When Fassbinder made this film for the TV station, he had already shot many well-known film works and gained fame. He understood that in the era when the media was not well developed, the only way to become famous was through the medium of television. At that time, German television only had two channels. Broadcasting on television channels quickly made a filmmaker known. Methods. What is puzzling is that in countries other than Germany, Fassbinder’s works have received much higher praise than his own country. Perhaps it is because in a rigorous country like Germany, a person’s birth is largely restricted. If the development of human beings and the rise of Fassbinder occurred in China, he must be a lawless person to follow the right path, which can be called a topical inspirational model.
The story takes place in Germany’s future in the eyes of the 1970s. The evolution and control of science and technology has reached an unprecedented scale. A government department began to study the automation of artificial intelligence and made progress, but the initiator of the project, Volmer, before the release of the results. He died in a trance, and his assistant Stiller was ordered to become the new head of the institute. However, the cause of Volmer’s bizarre death caused Stiller’s suspicion. In the process of searching for the truth, Stiller discovered the final Secret. And this secret leads directly to the cause of Volmer's death, and the meaning of the world is at stake.
The film is full of expressionist techniques. The mirror symbolizes the departure and division of personality, and the space symbolizes the closure of the world and the absolute control of rights. Fassbender has created two heroic images. After Volmer understood the truth of the world Foreshadowing, I hope that latecomers can break the shackles and die calmly, but Stiller finally died physically in the middle world. His death as a symbol is metaphorized as a symbol of power. Although human resistance failed, human will. Love and love can save everything, so Stiller woke up in another symbolic upper world and locked in a room without sunlight. Stiller finally saw the sunlight and embraced Eva. It seemed that everything was fine, and Stiller finally escaped from the illusory world and returned to the real world. Here Eva is wearing an orange-red dress that symbolizes warmth, and Stiller is wearing a warm sweater to symbolize safety. But they never got out of the room. This is Fassbinder's brilliant place. He did not directly inform the audience whether this world is the real upper world. He left a hope, and this hope is not necessarily good for people, but what people need.
This film was shown twice on TV in 1978, and has since disappeared in people’s memory. After 40 years, the Fassbinder Foundation hired a restoration company to do a new digital restoration of the film and then reappeared on the big screen. Act, fulfilling Fassbender’s long-cherished wish that Fassbender never realized before his death. In the future, many sci-fi movies will more or less have the shadow of "the world", the phone booth in [The Matrix], and the one in [Become John Markovic] Mind control, amnestics in [Eternal Sunshine of Pure Heart], etc.
It can't give you the special effects of Hollywood, it can't give you the stimulation of the compact plot, and it may make you sleepy. From the perspective of the current audience, the world is useless as a soft science fiction movie overnight. But if you are willing to understand the director's intention, understand the clever layout of the idea, and carefully study the emotional changes of the characters, you will find that this is a truly excellent work.
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