"House of Sand and Fog" is a tragic masterpiece. The director combines the story of ordinary people's life reversal with non-dazzling movie shots. The sadness is laid out step by step, and the sadness accumulates. The film has a depressing power, and the details of social contradictions also make the audience sigh. Director Vantim Piriman not only allows the audience to feel the pain of the characters in the play, but also allows the audience to see the deeper social contradictions through the complex role relationships and contradictions in the accidental events in the film. The film mainly relies on sad stories and narratives to move people's hearts. Although the director did not express any ambitions in the film’s vision, he consciously paralleled the behavior of the characters. By comparing two characters in completely different situations and two environments with extremely contrasting tones, he told the audience about the characters in the film. The potential connection between the two, and the suppressed low piano sound and haze-like dense music are also very successful in artistic effects.
The story of the film is very wonderful, not only calm and delicate, but also showing deep insight and sense of organization in the gentleness.
. Although the film describes on the surface a conflict between a man and a woman over the house, in reality it is much more than that. The film actually uses implicit social behavior to imply the tragedy of socialization. When Catherine, who is kind by nature, described the impression of meeting Messard for the first time, the somewhat repulsive remarks that she showed are the best commentary on racial prejudice
. In the film, the film language used by the director is rich and appropriate. He pays great attention to the brewing and accumulation of emotions, and creates atmosphere through the use of lens language such as contrast montage. The plot of the whole movie is close and interlocking, and the plot is also ups and downs, with twists and turns. As more and more characters are involved in the story of the film, the contradictions and conflicts of the characters in the film also show a spiral upward state, thus pushing the tragedy to one climax after another.
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At the end of the film, the director did not choose a compromise ending, but used tragedy to convey how fragile and vulnerable the lost and the people at the bottom of the society are in a society where family love is indifferent and interpersonal relationships are fragile.
. Although the story of the film has an unacceptable ending, since neither of the characters in the film is at fault, it leaves the audience with a deep sense of helplessness, sympathy and sigh
