Semiotic Study Of The Cruel Youth Film In Mainland China

As a sub-genre of youth films,the cruel youth movies focus on the ’destruction ’of youth.It has a unique symbol system,the meaning of the generation process is the encoding and decoding process.From the characters,space,audio-visual elements in several ways,cruel youth film has some unique symbolic symbol choice.In the movie,the representative characters are selected,and the characters of students,migrant workers and art youths are depicted.The symbols of dormitory,entertainment places,bedrooms and railroad tracks often appear,setting up the space system mostly based on campus,city and home;gray cold color symbols,pervasive rock,rich sense of sound,calm speculative monologue,ambiguous lines,recur the audiovisual symbols.The film uses the objective of the independent lens,simple linear combination of items and trivial parallel combination of items to show cool realistic style.The mirrors of the opposition and unity between the heroes’ mirrors,inside and outside of the mirror,body and class appear to blur the boundary between reality and imagination,and reach the enlightenment of youth.Cruel youth film boldly involved in violence and crime,’sex’ repression and deviance,dream of hardship and confusion,to convey the criticism of social reality and helplessness.In the absence of a real change in social structure,It’ s helpless for the youth to seek identity to obtain spiritual emancipation.Today’s youth film in the wave of commercialization more biased in favor of showing the youth of the ’romantic’ side.The future of youth film should be re-youth in the brutal one for more exploration to ideological content to make up for artistic taste.