Some people say that the film "Les Innocentes" by the female director Anne Fontaine is suspected of beautifying the French. Those who put forward this point of view are probably sensitive , this film does not actually put forward many views that are imposed on the audience, and it is difficult to say that the female Red Cross doctor who rescued innocent nuns is French and is glorifying.
At the beginning of the film, it was written that it was adapted from real events. As for how much it has been restored, it is unknown, but at least it has the basis of the original events. It seems self-evident that the disasters that war inflicts on unarmed women are often more than one. Tragic and sympathetic, this does not seem to be out of the ordinary, and it seems that beautification seems to be forcibly welt. The film also recreates Mathilde's love for the weak in the cutscenes. For example, she, who looks unsmiling on weekdays, will show a smile to the war orphans who are running around on the streets.
War will magnify the shortcomings of human nature, the wretched people will become more wretched, and those who have ideals will pay a lot to maintain their ideals, and those who are lost may continue to be lost, or they may wake up suddenly in case of trouble, it all depends on personal nature. One of the distortions of human nature in war is also reflected in the type of people who suddenly hold the power of life and death. The sudden expansion allows them to do whatever they want. Because the incubation of the monster of war has inspired the evil hidden in peacetime, they do not seem to be Another lovely son of a certain mother, but a demon from hell, who dares to run wild in sacred places, and more than once.
Poland in World War II, sandwiched between Germany and the Soviet Union, was often bullied from the left and right, and the regular army was still buried by brutal shootings (see "Katyn Massacre"), not to mention the weak nuns, the tragedy presented in the film seems to be It is another trauma left by the war to this suffering land. The monastery near Warsaw is still like this, and other regions can be imagined. It’s just that such incidents that happened in wartime are unwilling to be spoken because of their disgrace, and then they are likely to be annihilated. The dark part will also be hidden, and naturally, the loving part will also be covered up.
The traumatic experience inflicted by men is horrific, but the tragedy triggered by belief is the darker part of the event, Gustave Le Pen said: "The so-called belief, it can make a person become completely self-reliant. Dream of slavery." The "execution" method of the abbot to innocent young lives, in her opinion, is in line with her faith (in fact, it is to cover up the vicious incident and want to continue to maintain the monastery), but it is inhumane and even more criminal.
The film uses a small perspective and a small format to express this past, so that the narrative structure is very simple. This is actually to avoid too many mixed voices that make the event itself lose its voice, and let the contemptible event itself speak. This seems to be a Fontaine's directing ideas. Although there are screams of pain during production in the film, the overall presentation of the film is still quiet and peaceful. After the misfortunes of those "women of God", except for a few fluctuations in belief, most of them still sing in the morning and evening. , cultivate the mind with peace of mind, accept those sudden disasters with trembling or resignation, and after being upgraded innocently, will naturally have some new feelings. However, under the auspices of the old dean, the divinity is greater than the human nature. , there is almost no room for the existence of motherhood, so the tragedy of suicide is not accidental, but inevitable, and the "superior" of the deputy Maria has also become in line with the reality and the needs of the times.
Except for the female doctor who had never met before, no one seemed to really care about the women who lived and died behind the high walls and gates, including their close relatives, who were mostly indifferent. Although there is hope and warmth at the end of the film, the cold scene of the abandoned basket in the ice and snow seems to be the freezing point that it is difficult to recover, reminding people that some things cannot be covered up.
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