“青春残酷物语”——曾国祥电影美学特征研究

"The Cruel Story of Youth"--On the Aesthetic Features of Zeng Guoxiang's Films

曾国祥是香港北上导演的新生力量,《七月与安生》《少年的你》两部电影的成功,使其成为最受内地观众欢迎的香港青年导演之一。虽然曾国祥目前仅有两部作品问世,但其独特的创作风格也展现了他电影独特的美学特征。两部作品同属青春类题材电影,相较以往国产青春片的“扁平化”人物形象、“情与爱”的故事格局以及“单纯美好”的影像格调,曾国祥的青春电影则令受众眼前一亮。《七月与安生》《少年的你》两部电影无论是对于当代青少年成长状态的多角度还原、对人物形象的立体化呈现,还是对影像语言的极致把握,都彰显了曾国祥导演深厚的创作功底。故本文将从曾国祥导演的《七月与安生》和《少年的你》两部作品的影像文本出发,试图通过曾国祥导演作品中所流露出的“残酷青春”特质,结合其电影的叙事母题、叙事策略、影像呈现三个方面进行分析,来总结曾国祥电影的美学特征。

Zeng Guo-xiang is a new force of directors from Hong Kong.The success of July and Life and My Teenage You makes him one of the most popular young directors in Hong Kong.Although Zeng Guoxiang has only two works published so far,his unique creative style also shows his unique aesthetic characteristics.Both films are youth films.Compared with the"flat"characters,"love and love"story pattern and"simple and beautiful"image style of previous domestic youth films,Zeng Guoxiang's youth films have caught the audience's eye.July and Ansheng and My Teenage You show Zeng Guoxiang's profound creative skills in terms of the multi-angle restoration of the growth state of contemporary teenagers,the three-dimensional presentation of the characters and the extreme grasp of the image language.Therefore,based on the video texts of two works July and Ansheng and My Teenage You directed by Zeng Guoxiang and by combining with the narrative motif,narrative strategy and image presentation of his films,this paper summarizes the aesthetic characteristics of Zeng Guoxiang's films by analyzing the"cruel youth"characteristics revealed in his two works.