simple and not ordinary

Juliet 2022-03-22 09:02:28

The film does not have the visual violence of Hollywood, but only uses a gentle, unhurried story to tell the story to the audience. The film uses a lot of close-up and close-up shots, with almost no panorama. The editing is also not as fast as it is in the movies now, to affect the audience. On the one hand, its style, on the other hand, is also related to the viewing habits at that time.
A large number of inner monologues give tension to the story, seemingly calm, but in fact,

the tension of the movie is turbulent in its camera position. It seems normal, but it is not.

So romantic. . .

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A Man Escaped quotes

  • Le lieutenant Fontaine: [Narrating, after giving his word to the prison warden that he would not try to escape again] Who were we kidding? He certainly did not believe me. As for myself, I was determined to escape at the first opportunity.

  • Le lieutenant Fontaine: [Narrating, as he and other prisoners go back to their cells after a short break outside] Time to empty our slop pails and run a little water over our faces, then back to our cells for the entire day. With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away...