"Tall"

Stephania 2022-01-21 08:01:37

What surprised me was that the director had to deal with many major and important topics on the contemporary cultural agenda in one film: women and the body, LGBT, euthanasia, and surrogacy. What's more surprising is that the director didn't mess up. Each topic has been fully and meticulously developed and presented, bringing the story to a reasonable conclusion.

The director wisely chose the background of the era after World War II. Only in the extreme human social situation of war, can military prostitutes, homosexuality, disability, and abnormal kinship have a space for simultaneous and reasonable existence and become a part of human social life that has to be addressed squarely. Once the rationality and reality foundation are established, all these content issues to be dealt with separately will be promoted separately under the larger theme of the destruction of life and the continuation of life caused by war, so that the story follows the development logic of the characters’ emotions. In this way, the director successfully completed various narrative and structural challenges.

What impressed me the most was the end of the film, when Martha went to see Sasha's parents. Sasha's mother looked at Martha coldly outside the door and knew her decision. At the dinner table, she treated Martha calmly, frankly, and courteously. She really sympathizes and respects Martha, but she also fully sees the unfortunate future of the couple. The parents always maintained a noble and elegant posture, and even Martha quickly found a suitable way to defend her self-esteem. Only his son Sasha couldn't control his behavior and slammed the door away. Obviously, there are too many things this young man can't control, even himself. Martha returned home alone, embracing Iya and weeping. She said that she would be with her forever, no outsiders would come, they would have a son, and this child would heal everything. This is the most reasonable ending. Without dog-blood and sensational class discrimination and confrontation, stop the romantic imagination of love and life in time. Without a savior and great transporter, there will never be. Martha’s future will be the same as her once, relying on her own humbleness and betrayal. , Rely on your own strength and smile to continue. In such an era, this is the most reasonable end of the story, and in the present era, it is still.

The art of the film is also very successful. I am thinking about the real post-war world. Maybe there are not so many warm and warm homes and fabrics, not so rich colors, but these unrealities make the movie look good. That is the color that the female world should have in the eyes of the director. It may be deprived of it in the war, but it should be like that.

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  • Kenton 2022-04-21 09:03:12

    9.5/10. After reading the promo and half of the script, I am amazed, and I am not disappointed at all after watching the movie. The debut performances of the two leading actors are wonderful. I didn't expect Sasha to be such a comedic existence. Masha suddenly confessed his life experience at Sasha's parents' house and felt that his emotions had not accumulated enough. Iya's twitching is a wonderful setting. The little boy died prematurely and was reluctant to part with his drama. The morbid and shadowy lace romance left over from the war is beautiful and poisonous. The child has never seen a dog, the paralyzed soldier begs for death, Masha begs for a child like a demon, the green skirt spins a glimmer of hope for the future, and hope is not completely miserable. Iya is weak, kind, frightened, and lovable, and Masha's sophisticated smile is heartbreaking. Great car accident. The last sentence of the script is Iya's "yes", forced to say, but "yes". This confidence comes from nothingness. It doesn't feel long at all, just right. The aesthetic is really good to jump! From the beginning to the end, I felt that this should be in the main competition, and several official selection films were neither painful nor special (fall). Looking forward to meeting the director soon. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. 05/16/2019

  • Norval 2022-04-21 09:03:12

    In the film, it is gradually clear that the behavior of begging for a child, and the ambiguous relationship with women are also a kind of sustenance for consolation. This kind of starting point is a bit strange (after all, compared to the hopeless post-war life, the same-sex theme is too modern, see The film was even more attracted by the wordless relationship between the two), which can be regarded as an artistic technique of the supremacy of human nature; this film also shows the necessity of the successful theme content of the exhibition: national characteristics (Russian oil painting-style set, war trauma) +The subject matter of current affairs (women, LGBT), from this point it is difficult to ignore and need to discuss the meaning of the topic shown in the film, and it is also a model for reference when we need to consider "succumbing" to reality when creating;

Beanpole quotes

  • Nikolay Ivanovich: Where would he have seen a dog? They've all been eaten.