The Rape of the Air of the Times

Amanda 2022-03-06 08:01:05

smeared bird
The smeared bird was besieged after being released.
After a few seconds, the bird that was besieged to death fell

The film is composed of nine relatively independent chapters under the guidance of the boy, recording the fall of belief, the demise of conscience, and the emptiness of life in the war years. In the frenzied events that followed, the Jewish teenager was ostracized and infested as a "smeared" outlier, leading to a huge variation in the role he played in the events before and after, from bystander to victim, then to to Predators and Avengers. Behind this kind of mutation, the high-pressure social atmosphere in the filthy era of the rape of individual destiny and the reshaping of individual souls is also another reference to "smearing".

The director's talent is difficult to support such an ambitious script. The clumsy transition of chapters makes the sense of powerlessness and struggle to survive are not strongly reflected, and there is also a lack of organic connection between paragraphs. The main body has no soundtrack, the black and white images are dirty and elegant, these are in the right direction, and the attitude of the narrative is therefore quite calm. However, apart from the forest chase at the beginning, the calm shots are lackluster, and the rare scenes of fierce cavalry looting the village are really suspicious. The bland and mediocre language of the shots did not fill the emotional gap left by the zero score, and the audience could not find a release channel for the complex emotions accumulated in the early stage, and I was not even willing to use the word "restraint" to justify it.

What saved the film was the performance with a sense of conviction, and the unified cast made me believe that they were a community living in the same era and the same land. These piecemeal performances save the film from being reduced to a motion illustration of a novel, truly a group portrait of salvation level.

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Extended Reading
  • Betty 2022-04-22 07:01:54

    This film can hit 8.1, so please apologize to the station on 7.4? Fans of black and white films of Eastern European films are speechless wearing a ten-meter-thick filter. Although the preview has an ominous premonition, I still spent a huge sum of 94 yuan to run 15 kilometers in winter night to watch it. Now I hope the director can call Bellatar in full for the copyright fee. This film is worthy of multiple championships in the 21st Century Melting Stem Failure Contest, Exploitation Kitty Contest, Symbol Stacking Failure Contest, and Celebrity Celebrity Cult Contest. For those who love dark and boring films with long takes, check out this counter-example to show you how catastrophic broken cuts can be in this type of film. The first half is composed of almost copied master shots and other meaningless mirror movements. The photography for composition, the scene for scheduling, and the disgusting pseudo-cult audio-visual are fragmented and cut together. A variety of different patchwork styles have been pulled for nearly 3 hours, which is far worse than Diao Yinan's assortment. At least he has a more unified personal style. As a result, it is completely impossible to enter, and it is even more difficult to empathize. I just want to beat the director for the actor who was tossed. The little male protagonist is not very good at casting, and the performance is a disaster.

  • Dion 2022-03-20 09:03:00

    "Smeared bird" as the main image is straightforward, pointing directly at the Jewish group that has been isolated, despised, hated, and massacred. A tragic event; war stimulates all the ugly and bottomless desires in human nature, and the last shimmer of light is swallowed up by the boundless darkness - so the photography and lighting of the film are particularly commendable, and the heavy depression of the black and white images fits the theme Express. The scale is astounding, like the bite of a savage beast, he gradually fell into the abyss of the same hatred, only his name - Joska has never forgotten.