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Kacey 2022-03-22 09:02:38

Compared with other German films, the historical volume spanning more than ten years, the popularization of art, and the expressive form of painting, this is the uniqueness of "No Master". You can think of this work simply as an art film, an art film in a sensitive period. I love one reviewer's comment on how a film conveys art: it's clumsy honesty. This kind of clumsiness, I understand it to be straightforward, the opening scene directly hits the scene where Elizabeth takes little Kurt to visit the "Decadent Art Exhibition". In 1932, the impact of the young Adolf Hitler on art was naked through the tone of the exhibition staff. Expressed, art is seen as "a means of fooling," and the spirituality of the artist is mocked as a skill, a visual disease.

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  • Trycia 2022-03-28 09:01:10

    2.5. From the perspective of a child to an adult, the first time the aunt was arrested, the second time the hospital took a group photo, and the montage explained the tragic fate of each family character, and quickly established the background. It's a pity that in the second act, when it starts to turn into the romance scene, it becomes long-winded. Elizabeth's name, the coincidence of her lover and her aunt, and some kind of sexual implication. The fourth protagonist perspective, the abortion scene. The comprehension of the protagonist in the third act is even more "design", the photo of the newspaper. It's almost too deliberate for the end of the shock to be constructed for what seems to be "smart" at the end. However, it is still interesting to think about art. For example, the protagonist once denied the meaning of painting, because taking pictures can fully reproduce reality. In the end, his painting was reborn by copying photos. In other words, taking a step back may be closer to reality.

  • Adrian 2022-03-17 09:01:07

    If you ask me: What is art? I will be ambiguous temporarily. But I know that when I watch "Freedom to Guide the People", "viva la vida" and "Spring Rite" will reverberate in my mind. When I listen to "Chinese Children", "Hungry Sudan" and "Omaila" will appear before my eyes. "The Pain", I saw and heard in this film: Mental illness knows that two plus two equals five, and neuropathy knows that it equals four. I thought of "1984". What is art, I don’t know, but I know: Art can be a party, but not Party, it's about liberty.

Never Look Away quotes

  • Professor Antonius van Verten: Don't vote for anyone. Never vote for another party again. Vote for art. It's either-or. In art only, freedom is not an illusion.After the Nazi catastrophe, only the artist can give people back their sense of freedom. Every individual, whether he's a garbage man or a farmer, has the chance to be an artist. if he develops his own subjective abilities without external guidelines. If you aren't free... completely free, then nobody else will be. By making yourselves free, you are liberating the world. You are priests. You are revolutionaries. You are liberators. Make your burnt offerings!

  • Professor Antonius van Verten: So, Lehmbruck. He said that each work of art must retain something from the first days of Creation. As if almost as if it were still divine... As if it were only just emerging from the primeval mass, from the rib... No. No, a different approach. Has anyone had an insight this week? A realization... you'd perhaps like to share?

    Kurt Barnert: Lottery numbers. If I tell you six numbers at random... 5, 7, 23, 29, 44, 11... that's just stupid. But if I read you the winning numbers from the lottery... May I?- "2, 17, 19, 25, 45, 48." Suddenly they have a true quality, something imperative, almost beautiful.