"Ordet": There is a God in the Family [Golden Lion Award at the 20th Venice Film Festival]

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film won the Golden Lion Award at the 20th Venice Film Festival in 1955.

The movie tells the story of miracles. In a farmer’s house, there is an old father and three sons. The eldest son's wife is pregnant, the second son is crazy, and the younger son wants to marry the tailor's daughter. Because of their different religious beliefs, the fathers of the two young men did not agree to the marriage. However, when the youngest son was rejected at the tailor's house, the old father was very angry, and he took the youngest son to the tailor's house to argue. The two old people were not speculative and separated. Before leaving, the old father learned that his daughter-in-law was giving birth at home, and it was very dangerous. After the old father and the youngest son rushed home, the doctor told the old father that although the child was gone, the daughter-in-law was fine. Everyone was very happy, and the old father invited the doctor to have coffee and chat with the visiting priest. But as soon as the doctor left, the daughter-in-law died, and the crazy second son fainted after seeing everything. Finally, when everyone was attending the funeral, the second son who ran away from home suddenly appeared and awakened the daughter-in-law like a god.

I have nothing to say about this movie. Not only is the plot boring and boring, but more importantly, it is about a religion that I can't understand. For me, I can understand movies that criticize religion, such as "Bilidiana"; I can understand movies that speak positively about religion, such as "Under the Sun of Satan." But this movie is obscure, subtle, and shows no expression of religion, I really can't appreciate it. In my opinion, what "words" and "phrases" have nothing to do with the plot! Therefore, I will not summarize the theme of the movie. In fact, I can't summarize anything. Maybe the movie is mainly ironic of some people.

However, I still have to talk about the dullness of the filming. Among the movies I have watched, only "Last year in Marionbad" surpassed this film in terms of dullness, and there are really no other movies. The small range of scenes, panning shots, fixed images, slow dialogue, slow speech rate, and a large number of vague lines all make the film look like years. In another word, I watched this film once and slept once, it was the strong beater who watched it in spirit. The movie can be made like this, it can be regarded as unprecedented! In short, the director of the film has changed the method to make the audience unbearable, completely testing the audience's patience.

In addition, through the scenes and plot of the film, it can be clearly seen that this is a movie adapted from a drama. However, the director failed to make the film because the film screen was completely theatrical model, and there was no change at all, and it did not reflect the advantages of the film at all. Knowing that, why did the director make this movie?

The actors in this film have nothing to say, they are all cutscene characters, and no one left a deep impression on me. There are no beauties in the film, and the actresses are ordinary women.

in conclusion. This is a movie that people cannot appreciate or understand. Let this movie be reserved for people of religious belief. In my eyes, it is one of the bad movies.

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2012-12-27

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Ordet quotes

  • Morten Borgen: Oh! Thank God, now the tears have come.

  • Johannes Borgen: All of you blaspheme God with your lukewarmness.

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