film "Darkness Pervades " is enough to arouse the interest of some serious fans: on behalf of Poland, it was shortlisted for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Based on real events. It reproduces the story of a Polish plumber hiding in the sewer to help the Jews during the Nazi occupation...
If this brief introduction, it is concluded that the film is similar to "Schindler's List" and "The Pianist". It is a one-sided misunderstanding. The focus of this film is not to help others, but to depict the dark parts of human nature. In the extreme dilemma of darkness, the suspense, fear and the back of human nature are constantly displayed and dissected, as if opened up. A bottomless black hole made the audience stare.
In terms of expression style, the film also seems to be sharper and more realistic. The female director Agneska Holland has always followed a sharp realism style. This time she seems to want to faithfully reproduce a confined desperate situation that is more terrifying than the Nazi concentration camp, so that the audience can be on the scene and feel the same. As a result, the images under her control are objective and real, making the audience seem to be in it. Some foul-smelling and rodent-running images can make the audience have bad audiovisual and even sense of smell.
The suffocating and harsh environment makes people in it seem like innocent people who have been thrown into hell. Their hearts are filled with depression, fear, sorrow, and despair. Some things hidden in human nature are eager to move and wait for opportunities to cause chaos. For example, the selfish act of stealing the property of the suffering compatriots because they can no longer endure such inhuman torture is not a slander of the human mind in the predicament. At a critical moment, the act of choosing a junior and abandoning his wife and daughter is not a unique product of the era of material prosperity and social stability.
Joseph Conrad said: "It is not necessary to attribute evil to supernatural factors. Human beings are sufficient to carry out every evil deed." Human evil deeds often erupt on a large scale every once in a while. The tragic horror during this period often makes the human beings who think and reflect themselves are dumbfounded. What is even more regrettable is that not the vast majority of people can make corresponding introspections, so mankind has repeatedly made evil and tragic mistakes. Obviously, this film is permeated with the deep thoughts of the main creators. They seem to want to use this film to show that the war is unreasonable, as the director himself said: "Perhaps they exist to expose the deeper and darker truth of our nature. ?"
Unlike other World War II movies, it uses war to set off the beautiful character of human beings, and uses cruelty to contrast the goodness of humanity, thus magnifying the good side of human nature. In this film, the good and bad of human nature are intertwined and each other Side interactions are often difficult to make absolute judgments, which makes them more credible. Especially the mental journey of a plumber. At first, this man who was living in a difficult life dragged his family and helped hide the Jews, only to earn a small profit to subsidize the family. The inducement for him to switch from paid assistance to unpaid assistance was innocent and innocent. But the child who suffered this misfortune gradually, his help from material safety to inner spirit, when he hurried away from his wife and daughter in order to rescue the Jews who were in the sewers because of sudden floods. Treat these Jews as part of his life.
The length of the film is not short, perhaps because it is too spread and cross-sectional, the film often gives people a slow-paced, slightly messy feeling, coupled with a heavy plot and a gloomy atmosphere, it always gives the audience a breathless sense of oppression. However, both the performance of the actors in the film and the artistic style of the film are remarkable, and the shots highlight its simple and straightforward characteristics, in which the treatment of light in dark scenes is quite well-defined. Most of the scenes in the film take place in the dark sewers. The flashlight in the hands of the plumber often flashes brightly or darkly in the dark, maze-like narrow passage, as if it brings a ray of life, sometimes, this thread The faint light was almost disillusioned, but after a turn, the light reappeared with circles of halo.
The film also repeatedly showed the Jews who were confined in the dark for light, and the most touching scene was reproduced by a little Jewish girl. When the frail little girl looked at everything colorful and fuzzy on the ground with her long-lost, swollen eyes, the plumber holding her head out under the manhole cover simply said: "Inhale. Inhale hard. . " "
inhale. sniff. "when the final plumber can finally please his Jewish friends out of sight sewer, he still said the most useful phrase most simple words. The film does not end in this beautiful scene of seeing the light and breathing freely. It is determined to carry the heavy weight to the end. The subtitles announce the ending of the plumber in reality, letting the torture of destiny and the cruelty of reality show off in an unpredictable way. , So that part of the audience eager to be content entangled all the way, but still can't find an outlet.
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