"Blow as you want, blow loudly" is a Romanian film of the "Silver Palm" level. It won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival this year. Like "April, Three Weeks and Two Days", the power of this film mainly comes from the fact that it recorded an event in a nearly realistic way. Its emotional impact and dramatic climax are entirely derived from the content of the event and through This incident stimulated the imagination of the content behind it in the minds of the audience.
Silviu, a Romanian young man, has spent four years in a prison and will be released after 15 days. Judging from a set of scenes showing daily life in prisons at the beginning of the film, Silviu seemed to have "learned well" in prison, and became a "normal person" who would no longer harm society. He is introverted, a little shy, not talkative, and sometimes behaved a little persistently, and four years of prison life did not deprive him of the bloody and explosive power of youth. If nothing happens, he will "return" to society after he is released from prison.
The accident came as his younger brother came to visit him one day. Silviu learned that his mother had suddenly returned to Romania from Italy where she worked, and planned to take her brother to Italy. Eight years ago, Silviu lived with his mother in Italy, but one day his mother suddenly disappeared. It is said that she ran away with a man. Silviu brought up his younger brother alone, and believed in his heart that his mother was a completely irresponsible woman. Her depravity and prison life were due to her. If her younger brother went to Italy with her, she would be ruined. He ruined his brother as much as he did. Silviu began to become restless, and he wanted to do everything possible to stop his mother. What's terrible is that he will be released in two weeks, but his mother is leaving next week.
At the same time, a group of sociology students came to the prison to do questionnaires and interviews to help those prisoners who were about to be released smoothly integrate into society. Silviu became interested in one of the girls, Anna. His mother soon came to see him in prison at his request. Silviu tried to negotiate with her, but in the end she ended up in a fierce quarrel and was slapped a few times by her mother.
Silviu knew that his mother would take his brother away. He wanted to use his cell phone to contact his brother again but was refused. He asked the detention center officer to take a day off. The same result was also true. He was desperate, so he made a decision in this despair. A desperate move. During a questionnaire, he attacked prison guards and kidnapped Annie. The prison guards called his mother under Silviu's duress, and Silviu threatened her with killing Anne and suicide, and made her swear not to take her brother. The mother finally took the oath in shock and consternation. After that, Silviu fulfilled his last wish: take Annie to a coffee shop for a cup of coffee, and then got caught on the way back.
In a genre film set in a prison, there is usually an extremely dramatic event, which may be a riot, an escape from prison, or even a murder. The audience participating in the event is like participating in a certain ritual, gaining the pleasure of watching the movie by experiencing the alienated environment and arriving at a certain expected ending. Although "Blow If You Want" is also a prison film and also contains a dramatic event, its nature and the emotions it arouses are very different from ordinary prison films.
The last 20 minutes of the film gave Silviu the process of kidnapping, forcing his mother to take an oath, and finally being captured. This is the natural climax of the event that the film completely expresses, but this climax is beyond the audience's expectations. No audience would have thought that this somewhat silent youth would take such an extreme action: No matter what, this is not a "rational" action. This irrationality broke the audience's normal movie-watching expectations, and the audience began to look at this unusual event with fresh eyes.
When he shifted his gaze slightly from the incident, the first thing he thought about might be the character of the young man Silviu. He seems to have seen all of his past: his harsh growth environment and social environment, his initial crimes and subsequent immature reflections, his desire for good and his character defects, his restrained efforts and explosive impulses , His love and hatred, the distance between him and freedom and the last moment of loss. The film provided many very meaningful moments of Silviu’s silence, but did not guide the audience to classify his character. In a large number of close-ups and follow-up shots, the audience gradually established an emotional identity with him. , But he still looks like a mystery. Then, in this mysterious youth and his crazy behavior, he will reflect on the relationship between this youth and the society in which he lives: when he is still as innocent as his younger brother, people see He gradually degenerates but no one reaches out to help him; when he harmed the society, the society began to discipline and punish him, but pretended to help and influence him. And his last move was a rejection of this "hypocrisy". He was willing to exchange the freedom he actively pursued for the moment society would give him alms, and his sacrifice in exchange for his brother's purity and salvation.
If there are any flaws in this film, then the flaw lies in the director's love for Silviu too, and he identifies with him so much that he lacks reflection on the character of this character, and he has not maintained his extremes on Silviu. Criticism distance due to behavior. The audience's reflections and criticisms are all directed to the social reasons that produced the role's actions, but they lack attention to the responsibilities of the actors.
In general, "Blow If You Want To Blow" is still a movie worthy of attention for audiences who are willing to understand a certain reality through the film. In this unpretentious, gimmickless, documentary-like film, the audience can experience a fragment of today’s Romanian life and a microcosm of the country’s social status quo. It is not entertaining, but true; it does not preach, but it allows you to experience meaningful moments and climaxes worthy of reflection.
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