Because watching Bazin's "What is the movie" complements Rossellini's "Germany Zero Year", the continuous roll at the beginning shows the devastated post-war Germany, and the following cemetery passage leads to the protagonist boy Edmund and ends with Edmund. Meng’s suicide is in contrast. There are a lot of long-term/grand-vision shots that objectively depict Edmund wandering in the ruins of the city in order to survive or because of his guilt for killing his father. A large number of scenes show Edmund and his father, siblings, children of the same age, neighbors, teachers, etc. The relationship between people implies the negative impact of people's mental crisis on the growth of children after the war. These toxic relationships eventually led to the children's jump at the end of the film. The poetic thing is the piano sound of the church in the ruins, the overhead shot of the big distant view, and people like ants in the natural light outdoors stop for the music. It is the most poetic moment in the film. Unfortunately, religion cannot save children...
Rossellini presents Edmund, a child who was at a loss as to what to do in Germany after the war. The editing is simple and the scenes are natural, and it shows the most true social human sentiment at the time. The audience seemed to be walking with the child through the ruins after the war, feeling all the disappointing society he felt...
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