21.2.4 Second brush (this time I found Chinese subtitles to make it clearer): In other films, it seems that Luo agreed to arrest Dandong in order to see if he is guilty. If not, the court can give him an innocence. I prefer this one. In the description, Luo understood from the very beginning that the revolutionary court was a tool used to deal with the enemy. In CSP, he said that Dandong was the most loyal servant of the revolution. He believed in Dandong. After the citizen gave him a charge sheet, he said that he doubted his character but He would not be sentenced to death. After dinner with Dandong, he went to Camille and went back to the Green Room to sign a decree to arrest him. During the period, it should be entangled whether the revolution should be based on law and justice. In the end, the incorruptible thinks that virtue is more important than justice. After destroying the enemies of the republic, they can talk about freedom and democracy. Luo is actually more important than Dandong. Idealism, he believes that through a moment of terror, the long-term peace of the republic can be exchanged, but the enemy is always inexhaustible, and after eliminating Dandong, he will definitely embark on the road of dictatorship.
In fact, the responsibility cannot be attributed to Luo alone. The arrest warrant passed by the parliament and the decree not to plead in court were the direct cause of Dandong's death, indicating that most people at that time still believed that the committee believed in the virtues of the incorruptibles themselves, or it was The forged document made everyone afraid that the revolution would end. We should always remember that France was on the verge of extermination, the domestic rebellion and the border were sealed, and the nerves of the people and the committee members must be highly nervous. At this juncture, everyone finally agreed that in order to defeat the enemies within the republic, justice needs to be abandoned. From this point of view, they wanted to start. In fact, the Jacobins failed to oppose the whole Europe and the old royalist party was too strong. If it was a peace time, it should not be carried out. To such a radical extent, but everyone commented that the horror period of the post-Legal Revolution seemed to be the bloodthirsty and ruthless of these leaders, especially Luo carrying too many crimes that were not his. In this storm of revolution and times, The role that an individual can play is really too small and too small, just a puppet of the historical process.
As for the characters, the two protagonists Luo and Dandong are very well shaped. Luo quietly tiptoes in the parliament. This bottom-up shot is quite delicate, which is in line with the historical description of being not tall. At that time, Luo was also convinced that he did what he did. That's right, I want to be as tall as Dandong, and maybe have some sense of enjoying personal rights and prestige. In the latter part of the film, there is a scene in David's studio where Luo is dressed in ancient Greek robes, preparing for the Supreme Lord's Festival. Palm is watching him. Come like the palm of a victim, perhaps suggesting that Luo is about to be forced to become a tyrant to implement a dictatorship.
Dandong is really very likeable, loved by the people, brave and eloquent. He wants to use his own words to let the people understand the actual face of the committee and the court. He wants to use his blood donation to sacrifice for freedom. In the end, he went to the guillotine and said that he was uncomfortable and didn't want to cut his hair. It was quite true. Although he had already prepared himself psychologically, he was still afraid when the head came, just like the little brother at the prison who laughed at Dandong's unwillingness to cut his hair when it was his turn. Change your face now
In it, Sheng is a masked tyrant and abettor, not to mention the image, and part of it is about Eleanor. It is rare to see so many shots of her in a Fage film. Although the actor is not beautiful, she is very fond of Luo Caring and even admiration can also be seen
The ending was brilliant, Luo suddenly realized during his illness. Once the horror started, the blood donation on this indifferent guillotine would never stop. The country has lost its ability to protect itself with freedom of the press and multiple opinions. Everyone is in danger. If there is no dictatorship If there is no dictatorship and no terror, the law will perish faster, so from the moment he gave up going to the moderates in Dandong, the fate of him and the committee and the National Association was actually decided. After that, he was just drinking poison to quench his thirst. Whether there is such a clear understanding, I am more inclined to think that he has always felt that in order to build a virtuous republic and move towards a brighter future, these pains and party struggles are necessary, but the film's handling of personal tragedy means more. It also makes people think more deeply about how to maintain the rights of struggle after social riots and revolutions. Is democracy really possible under special circumstances during wartime? Is judicial justice available in revolutionary eras? The people will eventually be abandoned by the people because no one can do it
At the end, the boy in red recites the Declaration of Human Rights and Citizenship in a childish voice, and then everything goes off track, and the revolution still devours his own children in the end
The dialogue is very dramatic, like a drama, obviously belittling the people in the committee in order to support Dandong, (the grinning murderer Shengju is too stereotyped! Angry) But the banquet, the courtroom, the David studio, the haircut , Guillotine, these scenes of the boy in red are really good, the atmosphere rendered by the soundtrack is very disturbing, Robespierre finally only lived three months longer than Danton and Des Moulins, the incorruptible It is still too far from the people. Excessive pursuit of virtue and purity of humanity will break away from the public. The people need to be well fed instead of an ideal republic. The props and costumes scenes are quite attentive.
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