Nuances of history

Clemens 2022-11-30 21:35:18

The time for watching movies in the morning was dedicated to the Olympics. After the European Cup, this relay-breaking habit made people a little uncomfortable. I simply took a nap in the afternoon to watch this Romanian black and white movie.

About history, we can almost all say the same. As long as we are not following the historian's style, there is a slight difference in self-cultivation and quality. In the torrent, the background of the big era is known as one or two when studying. The remaining seven or eight are basically obtained through reading and browsing the day after tomorrow. As for the more subtle points in history, it is difficult to see. The archives are still close to the historical facts.

This is true of the history of the country, not to mention the remote Balkan Peninsula, which is simply ignorant, so the stories told in this film can only be used to "cash in" some of the same types of films that have been seen in the past. This forgotten story in Romanian history can be presented on the big screen with such a heavy and straightforward statement. Director Jude is already worthy of our applause for his responsibility.

Excavating a piece of real and cruel history that no one wants to know is exhausted. It is a very laborious and thankless thing to reproduce the world, because this kind of behavior is called bad intentions when played well, and it is ability to play badly. insufficient. Therefore, it is applauded that Jude used an objective lens and a simple narrative to tell a story full of irony and criticism.

This film tells the story of a local policeman who took his son to hunt down a gypsy slave, and met all kinds of people on the road. They represented different classes and positions of that era. Under the historical background of slavery, various prejudices , Discrimination, and filth. A priest spit out the entire European territory, and it is still visible even to this day. All the characters in the film are like an NPC in the vast history. Director Jude uses human as a metaphor to make a merciless satire on the rotten system at the beginning. In addition to adding a sense of historical weight to the black and white images, it also makes the audience abandon the image. Too much obsession, focus on the whole story.

In the climax scene of the ending, the police father and son did not become heroes. Amidst the ignorant "cheering", the irony effect reached the extreme. There were no heroes in that era, and some were just powerless.

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Aferim! quotes

  • Costandin: Lifeless out of life, life out of lifeless.

  • The Priest: Each nation has its purpose. The Jews, to cheat, the Turks, to do harm, us Romanians to love and suffer like Christ. And each has their habits. Hebrews reads a lot, Greeks talks a lot, Turks has many wives, Arabs has many teeth, Germans smokes a lot, Hungarians eats a lot, Russians drinks a lot, English thinks a lot, French likes fashion a lot, Armenians are lazy, Circassians wears much lace, Italians lies a lot, Serbians cheats a lot, Gypsies get beaten! Gypsies must be slaves.