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The pinnacle of recorded narrative
Lindsay 2022-10-21 09:03:31
I once heard a story that the Darney brothers decided before making a promise that they would change careers if the film remained mediocre, and the Darney brothers incorporated a certain documentary approach into this film that made this film a success. No small achievement. Then, Alexei Germanic's God is difficult to record, and it has reached a kind of peak. This is one of the five masterpieces that I have seen in the past two years. The use of open composition is often used in close-up scenes such as close-ups. In this way, the open composition mainly expresses a depressed and anxious mood, but in this film, it does the opposite. Open composition is mostly used in medium shots, and the open characters are often not the main characters, located in the foreground, so that a strong documentary comes in as the times require, and even the complicated scene scheduling in the sports long shot is used. This kind of random opening gives people a rough feeling, and even feels that the actors in the film have not been arranged at all, and this feeling is exactly in line with the dirty and bloody pictures in the film. The so-called documentary, the curious expressions of the characters looking at the camera many times in the film, shows that Germanic more or less wants to create a feeling that this film is like a documentary image from an alien planet. It's this multiple Old Germanic style that leads this black-and-white 2013 film to take on an extremely offbeat extreme outside of Beratar, Rafdaz, or Guy Martin. This is the posthumous work of Old German, and I cannot help but sigh. Old German is known as the most important film director in the Soviet Union after Tarkovsky. He only made six films in his life, three of which were banned. It was only in 1984 that the fourth work, My Friend, Ivan Labsin, had its prototype. I really wanted Germain to live for a few more decades, but I regretted that I only knew his greatness when Germain left.
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