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Glenna 2022-11-30 05:41:44

A very French, very cinematic film,

a profound, unremitting exploration of more possibilities of film expression.

Although the author observes and examines Japan from the perspective of others, the aesthetic perspective of spectacle is a little superficial, and there is no in-depth discussion on individuals, and even shows the attitude of victors examining war criminals from time to time, but this film has a lot to do with Japan. The meticulous and in-depth observation of culture and society, as well as the author's analysis and speculation from the perspective of individual emotions and historical society, are universal to human civilization, and can even be said to have certain anthropological significance.

The style of this film can be said to be not much different from the author's previous work "Dike".

"Night and Fog", Roush, Duras, Resnais, these great documentaries and filmmakers will continue to pass on.

Documentary, as an art form of thinking, a medium for examining the heart and the world, will still be full of great power

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  • Narrator: As for the students, some massacred each other in the mountains in the name of revolutionary purity, while others had studied capitalism so thoroughly to fight it that they now provide it with its best executives.

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland in 1965. He said that for him that it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images. But, it never worked. He wrote me, "One day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black leader. If they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black."