I didn't read any introductions and movie reviews, I went to watch it with the unknown. At the 50th minute, something miraculous happened, and the subtitles disappeared. It was the first time I encountered such an out of place situation. Looking for online resources on the whole network, I found that all websites will be transferred to biibili; looking for torrent downloads, bt will pop up a webpage prompting "copyright disputes have not been avoided, the download link has been blocked", and the rest is hopeless.
I had to read two film reviews, and I had to read them too. When I speak English, I can barely understand it, but when I come to Algerian and Macedonian, I am blinded. Fortunately, in a movie with few lines, the director likes to use the language of the camera lens, which I am good at. Decided to write this movie review, but also to prepare for the parents who are going to watch this movie.
Why are country men armed with guns in the film?
Filmed in 1994, it was a period of instability in the Balkans. Modern times began in 1912. This region was due to geopolitics (the border between Asia and Europe, the throat of the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea) and religious conflicts (friars dressed and religious flags hanging in churches). , implied as the Orthodox Church), there have been many wars, and the director expressed it from two places: in the second section, Alexander asked Annie to move to Macedonia with her, but Annie refused him and said that it was not safe there; in the third section, in the camera A tank with the un logo appears.
This film is regarded by fans as the most classic debut in the three-part movie.
The first paragraph: The speech (this paragraph has subtitles in any language) is
ironic. In this paragraph, the male protagonist Kirill made a "silent oath", and only spoke when it was near the end of the clip. The whole story, in less than 5 lines, tells you a kind of love. A love that doesn't need words, is willing to bear with life, and ends before it begins.
When Shamiva realized that Kirill was going to leave her, she shouted "No" with all her strength and ran towards him. At this time, Shamiva's brother shouted "Sister" in pain, but picked up the gun and fired. The barrage, everyone expressed their incomprehension. This kind of film won't tell you in lines, their religious beliefs, it's natural to show a group of men wearing white hats.
Write two more sentences to explain why.
In some Muslim worlds, women have absolutely no status. Even now, in many Middle Eastern countries, they do not have the right to education, vote, choose marriage, and they can't even decide how to wear their clothes. The second man sees (father before marriage, husband after marriage), and there is even a "morality police" to watch over their behavior.
For women who date privately before they are married, there is something called "honor murder." A 17-year-old girl in Iraq was dating a boy in her class. She was afraid of being scolded by her father when she went home late, and spent the night with her boyfriend in the open air. When she sneaked home the next morning, she found that the living room was full of angry expressions. Man, her father didn't listen to her explanation, a group of people started to beat her, and finally she was stripped naked, tied behind a horse, the galloping horse ran around the village, everyone spat at her, insulted her, and was dragged to death like this , no one will collect the body for her and throw it in the wilderness. The father and brother upheld the honor, and the women in the family would not be cast aside. This is "honor murder". True story, don't be surprised, in their country, this kind of thing happens every day.
Some people will ask, why is this still happening if there is no relationship. In their world, women are not allowed to have any physical contact with any man before marriage. Kissing, touching and hugging are sins, not to mention staying home overnight. Don't expect a man to take a woman for a hymen test.
Samiva was doomed the moment she ran towards Kirill.
The second paragraph: Face
Annie flips through the photo of the Bosnian war, there is a picture of Kirill and the fallen Shamiva, and will take the timeline as a matter of course, the second paragraph occurs after the first paragraph, because at that time she received a Although there is no subtitle translation on the phone, according to the development of the plot, they should speak Macedonian, and the other party is Alexander's younger brother, Kirill.
Judging from the third paragraph later, the director deliberately made us have this logical illusion. The timeline of this movie is a pretense, and it is also the most wonderful part of it. Don't be too entangled.
Annie accidentally spilled coffee and stained Madonna's picture. This scene will be discussed in the third paragraph.
The place where she and Alexander got off is in the cemetery, a metaphor for a certain fate.
She asked Alexander, what made you change in only two weeks? Alexander said, I killed people. It is also in the third paragraph that he tells us the reason for his own depravity.
Since Annie and husband Nick show up at the restaurant, the subtitles are gone.
The conversation between them was to the effect that Annie told her husband that she was pregnant, and her husband was very happy to drink and celebrate. He still loved Annie and felt that they would not be separated, but Annie wanted to divorce, and they had an argument for this.
The beard on camera is a violent intervention that can happen anywhere, anytime. After the shooting, Annie touched Nick's face and called out "your face, your face," and that was the point.
The third paragraph:
All the shots of the aerial photography are the scenery of Macedonia, like a picture, people live happily, which is one of the reasons for Alexander to come back. Under the beautiful scenery, the tanks that drove by one after another hinted that the current situation was unstable.
Chatting with the soldier on the bus, the soldier turned to a photo and didn't know what to say, but the expression of the male protagonist after the conversation should be. The soldier asked if the woman in the photo was your girlfriend or wife, why didn't you come together? The hero said she was dead. After Anne refused to come to Macedonia, Alexander thought she was dead and he never thought about the woman again.
During the dinner with the family, it was nothing more than chatting about old things of adulthood.
He carried the bag a long way to see someone very important, at least once.
He was stopped by two men, but the other party didn't seem to welcome him. After communication, he was invited into the house by the elder. The delivery was almost complete, until Hannah showed up with a plate, and there was no dialogue between the two. Alexander looked at her and pointed out that Hannah was his lover, and that was the purpose of his visit.
Behind the camera, Samiva stuck her head out at the door, and the director was saying that the timeline started to confuse you.
Hannah came to Alexander's room in the middle of the night, a Muslim woman who appeared alone in the non-husband man's room late at night. It must be about her own life or the child's life to come to the rescue.
Opened the box, found a pack of cigarettes, and choked on one puff, indicating that Alexander had quit smoking for a long time, and suddenly smoking was making a difficult decision for Hannah's request just now. At this time, the photo he took appeared again, here is the title. He killed people, but only on camera, and it was also because this photo made him take the Pulitzer Prize and made him uneasy, so he sank and escaped back to his hometown. After waiting, he tore up the photo, it was his choice to give up death.
Judging from his willingness to save the girl with his life, Samiva may be his biological daughter.
At the 86th minute of the film, the postman appeared, humming "The Internationale" as "The Internationale of Communism", and the director used a long shot to show a person who didn't seem to want to do anything with the film. He could only say that he was affirming something. The two photos of Madonna stained with coffee are echoed.
Anne made the call to communicate with the post office in unskilled Macedonian because she wanted to talk to Alexander, and it was the language barrier that made her decide to come to Macedonia. At this time, I suddenly remembered that in the funeral that appeared in the first paragraph, the man in the coffin was Alexander, and the woman standing in the distance wearing sunglasses was Annie.
Alexander rescued Samiwa and was swept to death by his fellow clan. The girl ran away and came to the tomato garden, which ended in a round.
The flies that appeared many times in the film were killed when Kirill was picking tomatoes, and Alexander was killed at the last moment of taking pictures. When the family man was killed and the flies landed on the man, the man did not shoot this time, which was a symbol of death. The doctor announced that the death was after the flies appeared. Alexander is lying under a tree, and the fly appears again in the camera, implying that he is dead.
It is ironic that Samiva was rescued by two men from a foreign race, but was killed by a man from her own ethnic group.
The movie feels great without subtitles. I read other movie reviews that say that many lines in the movie are borrowed from famous books. I will watch it again when there is a full version of the subtitles.
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