Midlife Crisis Compromise

When I first saw the title of "Graduation Exam", I thought it was a youth inspirational theme with "The Spice Girls at the Bottom". As a result, the long shots at the beginning shocked me. The tone of the whole film has basically been established. Let's talk about the film first. Nominated for the Palme d'Or in Cannes, nominated for the best director, Christian Mongi is a famous Romanian director, assistant director and screenwriter, so the overall rhythm of the film is very slow, 122 minutes long, and I mean to give up in the middle, but I still insist on watching it down.
The overall rhythm of the film is very slow, a large number of long shots are piled up, there is little movement of the shots, and most of them are fixed shots, starting from the long shot of the stone breaking the window at the beginning of the film, including the long shot of Eliza at the police station after the attack. , Eliza and his father in front of the camera and the police officer, the movement of the characters behind the camera and the characters behind the window, reminds me of Little Kane playing outside the window when his parents were negotiating inheritance rights in Citizen Kane The playful scene, the scheduling of this long shot is very delicate. In this movie, the director's scheduling of the long shot is still very clever. The development of the plot is all connected with dialogue. When watching this movie, you may feel a little boring. But the comfortable and natural attitude that the whole film presents is still very comfortable.
This film shows the living conditions of a middle-aged man in Romania. The husband and wife are at odds, the daughter is attacked before the graduation exam, and there are all kinds of trivial matters such as the lover and the elderly mother. The father is full of his daughter's graduation exam. Worrying, a middle-aged man hopes that everything can be done step by step, but the choice of his daughter, the exposure of his lover, the fainting of his mother, everything is the most real reflection of life, the way of education for his daughter in the film is still very Hit me, especially the dialogue between the father and the daughter. The last "Don't you have a cigarette? You can smoke a cigarette" is full of infinite goodwill for this father's free education method. Not going abroad" "but it's your choice" is a free and respectful way of education that respects her daughter's wishes. Everything in life can't be done step by step, but the best solution is to deal with these calmly. The director's portrayal of a small person like Romania is very delicate and touching.

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