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Winona 2022-03-21 09:02:59

A peaceful and moving film about an ordinary person who insisted on fulfilling his beliefs in the torrent of history and was finally executed. While watching I couldn't help but wonder if I had the courage to make the same choice. The conclusion is that I can't do it. My heart is far from being strong enough to refuse lies like the protagonist, stick to my beliefs, and choose a more difficult path. Even if others don't understand, even if you can't be sure whether your judgment is correct, even if your behavior doesn't change much, even if you know that this choice is life and death, it will also affect your family. Has the protagonist experienced a struggle in his heart, and has he ever had a wave of faith? Although the director did not focus on expressing the male protagonist's mental journey, he still felt his pain, confusion, disappointment and anger in his contemplative back and in the words and expressions in conversation with others. Hope seemed so close, but God's miracle didn't come in the end. The lover called his name over and over again, and the peaceful and beautiful pastoral life in the past returned to the eyes, and the protagonist finally accepted the ending of his own death calmly. This is not a heroic feat, and martyrdom seems to be too majestic, just an ordinary person, who lived faithfully a hidden life, like a bucket of water that flows into an endless river, and finally merges with the land and mountains , exists for eternity. History is still moving forward, life has to go on, these ordinary people are just there quietly, waiting for us to meet them again.

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  • Agustina 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    The reason for the host to stay or leave is to protect the "land", one is the visible homeland where people almost plunge into the soil under the wide-angle photography, and the other is the "homeland" that exists in the imagination of the mind and speech. At home, the hostess has a pair of mid-top leather shoes with stockings, which can be used to match the proper clothes when looking for a bishop, and can also be worn for walking on the Kusama intestines and dirt roads. But these shoes are not dirty, but very clean. Here I feel most definitely the love of the mistress for the world of her own life. It is also the love of this kind of love that becomes the main (or even the only) logic of the male host's stubborn resistance. The use of monologue is just right here - the inner monologue is used to resist the external inspiration, and it can also be used as a voice-over when thinking about the life world in the heart. At the end Elliott used it wonderfully: growing good of the world is also related to many hidden lives.

  • Shakira 2022-04-22 07:01:47

    I also think it can be regarded as a gospel movie; the topic of discussion is also in line with the current time (there are quite a few war movies this year, and they all talk about new angles), and Malik’s stream of consciousness montage has also been superb (at the beginning, only watching the couple reunion I would cry for a scene); it just feels like... the middle section is still too long, and the beautiful scenery has actually weakened the power of editing, and also, the subject is actually quite complicated. see through...

A Hidden Life quotes

  • Fani Jägerstätter: You said knock - it will be opened. Ask - it will be given.

  • [first lines]

    Franz Jägerstätter: [narrating] I thought that we could build our nest high up, in the trees. Fly away, like birds - to the mountains.