Although "The Merchant of Four Seasons" belongs to Fassbender's early works, it already shows his simplicity, calmness, fluidity, rigor, sympathy for small people, protest against injustice, fear of loneliness and helplessness and Dramatic, ornamental and national, realistic and critical combination of distinctive artistic personality. "The Merchant of Four Seasons" has no big ups and downs. Fassbender creates a cold and deep emotional tension with the accumulation of small details. The personal fate of the protagonist Hans reveals the fate of the German nation and the tragedy that caused him. The personal, social and human factors of destiny, explore the theme of indifference and loneliness of contemporary human beings from ordinary life scenes.
The narrative thread of the film is clear and complete. The main events that Hans experienced from his life to his death are shown in chronological order, and the camera is used calmly and calmly. The footage in The Merchant of Four Seasons is filled with a richly morphed landscape, from the home environment to the city block. In "The Merchant of Four Seasons", Fassbender mainly uses the delicate details, the observation of the camera, and the scrutiny produced by the overtime continuation of the same scenes to form the extraction of the meanings contained in the events and characters.
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