The story itself is simple, of a stubborn mother who keeps her promise and would rather be sentenced to death than tell the truth. The previous description of Bjork's gradual blindness and love of opera, as well as not bowing his head to life and not feeling sorry for himself, is obviously too much. It caused the movie to continue to look procrastinated. Maybe it's the reason why Bjork himself wants to add more songs and dances to the previous plot. If it is for this reason that it cannot be compromised, then the director should appropriately speed up the rhythm of the usual narrative.
In addition, many viewers also mentioned the problem of too many hand-cranked lenses. My personal feeling is that the director wants to restore a real feeling, but it's out of play. why would you said this? Personally, in my opinion, the hand-held lens doesn't give you a real viewing experience, it just has a rough effect. But for narrative effects, his simulation of real effects is not as good as long shots. A very simple truth: imagine that what we see on weekdays is swaying from side to side? Because people have their own Steadicam correction effect. So even though you are jogging, the image you see is still stable. This is not the case with long shots, except that you deliberately close your eyes for a short period of time or take a nap, the image you see in a day is basically a long, stable long shot.
There is also an obvious feature of this film in the editing of the lens. Near, medium and long-range other sudden jumps. That is to say, many times when the plot transitions, the medium shot in one place suddenly jumps to the indoor close-up shot in a certain place. The audience can look a little overwhelmed by causing the narrative to jump out of the way. For most of the first half of the plot, I basically didn't understand what he was trying to say when I watched it for the first time. The camera position is also very strange, jumping behind the character while talking. and so on.
On the whole, this film is still worth watching, and even if you look at the musicals with a different style created by Bjork in the film, you will not waste more than two hours.
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