It has been repeatedly screened by major public accounts for a long time. It can be said that it is a very popular film at this year's Berlin Film Festival. Languages such as "Pezold's masterpiece after "Transit" has long been countless, and the heroine Paula Bell also won the Silver Bear with this.

"Wendini"

Although it is only 90 minutes, it has a high degree of reduction to medieval legends. In fact, the story itself has a foundation of reality, but "Wendini" chose a surreal and supernatural way of telling, which is also borrowed from A legend is used as a channel to complete many poetic expressions in addition to storytelling.

underwater reunion

In fact, the film has a good pacing, and most importantly, it's restrained. The overall perception is actually a kind of superficial quietness, which tells a story very quietly, and conveys a huge emotional riot under this quietness. When the fish tank is broken, when the heroine kills her ex-boyfriend, when the two meet underwater, when the hero sinks to the bottom, when the heroine stares from underwater in the last shot of the heroine, and even the film starts a few rounds. When playing back and forth, this kind of restraint is as if 10,000 bands were playing frantically, but the director pressed the mute. It doesn't deceive the audience, it can't bully the audience, it just goes on quietly and naturally, letting the audience feel for themselves.

The man sinks into the water

Wentini's Stare

But it also has some problems. At first I thought, if I don't know this medieval legend, can I get the point of this film? In fact, after reading it, I will dispel some of my doubts, because its surreal language is very strong, so it can form a wonderful connection between the heroine and water, which automatically makes the audience acquiesce to its existence. But in fact, it sets a certain threshold for the audience's knowledge reserve, which will cause the film to have a serious textualization tendency, and become too concerned about re-engraving a paragraph of text, in a sense like text expansion, only the fish tank paragraph The most image.

fish tank broken moment

All in all, it can be called a flaw that does not hide its beauty. It should also be fully affirmed for its brilliance and beauty. Looking forward to the sequel to the trilogy! (By the way, the ending is really like The Shape of Water)

See you underwater at night

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Darian 2022-03-15 09:01:11

A crystalline and fragile urban legend. Indulge in the embarrassing sense of wrong shots in Petzold's narrative, the disappearance and reappearance of lovers, the encounter as if they had loved in the previous life, the questioning after tender parting, the accident after dislike quarrel, the awakening after death, and the memory after forgetting. Come. The dark clouds of the last time and space have always hovered in the present in a virtual form, and hid in an unknown corner in a physical form, such as those Berlin landmarks that traveled through history, covered with dust and new. The fascinating illusion does not depend on the filling in a single image, but forms a distant resonance between the scenes of the script. The state of the characters in the lens always precedes the words and actions, as if there is a premonition before the event occurs. Like reality, we must have had a hunch before all misfortunes come.
Taryn 2022-03-17 09:01:09

The fun of watching Petzold is to see how he brings the ingenuity of elemental spirits to the ground in love stories, so seeing the models of Berlin buildings and the memories that flow between the streets and bridges of real Berlin frequently overlap, or Yes, the break of the diver's model clumsily heralded the diver's catastrophe. In fact, in addition to killing the ex in response to the myth of Wentini, the whole story can be regarded as a deformation of "The Daughter of the Sea", the little mermaid throws away the dagger that was supposed to assassinate the prince and jumps into the sea and turns into foam , has the same power as Wentini's falling into the deep: the supreme love is to love others, my heart should not miss a single beat in your hands, so love must call for sacrifice and death.