Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award, an art film that was praised by film critics before there were resources online. Its artistic level is indeed compelling enough to believe that everyone can't deny it.
The criteria for judging the pros and cons of contemporary literary films are divided into two levels: one is to see how many mortal audiences it can hypnotize to death, and the other is to see how much attention it can attract from authoritative film critics. These two judging criteria are not in conflict, but only in the film tastes of contemporary fans.
The movie consists of 39 fixed long shots. The one I recently watched with the same camera style is probably "The Fourteen Stations of the Road", but "Bitterness" is obviously realistic, while "Cold" is completely absurd and dark humor. But perhaps it's this surreal absurd tone that sets this work apart.
A pile of walking corpses as pale as flour covered their behavior in various sluggish dialogues, but refracted and satirized some of the inferior and lowly characteristics of human nature. You say their (their) actions make sense? Asking you to elaborate on your analysis, you may not be able to come up with a logical reason - especially if this film is based on so many scenes that seem to be somewhat related but are essentially unrelated. The linear narrative structure is based. But can you deny the story independence of each of its sub-mirrors and the corresponding branch themes expressed? Neither can.
It is precisely because the film's script, shooting style and even the actors' performance and even the soundtrack are based on an illogical background, so its contradictions are also reasonable.
Writing here, I feel that my review of this film is as obscure as this film.
For the same theme, if I had to choose between realism and absurdism in terms of expression, I would obviously choose the former, but I have to say that this movie is not ugly, and it can even be said that black humor basically runs through the whole movie. But certainly not a choice for after-work entertainment. But as long as you don't fast-forward, it should be hypnotic for most ordinary people - I can venture to judge that.
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