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War and Peace
Clement 2022-03-15 09:01:11
The last show of the 19th Shanghai International Film Festival, the great "Party to Fight Differing", the audio-visual language is convincing, and the parallel and intersecting narratives are fully integrated. Another commentary on war and peace, siege towers on the battlefield, guillotine in times of peace. Blood no longer flows naked on the city gates and streets. When everything shows that justice is legal and hazy, only the crows in the morning are watching the people who died on the guillotine last night. Not only can the machine of desire not be destroyed, but it will become more and more complex and credible, becoming a more progressive machine in the form of serving man, more complex, progressive, advanced, and more dangerous. Once paralyzed by the laziness brought about by the system and give up fraternity, thinking and inheritance, people will become part of the machine. Not every time the car catches up with the train, victory in the cracks of the system is beautiful and fragile. If you have to criticize this movie, it can only be that the beautiful and direct appeal at the end just lost to the idealized shortcut.
Extended Reading
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Intertitle: Ancient Jerusalem, the golden city whose people have given us many of our highest ideals, and from the carpenter shop of Bethlehem, sent us the Man of Men, the greatest enemy of intolerance.
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Intertitle: Another period of the past. A.D. 1572-Paris, a hotbed of intolerance, in the time of Catherine de Medici, and her son Charles IX, King of France. Charles IX receiving his brother, Monsieur La France, Duc d'Anjou. The heir to the throne, the effeminate Monsieur La France. Pets and toys his pastimes.