From sea to prison

Desmond 2022-04-21 09:03:20

There are so many movies about the piano. In terms of the elements of popular movies alone, "Four Minutes" is obviously inferior to "1990", which has a compact plot and climaxes. And "Four Minutes", after lengthy combing and slow recall, stripped away the truth bit by bit, leaving the most exciting four minutes to the end.

Throughout the film, the heroine, JENNY, alternates between rebellious and compromising images. She has just injured the prison guard and was detained, and then took the initiative to write a letter asking to learn the piano; After the performance, he rammed towards the floor-to-ceiling windows in a blink of an eye; he said that he would never curtsy, but at the last moment of the film he bent down gracefully.

This is not an ordinary psychological film about the study of juvenile delinquency. Although the young boy was raped by his father, then he was brutally abandoned for the murder of his father's boyfriend, and lost his baby because the prison guards ignored him. The injuries she suffered, these became the reasons for her hatred of everything, but the musical talent did not disappear because of it. Once it seized the opportunity, it would redouble its passion. "Black music" was hated by female teachers, but it was closer to JENNY's heart than Schumann. It's the sound of protest, the sound of mockery, the sound of struggling to survive, kicking the stool, kicking the shackles, kicking all the rules, if the handcuffs can't lock her talent, what can she do? What about music that kills a person? Unless you die.

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Four Minutes quotes

  • Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: You think today was an easy day for me? Why do you think I've stayed here for 60 years?

    Jenny von Loeben: Because of a dead body? Great! A lesbian who likes corpses. You're a perverted freak, madam.

  • Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: Today is my last day. I just want to get my piano.

    Kowalski: Tell me, Mrs. Krüger... What do those guys have that others don't?

    Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: One's a murderer and the other raped his niece.

    Kowalski: I'll miss you, Mrs. Krüger.