Damnation Comments

  • Idell 2022-11-19 10:22:47

    That's right, he therefore went to nature. He stopped talking because life was over. This is the best movie I've ever...

  • Bailee 2022-11-18 09:02:03

    The plot of the movie can be summed up in one sentence: A man is infatuated with a female singer in a bar and cannot extricate...

  • Makayla 2022-11-15 15:35:19

    The first Tarr movie I saw, I was enjoying all kinds of long shots, the characters were so beautiful when they came out of the thick fog in the...

  • Archibald 2022-10-18 14:03:40

    The cement walls, glass windows, and muddy ground washed down by the heavy rain are all quite charming, but the narcissistic monologues of this literary scumbag are too inconsistent. Wouldn't it be better if they were silent...

  • Lina 2022-09-27 09:42:45

    The front always felt broken and couldn't get in, but at the end, the scene where the crowd stood silently sheltering from the rain began to look better and better. The crowd, the heavy rain, the dancing, and the barking of people and dogs were absolutely amazing. Then after watching the whole film, the picture of the cable car at the beginning appeared inexplicably in my mind, and I really admired Tarr. 7.9...

  • Daphnee 2022-09-24 14:06:58

    - "I am attached to nothing, but everything is attached to me" - "Can you stop talking about yourself?" There was a never-ending icy rain in Bellatar's...

  • Alexis 2022-09-21 14:05:40

    Tarr emphasizes that everything is a process rather than a result, and a state from beginning to end must be constructed through a continuous flow of images, which is why he so faithfully uses long shots to express this state. The shot scheduling in this movie can be said to be relatively monotonous, with almost only shrinking, pulling, pushing and panning long shots. Slow movement erases the vitality of the image, and the lifeless black and white picture suppresses the atmosphere to the...

  • Victoria 2022-08-20 11:12:08

    About halfway through, I was thinking that if the male protagonist babbles a little more, I will blow up the movie theater, but in the second half, I started to babble in turns... The last 5 minutes were not...

  • Domenick 2022-06-13 21:57:39

    The temperament and charm are like Aki's restaurant-style love, but the story is the disintegration of Tal's destruction. In the opening scene, after pulling back the sky outside the window and changing the subjective perspective to a voyeuristic perspective, the camera has been in a restless state of wandering, highlighting the subject-object response between static characters, the picture is constantly being cut, and even making love is slow. The photography is beautiful, like being in the...

  • Jaylon 2022-06-13 19:42:23

    Taking people out of the texture of things, and taking things out of the state of people, Beratar is a great director of realism. (The beard is not shaved at the beginning, but the texture of the earth is trimmed.) The long shot is most suitable for realism film, the natural depiction of the characters before they are in the camera, the characters only show their backs when they are in the camera, and the characters remain after they appear. The body as a pose, the rainy night, the temperament...

Extended Reading

Damnation quotes

  • Karrer: When you looked at me yesterday. I realized something. I realized that, between you and a world forever out of reach, there is a strange and empty tunnel. I don't know anyone else who knows that road. You're standing alone at the entrance to the tunnel because you know something I can't even put a name on, something deeper and more ruthless than I can ever understand. I realize that I can never get closer to that world. I can only long for it, because it is hidden by a light and warmth that I cannot bear. I have been able neither to believe in it nor to renounce it. Yesterday I realized I had made a fatal mistake. If I were to lose you, it would be the unforgivable end of me. Because I know nothing about that unnameable world. Since you are part of it, you mean the world to me. That can never change. Please don't repudiate me. Let me see you and I'll do anything for you. Kick me, spit at me and I'll return again and again for you to kick and spit at. Because you are right, you are ruthlessly right. And I really do love you.

  • The Singer: [singing] Take it or leave it, this is what you're stuck with. You lose your words, yet you cannot go.

Damnation

Director: Béla Tarr

Language: Hungarian Release date: October 20, 1988

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