The Cremator Comments

Birdie 2023-09-28 15:47:29

Multiple experimental methods create a strange sense of horror; political belief is like religious belief, in the final analysis, it is just an infatuation derived from the attachment of...

Ally 2023-09-22 13:59:59

"We have to kill the evil of suffering, or lessen it, the sooner man turns to ashes, the sooner he will be reincarnated, reborn... 75 minutes in the...

Leopold 2023-09-17 15:03:23

I smelled corruption. I saw the madness and ruthlessness of my husband. This kind of repressive method is really more cruel than the realistic one. I am speechless when I see it at the...

Catharine 2023-09-15 03:18:54

Give it 3.5 stars! I haven't seen the Czech New Wave very much. Juraj Herz is a director who pays more attention to technique and visual language. He uses wide-angle shots, fast cuts and close-ups more aggressively, but I think he uses it a bit too much. There are metaphors everywhere in the film, using the psychology of the hero to map Nazis and death. This kind of deprivation of humanity is more terrifying than the pure...

Augusta 2023-09-07 01:49:29

What does it have to do with Tibet? Doesn't this support their independence? Very strange perspective, such as fast editing, creates a kind of visual error. Is what the director shows you really what the perspective...

Earl 2023-07-03 10:07:14

Quick edits; metaphors and tensions implied by alternate images; anxiety and visual impact brought by close-ups; pervasive religious and death...

Elenora 2023-06-27 06:16:31

masterpiece! masterpiece! The ultimate masterpiece of Juraj Herz! Absolutely deeply grotesquely morbid. The completely free transition switching, the stretching of the lens from far and near, etc., are all creative. Unspeakable experience. Eastern European films almost complement the...

Keyshawn 2023-04-27 12:38:17

Textbook-like camera switching; killing wives and children in the name of salvation, the evil of human nature is...

Christiana 2023-01-04 22:55:26

Svankmajer-style...

Olen 2023-01-02 15:54:28

Nazi montage theory, for academic use in film history. Forget about the other...