Roman Polanski restores the most notorious Dreyfus anti-Semitic incident in French history, titled Zola's open letter to the president of the same name published in Aurora, which defines the "intellectual" Concept: Take criticism as its own responsibility and speak out for justice.
The film uses a super-high level of classicism, for fear that a larger action will disturb the smoke and dust in the historical archives, and reproduces this piece of history that has already been discussed in a smooth and restrained manner. Elegant and neat like a textbook, but also boring like a textbook. History is quietly evolving and transmuting, hiding thunder in the silent place, hard and heavy, resisting and counteracting every effort to find the truth.
In the movie, the waves are calm, but outside the movie, the waves hit the shore. Polanski uttered "I accuse" and was met with a "Me too" response - first, the Caesar Awards caused the resignation of the entire board of directors due to the film's 12 nominations, and then the director and starring of "Portrait of a Burning Woman" at the closing ceremony of the Caesar Awards of public protests. Fortunately, the film was luckier than its own biography, and "I Accused" finally won the Venice Film Festival Jury Prize and the Caesar Best Director Award, escaping the misfortune of "alternating justice in the name of justice".
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