Round or round

Adela 2022-10-23 14:25:05

A European film with strong Hollywood colors, from the philosophy of color imagery to the blending of shots and symbols, it is all textbook-like excellence, just right, but also scrupulous.

It may be to tell the story well, the detailed plot is explained, and at the same time, a lot of worthwhile blanks have been cut. After reading it in one breath, it will feel complete and incomplete, but this must also be a more critical view, and overall it is still good. of.

The whole film is filled with a kind of faint heroic replay of the established history, but the relatively fast rhythm dilutes part of the heaviness, making it sad but not hurtful, tragic but not violent, which is the luck or misfortune of commercial film audiences. In the face of such a story, it may not be able to really explain the complexity of it, so it is better to enjoy it as an art film with good color matching and music.

But I still can't help but sigh: in this vast universe, we are self-proclaimed monarchs in the walnut core of the earth, or the sublime is the truth of science, or the cunning is the right of money, and finally the darkness left to the disappearing starlight is nothing but a A few short roars, a few tears.

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  • Hypatia: Synesius, you don't question what you believe, or cannot. I must.

  • Hypatia: [Looks up at night sky] If I could just unravel this just a little bit more, and just get a little closer to the answer, then... Then I would go to my grave a happy woman.