"Honeyland" and "Why Home"

Katrine 2022-01-20 08:01:12

This is a documentary with a plot. It's hard to imagine how the director can create such a complete story in front of the huge amount of life material. At the beginning, I expressed doubts about the picture quality that is not high-definition. Compared with the domestic documentary picture quality where the hair is clearly visible, its roughness is indeed a bit crude, but it is inexplicable and the vast and desolate desert land, and The paintings in the dark room complement each other well. On the 3.7th, I watched "Why Home" and "Honeyland" successively. The themes were different, but they all showed me a different life. When survival becomes a difficult task, the rationality in them shines even more. In the land of honey, besides the theme of reverence for nature, I also saw a lot. Maybe this is life. Unlike a drama movie, life is so intricate and complicated. The education of children in it is also worth pondering. One detail is that they saw a wrestling match in the market, and after returning, the children started to wrestle with each other. Children's imitating ability is extremely powerful, so there will be posts that imitate Peppa Pig's vividly. Education starts from the parents, which can extend to the problem of class consolidation... Son Willie fully agrees with the concept of "retain half and take half" of the female protagonist, but when he tried to persuade his father, what was the result? Only rebuttal, scolding, and forced labor. And this father and the honey-harvesting merchant had a conversation: "One child a year?" "One year a year, a child is hope." This fragment can also be thought of in "Why Home", calling for those who are unable to raise children well. Parents don't have another child. Fertility and education are completely different things. This kind of childbirth, like the spread of a virus, brings disasters to children, disasters to parents, and disasters to the country.

Then record two beautiful scenes: the silhouette of the heroine and Willy climbing the mountain when the heroine is swinging and cheering. One is dynamic beauty and the other is static beauty.

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  • Josefina 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    #SIFF22# A zero-voice documentary that truly reflects the rural life in the Balkans, with some feature film effects and good photography.

Honeyland quotes

  • Hatidze Muratova: Take half, leave half.