In this year's World Cup, defending champion Germany was eliminated from the group. Subsequently, the contradictions accumulated before the competition finally broke out after the exit, and Ozil, the core of the attack, announced his withdrawal from the national team.
Ozil is a third-generation German-Turkish immigrant. The conflict between him and the national team management cannot be summed up in three or two sentences or by his identity and ethnicity. The traces of the wheel of history running over behind this incident are more than Longer than we thought.
Last year, Fatih Akin's film "Out of thin air" confronted this social issue and was shortlisted in the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival. Akin himself is a second-generation immigrant from Turkey.
Many people feel that this movie is not a superior work in the dimension of Akin's own film, and it is even a more backward performance after "Song of the Skin". The third-to-last score in Cannes magazine also proves this to a certain extent. . In my opinion, Out of thin air is still a good movie.
Its situation reminds me of Hirokazu Kore-eda's film "The Third Suspect" which was introduced by Arts Federation in the first half of this year, and they all received low evaluations at a high level. The similarities between the two do not stop there. There are several court scenes in "The Third Suspect", which have the effect of blurring the real murderer. In fact, what is blurred is the rationality of extrajudicial justice. The way reflects the scope of the law's validity. In "Come out of thin air", there are also several court scenes. In court, the defense lawyer openly insulted the plaintiff's heroine Katya, causing secondary harm to the victim to a certain extent. The reflection is on the legal system's ability to protect people, especially immigrants.
"Out of thin air" is a three-act play. The pictures shot by the three family DVs respectively reveal the subtitles of each scene - family, justice, ocean. While making the family more full, it also paved the way for Katya's hands-on ability, which was unified with the final homemade bomb.
His family is Kurdish Muslim, and even if he immigrated to Germany, he carried his Muslim identity with him. Katya, a German woman, was also regarded by neo-Nazis as a "Turkish slut" after marrying a Turk. When Katja chose a coffin for her son, she chose a coffin with a star and moon pattern on it, as if the living space of Muslims had been compressed into this coffin.
Justice is not only late in the film, but even absent. The perjury made by the neo-Nazis to defend each other was not questioned by the judges. Instead, Katya was questioned as an "addict" by the defense lawyer for possessing insufficient doses of drugs to be prosecuted, and he threw two to Katya. The choice is either to be insulted and to be tested for drugs as the plaintiff; On the premise of having already suffered one damage, Katya chose the latter. In the end, Katya no longer believes in the legal process and embarks on a path of revenge. Neo-Nazis triumph over addicts in German court. Whether a court that abides by the principle of "suspicious guilt never fails" is a manifestation of humanitarianism or an accomplice of neo-Nazis is the question Akin threw to us. Would the outcome have been different if the victim was a Germanic people? If the victims were Germanic peoples, they would not have been targeted by neo-Nazis.
As the title of the third act, the ocean reminds me of another movie of Ah Jin, "On the Other Side of Life". After letting go of all demands, the male protagonist sits alone on the shore and listens to the sound of the waves. Flow, just like a person who is calm on the surface may not be peaceful in heart. After Katya put down all demands, she chose to die with her relatives and enemies.
There is no lack of anxiety about identity in Ah Jin's films. This is like Hirokazu Kore-eda's hard work in family films, so when Ah Jin makes a crazy and absurd "Soul Restaurant" like Kusturica, it will make people's eyes shine. . A key word that is often discussed in Hirokazu Kore-eda's films is "abandonment", and in Akin's films, the protagonist often appears in the action of "seeking". Rather than looking for a specific goal, it is more about looking for a sense of belonging. For example, the male protagonist's search for the sun symbol in "In July", the sham married couple's search for each other in "Break Forward", the teacher's son and the gay woman in "On the Other Side of Life" who are subject to political persecution The search for a Turkish girl, the search for a daughter by an Armenian father in "Song of the Skin", and the search for freedom by two teenagers in "Chek". Continuing into "Out of thin air" is Katya's search for the enemy. There is joy on the way to search, but more sadness. Maybe wandering, being raped, being beaten, being hunted down, and being killed by mistake, and in "Out of thin air" is Katja's "aphasia", I can't feel it personally How she felt when she picked up the remote control car she had repaired for her late son, and Diane Kruger's grasp of the character's status was just right, and it's no wonder she was awarded the Cannes Best Actress Award.
At the beginning of the film, Katya, with her son, was nearly hit by a passing car, and she was almost hit by a passing car when she was searching for an enemy in Greece. Due to the limitations of the movie screen, similar usages have appeared in many films, not to mention the car that hits and kills a key witness out of thin air in commercial suspense films, and in "Theft of Fire", which was publicized beforehand without accident Engine sound that occurs. There is no exaggeration of these two dangers in "Out of thin air", but it can make you feel that danger is behind them. But what really destroys a family is not a car accident, but a long-planned murder.
The last shot of the film is the upside-down ocean. When justice and evil are reversed on this land, Katya and her enemies who have put down all their demands are buried in the sound of the waves of the sea. This incident is just the persecution of new immigrants by multiple neo-Nazis. A light touch in the event. Germany has no ocean, this is Greece.
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