To be honest, I understand the story, but I don't understand why the score is so high: 8.2 points (7.9 now). For this score, it reminds me of "Hereditary Doom" in 18 years, which can be evaluated as the same "high-scoring and low-energy" type of film.

A team of rebel child soldiers guarding an American doctor. The hostages escaped because of the internal division of the child soldiers. Just such a simple story, how does the film play out:

At the beginning of the film, I learned a handful of "Human Statues", which are the same damp, the same cold, and the same full of sexual implications. The last one died because of pigs, and the other because of cows.

then. The director is also a pig head, a muddy, and a "legacy" of the dead captain. After filming for a long time, do you think he is going to discuss the changes in children's human nature in extreme environments, paying tribute to "Lord of the Flies"?

No, he smoothly moved closer to "Revelation". Chasing in the jungle, the rapids advance bravely and never fall. It was another chase and another awakening. With that soundtrack and flashing scenes, I thought I was watching Rambler.

How to end it? No matter how he ends. It's good to have a long shot like "The Wave" or "The Graduate". At this time, silence is better than sound, and the actors have some slight expressions, and it is even more wonderful.

Well, after all kinds of mixing and stirring, this ordinary story is no longer ordinary. Smooth narrative, as incomprehensible as "The Solitude of Prime Numbers". These days, if you don't understand it, it's right. Nonsense can be called "tragedy" by magic sticks. What other movie can't get five stars?

PS:

I had finished watching the movie and was going to laugh with everyone, but it turned out that I was the only one who couldn't appreciate the movie, so I was embarrassed now...

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Fredy 2022-03-18 09:01:06

#9thBJIFF#Dolby sound experiment + immersive photography exhibition, the overall reputation, the audiovisual is highly stylized, but also detracts from the narrative coherence. The director is very good at using environmental images to create an instant sensory impact. The sea of clouds and damp rainforests rolling in the valleys together create a cold and wild phenological space. But how to dissolve the harsh political background into this metaphorical system to explain "the hell is so bad" and the cause of the partial collapse of the guerrillas? This requires further scheduling and concrete thinking, rather than just taking it for granted. The black hole-like soundtrack of Mica Levi is a bit sassy, but the viewing point is perfect, and the last mirror is very powerful @影史经典凝视
Madonna 2022-03-26 09:01:12

The first part of this year's North Film Festival. In the first half, I felt that the photography and soundtrack were a bit too gorgeous, but in the second half I began to marvel at the high degree of fit between the style and the theme. The untamed Colombian jungle juvenile, like an evolutionary unfinished ape, from the jungle Eden to the killing field, a historical and political allegory of barbarism and civilization intertwined and infiltrated. Follow this director.