play the role of subjective expression.

For example, whether the same person is running in the woods, assisted by relaxing music or scary music, indicates what the runner will encounter next.

Again, color plays a similar role. For example, the brightness of "La La Land" is a kind of memory color, with some wishful beautification. The darkness of The Godfather is a kind of shady thematic rendering. Sin City is black and white at its simplest and most complicated.

Some unique film techniques also have their specific expressive functions, such as long shots to emphasize authenticity, skip to strengthen and highlight, etc.

The perception of a movie is personal, but the movie criticism should not be too subjective. Learn more about the movie and try to avoid some basic common sense mistakes.

Secondly, watch more movies.

This is also an important teaching method in professional film schools. On the one hand, the movie is not so advanced, watching more is the fastest way to get started. After all, you need to be literate to read, and all you need to watch a movie is a pair of eyes and basic human empathy.

On the other hand, it shows that the old axiom of diligence still holds true when it comes to writing film reviews.

Secondly, read more books and learn more.

In addition to learning some basic knowledge of movies and understanding more about the background of some movies, read more books about history, philosophy, biography, art and so on.

Comment on a movie, never stop the movie itself, not just a good film is rich, and even open, grand, in addition to the plot, characters, these simple narrative level, may also have a deep history of observations and questions, also may be the reflection of human environment and warning, has written to the plight of the human eternal, also has reflected the reality this dilemma.

The CREATORS ARE ALL GOOD AT ILLUSIONS, THEY ARE TOO GOOD AT MAKING THINGS like TONGUE SPRING OR TALKING TO THE left AND RIGHT, THE reviewers try to make themselves rich and thick, so as to be as little skewed by the film as possible.

Movies are a metaphor for the world. If you watch more movies, you should see more of the world.

To write a good movie review, sometimes you need to go beyond the movie itself.

Time in poetry, writing film criticism is the same.

Put on an appropriate coat for your film review.

This garment is the rhythm and style of the review.

This is similar to the voice recognition of pop musicians, the visual recognition system of advertising, like "green feather and yellow shirt Huo Qingtong".

Finally, to be a good person in the traditional sense, with a relatively correct outlook.

Creation is an industry that eventually reveals who you are, sooner or later, in your work.

The starting point of creation can be evil, some bad taste can also be a classic, but the reviewer can not. The reviewer and the reader stand together and find the path of universal values through the craggly and steep expression to reach the top of the creative mountain.

Therefore, film review writing is a kind of creation, which requires independence and freedom. Film review and film are two independent and interdependent arts. Anyone who wants to make friends with the other art and seek the interests of other industries through this art will be humiliated.

Film and criticism are both arts, but two kinds of industrial properties. The content of the review is taken from the prosperous place, but the review itself needs to withstand the cold.