2. Hmm... Actually, you should be a little nervous. Because the story it tells can happen in any place where power is out of control and the spirit is hollow.
3. This is the most anticipated one of this year’s Oscar foreign language films. There is no one, or simply speaking, this is simply the most anticipated one of all Oscar nominations. Whether it is the pursuit of the film itself, the lens design, the color control, or the reality torture and spiritual orientation of the story it narrates, it can be called a masterpiece in the 2014 film.
4. It is mentioned in the Book of Job that Leviathan is a huge creature. When it swims, the waves also countercurrent. It sprays flames from its mouth, smokes from its nose, has sharp teeth, and its body is wrapped in an armor-like solid shell. The character is cold and ruthless, violent and easy to kill. Directly and without concealment, in this film, Leviathan refers to the country // family and power.
5. In Russia, in a peaceful, beautiful and closed village by the sea, Korya lives quietly with his son and current wife. But what he is facing is a paper strong // demolition // order. The local city ///chang is a brain/full/intestine/fat greedy official. He wanted to take this area as his own and develop it according to his own ideas, so he ordered Corea to relocate within a limited time at a low price. Coria refused to obey and began to embark on legal channels. This day was the day the court ruled. The film begins in tranquility, gestating an unknown storm.
6. Korya’s good friend Dmitry is a public/profit/law//teacher, well-educated, good-looking, confident and responsible. He came from Moscow a long way to fight against public rights /// for the low-level people. The lawsuit-doesn't it sound familiar? Does it remind you of anyone? Therefore, as long as uncontrolled public rights are involved, the basic pattern of ordinary people's lawsuits against public rights is the same, no matter where they are.
7. There is no suspense, the lawsuit/lawsuit is rejected, the house still needs to be demolished. The film begins to involve the law/court/court/trial ceremony. This is extremely symbolic. In the whole film, there are two trial scenes, one is when the law/court rejected Coria's application to keep his house, and the other is when the court/judgment to murder his wife. The director mixed the two acts of law/court play with a solemn, languid and absurd atmosphere. The judge spit out trial/judgment/words at the same speed as tongue twisters, which not only respects the law//legal procedures, but also perfectly eliminates the sense of justice. The two judges/judges/members beside them stood frivolously with indifferent expressions. The second murder trial/judgment of Corea was like a pirated version. After the verdict is pronounced, insiders call the city mayor’s notification call, and we will understand that the trial is just a performance. So the actor's enthusiasm and burnout can be understood. Very familiar again, right?
8. The characters in the film are set in a triangular structure. They are the Coria family, the lawyer Dmitry, and the greedy and fat city chief. They seem to be able to form a tension that restrains each other, but in the end, this structure collapsed to a complete failure, and a fat city ///long-term use rights///power easily crushed the law//teacher and fart//min. The first step this fat man took was to provocation, unscrupulous provocation. After getting an endorsement from the Law Institute, the drunk city mayor, accompanied by his bodyguards, went to Corea's house and insulted Corea in front of her family and the teacher. He insulted, "You bugs, you will never have the right to//profit!" Cruelly, his insults were to some extent a statement of facts. In such a region, power does not open up possibilities to everyone. Dangdang uses money and special power to maintain a closed system, so people who are excluded from the system are doomed Will be abused.
9. It is the turn of the public // benefit // law // division to appear on the stage. As a knowledge/sense/member, what he does is still believe in the process/order/righteousness/righteousness and law/law, at least to finish this cutscene first. He submitted a complaint letter to the city ///Chairman, but of course he was not accepted. And Korya was detained because of his emotions out of control in the police. You see, the people at the bottom have no education or education. They just yell and lack self-control. So you are yelling at the police //observation//bureau, of course there are traces to follow//law/may /Yijishu///Keep you. Right? After this step, the law // teacher began to bypass the law. He took a copy of the mayor's black/materials that had been privately investigated and went to the latter's office. Offer to let the latter give Corea the compensation he deserves. This is very troublesome. In this way, it becomes extortion and illegal acquisition of public///private information. This sounds familiar again, right? The fat man was shocked and pretended to agree with a smile. The problem is coming again. When a society cannot solve the problem through the law//law channel, and the law//law has become the actor of power, then what should we do? Do you still accept your fate under the framework of the law or do you also become a person who transgresses the law, in order to seek the originally legitimate but deprived benefits? Can anyone answer?
10. Knowing/knowing//min/children’s immature cancer cannot be cured. Lil thinks that he has basically won the case and is waiting to collect the money. How is this possible? Greed///Officials are not scared. During this period, Coria's wife, who has been tortured and suppressed by life, also had a leg with Master. This is an introduction to the people//people/internal/contradictions that occurred in untimely times. In the case of fighting the outside/ministries/powers/forces, this can easily cause the internal part to split. Facts have also proved that it is true. almost.
11. A group of people go on a picnic, barbecue, vodka, play shooting and so on. The photos used as targets are all replaced photos of various former powers. Those you know who have big beards and are used to taking pictures seriously are among them. This is the real intention of being obscene. To be teased by the current people in power can only vent their anger with the photos of those who have lost power. Then, Corea found out about Li Shi and his wife on the spot. Family and friendship began to collapse. Disintegration is a theme that has always been implied in "Leviathan". At first it was the collapse of the power system of this country//family rights///, but now, the interpersonal relationship and human heart at the micro level have also begun to collapse. This metaphor is extremely powerful, and the defeat at the micro level is much deeper than the defeat at the grand narrative.
12. The city chief was also very anxious. He summoned his own people in the public // censorship/// legal system, patted the table and questioned, what is the matter with the hacked materials? The group of people knowingly asked, "You still have something we don't know about?" You see, although they belong to the tiger camp, they are also unpredictable! The city leader is anxious, "Your paid vacation is gone, and your vacation abroad is gone. If I have an accident, you will die first." Benefits and intimidation are the foundation for maintaining the right of closure. In this In the dialogue, this couldn't be more clear.
13. Quan///I want to subdue intellectuals. It's very simple. Use violence/power. This has never changed. The law division who originally came with an iron shoulder and moral responsibility was pulled to the outskirts, was paralyzed by two shots, and then escaped. This is very interesting. Once the sense of justice that exists in the spirit encounters the iron and blood in reality, how much toughness can it maintain? Is this retreat caused by human nature that should be let go or is it contemptible cowardice? Who can answer this? Quan ///Li first turned the law into his dance partner, and then intimidated/intimidated those who still take the law seriously. This can not only leave the framework of law//law as a performance system for whitewashing rights///power integration//law/sexuality, but also take away the true meaning of all laws//laws.
14. I just talked about the theme of "collapse". Initially, the collapse of the human heart was a reaction under the penetration of various pressures, but Quan///Li still will not stop there. To a certain extent, unconstrained power is an organic life form, it will take the initiative to attack, not knowing what it is. If it was said that it was all threats before, this time it was really letting death come. Coria's wife was found dead on the beach. The police arrested Coria, and then the court sentenced him. You see, the law//law system is working, it performs a set of actions that conform to the law//law procedure, but it gives a result that the power wants to get. The city mayor’s phone rang and he was told that Corea was sentenced to 15 years. So, who actually killed people? Who can answer? When individual questions, questions about life, questions about rights and interests, have become difficult to answer, the region has really collapsed. It has only an apparent order, and its interior is decayed. What's more, this kind of decay has actually eroded everyone. For example, the police who is a good friend of Koriya is also in corruption. It has always been accepted. So, is it true that the weakness and obedience of each of us from the beginning, and the indulgence of small evils, have caused the evil results today?
15. In reality, while scenes of increasingly evil events are taking place, there is another system that is quietly operating-the Xin///Yang system. But in "Leviathan", this system is even more absurd and unbearable. Teachers can both wear solemn clothes and talk to the big tiger like brothers and brothers, encourage him, and stand in front of the public and spit out lotus-like cloth. Just like before, big //tiger and fart //min Koriya have completely different attitudes towards the law. When dealing with the belief system, they are also completely opposite, but the interesting thing is to play with The big tiger of Law//Law pays horrified attention to the priests, while the fart of Trusting Law///Law Minkolia has always sneered at this rhetoric. In fact, the big tiger doesn’t really have faith/// Yang, but as a person who has done bad things, he is instinctive and inextricably troubled by the sense of fear, and Korya is not really without God/// He is just as a person destroyed by a strong sense of deprivation in reality, and he can no longer trust all metaphysical meanings. This is yet another collapse, and this collapse is the most profound.
16. In the end, those who have no rights still end up with homes/breakdowns/persons/deaths, and their houses are demolished. All previous anti-///resistances are like embarrassing cruel jokes. Of course, the excellence of "Leviathan" is by no means only to explain these realistic stories about the strong and the big tiger. Every shot of it is so graceful. From the perspective of the film itself, it is calm and majestic, and extremely confident. In this era of increasingly sketchy films, it appears so solemn///strict. The movie does not describe even a single crack in the physical sense of a country, but it accurately depicts the collapse and despair of the people in this environment. The slumping hulls in the sea, the unmoving reefs washed by the sea, and the huge whale bones on the beach are all symbols of coldness and death. Each of the carefully designed empty mirrors is extremely cold and wild, reflecting an era that is as weak as the prehistoric. But this era is exactly where we are now.
(By Yang Shiyang)
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