Undine short comments

Myrna 2022-03-19 09:01:10

Three layers of text: national mythology, urban history, personal love. Ventini is interspersed in three layers of text, in mythology as a water god, in history as a name on an underwater bridge, and in love as a lover who suddenly appears, disappears unexpectedly, and always haunts. The most beautiful thing is that Undine is said to be transparent, phantom limb-like, dangerous and amazingly present. In fact, this kind of regular analysis makes the film a bit boring. What struck me was that she stood in front of a model of Berlin to tell the process of how the city was planned. She asked "the origin of Berlin, in the lower reaches of the river. , who can point out where we are now?" At that moment, past and present overlap, love and city overlap, time and space overlap. Architectural form will follow function, she said, with what was once a palace turned into an exhibition hall in the 21st century, and myth today as the last subjective lens watching a lover sway underwater. Omg, I was reminded of what Lila said about Aeneas: "Without love, not only would people's lives be boring, but the whole city would be boring." I love this one
Deontae 2022-03-19 09:01:10

Architecture is a functional assumption that turns people's expectations into something within reach. Love is an instant lie, turning the gaze of the other person into an ethereal wreckage. Once expectations are broken, time and space will naturally endow the building with the latest meaning. Once the gaze is disturbed, the breath and heartbeat will naturally reveal the truest mystery of love. Unexpectedly, a love myth and legend that should be full of mystery would be so empty and weak. If love can be reduced to two floating hands and some scattered stares, then pallor is the best explanation for it. As an author's film that advocates perception, Petzold successfully numbs the audience's perception. Except for the frightening glimpse in the middle of the film, there is only a light classical piano and heavy breathing, and nothing else. Imagine if the director changed the location of the scene to Huaguo Mountain, the girl guide fell in love with the reincarnation of the Monkey King, rich and delicate explanation of human geography and customs, plus a Monkey King figure, this "Monkey King of Love" will get such a result. high rating? Not all poetry is worthy of praise, especially when it is a love poem, when there is no feeling of love.

if i love you

Marcos 2022-03-03 08:01:23

In fact, it’s been almost two weeks since I read it, and I haven’t marked it yet. I just want to write something. But I found that I was lazy and unmotivated...

It's hard to tell if it was made by a female director, but it feels a bit like Franz I saw last year. The similarities are: they are all German movies, they are all the same heroine, and they are all named after people. Well, it's all superficial stuff. However, if you experience the feeling conveyed by the film, it is the kind of faint sadness, isn't it a bit similar? The sadness of Franz is not that the person who came to your door killed your fiancé because of the war, but that you actually fell in love with him. The sadness of "Wendini" is that you once thought that someone made your love die, but you never thought that the next second might completely forget him because of the right person, but the right person made you unable to continue to love .

Back to the film itself. I can feel the genuine love, deep love between Wendine and Christopher. Every time they met, they hugged hard, and every time they parted, they didn't let go until the last moment, which was very real and touching.

There is still some magic element in the film. First of all, at the end of the film, the male protagonist meets Wendini underwater again and takes back the diving warrior, which should be regarded as a fantasy treatment. Also, I don't think it's true that Wentini drowned her ex-scumbag boyfriend. Because it's so easy. If true, it's simply a bug. And then there's the phone call Christopher made to Wendine, which later turned out to be impossible at all.

The film is actually quite simple, it is the emotions of men and women in a modern city. It's also quite dramatic, don't you think it's similar to the story of Romeo and Juliet?

As for Wentini's career, I don't understand why the director included a long description of Berlin's history and architecture. There is a line: Architecture is the best realization of its purpose, and the deceptive part is making assumptions that are useless at all. Is this implying something?

I really like the bgm in the middle, it has a classical feel, and it shows a touch of sadness.

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