Throbbing soul

Jamarcus 2022-01-22 08:03:41

There is a saying in the seven deadly sins: This world is so beautiful, and it is worth fighting for. I only agree with the second half sentence.




Jenny was born into an ordinary family like everyone else, but God didn’t seem to want her to spend her life just as an ordinary person, so she appeared on stage when she was a talented piano girl and gained a lot in a short period of time. Awards and praise from all walks of life. When she was 12 years old, she decided not to play the piano.




If the family's understanding, encouragement and support continue to move along her life track, she may be able to become a painter or a writer, and her artistic talent will not easily disappear from a person who loves life. But God always takes as much as you want from other places. Her father and her started a nightmare day of cohabitation and incest. The fragile soul extinguished its brilliance, and the dirty atmosphere cut off everything. inspiration. Fate repeatedly tortures her lifeless life. The 14-year-old originally thought that meeting a boy would allow her to escape the curse, but her "father" framed her for murder and sent her into the abyss of eternal mortification-prison.




When a child faced the merciless and ferocious bite of society, she had no choice or hope of turning over, so she did not dissuade her when her roommate hanged herself, because her experience portrayed her what the world really looked like. The hatred of her father and the cruel and ruthless reality in the prison tightly entangled her who should have been exploring the unknown with her curious little face. Does axiom really exist? No one answered to her. She crawled in the dark and damp corridor, hardening her mind.




An 80-year-old piano teacher accidentally walked into her life, and the vast and desolate land was greeted with the dripping moisture of the sweet rain for the first time. Facing the faint tingling radiating from the unhealed wound, the shrunken soul gradually stretched out. It will wake up, but it still needs constant watering. The shadows in the prison and the tribulations encountered in the past cannot be healed at once. The rebellious, exiled soul awakened the incomplete love and the resentment of life and death of the piano teacher during World War II. Both of them were groping in the emotional mud but could not find a way out.




The time has been linearly extended as always, and slight insensible changes have begun to appear in the depths of the two frictional and colliding hearts. Only the two extreme running-in may erupt a strong and powerful identification. After persuading and feeling love, Jenny decides to participate in the final of the rookie piano competition. Although her past memories are still heavy, her unparalleled talent has brought her success.




I remember the only thing the guilty father said to her: Schumann...His music is good. I hope you can win, Jenny. And Jenny just returned coldly: I want you to die, Dad. Everything seemed to start again, and the iceberg that could not be dispelled by his father still stood proudly in front of two generations.




I always hope that the world is beautiful, and human relationships are always innocent, but everyone has turned their heads after thousands of blows. We fight for it, although it tries its best to hit us and hurt us, we love it, although countless emotional fragments are dazzling under our feet. Perhaps only when we lower our heads under the urging of the years, will we hypocritically add a sentence to the life that cannot be changed: I have not lived in vain in this life. This footnote is the biggest lie in life, and its helplessness is because it is near dusk.




Let’s put it at the end to summarize this video. Four minutes is a film that demonstrates human nature, and it is a 100-minute film that can easily and effectively challenge the complex and profound torture of society. Both the idea and the technique are excellent. The use of flashback montage links the stories of two different eras together. The actor's extremely tense acting skills make the film not too much modification but endless aftertaste is imprinted in the hearts of the viewers. No wonder at the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival, the chairman of the jury, Luc Besson, said: It only took us less than 4 minutes to decide to award this award to "Four Minutes"!

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Four Minutes quotes

  • Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: You think today was an easy day for me? Why do you think I've stayed here for 60 years?

    Jenny von Loeben: Because of a dead body? Great! A lesbian who likes corpses. You're a perverted freak, madam.

  • Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: Today is my last day. I just want to get my piano.

    Kowalski: Tell me, Mrs. Krüger... What do those guys have that others don't?

    Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: One's a murderer and the other raped his niece.

    Kowalski: I'll miss you, Mrs. Krüger.