At first glance . Get up, political struggles, immigration issues, and the dilemma of racial oppression fill the film quite substantial, but it seems rich and profound, but it does not touch the depths, just rubbing the skin, it is like stuffing it with a piece of cotton. A pillow, bulging, squeezed hard, it is still flat. Don't tell me that Owen's self-sacrifice at the end of the film sublimated the theme and rendered the atmosphere. This does not give me any room for imagination, and the success of science fiction movies is important. One of the factors is to satisfy the audience's imagination and give the audience more imagination. It seems that the only possibility that can be encountered in the future is that humans can reproduce like bacteria again, the people of the world have restored unity, all contradictions have disappeared, and the earth has recovered. To the gratifying trend of sustainable development.
To be honest, under the premise of this story of human infertility, I really didn't have much fear of the end times. Human beings are not in the era of slash and burn desperately giving birth in order to continue. In this era full of humans, we have Test-tube babies, genetic technology.... The dark post-apocalyptic atmosphere created by the director's painstaking efforts just made me feel funny. Maybe it's because I am not realm enough, I am not positive, love peace and love the noble thoughts of mankind, and have doubts and doubts about human beings and humanity. Negative attitude, wantonly distorting slander in the direction of positive and upward, but I still want to say that it is ridiculous to equate a baby with salvation, to answer why we are cruel, cold-blooded, numb and greedy, and to point out the direction of human beings out of the predicament. We don’t want unreasonable, meaningless redemption. What we want is thinking, the desire for answers, to prove our strong sense of existence.
Written here, I think of another movie [Wolf Clan Times], in Under similar fictional metaphors of apocalypse, the son of man has become a puppet dominated by dramatic plots, while [Wolf], as always, presents the introverted and cold temperament of director Haneke, with little drama.
From the previous [glacial three] Part] To the more later [Evasion], Haneke has always been obsessed with human communication problems, a deep exploration of the nature of life and human nature. Those sharp cold and long shots that are almost unbearable to bear. The exquisite lie system compiled by life allows events and life to maintain their original state and length, allowing the audience to look for mirrors, reflections, and awakenings that mirror themselves in monotonous but ambiguous and fragmented time segments.
[Wolf Race Time] has inherited this quality. A simple storyline can roughly be taken in one sentence: a woman whose husband was killed by a mob took a son and a daughter, and spent a few days in exile in a situation that shrouded the shadow of the end times. In the film, the identity and memory of the characters, as well as the background of the story, are completely missing. In order to dissolve the depth of time, there is no description of even the details. The viewer is like a cold wasteland placed in it, in the dark, the past and the The future disappears, the past is an empty shell constructed by lies in a civilized society. The future is only an endless copy of the pain of the present. Only the strong sense of struggle at this moment makes people empathetic. We either try to squeeze ourselves into the linear time in the film to experience that kind of A strong and painful sense of existence, a sense of struggle, or rejection because it can't bear the too dry images.
The film constructs an almost vacuumed environment, with only people, only human conflicts and despair, taking off the mask given by so-called civilization, and magnifying the softness and ugliness of human nature.
Children in the film are almost heavier than Hupert who plays the mother. Scene. Many times, I am always puzzled as to why people place so much love and hope on children, and in return for more tolerance, it seems difficult to persuade people not to believe that children represent tomorrow, represent beauty and hope. But All the time, what I have seen is that people continue to or irresistibly make the children the same as themselves. Nothing has changed, just continuation and reproduction. When I see the children, all I see is the same tragedy. I'm afraid It is also one of the reasons why I am so irritated at the hopeful and bright ending of [Son of Humanity].
Let’s look at [Wolf Age]. In the desperate situation of survival, the girl Eva is stronger than her mother. This is not the case. The kind of strength that is reinforced by coldness, such as the strength that the boy of the same age shows is not the same as his own age, I am afraid that is also the survival philosophy of most people.This kind of strength is a certain kind of belief, believing in beauty and believing in human nature. She loves her loved ones deeply, can see the same lonely heart under the arms of the boy's self-esteem, feel the infinite beauty of music, and mourn and cry because of the death of an unknown girl. And after the old life system shattered, her mother Under the huge blow, she seemed a little overwhelmed. All this was beyond her capacity. It seemed that she continued to survive for the sake of her children. She couldn't see any hope, and it was difficult for her to find a purpose for her survival. Come to think of it, the children can indeed see the comparison. Adults have more things, and perceive those beautiful things that are truly worthy of our nostalgia, cherishment, and amazing. Maybe every adult has touched those subtle feelings, and now their entire life depends on the pitiful Social values, their hearts have been closed. But the younger boy Benny is the opposite of his sister. As for whether he has dementia or autism since childhood, it is not known. This child always appears anxious in the movie. Speechless, emotionally depressed, and hollow eyes, the depression brought by this silence is more like the continuation of the breathless sense of hopelessness in Haneke's previous movies. This makes people can't help but doubt the girl Yi Is the baby an overly ideal character?
Regarding the possibility of communication between people, Haneke has explored enough. In the [wolf] film, except for quarrels, the words always make people feel so tranced, as if the words are spoken to themselves. I think, except for ourselves, who can fully understand what we want to express in words. We talk endlessly, insincerely, and mechanically, but we don't know if we have the ability to express frankly and listen sincerely. The more we talk, the less we communicate, our faces become indifferent, exchanging information like electronic components to confirm that we are in the social network, instead of communicating emotions and love. Just like the funeral scene in the movie, a fixed The long shot of the camera, the lower body of the people at the funeral is full of pictures, and the cry of the bereaved woman is reverberating. As time progresses, a pair of legs leave the field of view, leaving only the wilderness in the cold night and the women's weeping A funeral is just a form, it can only become a form, it has nothing to do with people's inner feelings. To a certain extent, people are indifferent and selfish, and the pain of others can never be turned into our own skin pain. We are all isolated. Individuals have always been lonely. Communication is temporary, and loneliness is eternal. Even if you are far away from the alienated city and placed in the endless barbarity, the great loneliness rooted in the human heart still lingers.
When it comes to human nature, we have to talk about the topic of sex. Sex has nothing to do with love and beauty in [Wolf Clan Times], but only exists as a pure and outrageous instinct. One night, a girl was put a knife on her neck to vent her sexual desire , The next day, it was discovered that they had committed suicide. People had no indignation or hatred, and more just bore the grief numbly, with a desperate silence on their faces. This decadent breath of death makes people feel a strong sense of despair. , Invaded people’s inner sunlight, so humanity and animality began to entangle and become indifferent to each other. Just like what is shown in Imamura Shohei’s version of [Narayama Festival Test], humans and animals are indistinguishable from each other, completely composed of naked primal impulses. The life dominated by desire, the display of naked humanity after the disguise of civilization is torn away without reservation is really shocking. Or human beings are not necessarily higher than other animals. We and other animals can't do it. To communicate effectively, what qualifications do you have to judge the level of other creatures and dominate the thoughts of other animals? It is because animals cannot be regarded as inferior as soon as humans use language to convey information, but whether humans themselves can master the communication methods of animals It’s. Humans add and remove clothing, animals change their fur, humans use tools and drugs for contraception, animals use estrus to control birth... At least I didn’t see where the humans are. There is a short but shocking scene in [Wolf Clan Times] : People cut off the carotid artery of a horse and releases gurgling blood. Only a momentary shot makes people feel a strong sense of escape from the picture. Perhaps people have long been accustomed to using the lives of other creatures to prove their own strength and prove that they are more thoughtful. , A more emotional and great human.
The time course in the film has been in a state of seemingly freezing, but in fact it is slowly continuing. There is no news of the arrival of the train representing the new hope, and there is no punishment for killing the husband and the enemy. It implies that under the cool background, the pessimistic and weak people just survive dimly, nothing more. I thought the story would end in such a hopeless posture, and the metaphorical scene of the fire and the child near the end of the film is also heart-warming. Nian Da Zhuan: The naked child tries to burn himself to seek Nirvana, but is stopped by a strange man, the man holding the child, alone mumbling about those visions of tomorrow's beautiful life, and keep talking. The image of the swaying fire in the dark makes people look at it. When it comes to the hope of rebirth and redemption, it seems to be a metaphor for the endless self-destruction and self-redemption of mankind.
At the end of the film, the lens allows the viewer to be in the moving train, looking out the window endlessly, as if alone on a long journey. Isn't this more than 100-minute movie a fragment of a long life, you and me Isn’t it a moment in the long history of mankind?
I remember a sentence that impressed me, human nature is thin ice, and there is an endless dark deep sea under thin ice. I used to think so, I hope this is just like me The speculation of the pessimist
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