Detective Sanzio is also the core character of the film. He is calm and ruthless. The surface is calm but the inner drama is extremely rich, which is appropriately interpreted by an actor with deep inner strength like Toni Servillo. Not to mention other things, in the uncritical scene where he asks the ice hockey coach, the characters are very subtly portrayed: the coach wants to use an inappropriate joke to ease the tension, but the other party is not moved at all. ; And when Sanzio accused the other party of "old cow eating young grass", a rare smile appeared on his face, and the rigidity of this smile conveyed contempt and disdain.
It tells about a murder that happened in a remote town. The film also follows the model of "everyone has his secret", but the analysis of the family, especially the relationship between the two generations, is the focus. Pregnancy The policewoman is also one of them. The father of the murdered girl Anna was too doting on her, using a camera to record her daughter's every move, and did not dare to recognize her body after her death; Sanzio is also a widowed father raising a young daughter, but there is some distance between father and daughter in love (see her daughter's transcript). When asked him to skip class, he suddenly asked him at dinner why he gave up the piano in the first place, and he was questioned for concealing his mother’s illness from his daughter); Mario’s disabled old father held a grudge against his mentally ill son, tolerated him, and blamed himself for many years. There are also two people in the film who are suffering from family members due to incurable diseases: Sanzio's wife with dementia thinks her husband is her younger brother, not to mention that she has a daughter; Angelo, who died at the age of three, is everything At the heart of the tragedy, guilt-ridden father Corrado chooses to let the girl die because he can't stand the pressure of Anna who knows the truth.
Although the pace is slow, the film is rich in shooting skills and angles. The propulsion shot used by Mario to persuade the little girl to get into the car at the beginning, the long shot of the lake where the police officers fade into the shot after Sanzio found the body, the quick edit from the long shot to the close-up of the ice hockey rink, Roberto The long shot of escaping, and an episodic crash when Sanzio stood in front of Chiara's house, can see the delicate intention. The window is an image that the film relies on more. Mario's father stared at the son and the little girl outside the window anxiously; Sanzio and his daughter gave the camera twice from the window from reconciliation to quarrel; Sanzio's first time After talking to Chiara, he looked thoughtfully at the back of her entering the house through the window, and then he passed by the Corrado window, but walked away; in the office with no lights on, Sanzio walked to the window and saw Anna jogging in a hallucination Outside the window, the two stared at each other for a long time, which was an introduction to the fact that Anna witnessed Angelo's death outside the window at that time.
The ring shot appeared many times in the film, and it was also used in the core segment when Sanzio and his partner came to the lakeside to analyze the case again. Two old police detectives with 20 years of experience came to this small town to investigate the unknown death of a young girl. To the back perspective, Sanzio comes to the conclusion that it sounds like a detached voice: this is a sin committed by someone who loves her.
There is also this scene that also gives a multi-layered meaning to a scene: Sanzio and the young policeman are sitting in the aisle of the police station to discuss the case, but his eyes fall on the pregnant female policewoman, and his words and expressions show a trace of incompatibility with his character naughty. Immediately after the exchange with the female police officer, in the face of the other party's suspicion of Anna's father, Sanzio immediately answered: "Can we think that a father is guilty because he loves his daughter too much?" Another father's understanding. In the end, the policewoman asked his family and said, "How can you find a beautiful wife with such a temper?" Sanzio's answer was: "Maybe I'm not that unkind." Focus on character characterization.
At the end of the film, "Bright Tail" takes Sanzio as the only point of view, and the emotional change is natural, without the abruptness and redundancy of the turning point. After the police car took Corrado away, Sanzio and the policewoman chatted about parenthood in the dark. In the last scene, Sanzio finally brought his daughter to the hospital. When his wife and father and daughter looked at each other for a moment and then walked away, he said to his daughter: "Did you see that, she smiled at you."
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