As the representative work of the new German film "Four Heroes" Schlondorf, it tells that Oscar was born in the family formed by his mother and his father as the betrayal product of his mother and uncle. Facing the chaotic and ugly relationship between adults, he made a wish to keep his appearance. At the age of three, with the advent of World War II, my mother and uncle and his girlfriend were in turmoil. Died, and finally he decided to continue the story of growing up.
The film is outstanding in terms of plot arrangement, photography, character design, and themes.
The plot is very fantastic, and the little Oscar is very ridiculous, but because he is a product of violation of ethical relations and has a certain basis, the director uses this as a concrete manifestation of the alienation of people in the distorted society.
Cinematography is prominent in the Oscar-born segment. Oscar hides in the womb, and then climbs out of the womb little by little. The subjective and flipped shots imitate his point of view, which is very innovative and fits the film's narrative form of Oscar's subjective point of view.
In character design, each character has a symbolic meaning. The relationship between mother and uncle symbolizes the chaotic phenomenon of German social relations at the time; uncle symbolizes cowardly Poles; father symbolizes brutal Nazis; mother symbolizes those who swayed and twisted in this period; Oscar symbolizes those who want to speak out but are weak people.
In terms of theme, the film not only expresses the distortion and alienation of people, but also expresses the madness and stupidity of the German Nazis, as well as the cruelty of war, and expresses the author's strong social criticism.
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