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
  • Vinnie 2022-03-20 09:02:23

    On the boat of life, women calmly accept, tolerate, compromise, resist, and tease. Men are a cycle from child to camel to lion and back to child. A peaceful sadness.

  • Colten 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    The knife that the middle-aged man threw into the water was an vent of dissatisfaction with the woman's spirit. He couldn't do anything to his own woman, but could only vent his anger on the young people. Youth, a middle-aged couple, two men and a woman, the triangle relationship promotes the plot development of the whole film. Control desire, desire, and anger are the emotions that are most likely to cause problems among humans.

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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.