Sometimes prejudice will bring you some losses. For example, when it comes to the films of the former Soviet Union, we always think that the best ones are the works of several big directors and big studios in the Russian Federation. In fact, some small republics also have excellent films, such as Stalin's hometown Georgia. My previous knowledge of Georgian films was only the "27 Missing Kisses", which was a picturesque and childlike film, but was accused of being a pornographic film by the girls who watched it. The impression at that time was already very good. I saw this "Remorse" a year ago. Due to my consistent interest in political subjects and my belief in the Zhongsheng brand, I bought this film without thinking much. Then came the bottom of the box, and it wasn't until a year later when I wanted to write a political movie that I remembered to look it up, and when I saw it -- it was incredible -- I was completely shocked.
I have seen a lot of political themes before, my favorite is Stone, the high-quality Gavras, and some commercial or marginal political themes, but this one is definitely different. Almost all political-themed films do not forget to highlight the political events they want to write about, and there are even suspicions of doing so. When I saw that "Remorse" won the Cannes Jury Prize, I also had such a prediction, I don't want to. It was completely wrong, but in the end, I found that politics is a pretense or an attractive stunt, and the core of the film is human nature itself under the care of religious humanitarianism.
The plot of the movie is not complicated (skip this part if you haven’t seen the movie), the old mayor of a small Georgian town passed away, this figure who obviously insinuated Stalin seems to have a better relationship than Stalin, and people buried him in pain, But three consecutive days after the burial, his body was dug up and placed in the yard, and his relatives and friends were angry, and finally caught the suspect on the fourth day of guard - it was a woman. In the court, the woman explained how her family and other innocent people were subjected to political persecution by the mayor. As long as she survived, the mayor would not want to live in Jiuquan. The son of the old mayor - the current mayor was once the woman's childhood friend, but he denied these facts for the sake of his own status, reputation and family, but at first out of hatred for the man who destroyed the grandfather's body, he shot His son, who hurt the woman, was in pain. The father and son had a quarrel. Later, the family held a meeting and found that the woman would only be fined at most, not jailed at all, so the family put the woman in a lunatic asylum altogether. He himself was already under great pressure at this time, and the son committed suicide with hatred for his father and remorse for women. The mayor who lost his son finally collapsed. He dug up the body of the old mayor and threw it down the mountain.
Although it seems that the dramatic structure of the movie is very classic and has the beauty of classical tragedy, in fact, the movie does not have the impetuousness of the classic movie. The contradictions and conflicts are very sharp, but the director gave the film a life-like rhythm. At the beginning of the film, it took about half an hour to slowly pave the way for the plot. The use of shots is close to naturalism, and it even makes people feel a bit tedious. But after entering the memory stage, the style of the Soviet poetic film began to appear, not to mention the large number of dream scenes in the middle, and the extensive use of classical music - especially opera arias, so that the film's narrative not only does not appear incoherent , on the contrary, it creates a visual spectacle to a certain extent. Although the picture quality is not an exquisite commercial masterpiece, the imagination and symbolism make you overwhelmed. For example, at the beginning of the old Mayor Wallam's speech, the water pipe on the street below his balcony was broken at that time, and it would be useless if people blocked it. All the people on the balcony were drizzled, and the shape was very similar to Hitler's Wahl. Ram is still smiling politely in the water, but this scene has already told us faintly that people's resistance cannot be suppressed like a water column. When Watt's dictatorship was fixed, it was still a medium shot of the balcony, with a gallows clearly visible beside it. In addition, the film's portrayal of Vallam is not like a modern dictator, but a classical Roman tyrant like Nero. He loves art, his tenor sings very well, and his minions are all wearing knight's armor. Even when they tried the prisoners, they put on the piano in the garden and played the trial (this passage reminds me of the famous "Bach?" "Mozart!" in Schindler's list) , while the female secretary was blindfolded, holding up the scales and sword as a goddess. These parts are enough to prove that the film is aimed at a lot of retreats on the basis of actual themes, so that the film has a sense of allegory, and these are based on Stone's sharp themes and explosive script structure, Tarkov Skye's shots soften the edges and corners, but they position the film's purpose more profoundly.
When it comes to Sudong films, no matter how strict the totalitarianism is, the deep religious soil there makes the film always feel as sacred as the mass in the church. This movie is even more so. From the beginning the mayor and the woman's father, an artist's first confrontation, came from religion. The mayor wanted to conduct a scientific experiment in the church, and that would damage the long-standing cultural heritage, so the artist argued that the mayor gave in, but the root of the blow was buried in his heart. Later, when the hegemony of the mayor was fully established, the church was completely demolished, in full view of the people. But the irony is that when the new mayor was overwhelmed by the status of conscience and reality, he still ran to the basement to repent, and through his mouth, said the most ironic and helpless line: I myself am during the day. Those who promote atheism, but what I feel guilty about is that I still have a cross in my pocket. At this time, his personality has almost split. What's more interesting is that the guy in the basement who was listening to his confession while eating fish was actually his dead father. In the next scene, when we all thought it was a dream, the mayor who appeared in the courtroom was sweating profusely, holding a clean fishbone in his hand! Suddenly, the boundaries between fantasy and reality are broken, and the film has a surreal flavor. End of the film, an old woman is treated as a madman asked the woman: "This road leads to church?" "Church did not have the" "No church, then what is the point this way.?
Movies The vista of the old woman staggering forward ended like a poem.
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