Alexei German is eye-opening, I have never had such a movie viewing experience, this is the first time I have contacted this Russian director, and someone can actually shoot such a film these days Movie. I watched it twice within two days, but the feeling was completely different. Most of the time I didn't know what it was doing for the first time, and I felt the cruelty of the dark middle ages in the film. The second time you watch it, it is the opposite feeling. It is the love of the creator, a kind of great love. It is like a consciousness that actively guides the progress of human civilization. It is there to guide human beings. Just like the title of the film, God also So good. I have always felt that the probability of the European Renaissance is very small, it is simply a miracle of the Creator.
This is an alternative sci-fi movie. Like the narration in the title, this is not the earth, but a planet similar to the earth, where the civilization has evolved to the European Middle Ages similar to the earth. The story is adapted from the novel of the Strugatsky brothers. The idea of this sci-fi is that if there was no Renaissance, what would European civilization be like now? In this story, a group of scientific researchers from Earth were sent to that planet to guide the development of civilization in that society. They were not allowed to use violence or forcibly intervene. The only person with normal behavior in the film, he walks constantly at the bottom of the society to enlighten people, and the film follows his footsteps like a documentary.
It's like a pseudo-documentary in a way, like a guy with a camera on his forehead walks and shoots aimlessly, this guy must be from that wild planet, he doesn't even know that that thing on his forehead can be filmed Movie. You can see a lot of long shots that seem to be aimless. The lens is like a bystander, and there are always people passing from the foreground of the lens, or looking at the lens, as if they are studying what the lens is. Often used to transition into dark and white smoke. This film is really like the material sent back from an alien planet for human research. I never imagined that the Middle Ages would be like this, so real, dirty, muddy, wild, people are like primitive animals with uncivilized brains, you It is difficult to understand the behavior of the characters in the film, none of them are normal human logic, savage creatures who do not know cruelty, civilization and shame. They kill the intellectuals who can read and write, and kill the redheads, just like the people of the Middle Ages on Earth.
This is a dark, long, dirty and messy film at first glance. It doesn't even have a narrative. The efficiency of the narrative is as slow as the progress of civilization in that world. The hero is like a prophet in the film. He feels himself Like God, but his abilities are still very small, and we end up watching people being slaughtered, the world being taken over by religious order, and the film was previously titled "History of the Arcana Massacre." The narrations in the whole movie are talking non-stop, but you can't figure out their logic at all, it's like useless work, which can never let the audience into the story, and always make the audience like a tourist. The director's ambition is to show the wild world in multiple directions, and the violence, brutality and ignorance of human beings, but human beings do not know it at all. Only when they can jump out of it like us audiences can feel it. To the absurdity and collapse of all this, everything in that world is simply unreasonable and unbearable.
This should also be the reason why the German director made the film look like a pseudo-documentary. The director planned the film for a lifetime. The filming started in the Czech Republic in the autumn of 2000 and continued until August 2006. In addition to the post-production time, it took more than ten years of filming. years until his death in his hometown of St. Petersburg on February 21, 2013. He made five feature films in his life, and is known for showing the truth of life. "God Is Difficult" is also similar in style to his predecessor "Harustanlov, Drive!" "Similar, as for who this style is like, it is difficult to define, I can only say that I have rarely seen such a direct film. It is not the first time that this offbeat science fiction novel has been adapted into a movie. In 1989, German director Peter Fleischmann also made a film. The Chinese name is "It is not easy to become a god", and it is more inclined to the original story and the story. The narrative, starring the famous "German Madman" director Werner Herzog, can be found by the way if you are interested.
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