——Dedicated to the 2008 sophomore year,
the concept of the film is peculiar and simple: the board, the person, the box, the fishing rod, and the eternal space have become all the figurative elements in the film, and they are complex with each other. contact.
At the beginning of the film, there are five people standing on a suspended board. The five of them are standing back to back in different directions, and the board is balanced. After a while, someone fished a box from under the board, and the weight on his side increased, so the other four walked to the other end of the board to balance with him. At this point one of the four took a step back, the balance was broken, and the box slid toward him. The next five people started the game to capture the box. In the end, the five people moved their hands for the box, and four of them were pushed down. In the end, there was only one person left, and the box was facing each other at both ends of the tablet.
The picture is always immersed in the cool tones of blue and gray. The characters have dull expressions and sluggish movements. They all have the same appearance, wear the same clothes, and have the same wisdom. The only difference is the number behind them. There is no language between them, no sound, no sound at all, silence can even be said to be dead silence, in this world there is only the noisy "squeaky" sound of the board, but it makes people feel even more That kind of emptiness. The picture and sound constitute this eternal space, which always exudes an air of emptiness, boredom and depression. The great contrast brought about by the appearance of the box has taken a dramatic turn. The box is red, completely different from the blue-gray shades of this world. What's more interesting is that the box can also emit music, which is not found in this lonely world. Although the sound is very small, it is very special to appear in this world. So the appearance of the box broke the original inherent balance, and then the story happened naturally.
What this film describes is very simple, but what it expresses is not the only one. Five people live peacefully on this board, which also heralds a balance that seems to last forever, but fate is still doomed to break this balance. Everyone was curious about the outside world and tried to connect with the outside world with a fishing rod, so they worked together to catch the box. At first everyone didn't know what it was but wanted to see it. But they didn't just want to "see" new things after they discovered the box's mysteries later.
The world in the film is a balanced world, and the people in it have a similar balance. But people's apparent balance does not represent their true inner balance. If from the beginning, these people's hearts can be truly balanced, then they may not look to the outside world. As long as one of them can resist the temptation of the outside world and does not move forward at first, then for the sake of Keep your balance and others won't come to the edge of the board. When the special object box appears, they will not be greedy to occupy this box. Maybe those people will be able to stand in a circle, surround the box, and create a new "balance". However, according to the traditional values of the West, there is such a kind of "self-interest" thought in human nature, and desire will always exist. The people in the film are led by curiosity and greed step by step, and their desires gradually expand, so the "balance" is broken. So that means it's people, people's desires, that cause the tragedy, maybe it is. But is it really so?
We keep saying that the world in the film is a balanced world, but is it really a balanced world? We do sometimes need to reflect on these inherent external conditions. If this is a stable world, not a quivering board all day long, people need to be worried all the time and deliberately abide by those rules in order to maintain "balance", if the world is rich in material and maintains good contact with the outside world, people have The ideal has the pursuit, and the spirit is not confused, so in such a beautiful world, will people fight for a dirty and broken red box? So that the so-called "balance" is finally broken?
In addition to the balance of people's hearts, the "balance" of the balanced world in the film may not be the real "balance", but just an appearance. It is a kind of "balance" maintained by people's deliberate maintenance. At the same time, people wearing prison uniforms with numbers printed on their backs are imprisoned in this world, restrained by it like prisoners, and obey certain "balance rules" with each other, so the world becomes very "balanced". To use a visual analogy, a ship is very dilapidated, there are holes everywhere, and the crew patch is everywhere, but if this piece is patched, that piece will leak, and that piece will leak again. Due to the maintenance of the crew, the ship will leak. It didn't sink because of a hole, so can we say it's an "unsinkable" ship? The crew is tired of patching inside, will he be affected by foreign objects, maybe "jump" to another ship, then can we say that this "unsinkable" ship sank, it is this What about the responsibility of the poor crew?
So the fault may lie in this board, in this lonely world itself. Or rather, the so-called "balance" did not exist at all from the beginning.
Finally, there is another question: what is under the board, will it be the legendary beautiful world? Is it true that all those who fell are living happily in that world? But if it's a beautiful world, why didn't you catch a beautiful music box?
The film was made in 1989, a sensitive historical period, when Eastern Europe underwent drastic changes and the Berlin Wall was about to be torn down. During that time, people kept fleeing to West Germany, the so-called free world, because they could not stand the oppression of East Germany. In such a historical environment, did the director incorporate his own thoughts on the world situation at that time?
The film tells us about two balances, but also about the non-existence of these two balances. Of course, this film is extremely rich in connotation, and also involves issues such as moral issues, social balance mechanism, distribution of interests, etc. In short, the German director completed this very distinctive film with his profound philosophical viewpoints.
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