Spatial Narrative Research Of Xie Jin’s "Reflection Trilogy"

In recent years,spatial narratology has attracted the attention of many scholars in the field of humanities and social sciences.Scholars not only analyze the application of spatial narratology in literary texts,but also further put the study of spatial narratology into film texts.In the film narrative,spatial narrative is very important,which promotes the plot construction and the development of the narrative process of the film.Therefore,the study of spatial narrative of the film is helpful for us to broaden the research horizon of the film,jump out of the past focus on the time narrative of the film,and turn to study and analyze the film works from the perspective of space.Xie Jin is a representative of the third generation of Chinese directors.He has not only left many classic films to the audience,but also these films have become video historical materials to record the social and historical changes.His films have accompanied the development of China for half a century.We can not only glimpse the development and change of Chinese society through Xie Jin’s films,but also interweave Chinese popular legendary narrative techniques with contemporary socialist realistic creation techniques and classic Hollywood narrative methods in his films.Therefore,Xie Jin’s films present a strong social consciousness,humanism and unique aesthetic pursuit.Space in his film narrative has a strong artistic expression and artistic tension,a strong sense of space narrative throughout Xie Jin’s film works.The spatial narrative consciousness of director Xie Jin is reflected in many aspects.One is the choice of narrative space.He tends to choose the narrative space that can express the social reality,reflect the characteristics of The Times,observe the common people,and have the humanistic connotation.The second is the spatial narrative structure.Xie Jin adopted different spatial narrative structures to tell the "Reflection Trilogy",which had certain artistic innovation in the 1980 s.The third is the narrative technique of space.He is good at using different artistic techniques to deal with the visual and auditory aspects of space,so that the space has rich narrative tension and expressive force.The fourth is the strategy of space production.He integrates mainstream ideology and traditional Chinese culture into space production,so that the space in his works can achieve the fusion of political,national and artistic nature.Fifth,his use of spatial narrative,although restricted the expression of the theme of his films,but it can also bring some enlightenment to the current Chinese realistic film creation.Reflections from the multiple level research director xie jin’s "trilogy" space in the narrative,and the narrative space,the space of the narrative structure,narrative space,the space of the production strategy and the reflection of spatial narrative carding,analysis and summary,helps to further enrich the research theory achievement of film narrative space,and broaden the research scope and perspective of xie jin film.