Barren outside the mountains, silence in the mountains

Harrison 2022-03-26 09:01:12

A film full of avant-garde ideals, the tune is aimed at avant-garde, but unfortunately, like a separation,
political ideology, cultural symbolic deconstruction, and the shackles of the times are destined to be the same as a separation. The ending
only looks like a pioneer, but the language, narrative structure, lens, and values ​​are all a bit too big and inappropriate.
Narratively, the entire film relies too much on language and lines. Actions, shots, expressions, eyes, music, and subconsciousness only account for 20% or less. This directly led to the decline of the artistry and appeal of the film itself. In addition, the director wanted to install a non-committal so-called "neutral" attitude, but he may not understand that the neutrality and calmness of the film is like the zero degree of Roland Barthes's writing. , not that the neutrality of a scholar can be expressed completely without cover. The neutrality of literature and art can only be slowly washed away from our clarity and transparency after the deep sympathy and the fading tide of love and hatred. Otherwise, calmness and objectivity are just a kind of technical opportunism. After calmness, the expression is still barren and blank.
It seems to express the shackles and imprisonment of religion on people's thoughts, and it depicts the entire monastery as a group of ignorant, superstitious and ignorant Puritans, even like the godfather, who has ulterior motives, molesting nuns, and forging beliefs, but there is no sufficient evidence, and it relies entirely on language. The strong offensive and the expression with a distinct ideological color deliberately set up cultural opposition. The ignorance of the monastery is true, but it does not mean that the foreign monks are so wise. The director did express the girl's strong and even conceited thinking and values ​​to a certain extent in the film, but the purpose of this irony seems to be more to justify the girl's pursuit of ideal freedom. If the teenage girl comes back with success, it will be difficult for the script to proceed.
When pedantic tradition meets arrogant and arrogant modernity, what we need is not noncommittalism, nor intensifying the rift between the two, nor expecting one to replace the other. After all, you can only repair your own scars.
It’s hard to say it’s contagious. I only see symbolism, rights, politicization, ideology, the absence of philosophy, the absence of art, and the absence of the basic elements of cinematicness—fraternity, care, and transcendence.

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Extended Reading
  • Bertha 2022-03-21 09:03:09

    There is sin everywhere, and God is no exception. The scenes in the monastery blur the sense of the times. Even if it is put into a hundred years ago, it does not violate the harmony, but when you walk out of the monastery, you can see the shadow of modernization everywhere. The director deliberately creates this contrast to express the alienation and ignorance of the world shrouded in religion. I really like this kind of calm and restrained movie, 150 minutes whizzed by. The photography of this film is very beautiful, the lens is very know how to choose, the composition is very elegant.

  • Rosella 2022-03-29 09:01:08

    The pertinent Samsung reason is that I really didn't finish it, or it should be said that the second girl really doesn't look like the color of the film, and the tone of the film is really unpleasant. Only the script is a pleasing script.

Beyond the Hills quotes

  • Priest: The man who leaves and the man who comes back are not the same.