The first check-in at the Shanghai Film Festival is undoubtedly a wonderful experience. And the most exciting thing is the contradiction created by the director deliberately. At the end of the sudden opening, it seems that he was caught off guard and was punched at the softest place in the center of the mouth. In the end, Onof finally faced up to his life, whether it was miserable or glorious, or sinful or kind. After the rain and the weather, he let go of everything and went to a distant place. Perhaps the most difficult thing for everyone is to reconcile with himself.
A warm film in the name of suspense
The rushing string music, the shaking camera, and the restless man in the rainy night ran wild with blood all over his body. At the beginning, the director easily brought the audience into a terrifying and suspenseful atmosphere without a single word. As one of the unsuspecting viewers, I was also tempted by the director to start guessing the conspiracy behind the man's panic.
The suspenseful clips after arriving at the police station are even more textbook-level. The peeping eyes behind the keyhole and the regular and tense rhythm of raindrops all emphasize that this is a "suspense film". The confrontation between Polanski and Depardieu's acting skills made the originally monotonous interrogation session extremely exciting. In the face of such a wonderful performance, you will be reluctant to miss any eyes. The nervous and restless Onof was evasive in the face of the sheriff's questioning, and the foreword seemed to outline a villain who tried to escape the crime after committing a murder in a country house.
In such a tense atmosphere, you can accidentally fall into the director's trap - when you start thinking about whether Onof is really guilty, what happened that day began.
As the rain weakened and the rain passed, the theme of the film suddenly became clear. The existence of the sheriff and the police station was not for trial, but to redeem Onof's bewildered soul. Onof's fear and confusion stemmed from his inability to reconcile with himself in this life. In the pull between the ego and the id, the overwhelmed Onof chose to commit suicide, and finally followed the sheriff's sentence, "This novel is your best The works", Onof's soul also returned to tranquility. At this time, he finally realized the warm core hidden behind the suspense. What he really wanted to explore was how life should recognize and reconcile itself.
When I walked out of the movie theater, I found the neglected "Director: Giuseppe Tonadore" on the ticket stub, which made me smile.
redemption in the name of judgment
In Eastern and Western mythology, the world after death is always associated with judgment. Whether it is the judge of the king of hell in Chinese mythology, or the heaven and hell in the Western world, people’s words and deeds while they are alive cannot escape being punished after death. liquidate one by one. In this movie, Ornof, who died after his death, also came to the police station in a panic, and with unease and dodge, accepted the trial of the police officer.
But is the police officer really trying to judge whether Onof is good or evil?
With the police officer's questioning again and again, the raindrops that infiltrated the house fell drop by drop. From the beginning, Onof resisted and tried to escape, and finally began to recall and miss him. The writer Onof's life is full of unspeakable filth, a glorious life made up for the love of vanity, exhausted inspiration and robbing the text of the homeless, but the sheriff's interrogation is not intended to convict Onof, Depardieu The sharp but pitiful eyes seemed to penetrate Ornoff to see his heart, he guided Ornoff to open the bag of his own frozen moments of life, and guided Ornoff to recall every person he had loved. In the eyes of the director, the existence of the police station is not for trial, but for redemption, to redeem those souls who are struggling with anxiety and filth, and to obtain peace after reconciliation with themselves.
In Freud's theory, everyone lives in the eternal and endless conflict between the id and the ego. The same is true for Ornoff. In the director's eyes, the real moment when the rain passes may be to face up to his own life. , Facing desire and guilt, the heart finally sighed, "Ah, those are the people and things I have loved!" Until this moment, the soul was finally at peace. And summoning such courage may exhaust the life of ordinary people.
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