Finally unlocked Terrence Malik, he and Wes Anderson have long been in the director list of "I know I will like it but have never seen the work" = = The combination of sound and picture is really perfect, but I didn't watch it High-definition film source, and because of the recent broken work, it took 5 times a week to watch it (170 minutes is really a bit long), I really committed a crime with waste...
In fact, the plot of the whole movie (if any) can really be told in less than 20 words, but the transcendental experience brought by the combination of nature and the soundtrack, and the inner struggle and thinking of the stream of consciousness, make this movie The immersive somatosensory it brought me far exceeded that of "1917". There are also a few first-perspective shots that are too immersive, such as being knocked to the ground in a prison, the shaking camera looking up from left to right but no one can help the despair, and the first-perspective view of life after entering the death room. Final screen.
To quote Lloyd Michaels' review of Malik's film theme, because I couldn't have said it better "The director's primary themes include the isolated individual's desire for transcendence amidst established social institutions, the grandeur and untouched beauty of nature, the competing claims of instinct and reason, and the lure of the open road.”
With all those narrations and dialogues about faith, 'Everybody's drunk and I'm awake' is probably one of the most torturous things in the world, but 'Even though I'm writing them with bound hands, that's still better than if my will were bound.”
God is the so-called "silent presence" in this story, which reminds me of what Pope Benedict XVI said in "The Pope's Inheritance", "I believe in God. I pray to God. Silence!" I want to be so firm in faith For those who are poor, sobriety is more painful, because good people do not have good rewards is something that often happens but can never be understood and accepted. Or is it precisely because of this that you are even more eager for the comfort of faith? This is beyond the boundaries of my knowledge and understanding. When I looked at it, I felt that Franz's image was very Jesus. After reading the information, I found that the prototype was indeed declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church.
Take note of a few special stamps. Franz, who had just been sentenced to death, silently held up the umbrella that others were knocked down at the door of the hotel; his grieving wife and her little daughter who had not been disturbed by the world on her lap; the support and kiss of the two death row prisoners before the execution. And at the end, let him trade his signature for freedom, and let his wife convince him, but his wife only says to do what you think is right. It is so consistent with "the crucible" that some themes are really eternal. He asked "Do you understand?" If she doesn't understand, it's okay, she can blame him and hate him for leaving and forgetting. But she understood, she knew that he had no choice but to take the only path of sadness.
There is also a particularly stamped line where Franz in prison wrote "Now begins the month of June, the most beautiful month. Nature does not notice the sorrow that has come over the people. Though I cannot see much here, I imagine that everything is in more lovely green than in past years.” At this moment of self-isolation this year, so far away from the world, so close to the world, tears came up when I heard this, thinking of all those places that hold my fond memories, must be In strong beauty!
Then Mr. August, he also continued to walk on the road of fascinating people. Last year, he also played Edmund of "Long Day's Journey into Night" at the Vienna Theater, ah, I really want to see me sour!
I have to like the soundtrack separately, I really can't stand it without a nomination! The film's soundtrack carried me through the difficult time of sorting through subject assessment materials, and I'm thankful for a soul-sweeping breeze when I was drowning and breaking down. Even in a trance, I went back to those nights last spring when I was listening to classical music, listening to various osts, listening to various versions of barrels, listening to Eastern European accordions, listening to Hawaiian island music, listening to abba and writing my graduation thesis.
Then there is no connection, but I want to say that the best World War II movie in my heart is still "Minefield", although I can't bear to watch it again. It was also featured in an Austrian tourism promotional film together with The Sound of Music. Austria is really beautiful. Although I only traveled through the train for a few hours, the cabins in the distant mountains, forests and rivers have always been in my memory. By the way, I miss a certain lovely person in this place that no one will see. Austrian jokes and blue eyes.
Finally, I want to excerpt the film review on the poster, as well as George Eliot's "Middlemarch" quoted at the end, and a long passage of "Deza" Schatten Los lyrics, when I read it, I felt that it was particularly in line with the theme.
Owen Gleiberman's comment on the poster is great, "The quietest acts of resistance are part of what save civilisation."
"...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." - George Eliot (To all the unknown soldiers who are changing the world)
Wenn der Kampf vorüber ist when you stop fighting
und dein Weg zu Ende, alone to the end
bist du nur noch, der du bist. You will come close to your true self
Dann zählt nur noch, was unzerstörbar ist. Only the indestructible soul can live forever
Doch solange wir leben, but as long as we live
ist es uns aufgegeben, even if left behind
uns zu fragen, Tag und Nacht: also ask yourself day and night
Wie wird man seinen Schatten los? How do you escape from your shadow?
Wie sagt man seinem Schicksal Nein? How do you rebel against your destiny?
Wie kriecht man aus der eignen Haut? How to break the shackles?
Wie kann man je ein anderer sein? How to be reborn?
Wen soll man fragen, wenn man sich selber nicht versteht? If you can't recognize yourself, who should you turn to?
Wie kann man frei sein, wenn man seinem eignen Schatten nie entgeht? If you can't escape your own shadow, how can you be truly free?
Wie wird man seinen Schatten los? How do you escape from your shadow?
Wie können wir leben, how should we live
(Wie lässt man alles hinter sich?) (And how to leave it all behind?)
(Wie jagt man sein Gewissen fort?) (How do you turn your back on your conscience?)
solang wir nur dem Schicksal dienen? Suppose we yield only to fate?
(Wie flieht man vor dem eignen ich?) (How to escape from oneself?)
(Wie kann man flüchten,) (How to escape?)
Wir können nie, we can never
(wenn man sich selbst im Wege steht?) (If you become your own hindrance?)
wir können nie we can never
nie, never
(Vor deinem Schicksal kannst du nicht fliehen!) (You cannot back down from your own destiny!)
niemals vor unserm eignen Schatten fliehen! Never back down from our own shadow!
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