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1974, "Shajiabang", "Azalea Mountain", "Plain Guerrilla", "The Sparkling Red Star", "The Bow and Arrow with Sound", "The Story of Xiangyangyuan", "Reconnaissance Across the River" Strongly swept the national theater. In the same year, Fassbender took two weeks to show Fear Eats the Soul. The text of Amy, the heroine of "Fear", can be said to be solid at that time. Her husband was Polish and died of liver disease in 1955. Amy has been a widow for nearly 20 years. Warmth, daring to love, pursuing personal happiness, and occasionally sentimental - a curious, incomprehensible and hostile vision of others "pretending to be indifferent, but in fact I do." Dare to take the 60-year-old old woman as the number one, and explore her inner world and emotional world. With this one, it shows that Abin is aggressive in the film industry.
Rain, bar encounter, cola, sending a girl home, going upstairs to shelter from the rain, brandy, coffee, drinking H, it is unknown whether this set of methods was new back then, but it is completely vulgar now. In "Fear", the corridor neighbor Qazi's curious and inquiring gaze is very deep, and Amy's chat with Ali is more profound - "My father hates all foreigners. He is a party member, Hitler's party. I Also a party member, everyone is, almost everyone is.” This seemingly unintentional line reveals that after the war the entire German people's beliefs collapsed. What they had insisted on for many years was suddenly told that it was wrong and crazy, and they were completely denied. This is terrible. The scene where the two got engaged and went out to a restaurant was particularly tragic and heartbreaking. The restaurant is deserted and unpopular, not as good as a funeral home. The newlyweds, Amy and Ali, were not recognized, blessed, or laughed. Bone cold. The two of them tried hard to order food, steaks and wine were all unfamiliar to them, and they could guess that this was the first time in their lives that they had entered such a high-end place for consumption, suggesting that the two were financially stretched. Do you think, a 60-year-old cleaning widow, a Moroccan car repair worker (six workers live in one house), how much can she earn?
The conflict between the owner of the shop and Ali/Amy is a bit contrived. It's too big, and it's unnecessary. It's not the way to fix the conflict. It's a conflict for the sake of conflict, which is unnatural. Transnational language communication barrier itself is a very good motif, you can do it alone, dig deeper, and write about the helplessness of people in a foreign land; but it feels too blunt to discriminate like this in "Fear", and I have no idea. Abin seems to be like this all the time. There is too much to say in each work, and he is always trying to fill the gaps with materials and ideas. "Fear" alone tries to express the struggle of the bottom people to survive, spiritual loneliness, transnational/ Interracial, forgetting years, courage to pursue true love, racial discrimination, jealousy, generation gap/children’s obstruction, indifference between people, estrangement, social pressure [“No one can live without others, no one can”]… To express a tree with lush branches in a short period of time, we must use subtraction, generalization, and trade-offs, otherwise it is easy to be blinded.
Abin is an energetic master, such a temperament is the distribution center of ideas, but his attention is easily distracted. The brilliance of the rough is only half the battle.
In addition, the performance of "Fear" didn't feel like it was off the stage. The whole film version of the play, especially 1. Ali sent Amy home for the first time, entered the apartment building door, and Amy was pacing in the foyer of the apartment and memorizing lines [08] :34-11:50]; 2. Ali went to the past tense gf to vent, stared out of the window for a long time, then took off his shirt like a zombie, 3. Ali suddenly felt unwell [stomach ulcer, lack of bedding], jumping and jumping Dance crouching on the ground, the simple and childish performance is not as good as the model show; 4. Fassbender's cameo acting is also rigid and contrived, and the emotional transition is too much.
Overall, the tone of "Fear Devouring the Soul" is resolute and dull. The overall rhythm is slow and depressing. "Fear" is not perfect, it was shot as a study in itself, and it is indeed a study now. "Fear" is concise, clean and neat, without procrastination, but the more you pursue minimalism, the more you should pay attention to every detail, making every frame more three-dimensional and every plot twist more powerful, rather than simple. Watching "Fear" now is like a boxer, put on the air, take a deep breath at any time, shrug your neck, lift your shoulders, sink your elbows and turn around you, but the heavy punch never comes out, and the aura and power accumulated are always be self-absorbed. Of course history has to jump back and read. Fear was already ahead of its time in 1974. Now, looking beyond the past is not demanding of Abin. This is purely technical work.
I don't think Fear is a masterpiece. Even for Abin, there's no need to be flattering, right? There is a problem with Ali's settings, why don't you dare to say it? The emperor's new clothes? Less talkative, rigid, just polite, where's the cuteness? Where is the flash? His intolerance to the world, his betrayal of Amy, his deception, his own inner wandering, depression, and hesitation are all good and explosive points. Have they all shown it? I've taken it all in one stroke, and I'll write it in a hurry. What's the masterpiece? The fear is - servility eats the soul.
The biggest regret of "Fear" is that after all the pressures Amy and Ali faced, the "problem-solving" process was fast and smooth. After a few days of German-Italian tours, it turned cloudy when they came back. , not enough twists and turns startling. Especially not enough digging on the topic "fear". In fact, it's better to let Amy and Ali go out and come back and find that the environment is still the same, and even the hostility and discrimination have intensified, they are kicked out of the apartment, have no fixed place, lose their job, have no source of income, and have no skills. Go to the bottom to hone their love, let them suspect each other, resent each other, hurt each other, lose themselves in deep fear, what are they afraid of? Society is completely swallowing them, not allowing them at all. Everyone is afraid of their happiness, women are afraid that the prostitutes in their bodies will be sexually aroused, and they are afraid that their children will be poisoned... Amy's children can't bear it, because colleagues and friends know that Amy is married to a savage who only thinks about sex and rape, They all murmured that Amy was a "stinky prostitute", and also talked about Amy's son complex, Ali's Oedipus complex, and that the adulterer and prostitute were actually fulfilling and satisfying their own perverted fantasies. Others said that Ali was actually coveting Amy's German citizenship, reminding Amy to be careful. Amy began to doubt life: Is this love or sympathy for Ali?
Can two people who are so different in age truly fall in love with each other forever? Amy's endurance was severely tested, and she pinned her hopes on Morocco, but Ali said that she came out because she wanted to leave. Amy left her hometown at the age of 60 and returned to Morocco with Ali, only to find that Ali's mother was three years younger than Amy. People from Ali's hometown looked at Amy with strange eyes, saying that she married him because she wanted Ali's strong muscles, and that she was an old harlot. Immediately afterwards, Amy found out that Ali and his mother had an ambiguous relationship. This small town has a backward economy, high temperature and sickness, backward medical care, harsh environment, polluted drinking water, cholera and dysentery outbreaks, Amy contracted a strange disease, and finally found a barefoot doctor, but found that the language was not fluent.
Amy's life was like a string of strings, she said that she should not have a high fever, she had constant diarrhea, and she had a near-death experience. Amy began to panic. She was afraid of death, loneliness, and losing her mind, but she found that she was losing her mind and constantly. Do stupid things that they don't understand, and say crazy things that offend local religious beliefs. At this time, she finally realized the meaning of the old saying in Ali's hometown - "fear eats the soul", but it was too late.
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