【26/100】 "Deutsche Year Zero" (Italian)
Before the opening, Gege had a conversation with Professor Pan Ruojian of Beijing Film Academy, and talked about several characteristics of Italian neorealist films: the creation took place during the war, the plot was weakened, the non-professional actors, and the camera was carried on the street to shoot.
Neorealist films are the only ones that take place before the war is over, so the picture is filled with the real ruins of Italy, dazed people and roads that don't end. The film is different, Rossellini observes as an outsider Berlin, Germany, the "sinner" of the war, the city that should have risen to world domination and is now in ruins.
In the film, the 12-year-old boy showed no expression from beginning to end, with the burden of the whole family on his shoulders, his father was about to go home, his brother was escaping from reality, and his sister was gossiped, and he could never find more money. At this time, the teacher said to me "natural selection", and the nurse pushed a bottle of poisonous medicine, what should I do? ——After killing my father, the teacher denied what he said, the kid who played football didn’t take me to play, the road couldn’t reach the end, the father’s coffin was pulled into the car in the distance, and the last slide was played from the steel beam slanted in the ruins , ended his life face down.
In the film, the camera moves with the little boy on the street, reflecting the confusion and desolation of the little boy's psychology, coupled with the occasional harsh music, in short, it reminds you all the time that you are not watching any comfortable film at all.
In reflecting on the war, Rossellini went too far. He did not give the audience any emotional comfort, like a calm surgeon, leaving behind an allegorical ending that requires the participation of the audience: the fire of war is on everyone , the aftermath of war is a disease that spreads to all mankind. Life after the war was extremely painful for the individual, no less than during the war.
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