Clarity and Nothingness
Title: "I Serve the King of England"
Director: Ely Menzel
Country: Czech Republic/Slovakia
Year: 2006
In the 2006 Berlin Golden Bears competition, "I Serve the King of England" Lost to "Tuya's Marriage",-film critic Sun Mengjin said, this is fine porcelain lost to stoneware. Indeed, from the perspective of film language, "I Serve the King of England" is much more beautiful, with a more conscious aesthetic pursuit and a more proficient language ability. Many shots and lens combinations can be separated and can be regarded as movies. Examples in class. This film has a flashback structure. Many of the transitions from the old age in the present to the youth in the past are not made with simpler and popular jumps, but with more classical approximation editing, which is calm and mellow. The first transition of the shot was suddenly under the rain, and the elderly Dieter looked back. After the ridiculous indulgence of his youth, he still seemed to be in the same rain—almost with the Chinese-style artistic conception: "Dream I don’t know if I am a guest, and I am greedy for a while."
In the irony of money and power, Hrabal spared no effort. The interesting thing about this film is that the protagonist Dieter is not an "opposite". He is involved in the wave of fame and fortune, just like Faust, who has made a deal with Mephistopheles, but his chosen role—— The hotel owner gave him a look of dissociation as an observer, and this dissociation paved the way for his final awakening. The heaven and the earth are in adversity, and life is a passer-by, but the five lights of the process itself are blinding, and the colors are fascinating. From the point of view of the movie, it is very satisfying to people's vision and psychology. The deepest impression left.
In terms of ideology, not holding a single perspective is the strength of "I Serve the King of England". It is rather vague, not black and white. But the result of this is that irony is powerful, but there is no answer to reflection-both for history and for individuals. So after Dieter was released from prison, he worked as a road maintainer at the border, but he didn't care where the road led. The actor's temperament of the old Dieter is very different from that of the young Dieter. The prison is completely reborn. He has become a reclusive philosopher, only when his eyes fall on the passing mad girl, he still has some nostalgia for the body or life. , He seems to have seen everything, but he doesn't seem to need everything. Of course, he can still let everything slide in the direction of fate and be a silent road maintenance worker-this ending is said to be clear, and it may not be nothing.
Looking back and comparing "Tuya's Marriage", it turns out that "Tuya" is better. It is a real problem. I don't know how to survive and I must live, and not only To live on your own, you have to live with your husband and children. It presents a harsh reality, but does not obliterate the power of humanity. Although the language of the film is simple, it is considered an "important film" in terms of subject matter and performance. ——Modern society wants to be redeemed, so it has to look back at a not-so-modern stage, although "Tuya" does not give much hope.
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