"Out of thin air" - the title corresponds to the content of the film: a bomb terrorist attack came out of nowhere, taking the lives of the heroine Katja's husband and son, however; two suspects were found without justice due to insufficiency of justice. Sin free! In desperation, Katya decided to retaliate, and eventually perished with the suspect.
At first glance, the plot of using violence to control violence seems to be lackluster, but once combined with the current European political environment and the wave of immigration, the whole story has a heavy texture. It begins with an explosion that "comes out of thin air" and ends with an explosion that "comes out of thin air", giving the audience more space for interpretation and thinking, which is also what director Fatih Akin (German) is best at. Theme of. As a descendant of Turkish immigrants, he has always had something to say about the various unequal encounters of ethnicity in European society, and he has something to say!
The narrative structure of the film is a classic linear three-section, consisting of three parts: "family", "justice" and "sea". The time is gradual, and the techniques are simple and neat. The rare highlight is that each part is introduced by a hand-held DV, which improves the single structure in form, and supplements the details of the plot in content. The connection is more reasonable and reasonable, and it also improves the Viewability of each part.
"IDIE FAMILY"
DV begins with Katya marrying her husband Nouri, who is serving a sentence in prison. During the period, there is one detail that is impressive. Neither of them prepared a wedding ring, and they could only temporarily replace it with a ring tattoo on the ring finger of each left hand. The form is insignificant in the face of true love. The unbearable pain of destruction.
After his release from prison, Nouri founded an accounting firm specializing in Turkish-born accounts, and had a child with Katya, Rocco, but a "neo-Nazi" couple (Andre Moeller, Ida Mo Le) carried out a bomb terrorist attack outside the accounting firm, tragically killed Nuri and Rocco.
The first part left ample room for Diane Kruger, who played the heroine Katya, and it was precisely the moment when the actor's skills were most tested: being a wife, a mother, the pain of bereavement, the pain of bereavement, a little Improper handling and over-handling can easily pull the audience away and make it difficult to empathize, but Diane Kruger proved that she deserved the Cannes Best Actress award with her exquisite acting skills.
From the shocking news that "two people died at the scene, an adult man and a child", Katya's facial expressions and eyes emotions were all natural. Unbelievable, dizzy, powerless, grief, and despair brewing bit by bit, until the collapse, wailing, wailing, hugging and crouching after being asked to do a DNA test, the whole performance process is convincingly credible.
In terms of atmosphere rendering, the director made a lot of use of the element of "rain". Since the explosion, it has been rainy and rainy outside, and the indoor light and shadow are basically dominated by cold gray. From the side, it reminds everyone of this woman's despair. In the shots related to "rain", the "window" always occupies an important position, from the living room - the bedroom - the lawyer's office - the police station office - the explosion scene - the children's room; every scene switching of the "window" is not only a close service In terms of the plot, it also shows the subtle changes of Katja's psychological world over time, which has made quite adequate preparations and foreshadowing for her subsequent suicide by cutting the pulse in the bathtub.
In addition, I have to mention several groups of characters during the dialogue. The director began to slowly throw some social issues that he valued to the audience. Katya's mother was unfriendly to Nouri, the police did not trust Nouri, and Nouri's parents wanted to take the remains of their son and grandson back to their hometown for burial. One step further; Turkish immigrants have always faced all kinds of prejudice, squeezing, misunderstanding, and labels in the process of integrating into Europe and seeking identity, and the "Neo-Nazism" that finally surfaced is more like a bright 's dagger, put the needless killing directly on the table.
"Ⅱ GERECHTIGKEIT"
In the DV, Katja, Nuri, and Rocco's family are happy and happy. Katja repairs Rocco's remote-controlled electric car. Rocco cheers and high-fives her "You are the best!" How joyful the memory is, the reality As cruel as it is, the remote control later became the murder weapon in the third part.
The court trial is undoubtedly the most tense part of the second part: the testimony of the defendant's father, the perjury of the Greeks, the testimony of Katya, and the established fact that Nouri once possessed drugs and Katya is now taking drugs. The situation turned sharply, and finally fell into a passive situation. This reversal process also brought the audience's anger to a peak. Based on the principle of "suspected crime never existed" and insufficient evidence, the two suspects were released in court, and the peak of anger then plummeted into disappointment. At the bottom of the valley, the psychological state of the audience standing in God's Vision has reached an unprecedented integration with Katya in several court trials. At this point, the spiritual level of this character can be truly shaped and complete, just like the Japanese samurai completed on her body. tattoo.
Why so angry? ! Because the truth is difficult to restore, justice cannot be done!
However, anger is only the director's intention.
Throughout this article, everyone must have a question. As long as the surveillance images of the scene and the nearby neighborhoods on the day of the explosion are called up, won't the suspects be invisible? (It does not rule out the possibility of not installing a monitoring system.) However, this is not Fatih Akin's original intention. Through the intense questioning and refutation of the court, it is his main purpose to create unfair results at the technical level. He has his own anger, and this is what I wrote in the previous post. He always has something to say, and he has something to say! Regardless of whether this wave of rhythm he brings is a coincidence, but it is deliberately obvious. With the universal value of "justice", Katya has won the vast majority of sympathy as a victim, and also gave her the third part. revenge laid the groundwork – a twisted and deformed legitimacy.
Andre Moeller and Ida Moeller didn't talk much about the couple, they were silent during the whole process, and they didn't mention the motive for committing the crime. It is the words of Andre's father, "My son worships Hitler". It is not difficult to see that the director's move is to show that there is a serious split in the views of Turkish immigrants in Europe. To study the reasons behind "neo-Nazism", I just want to simplify it into a symbol. Just like the Golden Dawn party that Moeller and his wife liked on Facebook, Macaris immediately added a "democratic election". Otherwise, how could "neo-Nazism" resurface so quickly?
This is also widely criticized by the audience for portraying the Moellers as too thin and flat. This black-and-white setting that is too "politically correct" is really debatable. For example, the attack on the French "Charlie Hebdo" in 2015, whether it is a Muslim who claims to avenge Mohammed, or a "Charlie Hebdo" that seems to be set on fire by fundamentalism, there are a lot of stories behind both.
"ⅢDAS MEER"
"Come on! Mom!" Rocco called.
"No, I just applied sunscreen!" Katya responded.
In DV, the three of them were sunbathing on the beach, Rocco rode on Nouri's shoulders and the two went down to the water to play, and they could not wait to invite Katya together.
Katya couldn't resist, got up and walked over.
...
This is the saddest part of the three DVs, because the family of three finally reunited again, but in another world.
After the court verdict, Katya tracked the Moellers to Greece and found the location of their RV. Using diesel, fertilizer, steel nails, and a pressure cooker, Katya made a similar bomb device, and modified the remote control of the Rocco electric car to control it. Detonation of the device. When Katya first stuffed a bomb bag under the RV and was about to kill the Moellers, the bird that focused on the rear-view mirror and kept flapping its wings to fly into the RV through the transparent glass was undoubtedly a stroke of genius. , which made Katya give up on the first detonation.
The bird that can't fly into the RV represents a living life. Although Katya is eager for revenge, once she really wants to kill the enemy, she will instinctively hesitate. This is also the nature of human beings, not so much her She independently chose the dead end of "repressing violence with violence", but it might be better to say that society and the system pushed her hard.
After returning to the hotel, Katya found that she had stopped menstruating since the explosion, implying that she had made a final decision in her heart, and this decision brought her life back from despair, just like the red blood on her hands, Only when you get together with your loved one can you seek kindness and benevolence. This decision is the death of the same at the end, which also echoes the invitation of Nouri and Rocco in DV: "Come on! Mom!".
When the RV was bombed beyond recognition, thick smoke and flames rose, the camera slowly panned upwards until the black smoke and burning trees disappeared little by little, the sky returned to pure blue, and then panned upwards to dock. The sea covered with ripples, and finally stopped at the bottom of the golden sparkling water.
If the hatred in my heart can never be eliminated, what should I do? Fatih Akin gave his answer: "NO mercy"!
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