In Expectation

Chinese film has been one hundred years old today. She has gained both glory and quietness. When the Fifth Generation Film has emerged, Chinese film becomes the favorite of every world film holiday for a short while. In 1990s although the Fifth Generation Film Directors have still maintained vigorous capability of creation, their power of pushing Chinese film forward has already weaken. New social environment and new cultural surroundings call new film form. From 1990s the Sixth Generation Film has added fresh vitality to Chinese film continuously with its courage of looking steadily at today's social reality and attaching importance to the film narration once more. The Sixth Generation Film can't abandon the pursuit of spirit all along as well. Nowadays Chinese film is at a low tide. The study on the Sixth Generation Film will help to push the dense fog aside and explore the front road for Chinese film. Narration is an important method with which people understand and master the world and themselves. Narrating what story and how to tell about one story correspond with people's national culture and social enviornment complicatedly. Study on the narration of Chinese Sixth Generation Film will provide for proclaiming hidden culture code behind its image world in the background of global culture and marketable economy. This kind of study can probe into the inheriting and transcending of the Sixth Generation Film according on one hundred years Chinese film. The Sixth Generation Film concentrate its attention on the story which a lonely person at the edge of society is expecting and seeking something. What they expect and seek is usually a dream or a kind of scene out of life. But they devote their whole enthusiasm to that. However, in the Sixth Generation's films this action of expectation and seeking always has no final result. It's not within the foreseeable future. Even if they pay a life price for this action, the society still stand tall and upright in front of them as a cold and dissident power. When the Sixth Generation directors tell about these stories which have some spirit autobiography color, they either narrate them in the first person or measure them with the calm and severe eye. Narrator's existing and narration effect's isolation are conscious pursuit of the Sixth Generation about film form. The Sixth Generation's concept about film is to present not to judge. They want to return the right of thought to spectators. In the Fifth Generation Film space always seems more important than time. Different from this expression, in the Sixth Generation films time is marked clearly. What's more, narration time is longer than story time in the Sixth Generation Film. That means the real time is shorter than the time transmitted by the Sixth Generation Film. On narration structure the Sixth Generation Film tends to break linear narration and tell about several stories at the same time. This structure has an effect of chord. What's more, long cinema scene, spectacle manage and sound in the Sixth Generation Film are by no means inferior than any excellent films in the world. The contradictory between reality and dream in the films cause their narration style to appear both objective and poetic as well as magic. Confronting with the pluralistic culture circumstances, the Sixth Generation Film are walking out of narrow youthful relation gradually and reflect on East and West, tradition and modernity. With more open outlook and more tolerant heart. They not only pay close attention to traditional aesthetics and nation humane tradition but also influence with each other world films of today. The Sixth Generation Film shows potentiality in spirit probing natively and film form worldly. Yet the Sixth Generation Film is still in progress. Nowadays old value and culture concept of our society has broken up and new concept have not set up. So the Sixth Generation Film is also in a period of transition and appears that thinking has fallen into certain difficult position and narration looks confusing and often difficult to give a clear ending. Expectation is not only the theme of the Sixth Generation Film, but also the metaphor of Chinese film today.