Landscape in the Fog is a road movie with a consistent theme of leaving, finding, and being on the road, narrated by Theo Angelopoulos with a slow sadness.
After struggling for many nights with her younger sister and younger brother, she finally has the courage to embark on a journey to find her father and board a train to Germany. Along the way, the girl encounters hazy love and rape. Scars, but these are just the experience of a long journey, and they seem to be the epitome of life. The end point is not here, and the uncompromising search is the meaning. The belief in going to the north, going to Germany, and finding their father has always drawn them like a landscape in a fog. As Orestis said in the movie, "It feels like there is no purpose, but there is actually a certain place to go." This sentence Outlines the normality of life.
What "Landscape in the Fog" brings is the core charm of transcendental films, the language of the camera lens, and makes the story more and more firm under the representative of the camera lens. On the one hand, its poetic origin comes from the blank, taciturn sister and brother. The large-scale long-term perspective in the picture gives the viewer a third-party perspective. When we watch this film, we do not bring into the protagonist’s emotions, but an observer. The identity of the two brothers and sisters to participate in the search for relatives. Although it is not a witness, it is an experiencer, full of observation, imagination and thinking in those silent and empty gaps. The two brothers and sisters have experienced the sadness of the world at a young age, which makes people a little unbearable, but this is life.
On the other hand, there are many symbolic scenes, characters and lines in the film. An Zhe puts his intentions into the shots, and the film's meaning expands like poetry. The mental patient who thinks he is a bird symbolizes freedom and absurdity; wandering entertainers should be romantic and free, but in this film they are restricted and expelled, which marginalizes art; horses dragged to death in heavy snow The cruelty of human nature is exposed in front of us; the contrast between the wedding and the death of the horse is the beginning and the end of the ritual; of emptiness and powerlessness;
From the scenes of the army on the street and the soldiers at the station, as well as the lines of the actors, it can be known that war and revolution are the background of the era blurred by the director. The handsome young Greeks were the objects of exile in this turmoil. Orestis "If I'm yelling now, who on earth will hear it? Legion of Angels?" The line comes from Rilke's poem "The First Elegy". Weather is also an important element. The cold seaside in winter, strong winds, heavy rain, dense fog, and falling snow, Theo Angelopoulos likes to use natural landscapes to bring a dreamlike atmosphere.
Tone of the film: The film has a bluish cold tone, and the cold winter reveals a melancholy and desolate atmosphere, indifferent but clearly depicting everything that happens here. The little lone ranger led his brother's back to be printed on the screen, lonely and helpless, and slowly moved towards the north. 52:40 "Switch from the bright beach to the road where the heavy rain has blurred the vision. Two small dots walk on the heavy rain asphalt road, small and powerless. This is also the darkest part of the whole film, and the gray depression indicates suffering. In the end , the lecherous truck driver uses the little girl as the object of lust, purity is destroyed, childhood ends, and the painful journey of life begins.
Long takes: long takes require patience, the source of the rhythm to control the film is editing, each The timing of the shots is the direct element of editing. The long shots throughout make "Landscape in the Fog" look like a long poem that needs to be watched with the heart. The two small backs have become the symbol of the film, and the shots are very Less follow up, but let the two of them slowly disappear into the distance with the footsteps. They seem small and lonely and helpless.
21'53" The policeman stood motionless in the yard with their heads raised to watch the scene of the first snow, much like some kind of ceremony, maybe is to welcome new students.
The 24′42″ long shot took nearly four minutes to compare the horse dragged to death and the wedding, with only two lines of “he’s dying” and “he’s already dead.” The sadness and joy are all unspoken, and finally the little boy Fade out in the
wailing of the 35′38″ dilapidated small town for the first time, the theater actor approached the funeral solemnly in the whistling wind.
46:'30"The actors were rehearsing at the seaside. The dialogue content was all revolution and war. The 6-minute 360°+180° footage showed the artist's rebellious attitude. Also
89′26″ The giant stone carving hand with the incomplete footage was hoisted from the sea by the helicopter and gradually moved away. The three of them stared silently, as if something in their lives had been taken away, and a sense of helplessness turned from their hearts. Come up.
Soundtrack: The soundtrack of the famous Greek film arranger Calandno is sad and isolated, bleak and cold, and the melody is low to explore an answer that does not exist.
Attitude: I think the attitude expressed by the director is that between people The pain is isolated and can only be digested or forgotten by oneself. The sadness and joy cannot be controlled by oneself, no matter how many episodes there are in the journey, life is a train that does not turn back. At the
end of the film, Voula, a little girl who has experienced growing pains and still does not give up, brings her younger brother Alexandros , rowing a small boat into Germany with a gunshot, his father was not there in the thick fog. And Alexandros can already tell stories, he quoted a sentence from the "Bible · Genesis" that his sister told before going to bed at the beginning of the film " There was chaos at first, then there was light. Light and darkness gradually separate, and there is day and night. "Two little backs embrace the lonely tree at the end of the horizon, maybe another journey is about to begin, Theo Angelopoulos touches us with his poetic lens.
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