Mother said: stay at home and feel lonely, can't you just walk into the subway?
The movie reminds me of Antonioni's "La notte": it's all about a middle-class couple, it's all about the alienation between people. The difference is that in addition to alienation, there is hiding. It's hidden inside and out. Hide the guilt that you don't want to recall, hide the ruthlessness to the people next to you, hide the truth of the facts, hide the racial discrimination in society.
There's so much to say about this film, it's too good to say.
Director Michael Haneke's work always has a dark violence that is indescribable. The story takes place in a middle-class family on the outskirts of Paris. One day I received a videotape of unknown origin, like CCTV, monitoring everything outside the house. However, it doesn't matter what kind of story, because there is no such thing as a story at all. It's impossible to be comfortable watching this drama. For 117 minutes you will be tossing and turning in your seat, you will constantly guess what is going on, you will have a lot of questions, but you will be uneasy and fearful. But the director didn't want the audience to watch it too comfortably.
Alienated films are always about middle-class families, preferably artistic. Because it's these so-called highly educated people who buy tickets and walk into the cinema to see Haneke's work. He thinks that it is freedom and civilization to treat all things equally, but he sees discrimination against different skin colors in the crisis. In the movie, the male protagonist was almost hit by a bicycle driven by a black man while walking on the road, and the male protagonist burst into tears. It seems to be just an accidental friction, but behind it is a subconscious discrimination. The director deliberately arranged for the black people to not just randomly find one, but to address the problems faced by the current European civilized society. The forgotten history is thought to be forgotten, but in fact it is still a pain in the ass.
The protagonist suspects that the stalker is an Algerian orphan who was framed as a child. It is not a simple grudge, but a scar on political history. France has always denied its responsibility for the Algerian war, and has not held a strong confrontational attitude towards terrorist activities. However, these people sing and dance on the surface, but they are always afraid in their hearts. There is almost no special soundtrack in the film, and sometimes the background to the conversation between the couple is TV news about terrorist activities. The calm picture is full of hidden violence. Is it annoying or disturbing? Can't tell. Just like the truth in the picture in the movie, it is not clear.
In the film, we almost forget how graceful Juliette Binoche is under Uchislowski's lens; we see a chubby, unreasonable middle-aged woman. Her role is not particularly important, but she has that kind of pressure. Daniel Auteuil, who plays her husband, is just as unflattering as his wife. But if you don't please, this drama has drama.
The film discusses, as Juliette Binoche said,
is politics
is the primarch or
the hidden.
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