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As the earliest of the three major film festivals, the Berlin Film Festival is far from Cannes and Venice in terms of film attraction.
On the one hand, the Cannes Film Festival is a hall of art films. I don’t know how many new masterpieces have squeezed their heads to enter the district. There are only 20 main competition unit films. On the other hand, the Venice Film Festival has successfully won by relying on the advantage of time. A group of movies that wanted to hit the North American awards season came to gilded.
The treatment of the Berlin Film Festival in recent years has been as cold and windy as it was in Berlin in February.
This year’s Berlin Film Festival remains unchanged. The previous 13 Chinese films were shortlisted. Three Chinese directed films by Zhang Yimou, Wang Xiaoshuai, and Wang Quan’an were selected for the main competition unit. Lou Ye entered the panoramic unit, Zhou Dongyu, Wang Yuan, Yi Yang Qianxi, etc. The gimmick of the international film festival's debut by the flow artist is also not hot because of the withdrawal of "Youth" and "One Second". The declining Berlin Film Festival really urgently needs a shot.
Such a cardiotonic can be a classic with a high reputation, it can be a super luxurious Hollywood movie of the cast, or of course it can be a topical movie on a large scale.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of such works in Berlin this year. The German film in the main competition unit, "Golden Gloves" from German director Fatih Akin, has already reserved a place for the most important works of 2019 at the beginning of the year.
Indiewire film critic David Ehrlich said this is a movie that is so disgusting that you can even "smelt" the disgusting smell, and it is a truly "tasteful" movie.
"Golden Gloves" is adapted from the novel of the same name, based on real events, and tells the real crimes of Fritz Honka, a notorious serial killer in the 1970s.
There are many movies about serial murderers, from the early "Silent Lambs" to last year's "This House Is Made By Me" by Lars Von Trier, and Quentin's new work "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" that has not yet been released.
The protagonists in it are all murderous, bloodthirsty murderous monsters, but if the above film is 100% nausea, "Golden Gloves" alone has more than doubled the threshold.
I believe that many movie fans will prefer bloody and violent films, but the disgusting aspect of "Golden Gloves" is not in the process of killing and the accumulation of plasma. Compared to those real cult classics, the amount of plasma is really insignificant. What is really nauseating is the view of "appreciating the ugly" inside:
The protagonist, Hongka, is a low-level person like a social maggot. His face is full of nausea marks left by acne, with greasy wet hair and yellow teeth as if through the screen, he can smell the stench of tartar accumulated in his mouth for many years. He was the kind of Plague God level figure who would avoid him in the street.
And his hunting target is not much more refreshing than him. In the golden glove bar next to his foul-smelling residence, there are long-term drunken, obese, and extremely greasy middle-aged and elderly women who buy them a glass of wine. They will follow you home.
In this way, Hongka brought these unattractive women home, and entered the door straight to the subject. When alcohol was on her head, she would furious and kill.
Fatih Akin used a lot of space to show the copulation process between Honka and a number of obese middle-aged and elderly women. Even though Honka’s unsatisfactory sexual organs were almost never formed, the abnormal Honka would still use the toilet to brush, and the German sausage. Violently stuffed into the female's lower body that was covered by layers of fat, the sausages were not forgotten to be pulled out and eaten, and it was not wasted at all.
The murder scene is also disgusting. You didn’t discuss it. Facing the camera’s dismemberment scene, the extremely real display of the corpse, and hiding the corpse in the cabinet of his home for four years, it also made Hongka vomit when he opened the cabinet. For a moment, it became the most disgusting scene in the film.
But even if it is disgusting that you can smell the stench across the screen, Fatih Akin's scheduling ability as a director is still shown in this film.
Hongka’s residence is a cramped and dirty attic where he can barely even turn around. In such a small space, especially the last murder scene, a long shot was used to show that Hongka had never strangled the victim. From all the struggles and scuffles from his throat to the end of his breath, Ah Jin's scheduling was wonderful enough.
The film's perspective has always maintained an almost static prying perspective. The camera looks like a fly sneaking into Hongka's residence, observing Hongka's life, alcoholism, killing, and carnage.
The whole film of "Golden Gloves" is full of the stench of a mixture of sewers and corpses, and there is no doubt about the display of ugly human bodies. This is the original purpose of Fatih Akin.
But when you see this, you may also want to ask, what is the point of bringing such a perverted murderous case to the big screen in such an extremely disgusting way?
In fact, there are.
The story in the film took place in the 1970s. That was the era when the divided East and West Germany merged. It was also the age when a group of newborns born under the influence of World War II grew up to middle age. Almost all the characters in the film were People abandoned by society.
Among them are Hongka’s waste of working at the bottom to earn money, former members of the Waffen-SS, survivors of the Holocaust, and prostitutes. Of course, at the same time, they are all addicts and alcoholics, relying on such mental numbness. , Forget about the tragic scene in which you are.
They are dispensable to society. They are not so much humans as maggots and cockroaches. It is easy to explain why Hongka killed so many people in a few years, but no one has ever been. After reporting to the police, no one has ever doubted the source of the smell in his home, until the maggots that crawled out after the decayed body flowed through the crude wooden floor to the home of the Greek immigrants downstairs.
The characters in the film also use a performance method that is almost like a walking dead. We can often see such performances in zombie films. They squat their bodies, their eyes are blank, and their mouths are slightly opened as if water will flow out in the next second. The reaction was extremely slow, and the vague ones didn't know what was being said. With the accumulation of characters like walking dead, Ah Jin's reference is also clear at a glance.
Hunka tried to give up drinking and live a normal life, but the devil of the class still allowed him to be pulled back into the quagmire and return to hell with only a drop of alcohol.
And the rare normal role in the film, and the high school boys and girls who have nothing to do with the "Golden Gloves", after entering this dirty bar in order to prove their courage, they completely lost their social status. The advantage of waiting is that in this dark corner where there is no law of the jungle, beautiful things are not allowed to exist. This kind of anti-class backlash can be regarded as a kind of irony of Ah Jin for that era.
"Golden Gloves" is definitely a disgusting dish served in the beginning of the year, but I also hope that audiences who can afford it will not just watch it with a curious mind. Behind the extreme violence and killing, there is still a hidden meaning.
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