The first shot shows the difference in this film. Blurred focus, countless people hurrying by in the woods, a man walking from a distance, standing in front of the camera (close-up) and looking around, then a long shot follows him, the focus is on him, out of focus shows us the Nazis and the victims . Give us two perspectives to switch, one is the subjective perspective of the man, the other is the objective perspective of the external facts, the switching of the two perspectives, the male protagonist's inner persistence and the turbulent and unstable external factors appear alternately or at the same time, creating a The great sense of conflict and tension makes the audience always surrounded by the atmosphere of "life hanging by a thread". At the same time, the director's main purpose is to focus on the experience of the male protagonist and the changes in his heart, and not to express too much objective and tragic reality. It perfectly shows the two psychological states of the male protagonist's hope and hopelessness in the big environment. Why did the male lead save the boy? The first time I met was because of his kindness in his heart and the impulse to atone for sin. The doctor asked if it was his son, and he answered no. Next, the male protagonist asked a priest to save him as his son. Here, the author believes that this is his excess to his relatives, and the second is that he is well aware of his own doom, calling this person his son is also a kind of transcendence for his hopeless future. The film always revolves around the supernatural "son", which is actually a perverted self-salvation of the male protagonist. At the end of the film, the man saw the hope of surviving by the river, so he left the boy's body with the help of his companions. When he fled to a small house, he saw the little boy outside the object. The male protagonist smiled for the first time. He thought he was himself Escaped, the future is no longer hopeless. The arrival of the Nazis once again shattered the illusion, (the boy disappears into the smoke-filled woods, gunshots are heard) The boy disappears With the end of his life, a sense of tragedy strikes spontaneously.
use of sound. The director's selection of shots is very clever. When showing the Nazi poisoning of Jews, the director used the method of sound and picture to counterpoint, and when the audience imagines it, it has a great psychological impact. The last shot gathers the deaths of everyone on the male protagonist.
In general, the director chose the tragic experience of a person in the concentration camp and the collapse of his inner world to reflect, accusing the Nazis of the annihilation of humanity and the harm to the people. Contradictions, unstable fate, dual viewpoints, anti-traditional angles, anti-traditional psychology, depth-of-field photography, etc., cast a thick red cloth on the film, which is red, oppressive, and hopeless. The disadvantage is that the reasons for men's attachment are complicated and difficult to analyze, ordinary people cannot understand, and it is difficult to generate psychological resonance. "The fire of evil grows infinitely, and the fire of good is slowly extinguished." The help among the Jews is the warmth of the film.
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