It begins with a wedding that looks forward to the future, and ends with a bomb attack.
"In the Fade",
The most cruel human biographies in 2018 are presented, which is a tragic ukiyo-e in the new era of Europe.
"Out of thin air" opens with arrogance, romantic to vexatiousness, and infatuated with love.
Nouri, a German immigrant of Turkish descent, came out of his cell, everyone in the prison cheered him, the sun was shining on the prison, he lost his freedom, but at this moment he had everything.
Like in the background song "my girl": I've got sunshine on a cloudy day When it's cold outside I've got the month of May .
At the other end of the cell, waiting for him was a simple and warm wedding. His lover Katya was dressed in her wedding dress, and they each put on their rings early. A kiss defeated the barriers of time and place.
This is the warmest scene in "Out of thin air". After that, we saw the sprouting of tragedy take root, and saw the happy people being violently kneaded into inhuman form.
Happiness will not come out of nowhere, but evil will come quietly.
At the beginning of the film, the car that galloped past and almost hit the mother and son was a metaphor for the suddenness of danger.
The Inciting Incident of the story is brutal,
A few years later, Katya has a lovely son, and Nouri is released from prison with a new "clean" career. A short goodbye is unexpectedly a parting of life and death.
The bomb attack destroyed Katya's family and shattered her dreams.
During the attack, both Nuri and his son died, and Katya was in so much pain that she fell into hell.
But the first thing the police said when they came to the house was to ask her husband Nouri if he had Islamic religious beliefs, and even searched her home afterwards.
Relying on the memory at that time, she clearly recalled a suspicious woman, the police arrested her, and the two sides launched a heart-wrenching fair trial in court.
"Out of thin air" has a clear three-act structure,
Act one, family.
We have seen Katya go from happy to broken home,
We see the fragility and powerlessness of a woman who suffers the loss of her son and husband at the same time.
The scene in the first act always shakes slightly, which is Katya's trembling heart after suffering great grief, the anxiety of the director's output all the time, and the torment that makes the audience uneasy.
The empty shots of "Come out of thin air" are gorgeous and bloody, and there is fire hidden in the silence.
Relying on drugs to anesthetize herself, falling into contemplation, crying on her son's bed, a falling shot shows Katya lying in the bathtub, and the blood gushing from her hands and wrists quickly stained the water in the entire bathtub.
The ringing phone interrupted her thoughts and temporarily pulled her back from the gates of hell. On the other end of the phone were the police, who told her, "The killer has been caught."
The first act shows the fragility of the heroine Katya,
The second act, which will continue to tear her reason and sting her grief, is titled: Justice.
Ironically, justice is always absent.
The second act revolves around the court battle between Katya and the suspect. Neither side has an absolute advantage when they come and go. The lawyer of the other side avoids the important points, confuses the public, and tries to escape the crime.
One of the most impressive scenes in this scene is the clear forensic ordinance, devoid of "humanity", and a completely rational account of the causes of death of Katja's son and husband, from melting eyeballs to physical disintegration.
The camera features a deadpan forensic doctor in the foreground, followed by a distraught and crumbling Katya. This is probably one of the most unbearable contrast scenes of the year. The director wants to let people see the different states of the two people inside the vortex and outside the scene.
In contrast, the pain is magnified, and the sadness flows into a river.
The tug of war in the court made Katya very tired, and her revenge was completely pinned on a fair verdict.
Through court review, we learned that the murderers of Katja's family were a German couple who worshiped fascists and joined neo-Nazi organizations in an attempt to violently eliminate German immigrants who were not of pure blood.
In the court, the whole organization is closely organized and shields each other. The lawyers do their best to break the bottom line and incriminate them. Katya's lawyer spoke righteously and rebuked the other party's lies based on a lot of evidence and reasoning, and even the audience in the room applauded.
But fairness requires conclusive evidence. Although the evidence points to the two suspects, the key evidence cannot be implemented. In addition, Katja has a background in drug use, which makes her confession questioned. In the end, the court had to acquit the husband and wife. .
There was an uproar in public opinion, and Katya lost her trust in the law and justice.
The third act is titled, The Sea.
Each scene uses home video as an introduction, reminding the pain of reality with the happy past. And the beginning of the third act lays the most powerful bomb-like foreshadowing.
In the video, the son rides on the shoulders of her husband and let Katja join them in their seaside game. Katya refused at first, but in the end, unable to withstand the call of her husband and son together, she could only step into the sea.
After a fair trial, Katya came alone to Greece, where the suspect had been. She hoped to collect evidence, and her accomplices who followed them found the two hidden in a beach box car on the blue sea.
She imitated the technique of the two to create a pressure cooker bomb,
For the first time, her hands softened and she took back the placed bomb;
After two subtle slow motions,
Katya came to the beach again, put the bomb bag on her back, opened the door and got into the car, all the jade and stones were burned.
Before getting into the car, the camera briefly caught Katya's eyes, stopped for a while, and did not break the fourth wall deliberately, but kept the distance from the character, but this restraint, but a few seconds of stay became the whole The most violent and ferocious moment of the film.
The shock at the beginning and the end corresponds to the same gesture of good and evil "coming out of thin air".
The camera pans up, the fire burns for a few seconds, and behind it is the calm sea, and the boundaries between good and evil are blurred.
"Out of thin air" sent a deadly ending , the victim became the murderer, justice was infected by evil, and in the end, he could only rely on violence.
Although the lawyer kept calling and telling Katya not to be discouraged, he had prepared the above materials; although the first time Katya's kindness and conscience reminded her not to use violence to overcome violence,
But from anger to numbness, from praying for justice to unintentional nostalgia, she finally chose "tit for tat", the moment when she burned herself in flames and burst the box car,
There is no love to complain, the cold branches are still, and the sky will see you again.
"Out of thin air" is a heavy hammer and a powerful medicine sent by the Turkish-born director Fatih Akin to the European society.
The focus of the film is not on the social structure produced by neo-Nazis and the inability of the judicial system to do anything about it, but on the inevitability of Katya's reluctance to choose revenge in the third act to close the theme.
In one after another "dilemma", in the pull of human nature and animal nature, reason and emotion, Katya finally perished together, so that the film ended in a very wrong way of "three views".
What is deviant is that such a cruel ending is based on the brightest light and shadow and scenes as the background, as if only after the success of revenge, the sky begins to clear and everything is peaceful.
Just like in the video in the reminiscence narrative, the heroine Katya completed the reunion with her family by means of suicidal revenge, and went to the sea that can contain everything.
There is a tomb and a home.
The rise of neo-Nazis in Europe has aroused the anger and powerlessness of Fatih Akin, the director of "Out of thin air". He felt that under the dual dilemma of social structure and jurisprudence and morality, only violence can solve the problems of minority groups in European society. Various symptoms.
This is still the case with Turkish immigrants who have lived in Europe for a long time . So can the refugees from various countries who have poured into Europe in recent years really integrate into European society?
In the film, after the death of Katja's husband, everyone from the police to her husband's parents questioned their European identity, and their parents hoped to bring Katja's husband's ashes back to Turkey for burial, because that was their hometown.
Katya ran back to the room, took the drugs, and returned to the living room, rejecting this reasonable but unreasonable request.
Katya's mother on the side also replied, he is also my "grandson", and refused to mention Katya's husband, and even later thought that "that man" had implicated Katya and made her suffer so much grief and pain.
From the individual to the group, from the family to the society, the film clearly shows the failure of integration and the rupture between people.
The most terrifying thing is not the neo-Nazi-style violence,
It comes from the estrangement in people's hearts.
"Out of thin air" won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 75th Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for the Palme d'Or with the theme of "Rebel".
The heroine, who played Katya, German actress Diane Kruger took the Cannes Best Actress crown.
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