(spoilers, please be careful)
After returning home from the editorial department today, I am in a low mood. After a busy day, I suddenly felt a little lonely. The house cat greeted me with a symbolic tweet twice, and then went to rest. I picked up my PSP and played a few live games, feeling that I should do something real. The viewing time is almost 9:30 pm, and I can still watch a movie, but not too long. I flipped through the pile of DVDs that I haven't watched yet. It seems that Bong Junho's "Mother" is a little longer, and some new films are too superficial. I picked it up and decided to watch "Hunger". I bought this movie. It's been a long time, and I haven't been interested in watching it. This is the case with many European films, especially those that are related to politics. I always feel that it is not something that must be watched.
After putting the disc into the DVD, I felt a little hungry, so before watching the movie, I ordered a takeaway. Downstairs, there is a Lanzhou Ramen, and the knives and knives are quite good. Hang up the phone, press play, and the movie starts.
The stylization of "Hunger" is deeply conveyed to the audience from the first shot. At the moment when the percussion of the protest turned into silence, the screen stayed in the English "hunger" for a long time. Then we saw a well-dressed man carefully washing his hands, eating breakfast meticulously, even lying on the ground to check the site of the car before driving, and then after arriving at the unit, he changed into a police uniform, and then we knew that he was a jailer. At this time, the director sold out and jumped directly to the scene where the jailer is smoking in the snow. There are scars on the back of his hand, which is completely different from the previous time when he washed his hands. A small suspense was set up as a foreshadowing.
Next, the prisoners came on stage. Among these political prisoners fighting for rights, they were fighting for blankets and filth. In a scene where the jailer forced the prisoner to clean his body, we saw the previous jailer punching the prisoner in the process of beating the prisoner. I swiped it and hit the wall, and then the mystery of the scar on the back of the hand was solved. Seeing this, I began to appreciate the ingenuity that the director poured into "Hunger".
In the following play, the director subtly introduces the background of the story, vividly showing the difficulty of political prisoners trying to connect with the outside world and organize themselves by all means. In the scene of a small riot, the role of the riot police was introduced. Like the previous method, the director still captured the face of one of the police officers as a close-up. This method of handling makes us lack dialogue and many characters. In the action scenes, you can immediately form a deep impression on one or two representative characters and enter their inner world. This is an extremely clever way of expression. From the faces of these deliberately close-up characters, we can see the tenacity of political prisoners, the burnout of jailers and the psychological suffering of riot police, and then we deeply realize how this senseless political struggle affects everyone. 's murder.
The film's tragedy culminates in a phased climax when the jailer is shot and killed in front of his mother. At this moment, the doorbell rang and the takeaway was delivered. I actually had no appetite at this point, because the first half of the movie was actually quite unappetizing, with the prisoners trying to dirty the prison in every way, including food scraps and feces.
Almost in the middle of the film, "Hunger" gives a substantive dialogue for the first time, which is also the only expressive dialogue in the entire film. Bobby and the priest sat together, almost using a fixed camera position, allowing the two to complete a nearly twenty-minute conversation. This dialogue unfolds on the basis of sacrifice and redemption. The priest opposes Bobby's hunger strike, because a person who does not cherish his own life, what other rights can he fight for? But Bobby didn't talk to the priest because he needed advice, he just needed to make himself sure by telling the story from start to finish. Bobby tells the priest a story about walking through a wheat field while racing cross country as a kid, and it's one of the only emotional moments in the movie.
When Bobby was dying due to hunger strike, we followed the young Bobby to the wheat field and the woods he mentioned. The director used limited film emotions to complete the ruthless indictment of the political persecution that separates beauty from darkness. During this process, I also tried to eat noodles, but it didn't taste good. The whole second half of the movie is actually about hunger strike. I was holding a bowl of fried knife and slashing it in my hand. I was in an unprecedented physical and spiritual contradiction.
The movie "Hunger" is heavy, and after watching it, I don't know what to say. I tried hard to write a movie review, but what I could write in the end was nothing more than a retelling of the plot of the movie. In the end, there is no real hunger strike or political persecution. What I can understand is just a superficial impression.
The only piece of advice I can give everyone is to try not to catch up with dinner time when watching "The Hunger".
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