another color of childhood

Dennis 2022-04-11 09:01:07

If it wasn't for the teacher's request, I definitely wouldn't watch it. The old film is about a history of blood and tears of the refugees. It's like the feudal serf era in China. The bottom society, eating pig and dog food every day, doing cattle and horse work, those pigtails used to teach animals, will naturally hit the poor, and if they die, they will die in a foreign land. This is enough to wake me up from childhood to all kinds of grief. Memories of the movie, I really did not want to watch.
But, but... I was wrong. Although this movie is painful enough, it is by no means depressing. From the very beginning, the protagonist naively fantasized about a better life after coming to Denmark with his helpless father on a big boat. "Children don't have to work, I can still find a woman to take care of.” Until a person embarks on a journey of travel, the small figure melts into the ice and snow without looking back, and in two years, from the perspective of a child, there is both the humiliation experienced by himself and what he can see with his naked eyes. The things that the people around him have experienced, the spiritual hope has been re-established and collapsed again and again, and finally a young man has experienced growth beyond the physical body. At this time, he should have the opportunity to choose the life he once hoped for without work. At that time, he chose to give up and chose to walk into the ice and snow alone.
After determining this major spiritual tone, then watch the use of audio-visual language in the movie. It can be said that all the use of language is serving the major direction of the movie, that is, all these causes and effects can be said to ultimately help the protagonist transcend the physical age and sublime the spirit. The cornerstone, and the dramatic conflicts contained in all these causes and effects are in line with the audience's accustomed viewing experience, so when the film hints at certain details, the audience will naturally follow the director's beat, and when a tragedy occurs, the audience will naturally follow. Investment, this is a classic that crosses the times. Even if a new group of audiences is changed, they can still read what the director wants to express.
The film has been creating an image of snow, heavy snow and floes. From the analysis of the dream, heavy snow means suffering. The opening scene of the film is a long-term account of heavy snow, boats, and thick fog. The fog has disappeared, but the snow is still piled up on the ground. The characters in the play run and fall in the thick snow. Occasionally, there is a rare trace of green, which is often cheerful and sad at the same time. For example, the face is disabled. The boy, such as the wife's niece, her ignorance turned into blood stains on her underwear in the end, and she was washing naked by the river, while the gentleman on the side was just smoking a cigarette, looking like she was not surprised.
And the protagonist who has always been a child, because of the innocence and kindness unique to the child, is not just a quiet bystander like those adults, but has his own thinking and judgment. When he accused the young man, he said It was with such righteous words, every sentence digging into his heart, when the somewhat disabled boy walked towards the sea without turning his head, he shouted from behind, although his strength is weak, but when he thinks independently. At the time, he has grown up, so that when his spiritual idol Eric becomes a fool, he has integrated his ideal into his own belief, the sight is barren, but the scene in the distance is beautiful, only Embark on a journey, all the way forward.

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Pelle the Conqueror quotes

  • Pelle: [helping his father to remember the name of the prophets] Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiah and Jeremiah!

    Lassefar: Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiah and Jeremiah!

  • Pelle: Father?

    Lassefar: Can't we just stay here?

    [Pelle nods to say no]

    Lassefar: You'll have to go without me, Pelle. I don't have strength to travel anymore. I'm too old. Too old. I don't have a future. Do you understand?

    [Pelle nods positively]