A piece of "Kanał" made the Warsaw Uprising that broke out in Poland before the end of World War II, in Andrzej Wajda's extremely expressionistic narrative, turned into a futility without seeing the sky
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Andrzej Wajda used "Kanał" to express a magnificent theme, which is the reflection on war and revolution. The film is different from the traditional hero story, it is just a survival story. The style is calm, without a trace of high-profile exaggeration. In the part before entering Kanał, Andrzej Wajda fully displayed the typical documentary style. The long shot of the team at the beginning is very meaningful. But after turning to Kanał, the prominent subjective description, the heavy atmosphere, and the desperate and cruel feeling of extreme depression are more shocking than the direct presentation of the flesh and blood war scene
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