emptiness to death

Stella 2022-03-25 09:01:19

Seven and a half hours, drowsy on the subway. The slow-moving shots, the figures' backs disappearing into the horizon, the flying white lace curtains, and the dignified close-ups of the faces, each shot makes people breathless. The deliberately weakened narrative, behind the condensed Hungarian history, and the loss of the individual in the collective event.

Like the magical realism of a century of loneliness, the spirit and soul of people here are empty, and life is boring and lifeless. In this swampy land, there is still a bell left in the ruins of an empty church. Those who have seen the truth are dead, one is a little girl who is not welcome to see a cat with a cat, the other is a doctor who is drunk and immersed in writing, and they look on the ignorance of the people around them.

Corresponding to entertainment to death, people here are empty to death. They are full of fear and despair in their hearts, wanting to change their lives in a pool of stagnant water, so they get involved in the scam and flee collectively. Abandoned villages are overgrown with weeds and have an atmosphere of isolation.

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Extended Reading
  • Eunice 2022-03-15 09:01:07

    #SIFF2019# A rare movie watching experience, 4K is not amazing, watching a movie in a leisurely theater is crazy and depressing to the extreme. More attention has been paid to the text structure that echoes like tango dance steps, and the articles written in time are like endless loops, which are as mysterious and illusory as they are full of information and worth learning. The political expression in the works of Eastern European directors, two brushes minus one star. 19.01.31 First brush life is too short, "Satan Tango" is too long. Not only the tango of Satan, but also the pace of the devil. Poetic text, sometimes flowing and sometimes stagnant images. I have benefited a lot, using the camera to dance tango, although it is simple and crude and not as sophisticated as Yang Suo's design, but it also conveys emotions. I've been seeing the present since Bi Set started shooting. During this period of time there were creative frustrations and the nourishment gained from watching movies, but not empty, the fun of creation and video practice

  • Alberto 2022-03-23 09:03:10

    #SIFF2019# I didn't sleep for 7 and a half hours, and after watching it, I felt a little proud: "There will be no boring films that can beat me in the future!"

Satantango quotes

  • Százados: Not that human life was so highly valued. Keeping order appears to be the business of the authorities, but in fact it's the business of all. Order. Freedom, however, has nothing human. It's something divine, something... our lives are too short for us to know properly. If you're looking for a link, think of Pericles, order and freedom are linked by passion. We have to believe in both, we suffer from both. Both from order and freedom. But human life is meaningful, rich, beautiful and filthy. It links everything. It mistreats freedom only... wasting it, as if it was junk. People don't like freedom, they are afraid of it. The strange thing is there is nothing to fear about freedom... order, on the other hand, can often be frightening.

  • Futaki: I shouldn't drink. When I do I keep thinking of coffins.