As a film involving some special background factors, the structure of the German film "Barbara" is not big. In fact, regardless of the background of the story or the emotional development, the director and screenwriter Christian Petzold It is deliberately small, but very ingenious, and there is an obvious taste of depression and restraint in emotion.
The film has always given people the impression of being calm and calm, but this kind of calmness is just the appearance, the inside has gradually become turbulent, ups and downs, as if it has been throbbing, but it has never provided an exit, and this uninterrupted undercurrent Surging, when the camera is finally aimed at the endless sea of escape, it turns into "freedom" on the cusp of the storm. In the end, the film allows the heroine to return peacefully, so the silent stare gives the ending a quiet power .
Some commentators praised the film as "precise and fascinating." Indeed, the austere and clear image style makes it particularly quiet and arrogant in many old films that reflect the accident. The long shots or static images quietly convey the breath of the times. The coastal villages of East Germany in the early 1980s The loneliness and tranquility, the openness and the distance are unobstructed, and the uneasiness, vigilance, restraint and helplessness hidden in the seemingly peaceful life are also quietly and exquisitely reproduced in the circulation of the picture. Under such an atmosphere, the film’s narrative appears stable and proper, calm and smooth. Petzold uses an extremely simple and introverted approach to describe the possible situation in a complex environment, highlighting its objective reality and performance. Out of its humanistic caring side.
In the film, Barbara, a female doctor from Berlin, is cold and withdrawn, and she is always vigilant and alienated. In front of everyone, she is polite and decent while keeping a distance, like a completely cold beauty, she wraps her heart To be airtight, as if the only way to protect yourself, at least until the secret plan can be implemented. Nina Hors, the Berlin actress who plays Barbara, has a face that can tell a story even if she doesn’t move. A depressed woman who is being watched is planning to leave to get together with her lover, and this woman's experience in medical practice in a small village has quietly affected her inexplicably.
Through some details, the film inadvertently reveals the flow of Barbara's mood, such as her empathy for the poor young female patient, which paved the way for Barbara's final decision and demonstrated the warm side of the film. For another example, her concern for young men who committed suicide and conversations with his girlfriend seemed to remind her of the devastating desperate love for love, and the contents of the book that Dr. André lent Barbara to her seemed like It shows that no matter what the situation, people need to love and be loved.
In the film, Andre and Barbara’s opponents are also presented in a repressed and introverted manner. The exploration of each other’s inner world is only expressed through the contact of fragments and the intermittent words. In such a style of film, so and so. A few strokes are enough to achieve the desired effect, whether to rush to the rough unknown, or to stick to an inch of quiet warmth, the end of the film makes the choice both return to ideals and reasonable.
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