The Dane brothers' hand-to-hand combat

Since 37min10s, "Beautiful Rosetta" began its most moving segment. Thanks to such a short period of love and compassion, Rosetta's destiny will not drift on the streets of the dark night, and it has a little temperature. But the only bit of temperature was only covered on the metal sheet, and passed by in the evening breeze.

This morning, Rosetta got into a fight with her alcoholic and promiscuous mother. During the scuffle, she was pushed into the pond by her mother, almost losing her life due to the silt. In the evening, she put on her rain boots, walked through the woods between the trailer (residence) and the city, across the street, and came to Ritter's home.

In the cramped apartment, Ritter introduced Rosetta to the heater, shower, and broken oven that were not in the trailer. These basic living facilities are also extravagant hopes for the unemployed Rosetta. When Ritter performed a handstand for Rosetta, Rosetta smiled for the first time. French toast is the only dinner with beer, Rosetta shrinks in a hard shell from start to finish, bowing her head without speaking.

The handheld camera of the Danes has been shaking crampedly with the knife in Rosetta's hand, and this slight shaking reflects the subtle emotional tension between the two. Ritter played the recording of his beginner drumming for Rosetta. The messy drumbeat seemed to be in sync with the two messy heartbeats. Ritter pulled Rosetta to dance. The shy Rosetta was stiff and awkward. The agility when crossing the fence. At this time, the strong bunny dance music sounded with the drums, and the room also rippled.

This is the only background music in the whole film that has an unnatural environment soundtrack. It is just the right lag and accurately depicts Rosetta's heartbeat curve. It is also the only dose of dopamine in the film, allowing these two struggling young people to temporarily reach the culmination of illusion and forgetting.

On this ordinary night among the many nights, Ritter, who was supporting the muffin stand, and the unemployed Rosetta, danced strange and funny dances in the small and shabby apartment, poking everyone outside the camera. What made us breathe a sigh of relief for the time being, it was that Rosetta, who had filled his stomach, temporarily forgot the harassment of the survival dilemma, and revealed a little jumping flame that should have belonged to her. Rosetta was extremely nervous and fled. She didn't allow herself to be happy, and her life was precarious but there was nowhere to go. Rosetta, who returned to Ritter’s apartment, curled up on the mattress on this quiet night. She closed her eyes and whispered to herself softly, "Your name is Rosetta, and my name is Rosetta. You got a job," I found a job. You have a friend and I have a friend. You live a normal life and I live a normal life. You will not be the same, I will not be the same. Good night, good night..."


This is the most moving part of the film "Rosetta" filmed by famous Belgian brother directors Jean-Pierre Dane and Luc Dane in 1999. The two are both screenwriters and directors, focusing on Rosetta, a young girl who has been unemployed for a long time, and recorded a very difficult moment in her life when she was eighteen. With its extremely strong human care and outstanding artistic style, the film won the Best Actress and Best Picture Palme d’Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in one fell swoop, becoming the biggest winner of the night, and the Darnet brothers also won global awards. pay attention to. Six years later, they picked up Palme d’Or branches again with "Children" and joined the great "Futaba Palme d’Or Club". After watching the "Rosetta", the Belgian government realized that the rights and interests of youths in the country were not well protected, so it revised the relevant legal measures and the plan was called the "Rosetta Plan" (Baidu Encyclopedia).


"Rosetta" is a representative work of the Dannet Brothers' film art, and it also established the Dannet Brothers' consistent text theme in the future: the gaze and care of the bottom, the discussion of evil, and the call for humanity. With its sharp realistic style, "Rosetta" made a distant echo of the dogma95 movement at the end of the century. The film's in-depth exploration of real life and real life, and the many details contained in the calm lens fiercely portray the characters' dual signs of life and spirituality at the edge of survival, deeply shocking the others present.

"Rosetta" marked the success of the lens aesthetics of the Darnet brothers. In the following works such as "Rorner's Silence", "Son of Others", "Two Days and One Night", the Dane brothers continued this "shoulder photography" method and formed a unique and outstanding aesthetic style. This highly recognizable “shoulder photography” has extremely high requirements for photography and performance. It must be shaken and not excessive. It is necessary to maintain a good composition of the picture while moving, and the control of the focus must be just right according to the narrative needs. The Darnet brothers, who have filmed many documentaries, clearly know that through the "shoulder" method, the distance between the audience and the film will be greatly shortened, and the audience will be more emotional. The “breathing” produced by “shouldering” also gives the film great vitality. It can flexibly interact with the actors, amplify every detail of the performance, and stimulate the actor's performance tension. In the real atmosphere created by it, you seem to be standing at the scene of the event, breathing with the characters and sharing fate.

There is no soundtrack in the whole film. The only active music is the dance music from Ritter's house, which is just right to lag and accurately depict Rosetta's heartbeat curve. It is also the only dose of dopamine in the film, allowing these two struggling young people to temporarily reach the culmination of illusion and forgetting. "The rest is the sound of Rosetta's rapid walking breathing and the sound of the engine of Kurt's motorcycle. This sound was once a testimony of Rosetta's friendship and love. After she betrayed Derek, the sound of the engine The second appearance became Rosetta’s nightmare until the tragedy happened. Other natural sound effects, such as the constant stream of cars, the roaring wind, and the cold metal sound of an industrial city, are very good at bringing this lifeless and emotional city to life. The individuality is highlighted."



The film captures an extremely difficult moment in Rosetta's life when she was eighteen. She repeatedly sought a job but was unable to live. Her mother was drunk all day long and was unable to live. The two stayed in a simple shack behind the forest. She has a shameless appearance, sturdy limbs, and no trace of the romantic and feminine atmosphere of a girl. "Home and Mother" are almost out of place in Rosetta's life. The simple board house did not give her a sense of security. When she came to her period, her stomach pain was unbearable. She could only warm her belly with a hair dryer. When she was hungry, she could only use cheap muffins to fill her hunger. Brother Dany showed us how Rosetta used a glass bottle to steal fish twice. She carefully hid the rope, and the two small fish caught might be one of the few rare items on her dinner. "Mother" is the shame in Rosetta's heart. The mother who voluntarily committed herself to a man in order to drink makes her unable to lift her head. The film more than once described the two people fighting and verbally cursing each other. Rosetta was pushed down the river by her mother during a fight, and almost died of silt. Rosetta, who couldn't stop thumping in the water, shouted "Mom, Mom".

Rosetta in the film is eighteen years old, the age when a child walked alone from home to the crowd. If it weren't for the gray dress and the torturing period, we wouldn't even pay attention to Rosetta's feminine characteristics. The Dany brothers should have deliberately weakened Rosetta's female identity, restored her to an ordinary young man in the bottom society, and suffered all the hardships of life. "Society did not give her gender preference. Rosetta is more like a child and also uses childlike stubbornness, persistence and even fierceness to deal with everything that life brings her. In the face of difficulties, she constantly uses her body to face this Social pushing and clashing is a natural ability for children to protect themselves, regardless of gender."


The film is made up of countless conflicts. Rosetta was dismissed and quarreled with the boss until she shot her, because her mother and neighbors had sex... These conflicts tightly surround Rosetta and provide us with a wealth of space for interpretation. The most profound aspect of the text of "Rosetta" is that the Darnet brothers tried to explore the question: whether guilt evokes a new humanity, and whether human beings will try to find who they were before they can do something irreparable. (Interview with "Cinema Manual")


The budding of family, friendship, and even love seems so weak in front of survival, eating and living. In order to get a job, Rosetta betrayed Ritter who was the only one who cared about him, and even when Ritter was transferred into the river, evil thoughts arose. After she took over Ritter’s muffin stall, Rosetta’s excitement was beyond words. She, who had never spoken actively before, would also exchange a few words with customers. The pity and sympathy we had accumulated for Rosetta was even slightly dissipated by such incidents, which prompted us to pay attention to something beyond the biosphere level of Rosetta. Compared to a job, Rosetta seems to care more about the dignity that work brings to people, which is why she turned down Ritter's invitation to make pie with her boss on her back. But when Ritter appeared at the muffin stall again, Rosetta was unable to face the blame of Ritter and his conscience and gave up the only job opportunity. Rosetta still couldn't abandon her bottom line and dignity.


After Ritter left, Rosetta looked thoughtfully at the street in front of us, and we were sensitive to the fact that Rosetta seemed to have changed. On the way home, she saw her mother who was so drunk. This time she faced her mother calmly. After returning home with difficulty, she dragged her mother to the bed, boiled eggs for herself, locked the door, and blocked it. Lived the window. What shocked us was that Rosetta turned on the gas tank to commit suicide without warning. She chewed her eggs, opened her eyes aggrievedly, and waited for the end of her life. Her body fell and fell with her breath, Rosetta reached the most intriguing node, and our hearts were lifted.

However, destiny seemed to be joking with her. The gas was left on but it was gone. Rosetta got up to change the gas and fell to the ground holding the gas tank in the harsh sound of Ritter’s motorcycle, lying on the ground in pain. . The heart we lifted up fell to the ground with Rosetta’s crying. A girl used to cry for the first time to express her inner emotions. Once a person has the urge to cry, she will definitely face it again. The courage to live. Ritter didn't circle Rosetta anymore, he lifted Rosetta gently and leaned against the wall. This lifting action is similar to the meaning of God's rescue. In the lens, Ritter redeemed Rosetta, while outside the lens, the Dane brothers hope to give the entire bottom society a ray of life. Rosetta leaned against the wall, her face sobbing constantly, and the film ended at this time.


The Danes have already established their status as masters of European realism, and "Rosetta" is undoubtedly the most stylized one in the Danes' film pedigree. Life is the most fascinating blueprint for the story. I very much agree with the basic point of view of realism. "The so-called plot and the so-called story should not be fictional, or even pieced together on the basis of real life, but should be The things that happen in real life, are contingency and plot are what the film wants to show."

"Rosetta" almost gave up all commercial elements and maximized the artistic weight of the film. In the author's opinion, the realism films of the Darnet brothers have the same artistic level as Monroe and Carver's novels. They truly watch the lives and destiny of the crowd, meet the human nature and the dark areas of the city, and guide us to watch them. Fuller and better moon.

Note: The quotation marks in this article are quoted from "Looking at the Realistic Expressions of the Darnete Brothers from "

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