The screening at the Film Association that I went to was actually a bit uncomfortable at first, because the chair was really uncomfortable, and my body was not very fresh, but it was getting better soon.
First of all, let's spit it out, watching foreign movies is really uncomfortable. Blind face + can't remember the name greatly affects the viewing experience, especially this movie that is a big group drama at the beginning. Fortunately, the characters' appearance and personality characteristics are relatively distinct, and they can barely recognize them, but there is a plot twist in the middle, and one died. The people and the protagonists were very sad, but I couldn't figure out which face the dead name was for for a long time. I didn't figure it out until I saw the camera swept the camera and saw that there was an empty seat in the courtroom. Woohoo, woohoo. By the way, the lines are too dense. I think I still have a little background knowledge of American politics and society, but sometimes I run into blind spots, and I just don’t have time to think about it. For example, I don’t even know the political significance of Kennedy’s assassination. What is it, the machine-gun-style lines and the picture crackled and passed, and the screening of the Film Association could not be paused. It was really difficult for me.
But barely, I can probably understand 50 to 60 percent of the trouble. Let me tell you what I like very much.
The cross-cutting of the trial and forensics (reality) with the protest demonstrations (the past) is just awesome. At first, I thought that this movie would be like a defender, describing the details of the pro-democracy movement at length, and then in the second half of the trial, I didn’t expect the trial to start as soon as the title came in, and I began to wonder how this movie could fill the two hours of the trial. But it really can. On the one hand, the trial itself was very wonderfully filmed, and on the other hand, I liked the constant flashback clips anyway, although this added a threshold of understanding to my poor head.
In addition, there are various gags in the whole film, that is, there are many laughs, especially the first half is like a comedy. Defendants change tricks to provoke the court, full of bad talk and jokes, cross-editing and a line where one of the defendants (hopefully I'm not mistaken) is speaking to a group of people on a political talk show. To be honest, I really like this style. On the one hand, these jokes are not forcibly added at all irrelevant to the main line, on the other hand, this makes a passionate, tossing, and somewhat serious realist work stained with a little romance. In the classroom, we are constantly amused, but we are constantly being pulled back by the heavy reality. This effect is roughly similar to "Life is Beautiful". We might as well have fun with the history of the distance and the distant Soviet jokes, and when the history is pulled in front of us, we may not be happy, but it is not bad to have fun.
In addition, I think this film has done a very good digging into the thematic depth of protests and civil movements. Rather than simply presenting an egg-stone, weak-power binary structure, it seriously explores the division of demonstrators (radical or moderate, cultural symbols that shape martyrs through sacrifice or cooperation with the system as much as possible) Gradual improvement, how to win the favor of the third party in the middle), the source of violent conflict (not simply the cauldron of the police or the cauldron of the demonstrators, but some kind of resonance between the two), etc. It's a pity that my brain is too slow to respond and the amount of information I can absorb is limited. I can't make a more in-depth summary of these discussions, but I can fully feel the sincerity of this film to do these thoughts. Therefore, when someone criticizes the ending of an idealistic beacon (much like the apologist), I feel that there is no need to criticize it.
Why can't someone who has already stared into the dark have a lovely dream?
Let's say a digression, I feel that some places are really too similar, and it is difficult not to have associations.
In 2020, I hope the world will always be better.
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