All truth is beautiful

Effie 2022-04-22 07:01:47

From the artist's point of view, the quiet and tender lens, and the delicate technique tell the survival and development of art in the war era! Take advantage of a lesson taught by Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in the midst of chaos to make the path of art right: Art is irrelevant to political stance, reflects real life, and ignites the desire for a beautiful freedom! The obstetrics and gynecology professor's elite values ​​full of political stance finally collapsed in the face of real warmth! The touching part of the film lies in the beautiful side of human nature throughout! The obstetrics professor's escape proves that the justice in his heart has not been completely wiped out. Ellie's children represent a bright future! Rare masterpiece! The screenwriter's idea is very good, and the director handles it very delicately.

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Extended Reading
  • Rey 2022-03-29 09:01:07

    The mix of various elements is still very profound.

  • Crawford 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    The director still hasn't broken the curse of "debut is the pinnacle", the three-hour time span and epic narrative are emotional but not powerful. The tone and goal of the whole film have been fluctuating, and the sad and happy style has not been well neutralized. After the soundtrack intervenes, the image flows like an ocean, but there are also too many extremely weak passages. The opening chapter criticizes the atrocities of Nazi ethnic cleansing (groups and individuals struggle with the concept of "blood"), then turns to satire on contemporary art, and ends with a sudden influx of historical scars, bringing the theme back to "don't look away" (continue watching to resist forgetting) up. It is a blunt stroke in the play, and the whole also relies too much on coincidence, and the final volume is quite bloated and complicated. #HKIFF43#

Never Look Away quotes

  • Professor Antonius van Verten: Don't vote for anyone. Never vote for another party again. Vote for art. It's either-or. In art only, freedom is not an illusion.After the Nazi catastrophe, only the artist can give people back their sense of freedom. Every individual, whether he's a garbage man or a farmer, has the chance to be an artist. if he develops his own subjective abilities without external guidelines. If you aren't free... completely free, then nobody else will be. By making yourselves free, you are liberating the world. You are priests. You are revolutionaries. You are liberators. Make your burnt offerings!

  • Professor Antonius van Verten: So, Lehmbruck. He said that each work of art must retain something from the first days of Creation. As if almost as if it were still divine... As if it were only just emerging from the primeval mass, from the rib... No. No, a different approach. Has anyone had an insight this week? A realization... you'd perhaps like to share?

    Kurt Barnert: Lottery numbers. If I tell you six numbers at random... 5, 7, 23, 29, 44, 11... that's just stupid. But if I read you the winning numbers from the lottery... May I?- "2, 17, 19, 25, 45, 48." Suddenly they have a true quality, something imperative, almost beautiful.