The lens is poetic

Krista 2022-03-23 09:03:02

Nominated for "The Hidden Life" in the main competition section of the Palme d'Or, a film about World War II, the subject matter is very good, with a wide-angle lens, a close-up shot, and a very poetic scenery. Due to work reasons, this film was watched. It's a silent movie, I like it very much. But it expresses a depressing theme, the lines are very thought-provoking, and some screenshots, the film is very suitable for watching quietly...

Surprisingly, the score is not very high, probably because the empty shots are too long, the rhythm sequence is slow and deliberately profound, and the subject background of the wide-angle shots is too beautiful, thus weakening a certain emotional expression.

At first, I couldn't understand who the heroine was, and I was a bit face blind, but the facial bones of the female characters were so beautiful.

In the end, who doesn't want to have a tea garden manor, who doesn't want to live in a secret and quiet paradise, in the end, will everyone choose the final ending of the protagonist?

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Extended Reading
  • Wilfred 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    Macau iffam takes a close-up shot at a wide angle, or he is silently gazing at his emotions and state. Malik always focuses this gaze on the ultimate proposition of mankind and life: human nature's constant questioning and eternal search for poetry and divinity. Even if it is a faint existence in history that has been abandoned by the world and the mortal, as long as it silently persists in the suffering that self-will chooses willingly, it is a saint. There is always indifferent light in the dark corridor, and I choose to turn my back to it and face hopelessness.

  • Monte 2022-04-24 07:01:21

    The unique perspective of the film makes me feel very fresh. Evil is just a symbol. It describes human behavior and uses religious belief values. The theme is clear, but people who watch it for three hours are too sad, and it uses dialogue. The theme of the story is too flat, and the story is a bit unreasonable, and it could be more concise.

A Hidden Life quotes

  • Mayor Kraus: This is what happens when a world dies. Men survive. But their life is gone. Their life is gone! Their reason for living.

  • Franz Jägerstätter: [interal monologue] Once you never forgave anyone... judged people without mercy. Now you see your own weakness... so you can understand the weakness of others.