Is it the decline of morality or the annihilation of human nature?
Remember the large-scale drama "Super Sense Hunting" that once brought you countless visual experiences but was forced to cut down because it burned too much money ?
Do you still remember the grief of fans begging the filmmaker to be too expensive to continue filming when he was cut down?
However, fans of the super sense don't have to wait for the long-awaited third season. Tom Tykway , our super-expensive director, has continued to burn money with his talent! (I don't know how long it will last this time?
In fact, I don't watch too many German TV dramas. My first German movie should be "Lola Run" in 1998. There should be many people's first movies that are the same as mine. The director of this running "Lola Run" is the German Tom Tykwer, who is also the director and screenwriter of this "Babylon Berlin".
It is reported that "Babylon Berlin" is the most expensive German TV series so far, with a production cost of 4 million euros . Thinking about the domestic TV series that invested more than 100 million yuan but put in all kinds of mentally handicapped advertisements by mothers and mothers, this German drama is really called A work of conscience, every minute spent is real money, money is spent on the edge of the knife, can you come up with a good work? (Of course not!
Tones and images comparable to the movie
All lighting, focus, the structure of the picture, and even the costumes of the characters have been filmed. For example, the heroine's peacock green hat in the picture below stands out among the gray, black and brown, so that the audience can immediately find out Who is the important role.
Another example is the smoky haze in this scene, adding a mysterious color to the appearance of the protagonist.
A must-have historical collection for watching dramas
The background of the whole play is set in Berlin in the 1920s, the Weimar Republic after the defeat of World War I, the fantasy monarchy was replaced by a weak democracy, heavy reparations and an increasingly serious economic crisis continued to oppress the people at the bottom. , everything is like the straw that broke the camel's back, destroying the values and religious beliefs of the West for hundreds of years.
People are crazy about modernization, the whole country is like the one shown in "Babylon Berlin", steam is flying everywhere, mechanical whistle is whistling, people are like walking dead lost in a huge boiler room, no blue sky, no sunshine. Puzhao, all day long fell into the infatuation and confusion.
The 1927 German film history benchmark "Metropolis" is the infinite longing for skyscrapers and the ignorant fantasy of the future.
On the one hand, people are passively escaping the humiliation of defeat in World War I, and on the other hand, they are actively squandering those worthless currencies in times of economic crisis. Lost and blind, excessive indulgence and ultimate totalitarianism, all eventually led to the final tragedy, Weimar is only a stepping stone in history after all .
At the crossroads of desire, you rush forward, not knowing where is heaven and where is hell.
In such a chaotic historical background, the story can naturally be very yellow and violent .
The Variations of the Weimar Republic
The male protagonist, Grian , is a detective with severe post-war PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). He was transferred from Cologne to Berlin. On the surface, he is a police officer in the discipline group. In fact, he is investigating an indecent video of a high-ranking official. case.
Lot , the heroine, lives in a slum, doing clerical work in the police station during the day, and working as a senior call-up girl at night to subsidize her family.
The underworld boss who extorted blackmail with indecent videos .
There are also for the sake of democracy and a new future for Germany, the backbone of the Fourth International's "Red Fortress" violinists , and the Russian countess who pretended to support the Fourth International and actually transferred gold, and so on.
Almost all characters appear from the back of the head or take the lead. Each character has a more or less hazy veil in the director's design, making it impossible to see the true face behind him, leaving the audience with countless question marks. Find answers in the depths of the show. In terms of suspense, the director has made great efforts to prevent you from easily understanding it.
In fact, this German drama, you only need to spend 45 minutes to watch the first episode . Because from the scene switching between memories and reality, to the director's control of light and shadow, as well as all aspects of scheduling, it has been doomed to its extraordinaryness and the director's ambition to have nowhere to put it .
In the process of the male protagonist growing up and getting closer to the truth, he will show the world the world in Germany at that time. When you truly understand and understand Grian, maybe you will be able to understand Germany in history and the carnival and loss of human nature. .
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