What social issues does "Out of thin air" explore?

Grant 2022-04-20 09:02:17

Every year ending in 8 is not very flat, and today it seems that the statement is true.

Zhongxing was doing business at home, but was suddenly sanctioned; Syrian children went to fetch water, and suddenly missiles flew over!

The so-called people sit at home, and disasters come from the sky, probably this is what it means.

The 75th Golden Globe Awards Best Foreign Language Film "Out of thin air" may be appropriate in the current political context.

Refugees seem to be a topic that German director Fatih Akin, a descendant of Turkish immigrants, cannot avoid in his creation.

Akin's "The Other Side of Life" profoundly exposed the family suffering of immigrant groups. The film is more like a sequel to the post-immigrant era.

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The film's image setting for the two lawyers is intriguing.

The bearded plaintiff's lawyer has a Middle Eastern face, and the defendant's defense lawyer looks like a cold-blooded Nazi officer no matter what.

The film is wrapped in grand political metaphors under the shell of a crime drama. From a terrorist attack to the small to see the big, the irony of the political forces of all parties in the refugee tide in the Middle East is poignant

migrant

Katya's husband met Katya because he was selling drugs. He was so poor that he couldn't even buy a wedding ring, and the two of them had a simple wedding like a family.

He symbolizes the group of refugees who went to Western Europe, who had gone through hardships all the way to the fabled land of freedom, but had nowhere to go.

From another perspective, robbery, sexual assault, and drug trafficking are common in refugee camps. This is their own problem, so don't expect the bottomless tolerance of the locals.

neo-nazi

In fact, there is no difference between old and new Nazis. Nazis are Nazis, that group of extremists whose nationalism is higher than the sky.

When the Greek witness in the film was accused of being a member of the Neo-Nazi Party, he argued that it was the democratic party through the election, and the Lord Justice remained silent.

In fact, for the government, nationalism is a prerequisite for ensuring national interests. The distinction between legal and Nazi parties is not insurmountable.

Therefore, it seems unreasonable for the murderer of the terrorist attack to be acquitted, but there is a logical inevitability!

suicide bomb

Cornered, Katya makes the same bomb as the terrorists did. Use his way to return to his body, and perish with the murderer.

A bomb that came out of nowhere turned Katya, who lived and worked in peace, into a black widow who lost her husband and child.

What will the missiles come out of nowhere turn the Syrian refugees into?

Between anti-terrorist armed forces and suicide bombers, there is no need to say who is the terrorist.

American Spirit cigarettes

Katya buys a pack of American Spirit cigarettes while being chased by neo-Nazis.

When you lose your home and have nowhere to go, take a quick cigarette of freedom and democracy to ease your nervousness? !

Or, good friend of the Indian people, you need a pack of American Spirit cigarettes when you are homeless? !

It can be said that this pack of cigarettes is already very ironic.

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The narration of the film adopts a very neat three-section structure, and each section is progressively connected by Katja's mobile phone video.

The three paragraphs are progressively advanced, and the three stages of death-complaint-revenge are steadily advanced, without any bells and whistles.

This may also be the director's respect for the serious subject of dealing with refugees.

In the end, I don't think the point is that Katya and the killer die together.

But in the upside-down world behind the thick smoke.

Those who resisted the atrocities were forced to become suicide bombers, and the real terrorists ran rampant and said they wanted to maintain world peace.

There are more unknown deaths in the upside-down world.

Everyone likes to feed the horse split wood and care about the comfortable life of grain and vegetables.

But when the bomb that came out of nowhere shattered your spring flowers, even if you faced the sea, you could only see the smoke of gunpowder all over the ground!

Democracy Arch

Legend has it that over the vast Atlantic Ocean, stands a resplendent archway. It shone with the light of humanity and illuminated the land of Europe and the United States, and became the light of hope for human civilization.

It shines day and night, and it is not enough to generate electricity with love, so it has to reluctantly plunder oil for energy.

But ah, the ignorant troublemakers in the dark are not willing to starve themselves to death.

It had to use the truth of democracy to persuade the unscrupulous.

However, the scoundrels somehow ran to the continent illuminated by the light of hope.

So, the great archway of democracy does not know who to shine on.

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  • Katja Sekerci: [attacking Edda in court] Look at me, you cunt! I'll kill you!