The Element of Crime Comments

  • Scot 2023-09-10 22:19:20

    6 points, go deep into a person's heart, but keep a certain distance. It is not so much that the detective is analyzing the psychology of the criminal, but that the director is exploring the soul of every...

  • Priscilla 2023-08-31 21:01:01

    color! image! story! (And the perfect...

  • Dave 2023-08-31 17:25:45

    Three-and-a-half stars, the psychedelic feeling after taking drugs brought by the old orange picture, Tyre leads the audience into the abyss of hell and tortures people's minds. The metaphors in the film cannot be interpreted one by one at all, and the damp and cold morbid atmosphere is more suspenseful than the case...

  • Maurine 2023-08-07 21:56:59

    Light, strange, land, away. . . . all...

  • Conor 2023-08-01 17:18:33

    Talent, talent, it's all TM's talent! Another form of the Euro Express, but with a deeper dream. Wind, water, fire, the dance of the elements, the consciousness falls layer by layer with the camera, babbling at the end of the dream, and nothing but nothingness comes from the other...

  • Leann 2023-07-21 05:25:59

    (7.5/10) Von Trier's novel Virgo, dark yellow tones, wet streets, photography is worth pondering, the fusion of imagination and reality, a large number of narration-style dialogues, and the spiritual exploration of criminals. There is no record-like and grainy revolution and boldness of the later Dougma period in 1995, but there are still many correspondences with "This House is Made by Me", the images are stylized and obscure, and we can glimpse Von Trier's...

  • Raina 2023-07-09 02:29:32

    Split personality lost self. The picture is dim, windy and rainy, the atmosphere is depressing, and it is a...

  • Chadrick 2023-06-29 05:10:32

    4.0. In the short film he shot at the age of 12, Lars Von can already trace the outline of the film noir genre, so this film noir feature is more of a technical practice material. Despite Tarkovsky's needle-holes from start to finish, the extreme placement and color are...

  • Gudrun 2023-05-30 18:38:48

    "I'm going back to Europe". It's even a genre film in Russ' sequence, the expressionism and Dreyer's features are obvious, I personally prefer it to be a neo-noir film, the visual style is outstanding, the mud and rain fill the entire screen, in a gray area The returnees have lost their heroic value and sense of good and evil, and the over-emphasis on Europe and the German pursuit of the culprits into the quagmire also seem to indicate that the director is creating a spiritual crisis in the...

  • Jarvis 2023-05-12 10:00:23

    (20151006 One brush, four stars) Two brushes: Up to the first 20 minutes #The lighting of the stylized low color rendering light source matches the ambiguity of the narrative. Like Nocturne, the perception is constantly broken, especially between shots. After the sound is matched, it produces an unreal...

Extended Reading

The Element of Crime quotes

  • Fisher: Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

  • Fisher: [voice-over] We're having sex. Kim's drug works. I feel fine.

    Therapist: But this isn't what you are after. Let me get one thing clear. You're trying to reconstruct Harry Grey's headaches by means of the side-effects of these pills.