The meaning is beyond the strings: epic love, epic resistance

Emery 2021-12-27 08:01:58

A cliché story, but it is extremely sublimated in emotion and art. The black and white films of 2018 are not only "Rome", but also "Cold War".

To make a black-and-white film nowadays, for a director over 60 years old, the color is dilute, but the emotion is restrained but strong. They often use this more primitive medium to pin their feelings for the past and nostalgia for the past.

"Cold War" is about the life-and-death relationship between a Polish musician and a rural female singer during the Cold War, under ideological opposition. There is no intersection between the two people's classes, concepts, and cultures, but a rare flame of love broke out between them. In fact, they are totally unsuitable for living together. The moving of this kind of love lies more in the sublimation of the tragedy caused by the oppression of the times, so this implies an attack on history. Visually impeccable, excellent folk songs run through and become the emotional clues of the story. The timeline spans a long time, but the narrative is very concise, using linear fragments to express the intersection of the lives of the two protagonists, and supporting roles. Characters and stories outside the main line are hardly willing to talk more, revealing a sense of boredom, which in itself is a kind of resistance to the big narrative. Although there is a lot of blank space in the fragmented narration, because the logic is simple and clear, the stories that are not express are traceable, and they are clear at a glance, reflecting a very clever narrative skill.

In the end, they crossed the ideological separation wall, and after torn apart each other for many rounds, in a strong spirit of self-sacrifice and pure love, they still came together, unable to stand together, but died together.

The film still showed the charm of white space until the last subtitle "For My Parents" appeared. In fact, that child is their child.

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Extended Reading
  • Madyson 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    The most difficult part of no one's life is the most difficult part of life, like the retrospective of external imagination after the fact. Trying to downplay the political background makes the second half appear more general and the pattern becomes smaller. Skip the tossing and changing, the perspective is firmly locked on the two people, but it makes the film have a sense of fate. No matter how people struggle in it, they will come to this point, and the divisions will follow, but they will be pushed away by fate. , follow the flow of life. The last act is the control of fate

  • Jolie 2021-12-27 08:01:58

    D / If this set of grammar can open up a little stagnant space for the inner universe of the individual characters in "Sister Ada", then it is almost completely invalid in the works against this grand historical background. The connection between the characters and the times is broken in the face of the tossing textual intentions. The aura of all images is only a short-lived fragmented flow. For a long time, the two stiff characters will make the audience blind and unsympathetic according to all the logic that Qiong Yao drama should have. The so-called white space is more like a play development hole that cannot be filled. The sense of movement in "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" is much richer than this.

Cold War quotes

  • Zula: Two hearts, four eyes Oh, oh, oh What cried during all day and night Oh, oh, oh That black eyes, which you cry are not able to meet you again

  • Zula: Now I'm yours. For ever and ever.