1026 Norwegian Film Week watching, the personable director Erik Poppe had a post-screening exchange with the audience. Regarding the film, the director shared the content recorded as follows:
1. The purpose of making this film is to show what the innocent victims were facing when the extremists were shooting. The intention of the filming was not to analyze the murderer at all, so he did not reveal the murderer at all.
2. Interviewed many survivors and parents and asked them to share their memories of the events at that time. Then the stories that everyone told were combined and strung together into this movie.
3. One of the victims' mother called him. If the movie he made was a consumer victim, and she was not satisfied, she would curse him for not letting him go. But after the filming, she said that you can rest assured that I will not curse you.
4. In order to find teenagers of a similar age to the real event, the director spent a year looking for talented non-professional actors, because he was worried that reproducing the situation during the shooting would also have a psychological impact on them. During the shooting, he invited a lot of psychological Experts give them psychological counseling after each day's shooting.
5. Why is a sister who cares about politics and responsibility as the protagonist, and takes her finding a childish sister who takes care of herself as the clue of the film? And in the end is the elder sister dead and the younger sister alive? The director said that because many of the summer camps at that time were attended by siblings. Arranging my sister to die and my sister to live is to show that our society needs heroic figures with responsibility . (After listening to the director, I recalled that in the movie, I can see that my sister who is not in trouble has already taken care of another injured person on the lifeboat).
6. Another island with similar terrain to Ute Island was chosen as the shooting location.
7. When the film was shown in American colleges and universities, the response was overwhelming, and many parents hoped that more colleges and universities could show the film.
After watching "The King's Choice" and this "July 22 of Ute Island", I personally feel that the director Erik Poppe, who was a photojournalist, not only rewrote the thick ink of those brave men and heroes who respected life and stood up in big events He is highly praised, and he is full of humane care for the weak; and even at the most dangerous moment, he still does not forget to show the spirit of optimism, positivity and love of life in the movie. I don't know if this is a feature of the Norwegian nation, such as "The King's Choice". "The young soldiers walked upside down while listening to the music before the enemy attacked. In Yute Island, the male protagonist told the female protagonist that after escaping, they would eat the best kebabs in the country together, and asked her to sing to him now.
At the post-screening autograph session, the director also wrote "love shanghai" while signing the autograph I handed him to him!
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