A piece of ingenuity, but with regrets.

Abigail 2022-03-23 09:03:07

5 stars, I personally love this movie. As a film based on real historical events, the storyline is highly restored, and the merits and demerits have been concluded. Just taking this movie as an example, it is very good. The exquisite texture of shooting is reflected everywhere in the film, and the characters and scenes are meticulously refined, revealing the ingenuity of artistic atmosphere. It makes people feel pleasing to the eye, looks great, and has a classic style of 70s film movies. As for the characters, it can only be said that they have the same goal in different ways, and they all want to maintain the justice of the country and the glory of the army. Some people want to exclude dissidents and hide their shame. The protagonist wants justice and fair treatment. But still retain my personal opinion. I can understand the approach and starting point of both sides at the same time, but the world is not perfect, and the ending cannot be perfect. Even someone as talented as the director of this film can't cover up the stains, this is life.

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Extended Reading
  • Aryanna 2022-04-21 09:03:07

    The classical style comes from pre-modern non-subjectivity. In the first half of "I Complain", in the film about the Dreyfus incident, Dreyfus is just an object that appears in a telescope to be observed. In this way, "I Indict" isolates emotion and avoids the temptation of individual-institutional political narratives. It is difficult to determine whether Polanski was referring to public allegations of his social events, and if there were, it was an elegant and razor-sharp pushback. Therefore, "I Complain" does not lack strength and power, and it is not completely classical. The first half of the film and the second half are in a mirror-image relationship. Picard, who is the "detective" image, exits the stage, and Dreyfus himself appears, and gradually finds his own identity. The subjectivity of the modern subject.

  • Meaghan 2022-03-14 14:12:27

    I will especially look forward to the great directors shooting historical themes, because the great significance of historical themes lies in "taking history as a mirror to be able to dress up." There will be a problem behind the audience that has to face, "Why did the director choose to film this historical event at this moment? The two branches of the movie itself and its author are twisted into a twine, in and out of the play, just like Garrel shouting "I am innocent." The audience watched not only the play in the play, but also the play. Foreign play. Polanski’s restraint lies in the fact that he could really vent his emotions and "accuse", but what he showed was that his rational mind and the ability to play are not out of control, as if recounting historical materials, depressed, lacking in interest, but attracting attention. . To him, this is a special movie, which almost means to me.

An Officer and a Spy quotes

  • Picquart: I want to see the Dreyfuss file.

  • Picquart: Dreyfuss is innocent.