The young actor Brady Corbet made such a challenging ambition to make his debut as a director. In addition, he still has strong resources and hardware, but it is a pity that the director's intentions are far from the desired effect. The large shadows and low-key photography want to reflect the unpredictable and depressing period of war. The distorted growth of children symbolically expresses the harm of war and heralds the gathering of the next great destruction, the national identity in the family The differences are mini-battlefields of the world situation. Each scene is very sophisticated and invokes many conventions of literary and artistic movies: the ambiguity of character and relationship, long shots of movement, moments of silence, slow narrative rhythm; the desire to be refined, conform to the overall atmosphere, and gradually accumulate emotions, It is not out of the ordinary, but in the end it is destroyed by craftsmanship and too limited play. 2.5
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