It was also the European Blue Angel Award at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival, an award that often surprises. In addition, I had considered releasing a new film this film week, thinking that this film should be suitable, the subtitles have just come out, the film length is suitable, and the subject matter is sensitive and attracts attention, so I will watch it first.
After reading it, I found that it is really a typical theme movie to go to Berlin. In other words, this year's Oscar nominations for best foreign language film are relatively average... It is not so much the artistic achievement of "Heaven Now" as the achievement in material selection. bigger. It can only be said that either I am really repulsive or indifferent to political subjects, or I lack the so-called sense of justice; or that people like me don’t need to take a stand at all, and the film obviously has nothing to do with me.
The film is clean, full of Middle Eastern characteristics, and not sloppy (inevitably, it will be a ghost in less than an hour and a half). The story goes straight to the theme of the human bomb, but I guessed early that the two protagonists will definitely complete the personality transfer...
The contrast between the two of them at the departure time was too strong, and the director would definitely not dare to play with fire and use the flesh and blood as a selling point . In this case, the probability of completing mutual transfer is too great: one has changed from hesitation to firmness, and the other has changed from looking at death to reflecting and questioning. Seeing that the young man has already felt tired of watching when he tells the story of his father, and this is exactly the The main thread of the film.
After watching it, I found out. Coupled with the subject matter, there are really not many surprises.
The Lebanese "Kite" in 2003 was more in line with my taste, with a similar background, barbed wire, martial law... . Compared with the human bomb in "Heaven Now", it is of course more moderate, and it also has a romantic tone.
A very earthy analogy, I can see the word "people" there, "Heaven Now" is more suitable for Israelis or people who have a position....
2006.03.13
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