Knife in the Clear Water: Reflection of “Life and Death” in the Image

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10.2991/assehr.k.191217.227How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Knife in the Clear Water, metaphor, concept of life and death

Abstract

The film “Knife in the Clear Water” highlights the image of “water” and “bull”, and then reflects the binary opposition of “life and death”. Through the display of the ritualized cleansing activities such as Ma Zishan’s Ghusl and others, it conveyed the concept of cleanliness in Islam. In the screen picture, through the mapping of “water”, the old man and the bull have completed their identity replacement; the bull is also transcendent to the nature of animal and is placed on the altar of ritual worship. Death is a big topic in the field of religion. This film, adapted from Shi Shuqing’s novel with the same name, refers to the true nature of life with its profound metaphor. This article mainly discusses the symbolic significance of video narrative with specific images.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ziluo Shao
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/14
TI  - Knife in the Clear Water: Reflection of “Life and Death” in the Image
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 740
EP  - 744
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.227
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.227
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