As far as the movie itself is concerned, it is beyond incredible! The director's film language is too mature.
Under the background of the Paris Peace Conference, the protagonist’s family was directly affected by factors such as religious consciousness, stereotypes, and father (male) oppression, while the class’s conceited knowledge of itself and the contempt and hostility of the defeated and opposing countries made the protagonist’s ears and eyes. .
The film begins with a record of the end of the First World War + modernist music with a full sense of form. The back screen turns into dark-toned railroad tracks, scenes along the train, and a slow zoom lens peeking at the protagonist from a church window. The music continues the modernist. The weird and rushing rhythm. These constitute the title and the tone of the film—formalism, emotional distortion, and lack of lighting. The film later tells the story of a "global citizen" boy who traveled from the United States to France and lived in a foreign country for several months and his changes.
Mother is an important role. The movie focuses on shaping her contradictions, and her own contradictions more directly affect the personality development of the protagonist. The marriage between mother and father is not straightforward. (According to the mother's narration) My mother was an intellectual who traveled the world since childhood, was strong and did not want to marry. After his father's unremitting efforts, he married his father and gave birth to the protagonist. The appearance of the author and the last protagonist of the film at the beginning of the first chapter tells the audience that the protagonist may not be the son of his "father". Mother is also a devout Christian/God (indistinguishable), but devout + conceited intellectual attitude also determines her dogmatism. In the early part of the first chapter, the protagonist was throwing rocks at the crowd, and the protagonist also expressed incomprehension and rejection when the mother took the protagonist to apologize. I think these behaviors do not represent the protagonist’s alienation thoughts, but are the result of family education factors and the inability to adapt to the new environment. When the protagonist tries to expose her father's deception at the dinner table, her mother's arrogance and submission to patriarchy make her lie to the protagonist with her father, and the protagonist knows the truth in her heart. From here on, the mother and the protagonist began to split, and this was also the starting point for the protagonist’s ideology to truly begin to transform to extremes, and his thoughts began to be alienated by psychological products that cannot be achieved by desire.
The roles of the maids and female teachers inserted in the movie are very special: the different positions and different practices of the maids and the mothers caused the maids to gradually replace the mothers in four months, and the mothers stayed away from the children. Evicting the maid from the house is undoubtedly a mental shock and an opportunity for the protagonist to distort his thoughts. It is also one of the sources of the protagonist's view of the family as a hostile and alien power. The existence of the teacher not only gave the protagonist the germination of sexual consciousness, but also inspired by being found flirting with his father, and established the ideological foundation for the protagonist to worship patriarchy and resist the family. What's interesting is that when my mother dismissed the teacher, she told the teacher about her life and ideals, and delivered the salary to the teacher. At this time, the film rarely appeared strong light in front of the lens, illuminating the entire field of view. This may be an expression of the noble nature of the mother and the innocence and innocence of the teacher's role.
The film's portrayal of patriarchy can be said to have used quite heavy pen and ink. When the father expressed his unhappiness to his mother and his polite refusal to face his mother and left, the camera passed by: crossing the axis of the two and finally cutting into an empty room where only the mother was lying quietly. This is a process. I was extremely impressed by this passage. The protagonist’s environment is not just a repressive family where "father is busy with work and mother is a bit old-fashioned", but a distorted elite society where patriarchs and arrogant nobles and intellectuals like mothers can only succumb to it. .
One star was missing because I didn’t trust the psychoanalytic film myself, and the film went from childhood (1918, 1919) directly to the beginning of World War II (the film mentions the surrender of the Netherlands on 5.14, that is, in 1940) ), at this time, the camera is aimed at the discussion scene of four politicians and a close-up of the face of a dictator. It is not difficult to imagine that the protagonist has transformed into a fascist demon. I am a little uncomfortable with the jumping ambassador, but the excellent and persuasive power of the whole movie makes me feel deeply in awe.
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