People who have experienced hunger have a respectful and fearful emotional memory of food due to the physical pain of having no food to eat. Among the several conditions that sustain human survival, including sunlight, air, water, and food, only food is what this civilized society needs to exchange for other things. And sunlight, water, and air are naturally available to humans. Although the water we drink is not that safe and the air we breathe is not so clean, at least these things will not be taken away for no reason unless one day the earth There is nothing to say about ruining this situation, we don't have to worry about it all day long.
But none of us can guarantee that in this civilized society we will always have food. Wars, poverty, and disasters may all cause humans to face the danger of lack of food. Just like Seapierman's dad said in the film, "This is ridiculous."
In a society where human production technology, scientific level, and civilized system are so advanced, it is so absurd that some people are busy pursuing exquisite life and high-end enjoyment and some people worry about food. The scary thing about absurdity is that it is incomprehensible. It makes people lose their sense of security and start to doubt, making people's past experience useless, just like a broken program can no longer judge the facts. This film does not explore who caused this absurdity, but shows a person's living condition in absurdity.
It is also a film about Jews in World War II. Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" and Spielberg's "Schindler's List" take very different routes. Steering's ambitions are very wide, and a shocking theme embellished with great brilliance of humanity took away the hearts of the Oscar judges and made a classic. Polanski's courage seems a bit "small", the plot of the film is not thrilling and tortuous, nor does it show the great power of human nature. Under Polanski's lens is the cold reality and a tall and thin young pianist panicking all day to hide and search for food. We can even say that Schipperman was lucky, but it was this fluke that was full of personal helplessness and bitterness. He did not choose to take up arms to resist and was not sent to a concentration camp. This happened to provide us with a unique From the perspective to calmly observe this human catastrophe to experience in detail the difficulty of human survival in desperate situations.
The film has been kept in a depressive and disturbing gray tone, and even the blood shed after a person is hit by a bullet is stagnant and dirty.
I was particularly impressed by two places. One was the crazy woman in a green jacket and a hat with feathers standing on the street where the bodies of starving people and the restless crowd hurried across. The eye-catching green makes me particularly uncomfortable. In a precarious environment where everyone is in danger, asking others to help find a lover looks so promising and sad. Her nostalgic and exaggerated dress and the dazzling green look like green hairs growing on moldy food. Can't help being creepy.
Another place is when Schipperman went to the place where the German prisoners of war were held at the time to find the German officer who helped him. The red sun that appeared on the horizon finally swept away the previous depression and uneasy atmosphere. The golden light made people feel Extremely warm.
"Fear and trembling are manifestations of human goodness" Goethe's words are absolutely true. If a person still has something to fear that makes people feel uneasy, he will not make such a crazy move like the Nazis and bring such a serious disaster to millions of Jews.
In the face of madness, conscience and morality are insignificant. Young people like Shipelman dare to have a little resistance to fight for their freedom and dignity. The consequence is even more crazy revenge. Individual resistance must fail under the brutal oppression of black and white. This is equivalent to a contest between a sensible person with a sense of social civilization and a large group of people who are controlled by the collective unconscious and go towards crazy destruction. It is helpless. of. Therefore, under these conditions, self-protection has become the only path that can be regarded as passive resistance.
Schipperman's panic during the days of hiding is very well conveyed. Not only the fear caused by the lack of food but also the neurotic cautiousness to worry about being caught made the thin, haggard and shaggy figure appear more vulnerable. I think at this time Sipilman is completely indifferent to piano reading art. The pursuit and love of art has long been squeezed out of his mind by the exhaustion of running around for food to fill his stomach.
Until the German officer asked him to play the piano for a while, the beautiful and beautiful piano sound fluttered among the ruins of gunfire. Shipierman’s previous escape was full of meaning at this moment, and he poured his longing for life into the call for conscience. When it comes to the piano, it turns into artistic depth. The difference between the German officer and Schipperman is that Schipperman’s hunger is a physical hunger, and the German officer’s hunger is more manifested in his need for art to soothe his anxiety. Regardless of whether or not the German military officer came from true kindness, his actions have kept Schipelmann's confidence in humans, so the film looks richer and more interesting.
The only thing that made me laugh in the film was when Shipierman saw the Soviet army hurriedly hug passers-by after they entered the city, Shipierman opened his arms in tears and walked staggeringly like a family member, scaring the woman to panic. Lost and then the Soviet army fired at Xi, and Xi Baotou jumped into the building. I don't know if the director deliberately arranged this sudden danger to make the audience's nervous and depressive mood alleviated. In particular, Xi's movements and the reactions of both parties are quite funny. Of course, this kind of funny complements the tone of the film, and behind the smile is actually a bitter tear.
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