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Documentary or melodrama?
Darron 2022-03-26 09:01:14
The Belgian Dardenne brothers won the Palme d'Or again. The film continues their usual documentary photography style, and the grasp of realism is not leaking, and it is never biased or preachy. On the contrary, the "aggressive" momentum has been greatly weakened, which may be related to the relaxation of the camera's movement; it is still a gripping plot development, but a lot of "melodrama" paragraphs have been added to make the narrative more fluent and free. The kind of rough and fierce taste gradually disappeared, replaced by a portrait of a stable life. The director seems to deliberately add fictional color to the documentary atmosphere, and then through this kind of video experiment shows a simple glimpse of one or all of society.
Extended Reading
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Bruno: Only fuckers work.
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Bruno: Did you fart?
Thomas: No.
[Bruno laughs, walks away smelling something in the air]
Thomas: Must be the school's food.