At the beginning, Lala was eight or nine years old. She was a well-behaved and sensible little girl. Her parents were both deaf and mute, but they communicated in sign language and cared for each other with family affection. We could feel the silent but warm love between them. Because Lala has to be the link between her parents and the outside world, she doesn't have much time to review her homework and is often criticized by her teachers, but she doesn't blame her parents at all. She helped her parents make phone calls, save money, and dubbed TV footage for her mother in sign language. When Christmas came, her aunt gave her a clarinet, which showed Lala's musical talent. Under the guidance of her teacher, her clarinet playing skills continued to improve. Her father opposed her to study music because of her incomprehension of music and her painful childhood experiences. Their conflict continued until Lala became an adult and left home to go to the capital to concentrate on learning to play, preparing to apply for the Conservatory of Music. During this period, the mother died in a car accident while riding a bicycle, and the father took anger on Lala for her death, which made their relationship even more rigid. In a rage, Lala left her lonely father and young sister again. On the day Lala took the exam at the Conservatory of Music, her father suddenly appeared in the examination room. He told Lala in sign language that he understood Lala's love for music. Father and daughter reconciled, and Lara's performance was very successful.
The story is not complicated. It is the kind of conflict between family members that we often see in Hollywood movies because of different lifestyles and concepts. In the end, the family relationship eliminated the grievances and the relationship was deeper, and there were also interspersed with Lala's father and The estrangement between the younger sister and Lala's first love has all the emotional and dramatic elements that a movie of this type should have, and the special status of Lala's parents who are deaf and mute can even increase the tear-jerking effect of the movie. If Hollywood is filmed, it will most likely be a sensational work, touching people with emotion. For such a theme, this is also a good choice. "Breaking the Silence" shows the consistent rationality of German films, which is calm, restrained, and lifelike, and not as boring as some French films (strangely, German films, like German cultural traditions, always have a taste of rationality and speculation. , the lyrical narrative is always reserved, unpretentious, not intense, even in favor of Hollywood's Fassbender and the most stylized Herzog). The tone of the film is cold, the light is natural, the performance is simple, and the scenes of warmth and sadness are not deliberately rendered by various sound and light means. Lala's father's facial expression under the beard is always so dull and rigid, only the occasional melancholy, stubbornness and fear that he tries to conceal in his eyes conveys the waves in his heart, I even suspect that he is himself. A deaf person, and Hollywood would never cast such an actor.
It is difficult for normal people to understand the pain of deaf and dumb people. The world that is forever silent is a cage. Lala's parents must rely on Lala to communicate with their relatives, answer the phone, talk to teachers, and even see doctors. They are used to this closed life and dependence, and even a little change will bring them great inconvenience. Lala playing the clarinet is the first change. The daughter is addicted to the world of sound, but as a parent, she can't understand and respond at all. An invisible wall has quietly built up among the original harmonious family members. Lara wants her mother to ride a bike like a "normal mom", but she doesn't know how risky it is for someone who can't hear. Out of motherly love, my mother learned to ride a bicycle, but it was the bicycle that took her life, and the music finally took her daughter away from the father who needed her the most. For deaf and mute parents, sound has become their biggest taboo. The sound that suddenly breaks into the silent world not only affects their lives, but even threatens their lives and robs them of their spiritual support, but the father does not realize that his daughter will eventually lead a normal life. Human life, his stubbornness and fear, has become a cage for his daughter to walk towards life. In this way, the film becomes not just a simple emotional drama where a daughter has to take responsibility for her parents, but an attempt to make them understand each other's lives with difficulty, not to let silence become a high taboo, to break the silence, Liberate their hearts and lives.
So it's more of a movie about understanding and respect.
However, this theme, the director did not express enough, Lala left home, her emotions changed after her mother died, and her father finally understood her love for music. These important transitions were all too simple. There are too many branches of life and too much writing. This has to be said of Hollywood. For example, "Ordinary People", "Golden Pond" and "Mother and Daughter Love" have been very successful in handling these plots and structures. This is its strength, and what you should learn should be learned.
There are many touching details in the film, such as waiting for her mother to give birth in the hospital. Outside the window is a flag dancing in the wind in the sunset. Lala and her father are intimately cuddling on the windowsill, telling him in sign language that the flag is fluttering and there is no sound. The world is so peaceful. Lara and her lover are playing a game of marionettes on a big wall in Berlin by the projection of lights. This is the first time I have seen such ingenuity. I am afraid that only a movie can express it. It looks like Tim? Burton's hand-drawn work drawing.
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