hard to reconcile Europe

Winona 2022-03-25 09:01:09

European movies are really different from Hollywood blockbusters. The slow and long shots, the plot does not need to be rendered by sound, light and shadow, but directly points to people's hearts: "Luo Hong's unreasonable suspicion of Majidi stemmed from the injury to Maji when he was young, and his own guilty conscience, In a blink of an eye, it becomes a powerful evidence for guessing others.”

Poor Majidi, when he was a child, he swung an axe to kill a rooster in order to stay at the owner’s farm and listen to the words of Luo Hong, a smaller rural owner. In the end, he left the farm forever and grew up in an orphanage. . In order to prove his innocence by suicide, he cannot insert a foot in the mainstream society.

Surprised, Luo Hong seemed to be sick and weak, then he closed the blinds, took a nap, and then he was basically like his mother: he forgot about Majidi.

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  • Isabel 2021-12-14 08:01:06

    I'm tired of seeing these little things of the middle class

  • Isabell 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    9.5/10. ① "Zoom"-style film: Using the unsolved case of "the protagonist's family received multiple videotapes and threatening paintings that peeped into their lives" as a clue, it reveals the family conflicts of the French middle class, childhood lies (the Paris massacre in 1961), race and Hidden discrimination by class. ② "Less is more" minimalism: through the use of a lot of space outside the painting (for example, there is a picture of men and women in the painting that was threatening, but their dialogue happens outside the painting), a lot of long shots and deep focus shots (such as a dinner party, the male protagonist crying in the kitchen for two paragraphs), de-dramatic speed and editing (such as long shots of various camera voyeurs), zero soundtrack, low saturation and low brightness color grading, a large number of fixed long shots (such as The middle-aged Albanian Ma Ji cut his throat) and so on to exaggerate the cold and depressed emotional atmosphere. ③In the male protagonist's dream, the scene where the Arab boy kills chickens reminds people of "The Forgotten People".

Caché (Hidden) quotes

  • Georges Laurent: Isn't it lonely, if you can't go out?

    Georges's Mom: Why? Are you less lonely because you can sit in the garden? Do you feel less lonely in the metro than at home? Well then! Anyway, I have my family friend... with remote control. Whenever they annoy me, I just shut them up.