When I saw the nomination for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, I was attracted by the gray tone of the trailer. Finally, I waited for the cooked meat and watched the whole film. I really like this Nordic cool style.
Many people think of the painting "Over the City" by the Russian painter Chagall when they first see the poster. Surrealism adds a romantic atmosphere to the film.
The film of just over 70 minutes consists of many unrelated stories, and uses a female voice from God's perspective to connect the stories. She uses the sentence "I saw..." to describe the different sorrows and joys in the world.
Whether it’s a lover embracing over the ruins, a middle-aged man who was sobbing in a bus and was reprimanded by strangers, or a man who was punished with a cross in his dream, what the audience presented to the audience was the numbness and individuality of everyone. collapse, and a sense of emptiness that cannot be touched.
The life and death and love and hate of human beings may end up in the end, just in accordance with the rules of the law of conservation of energy - we will always meet again in another form in another place, until the next death and rebirth, but every journey There is still something exciting about it.
For fans who are familiar with the works of the Swedish director Roy Anderson, this one may not be as stunning as his previous masterpiece, "The Quietness of the Cold Branches", but it is still an interesting work. For audiences who are exposed to his films for the first time, "About Endless" may open up a new world for everyone.
The director is good at expressing the emotions of the characters with color, and his visual design is almost strict. He likes to shoot with a long lens with a fixed camera. Every picture in the film is as beautiful as a masterpiece of oil painting in the art exhibition hall. Endless" also continues his previous style and aesthetic.
If you are looking forward to seeing a thrilling plot or intense dramatic conflict, then this movie will probably make you feel like there is no end to it. This film almost completely abandons the story and logic that traditional movies would follow. More like an art experiment. But if you are willing to find a leisure time to sit quietly and appreciate the artistic aesthetics of Nordic movies, then director Roy Anderson will not let you down.
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