Hidden Life

Nola 2022-03-22 09:02:38

A war movie without war scenes, but exploring something deeper than war.

A farmer who used to be indifferent to the world made a so-called stupid insistence that everyone saw that it was do no one good and that no one cared about it.

Yes, once compromising and doing something that goes against the heart, it means that he will always bear the stain. It is admirable that the protagonist is willing to give up his life in order to obey his heart and never back down.

"It is the people who want to change the world, who make the world fall into fire frequently." Of course, every piece of firewood in the fire is not innocent. I wonder if the neighbors in the village will show respect for the protagonist's choice in a long time, or even if I don't think there is any regret or guilt for the unfair treatment of them.

In a sense, suffering injustice is for oneself, and resisting injustice is for others. Every time someone in this world suffers injustice in silence, it is a loss of human conscience. Of course, I may be overthinking it, because there has never been such a thing as human conscience.

Fortunately, George Eliot's words at the end are on point, I hope Those living a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs has done what he or she deems right.

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  • Uriel 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    When Malik avoided the overly macroscopic perspectives of the universe, and returned to the real humanistic perspective, all the exteriors were merged in the fluid lens but abstracted again. These exteriors are constantly growing crops and The natural season of change is the inhumanity of the world and the unrest of the human heart and society. It is also the shadow of evil, the human heart swallowed by fear, and the evil words that are driven by the twisted heart (the interesting thing is that these words are here. German without subtitles appears, more abstract and external), the real protagonist is the inner voice, chanted in slow poetic English, cannot be heard and perceived by the above "external", the so-called "secret", but precisely It is these "hidden" inner lives that are conveyed to the audience in a more visible way in this movie. Malik has found the most suitable inner and true basic traditional American Protestant values ​​for his lens language over the years. At such a moment, he will preach again in the form of gospel, but the paradox is that its effectiveness may stop having been heard. It is difficult for people who have passed these voices and vaguely identified with them to have complete enlightenment and enlightenment.

  • Charley 2022-03-20 09:02:35

    5 points. Malik almost completely abandoned the narrative. The fact that an Austrian farmer refused to swear allegiance to Hitler during World War II and was finally sentenced to death was expressed through a lot of poetic narration, beautiful pictures, and MV-like shots, which made me feel the director thought. The emotion to be expressed. It is full of courage and even greatness to reject this, but it will not be full of philosophical flavor like in the movie-is it a peasant philosopher in the Austrian mountains? This matter may have something to do with faith or the peasant’s paranoid character, but it will not have anything to do with philosophy and poetry. The lens is pushed up and back, a lot of wide-angle upside-down or overhead close-ups, the character's face is distorted and hideously photographed. However, the way the lens is used does not match the picture in the lens, and the picture and the core are not commensurate, or even contradictory. Is this a terrifying World War II or a beautiful pastoral? This is a lengthy prose poem that sings instead of moaning when sick, not much better than "Singing Endlessly".

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.