One hundred kinds of life, one happy ending

Troy 2022-04-10 09:01:08

This year's SH Film Festival continued to show Haneke, a new film in 2017, and the comments were disappointing. However, after reading it, it is not too surprising - the master also has to rest, but the idea that he has been insisting on has not changed. The cruelty of Amour, the absurd violence of fun games, and the smoldering of hidden cameras revealed the same kind of scars in completely different forms, impacting our self-knowledge with high intensity. In fact, the same is true of happy endings. The "decent" life that allows us to feel at ease actually hides the "indecent" and unsoundness of our personality. It's the acne that we turn a blind eye to. Haneke put a group of complacent, sullen, weak and numb people—a wide-ranging group of people—into the eye of the camera. However, no matter what, the gold and jade are on the outside or the inside is broken, and the only ending that all of us will face in our entire lives is the happiest ending. #小空watching#xia solstice Xiao really mourns

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  • Webster 2022-04-23 07:06:04

    1. A kind of self-review/repetition and summary of Haneke, although less innovative, but still cold and sour. 2. Different types of video/media collage, mobile phone camera and live broadcast closely follow the trend of the times, TV news, monitor footage (another typical Haneke-style long shot), computer screen recording and webcast are also interspersed. 3. As the sequel to the director's previous work [Love], it uses scattered narratives. Although it is not as sharp as it used to be in the past, everything stops at the point, and the refined white space makes the story without losing its aftertaste. 4. For the same theme of tearing down the glamorous figurines of middle-class families, Thomas Winterberg's [Family Dinner] is even better. (8.0/10)

  • Patricia 2022-04-05 09:01:07

    Indifference, violence, family, refugees, Haneke's films have dealt with these before, and better. As for the conspicuous spectacle of human depravity in the online world, I recommend a great APP to the old man - Kuaishou.