It is said that in 1977, a young man who was a computer engineer at the time walked into the cinema after get off work. Two hours later, when he walked out, he decided to quit his job and later became a film director. This young man’s name is Yang Dechang, and the movie he watched that changed his fate is called "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" ("Aguirre, the Wrath of God"). I think this is probably a fabricated story. If you want to believe it, you can believe it, and it also reflects the influence of Herzog’s film from one side.
I have "The Great Movie" written by American film critic Roger Eber at hand. When I started this book, I silently set a flag in my heart, thinking not to watch it so fast, but to find out and follow the book. Watching all the movies reviewed in, combined with the reviews, it is estimated that the harvest will be even greater. But I couldn't go on until I read the fourth "Aguirre, the Wrath of God", because the source of this movie was too difficult to find, and later I could only find related DVDs on a certain treasure, but the problem came again. , I bought a Blu-ray DVD, but my simple DVD player can’t read it, so I took advantage of Double Eleven, and quickly bought a Blu-ray DVD player, and on the night of the weekend rest, I got the full picture of this movie.
Unlike my previous wishful thinking about this movie, because seeing the word "anger" in the title, I took it for granted that it should be a rather "cruel" movie. How do you describe cruelty? For example: bloody? Fight? fierce? For the texture, the lens should be the kind of cool color processing.
But neither is it. This is what makes this movie unique or great. As far as the subject matter and story are concerned, this is indeed a very cruel work, but if you ignore the story itself, it can be said that the footage of the film is quite poetic.
The film is shocking from the first shot, the steep distant mountains in the volatile clouds and fog, you only have to look carefully, and you will find a thin line of lines moving and continuing on the rugged and winding mountain roads, following this A set of long-range shots and camera positions slowly descended with the movement of the team. There were wooden cages containing animals that fell down the mountain stream, and more slowly, there were close-up shots and even close-up shots taken on the side of the mountain road. This process Here you will sigh: the ability of directors, photographers to set up cameras, and capture details.
The whole story should be told from the perspective of the diary writer and the priest accompanying the team, including the conqueror team's difficult journey through the jungle and crossing the river, and the character of Aguirre in the team slowly highlights, especially when he calmly instructed The raft filled with the dead corpses of his strange companions who failed to cross the river was bombarded and disappeared. It should be his first self-expression. Later, it can be counted as a "coup d'état", directly abolished, and his accomplices shot the original leader Usura, elected the nobleman Kupta to become the leader, and he himself became the number two person in the team, in fact, in control of power. The trial of Usura was carried out under his instruction, and the priest also wittily "sent him to be hanged." It was only the last moment when Kupta opened the net and saved Usura from the death penalty. However, after Kupta was assassinated, Usura was still unable to escape. The doom of being hanged also caused Usura's wife to run away angrily. It was during the encounter between this group of people and the local indigenous people. The wife was wearing a dark blue dress that was tightly wrapped all over her body. In this scene, she changed to bare shoulders and red on top. , The skirt is a white dress, resolutely walked into the dense rain forest without looking back.
In the end, when Aguirre finally made his own decision, he found that his companions and even his beloved daughter had died. The panorama of the last raft was still shocking. All the cannons had been rusted, and they were probably intensively feared. People with the disease will feel very uncomfortable-monkeys are occupying it, and only Aguirre who wants to be "the Wrath of God" is left with a crooked figure. The camera surrounds such a dilapidated and ruined raft. Rotating is infinitely emotional. It can be said that this is a work that starts with shocking shots and returns to shocking at the end, but when people appear in the first shots and begin an unknown journey, maybe everyone did not expect that the ending will be like this. .
There are not many direct conflict scenes throughout the movie. The cannon that the intruder carried back and forth should have fired three times, one of which was against his team’s raft. It can be said that the existence of native Indians is looming, and what the invaders need to face more is their own inner fear, adaptation to the unfamiliar natural environment, and the struggle for power within their own team. Of course, in the end, when the team has been internalized and wandered for a long time. When the drag was extremely exhausted and the disease was prevalent, the Indians still took action, using their simplest bows and arrows, seemingly to easily wipe out the remaining invaders. Of course, there is another scene where they caught two Indians. That section reminds me of the confrontation with the locals in Apocalypse Now, but the ending is different.
Aguirre is a strong man, determined and cold, with a desire for foreign wealth and power. He took his daughter all the way to turbulence, but he is still no match for nature, no match for the ubiquitous tenacity of the native inhabitants. They have repeatedly proved that they are there. Even though their weapons are primitive, they will continue to guard their homeland. In the end, Aguirre's wrath of God only turned into a great loneliness.
Under the film’s "calm" narrative, there is strong criticism, just like the quagmire in the camera where you get caught up with carelessness, the river with raging waves that keeps appearing, and the mountains on both sides of the river are quiet. But there is where the aboriginals hide, and their hidden weapons tell these intruders from time to time: This is not the place you should come to.
Another point is that the starring Klaus Kinski (Klaus Kinski) is too strong. He has looked directly into the camera several times. The feeling of firmness on his face really makes a strong man appear in place.
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