In general, both films tell some stories about farewells: "Goodbye, Childhood" is both a teenager saying goodbye to his childhood, and a French boy saying goodbye to a Jewish boy who shares his hobbies; "The Lonely Wife" It seems to be a farewell to the wife and brother-in-law, and also to the life of a housewife who used to have nothing to do. Even if it is a farewell, it is not "always tearing away", but the emotion of sympathy is born from the courage.
It is inferred that no matter whether it is a teenager or an adult, one after another, they are destined to move forward on the journey to the next station. Louis Mahler arranged this story in the age of the Auschwitz concentration camp, trying to celebrate the friendship that broke through all political pollution in the youth. The long shot schedule puts the tension in the middle of the closed composition, so that the fermentation of growth is naturally completed under the shot. Rey was obviously in the early days of the film language, and he used too many sports lenses that were not very rounded and zoom lenses with a strong taste of students' works. The creative process, the simple story described in the film, is interpreted in a so-called "affecting human spiritual progress" in a film that is not Indian, but has a Western tendency. As these characters stared silently into the camera at the end of nearly two hours of screen time, I could vaguely feel the grief as a catalyst for the growth of psychological rings.
Almost all films depicting student boarding life, from Jean Viggo's "Practice Zero" to Thomas Anderson's "If... The right to speak is used to establish the conflict between the two parties, so as to promote a human rights tendency with liberalism. However, "Goodbye, Children" is a high-profile, under the premise of small-scale contradictions and large-scale harmony in the school. Strict teachers and stubborn students, but they are happy, and then put another big haze shrouded in the sky - the fascist racial theory, in the position of the strongest conflict, to narrate a topic of human nature, just like this "childhood trilogy". Like the other work "Lacombe Lucien", the war destroyed the childhood of mankind, so the children who said goodbye to childhood grew up early, and the times gave the next generation the innate brutal thinking, but it seems that it cannot be erased. This kind of innocence and kindness, Louis Mahler achieved the purpose of anti-war.
However, Rey's "The Lonely Wife", the plot setting is very similar to Fassbender's film "The Lonely Heart" 8 years later. The description of the lonely wife at home seems to be the theme of the film master's preference, but it is more necessary for Rey to put it on the screen. Courage, because India is an extremely patriarchal country, the sublime status of men forces humble women to be reduced to inferior, but the heroine in the film actually rests at home and allows her husband to run around, and even burst out higher than being a newspaper. The editor's husband's literary genius, and the heroine's intellectual and empathetic impulses, was unimaginable in 1960s India. In addition, the heroine keeps persuading her brother-in-law to find a sweetheart, which is contrary to the wedding traditions of India itself, which seems to be the reason for the evaluation of the film "contributing to spiritual progress".
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