Heroes are often those little-known ordinary people

Theo 2022-03-24 09:03:18

It's still an anti-war theme, but there's no gunshots or bloodshed in the film. What we see is the wonderland of the Austrian countryside, where there are people with true hearts, Franz, who loves his family deeply and can go back to his life if he nods, but he insists on doing what he thinks is right. Without the last visit from his wife, without the last support from his wife, maybe he wouldn't have persevered. Although he knew the result, his departure would bring great pain to his family and his mother, but he also knew that when the news of his death reached his hometown and when the church bells rang for him, those who had spoken badly to him and his wife Those who face him will take off their hats to salute him. Franz might just be an ordinary person, and he was shaking before the execution, but he persevered to the end. Heroes are often ordinary people who are not well known.

The photography of the whole film is remarkable, with close-up wide-angle shaking close-ups, which vividly express the characters' suppressed emotions. A lot of narration moved me in front of the screen.

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  • Sonia 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    "Ask, and it will be given to you...Knock, and the door will be opened to you." This passage of the Bible in Hidden Life is so beautiful, Terrence Malik is constantly expanding the beauty of the movie, constantly resisting, Fighting against the mess of life, a humble and elegant person rare among contemporary filmmakers, picks up everything in nature and resists human forgetting. I can't help but ask myself again: Do you dare to be at any time, no matter what kind of danger you face, no matter what the sturdy high wall is behind you, no matter how many seemingly right voices you turn your back on, how many people you love and how many people you love The person who loves you, do you really dare to pay any responsibility you can for the truth, faith, morality and conscience you believe in, even at the cost of your life? I will always be responsible for what I say and do, say what I believe, I criticize, it's easy, the question is do you really dare, when you face death is the only way to achieve freedom when?

  • Elenora 2022-04-22 07:01:47

    I found out that I have the super power to automatically fall into a coma halfway through watching a long and beautiful movie and thus get a better movie viewing experience. I often automatically log off when others are bored, and the movie can be better when I wake up! To reiterate the afterthought of "The Tree of Life", Malick's shots of animals and gods are not people (characters). The protagonist's decision seems to be political, but in fact it is more instinctive and religious, so there is no need to talk about utility and no need to debate, such as animal migration, saint sacrifice, narrative is only a few words, analysis is not necessary, only the most magnificent of the will itself is presented. Aesthetic is enough. In this film, this kind of tragic beauty is placed in the same place as idyll and primitive agriculture, and it is opposed to war, bureaucracy, and modernity. Modernity thus means the disintegration of divinity. Modern people do not ask whether morality is right or wrong. Useless. Is this Malick's answer to contemporary activists? Going back to the classics, acting like the old gods, instead of following the crowd like the new?

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.