In this week, we watched some clips from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, collectiely refferred to as the Dardenne brothers, who are Belgain filmmaking partners. They have twice won the Palme d’Or, the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival, and the second prize. In 2011, Darden University won the Robert Bresson Award, which is an award sponsored by the Holy See. It is the Pope’s Cultural and Social Communication Committee, and participated in the Venice Film Festival, whose works prove the pursuit of spiritual meaning in people’s lives(Belz, 2018). The clips from Kid with a Bike which left a deep impression on me. In the scene of the boy chasing the cyclist, the director did not let the camera follow him all the time. Instead, he used single still shots to capture the boy’s chasing process, altered from slightly wider shots to wide shots. The Dardenne brothers used “we are not a wide shot sepcialist” to describe themselves in film shooting records. In terms of costumes and props, the little boy wore a highly saturated red shirt which makes a sharp contrast with the large area of green woods in the background, therefore, the audience can always catch the protagonist at a glance in different frame. In the scene from the restaurant, I was moved by the sincerity of the little boy and the desire for his father. Of course, I was more regretful for him. The Dardenne brothers illustrated the sitting of the shooting environment. They deliberately decorated the restaurant in a quite simple way, to set off the distress of the father’s life and the sluggish work. They always have matrix ideas to guide them, they have rehearsed a lot to make sure the best appearance of scene.  

 Belz, E. 2018. WORLD News Group, Spiritual Cinema, <https://wng.org/articles/spiritual-cinema-1617648601>