those glorified and simplified memories

Coralie 2022-03-16 08:01:01

Reflecting on the movies of World War II in Europe, the victors are indifferent and arrogant, and the unwilling losers are in mad confrontation. From the inside to the outside, they are desolate ruins. In the eyes of the crazy antagonists, everyone directly and indirectly participated in the criminal killing, using the same The way confrontation is taken for granted, the well-meaning participants are finally overwhelmed by relative values, and even love is a tool available. Today's Europa is built on the forgotten and covered up memory, not to mention the utilitarianism and technological supremacy from the United States infiltrating everywhere. As one of the "European Trilogy", the film is a strong self-questioning, persistent search in different directions.

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  • Danny 2022-03-23 09:03:30

    8.3 The texture is very Kafka. Alternating black and white, front and back collages, and scale deformations blend together, as if there is a movie within a movie. Blurred love, out of balance in the world, nowhere to stay, a flood of destruction, the feeling is like hypnosis, explosion and intoxication.

  • Alexzander 2022-03-17 09:01:10

    After watching the European Express, all of Lars von Trier's works have been marked so far, and there is only indescribable greatness in his heart. Russ is not a lunatic, nor a narcissist, nor a Nazi. He is a super genius that the world has been waiting for for many years. He is the successor of Europe's century-old essence. He is a textbook for movies, from installation art to private diaries to epics. From the Passion, to social experiments, to miniatures, to doomsday fantasy, to video essays, his vocabulary was born out of the ancestor Tarkovsky but opened up his own new context, whether it is the boldness of the play, the ethical outlook Independence, unique methodology, marvels of audio-visual language, richness of texts, terrifying ambitions, and long-term motifs, he is always a director who has been underestimated, misunderstood and easily disposed of since the 1990s. The turmoil of the 20th century has penetrated the lifeline and bottom line of the human collective unconscious in the political and moral ecology, thus far ahead of the public language for decades.

Europa quotes

  • Lawrence Hartmann: The Americans are clever. First they get hold of the IG Farben's chemical patents - and then they destroy the plants to prevent production. All in the name of "demilitarization." I really admire the Americans.

  • Lawrence Hartmann: Mr. Kessler, did you know that many factories in Germany were owned by Americans during the war?