A musical that was strongly watched by Amway. After watching it, I found that, as the musical film in which the Oscars beat the Godfather in the awards in 1973, its greatness has a special place.
In Germany in 1931, the Weimar Republic was about to come to an end, and the recession of the economic crisis affected everyone. The story starts from a Berlin karaoke hall and tells the joys and sorrows of several people around the showgirl Sally. An English teacher from Cambridge, a run-down young man who wanted to climb high branches, a rich Jewish lady pursued by a German aristocrat and run-down young man, and the karaoke hall where Sally was located met and separated in the drunken Berlin of the early 1930s. The story itself has a conventional routine of seeing the big from the small, reflecting the social changes with the life changes of the little people. But what is excellent is that the main characters portrayed by the film's bright lines are very complete, and the whole film is connected in the form of singing and dancing. Every song and dance is the progress of the timeline. Miss Rich, and did not hesitate to reveal her Jewish identity when the wind intensified. The English teacher and Sally were originally attracted to each other and gradually fell in love with each other, but the participation of the German nobles interrupted this relationship. After some jealousy and complaining, the three inevitably fell in love with each other, which was funny and humorous. But as the Nazis came to power, the nobles fled to South America, leaving the two behind.
The bright line of the film is a twisted but funny love story inside and outside the karaoke hall, but the dark line is the gradual rise of the Nazis and the gradual deterioration of the environment. And through songs to show that the performances in the karaoke hall are flattering to the current situation, worshiping money, satirizing Jews, and the ignorant laughter of the German people, it actually reflects that the Nazis, like a poisonous snake, gradually penetrated into the hearts of every ordinary German. Among them, subtly affects everyone. The most straightforward expression of the film is that when the German nobles and English teachers drove to the countryside, at a country party, a boy wearing a Nazi armband sang songs similar to war songs with a tender and firm voice, which evoked the surrounding area for a while. All, this moment, the germs of ultranationalism and the vengeance of past sufferings come out bluntly and boldly. The English teacher directly asked the nobles: Do you think you can still control them? In fact, it is also ironic that the German upper echelons, who had the opportunity to truly prevent the rise of the Nazis, overestimate their own strength and despise the Nazis - and ultimately lead to bitter results. The German aristocrats may finally get Sally pregnant, but they fled Germany and went to South America directly, showing the hypocrisy and shamelessness of this kind of superficially graceful and dignified upper class. On the contrary, it was the run-down German young man who was learning English. He wanted to get out of trouble with a wealthy lady until he met a Jewish lady. Lu Xianqin even used her tricks to occupy her, but in the process. However, he really fell in love with the rich lady, and even when the Nazis came to power and Jews began to be persecuted, and the situation was severe, he disclosed his Jewish identity and married the lady. This kind of courage is nothing compared to the hypocritical German aristocrats. I don't know where the height went. On the other hand, Sally and the English teacher reunited after a ridiculous relationship, but in the end, Sally still gave up the pregnancy and sent the English teacher away. However, since they are all foreigners, the political situation in Germany is not very affected by them, so it is more from the perspective of a bystander to show the audience the world in that drunken German karaoke hall.
The design of singing and dancing does not seem to be too new today, but at that time, it included eight awards including best director, actress, art design, and became the biggest winner of the current Oscar. The director is very particular about the editing and the rhythm of the film. The changes of music and the switching of the editing rhythm are very smooth. Several of the songs and dances and the actual scenes are cut back and forth with skillful and lively techniques, which are enough to be amazed today.
Get rid of the movies and talk about politics.
When the Nazis came to power, they catered to the general psychology of the public at the time, but all of this was actually based on the Weimar government and the upper class's neglect of the vision of the lower class. Accidentally coupled with necessity, it contributed to a storm that affected the world. European anti-Semitism has existed since ancient times, and the ugly side of human nature is inevitably exposed in times of hardship. However, the Holocaust such as the Nazis is actually a masterpiece of a social movement. In terms of anti-Semitism and slaughter, every German is in the hands of Actually bloodstained. Compared with the research on the history of the end of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis after World War II, this film does not face too much expression, but in a song and dance film that seems to be quite a cult now, it is a metaphor for the social reality of Germany on the eve of the storm. , the top is drunk and the bottom is full of resentment, the Nazis targeted the left wing and the Jews at the right time, so everything came naturally. The characters in the film are also reflected to a certain extent. The hypocrisy of the nobles, the sincere love of the Jewish youth, the indifference of bystanders, the singing and dancing in the karaoke hall are actually a picture scroll of society. The characters in the karaoke hall also seem to have deep meanings, Sally's foreign identity and promiscuous past, the satire of syphilis, the flattery of the dance hall actors to money, the shemales and homosexuals in the actors, and the women who have no manners fight each other. And large-scale sexually suggestive dances, which satirize the low taste of capitalist society, will not end well in the upcoming social storm, so in the end, the English teacher leaves, and Sally's solo performance is actually this drama. , the hint of the ballroom's upcoming dirge, the inside of which, to be honest, is all predictable. The director didn't have the slightest restraint in this regard.
For the limited film research, just my own opinion, please feel free to slap in the face (laughs).
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