Rebellion and Faith, Reivew on Before the Fall

Eavesdropping on the storm, Hitler's boy, goodbye Lenin, the wave Some people say that German reflection films are as serious and grim as this nation, and they are half right. German films always present history with rich details, replace ideas with symbolic images, and narrate plots with logical language. Everything in the film reflects a deep real care, and sometimes even gives people a hard and old-fashioned feeling. However, when we compare Chinese films with them, we can find that concerns that are both realistic have diametrically opposite expressions. Different from the representative works of Chinese realism such as "Furong Town" and "Alive", the plot of the German reflection film is not drawn, but constructed, the characters are not mapped, but shaped, and the ideas are not revealed but naturally revealed . Everything presented in the film is a living thing in reality, but it is significantly higher than reality. That's the power of construction: the individual scenarios don't matter, it's the combination of them that matters. This gives German cinema a poetic romantic style, where the situation is serious, and the plot is truly unrestrained, with endless tension. This is why German reflection films can always leave people with unlimited thinking and reverie. ... In the movie "Wave", most of the people who participated in the wave joined with a sense of freshness. Or, the wave satisfies a specific psychological or material need. Maybe no one really advocates totalitarianism, but everyone will actively choose the "wave". Tim joins to get everyone's approval, Marco joins just for the warmth of home, and a few others join simply because "Wave" is cool. So "The Wave" is more of a rebellious farce than a return to totalitarianism.

Text: Yu Hanchen

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