《狙击手》:叙事自觉、类型加强与新主流电影的“可持续发展”

Snipers: Narrative Consciousness, Genre Enhancement and “Sustainability” of New Mainstream Film

《狙击手》是一部独特、别致的电影,创意取胜。影片高潮前置、冲突集中、时空统一、线索明晰,以前后相续的“双男主”结构表达“牺牲/成长”双重主题。影片强化类型性,表现狙击战的斗智斗勇和集体配合,呈现新的枪战动作美学奇观。影片在投资、制作上为中等体量,紧凑的剧作,简约的空间和人物,理性化的成本控制和规范化的生产,为“中等电影工业美学”、中国电影格局的合理化和新主流电影的“可持续发展”提供了有效案例。

Snipers is unique and distinctive in its creativity and genre enhancement. The film’s climax is preceded, conflicts are concentrated, time and space are unified and threads are clear. The dual theme of “sacrifice/growth” is expressed in a continuous “dual-hero” structure. The film reinforces its genre, showing the battle of wits and collective cooperation in sniper battles, presenting a new aesthetics spectacle of gunplay. Also, the film applys a medium-sized investment and production, adopts a compact plot, uses minimalist spaces and characters, meanwhile, rationalizes cost control and standardizes its production. Thus, it provides a solid example of the “middle-leveled film industry aesthetics”, as well as the rationalization of the Chinese film landscape and the “sustainable development” of new mainstream films.