The Hourglass Sanatorium

By Jayne 2022-12-28 03:28:35

imagery of the Holocaust

Bruno Schultz's "The Sanatorium with the Hourglass as a Signboard" in "Alligator Street" is the original text of this film.
Although there are some discrepancies between the film and the book, I think that after reading it, the doubts should be cleared up.
My personal understanding is that the movie is alluding to or depicting the Jewish Holocaust. In the end, the protagonist sees the crowd fleeing with luggage and the candles at the end, and even the entire journey is an image of the...

By Alexys 2022-10-27 13:37:14

nostalgia

A hat, a candle, a train... This is the image of a conductor and an extradition person. In Tarkovsky's "Nostalgia", there is a very long shot. The protagonist holds a candle and protects the candle from one end to the other again and again... There is a legend in this that as long as the candle does not go out, plug it in at the other end, can go back to hometown. Tarkovsky was abroad when he made this film, and could not return to the country due to political reasons. "Nostalgia" can be said...

By Lowell 2022-10-14 11:48:07

backtracking

On the train to the sanatorium, every passenger is silent and lifeless. This is a journey to death, and it seems the most appropriate ritual for people to retrace their lives before death. In the film, the man who got off the train and came to the spooky and dilapidated nursing home was looking for his father. He also found his father, a body lying in a hospital bed. At the beginning, he was told by the doctor that his father was in a dying state. It has been a long time,...

By Javon 2022-10-09 08:30:59

absurd anti-war fairy tale flyer

Seeing it in the end, it seems that I understand it in a fog. too fly.
Space and time are double warped.
Anti-war means obvious.
Stories take place under conditions where people can interfere with time. The male protagonist is a reflective person, an anti-warrior and a revolutionary at the same time. His father is a capitalist (with a derogatory meaning). The appearance of the mother is like reality, but also like pushing the protagonist into another deeper dream. Doubt and...

By Dessie 2022-10-07 14:44:25

esoteric training in esoteric training

In 1973, "Sanatorium under the Mirror of Sand Time" is the most bizarre and beautiful work of Polish director Wojciech Haas. Haas's ambition is obviously not only to visualize the few short stories of Bruno Schulz, the literary master, but to combine and gather Schulz to try to summarize and summarize the country of suffering Poland and its history in a high degree. Detailed presentation. The difference is that, thanks to Schultz, the film does not adopt the logic and...

By Erich 2023-09-21 17:41:41

In Milosz's text, Poland has experienced the rule of different countries for half a century, and people have seen garrisoned troops in the streets; in Haas's film, the immobile nobles have become wax figures, and even the country of abracadabra has invaded this land. This contrast is bittersweet. //I really like the setting where the street is at home, and the Jewish circle is separated from the society. // Shooting dreams and time is never a juggling technique, but the content itself. Haas is...

By Hipolito 2023-09-15 02:42:17

Haas's Schultz adaptation basically has nothing to do with Schultz. Schultz's mythology is generally upward, while Haas has his protagonist escape into an underground labyrinth. There are countless discourses vying to take the lead, but none have gained dominance. In particular, the passage about the sacred and vulgar book, probably quoted from the longest "Spring", seems to suggest that the prolonged useless time in the sanitarium comes from the human reliance on the virtual text. The director...

By Alisha 2023-08-31 09:31:10

[2019 EU Film Festival] Eastern Europe is amazing, watching the original film on the big screen in the mainland is so cool (eyeballs scared me to death, I was worried that the male protagonist's eyes would be buckled throughout the whole process...

By Meaghan 2023-08-23 04:39:20

Original novel by Bruno Schultz. With Greeny and Aki at agnes b...

By Ethyl 2023-08-19 16:46:54

5.0. BC EU Film Festival. 1. The impact is weaker than imagined. It can be seen that Haas still intends to explain the theme after a WTF breakout. 2. The sanatorium used to heal is to heal the degeneration of the nation. The real object of healing is not the father Jacob, but the son Joseph. He is the representative of the degeneration of morality and the degeneration of the nation. The numb walking dead. 3. The doctor in the sanatorium is the totalitarian of national misery. All the "walking...