Written on September 6, 2020, revised on July 24, 2021

Jacklyn 2022-01-10 08:02:43

7.0 points.

This film seems to be Polanski’s debut feature film, and it won the Oscar nomination for best foreign language film. It is really powerful. Polanski was only 29 years old when it was screened, which means that he had already started shooting at 27 or 28 or at least. It's time to create.

Looking at the feature film, although there is still some bluntness, that kind of aura is really a piece of master's material.

I think Polanski should be very much influenced by Hitchcock. If you don't know that this was taken by Polanski, I would say that it was Hitchcock that there is no sense of disobedience at all. However, Polanski pays more attention to the emotional details than Hitchcock. Hitchcock is a textbook, and Polanski is more emotional and delicate. Many movies describe the intrigue between women, but this film shows the intrigue between men, which can also be very delicate. This delicate feeling between men and women runs through almost all Polanski's films.

The above part was written on September 6, 2020, and it is now July 24, 2021. Yesterday, I watched all Polanski’s movies. Then I came back to watch the first movie. I found that there is actually a subtle and delicate relationship between men and women. The description of, seems to have not continued. Perhaps Sharon Tate was brutally killed, which also erased the delicate feeling between men and women in Polanski's heart. The relationship between men and women in this film is even a bit like the men and women in Hong Sangxiu's movies. The delicate feeling is rarely shown by the director.

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Extended Reading
  • Kitty 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Men may be in high spirits with sails of power in their hands, but students have knives that symbolize male power. When the knife was thrown into the sea of ​​women, the woman's heartstrings were plucked: it was a young fresh meat who was not because of world affairs but was extremely curious about the future. In contrast, her marriage fell into a situation where she had everything but lost its direction. The divergence at the end is therefore multi-meaning: fantasy and reality, forward and backward - what to do with life in the future?

  • Jeffry 2022-03-20 09:02:23

    #重看#Strong debut, almost covering the most expert structure and themes of the mellow period: the undercurrent of three people in a closed (isolated) space, the mutual seduction and confrontation of the relationship between the sexes, the invasion and confrontation between the adult and the youth (young) The see-saw process of the counterattack, the hypocrisy and fragility of the middle-class marriage relationship, these thin masks shattered at the moment the knife fell into the water; a meaningful blank ending.

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Knife in the Water quotes

  • Krystyna: So, you do know how to swim.

  • Andrzej: You don't whistle on board.

    Young Boy: Why not?

    Andrzej: It's not done. Sailors get mast-headed for that... Not hikers, though.