The first impression after watching it is that the photography is very good, and the whole color tone is black and white, even the pictures with some heavy tastes are not so scary. And the details are very well done.
The whole film is full of all kinds of criminal acts, and all kinds of villains are brutal and unscrupulous. In contrast, the tortures in ancient my country are very technical, such as tiger stools, pulling fingernails, inserting needles, water prisons and so on. The old white man who was domestic violence looked at the hostess a few more times because of his long-term work. He beat the hostess half to death first, and then gouged out the eyes at the dinner table the next day. This episode can feel the pain through the screen.
If they were not mentally prepared before, most ordinary audiences would probably have no interest in watching it at this time, and the movie was not even halfway there, only about one-fifth of it was released. For audiences who are used to watching horror films, the visual impact may not be so scary, but for ordinary audiences, the ignorance and violence in the film make them restless. There are half of them left.
Subsequent episodes of abuse became a little more obscure, and sex crimes began to increase. First, the adulterous women were tragically killed by village women in revenge, and then there were sexual crimes against the protagonist.
In the end, the big-breasted girl directly challenged bestiality, and it was really difficult for her to devote herself to art. I don't know if she will receive serious films in the future.
But even if the scale of the plot is so large, the audience who have not seen this posture will have difficulty breathing, and the director has almost no sensationalism to let the audience vent their emotions. (If you add a close-up of the child's tearful face, and then another piece of inner struggle, the girl also adds a few bloody lines like "I'm sorry, it's my fault, please forget me", the two of them pulled together, and the child lost his hand Killing a girl makes me want to die, so the people can take a bag of melon seeds and watch it with relish.)
There is neither the tear-jerking music in "Schindler's List", nor the sadness of the male protagonist playing the piano in the air in "The Pianist". The child in "The Painted Bird" is like a bystander, with the characters in the film. There isn't much obvious emotional communication, but as a wanderer, going from one hell to another. As an audience, it feels like visiting a museum, separated from the characters in the play by a thick layer of glass windows.
The director did a good job of filming each paragraph, layer by layer, and the theme of each paragraph is also very clear. It is a good story when taken out alone, but together it fails to accumulate emotions little by little.
In the whole film, there are scenes where the Germans shoot Jews in cold blood, as well as scenes where they let go of their hearts. In Soviet Russia, there were both anti-Semites who tied up the male protagonist and sent them to the German army, and staunch communists who accepted and trusted the male protagonist to give him warmth and belonging. The director is probably trying to tell us that there are good people and bad people in different camps.
The director also showed the ignorance and backwardness of the countryside, extreme xenophobia, and the extremely depressing life of the villagers, some venting in violence, some venting in alcohol and sex, so there are those sexual perversions, but with so many themes crowded together, the film is long. Up to 3 hours, I can't remember the front when I see the back. The protagonist has no obvious psychological changes. Although he loves small animals from the beginning, he later kills sheep, robs, even kills, and lies on the rails, all to experience the feeling of being alive, because the threshold of stimulation has been raised too much, and his heart has become numb. . But the children's performances have always been restrained and forbearing, and the climax of each episode is also driven by adults, and children are more of a bystander.
Moreover, as a film with a child as the protagonist, the sense of substitution is definitely not as strong as that of an adult protagonist. The director weakened the realistic background of the original work and highlighted the atmosphere of fables or dark fairy tales, making the whole film shrouded in this sense of alienation.
What is a fairy tale or a fable? These two do not need to consider logic, realistic background or time constraints, it can be "a long time ago, there was a XXX in XX". The fable is to highlight the clear theme. This film is like a fairy tale. The characters are so evil that they have no background, and there are only various negative emotions. Being abused to death by village women, he committed suicide. The heart of the character is fully developed by the actor's acting skills. Since there are basically no lines, you don't have to think about it carefully.
The director summed up the central idea of the whole film in an interview as "Stačí být jiný, a máte problém As long as you are different, there will be problems", which is about reminding the world to accept other people's differences. It is said that the adaptation of the script took three years, and 17 versions were gradually formed. The final version used was very neat, but it was handled too cautiously. The original work is actually more explosive. I feel that political correctness is inevitable when filming in Europe. In contrast, "Joker" and "Parasite" are undoubtedly more impressive.
A good film can either make people think or make people feel. In times of peace, singing and dancing were peaceful, and people tended to be emotionally charged films, but these years, the world has become more and more chaotic, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened, the immigration problem has intensified, and populism has risen, all of which need to be considered. That's why "Parasite" and "Joker" succeeded. Since a few years ago, almost all the films that have received a lot of attention have discussed social issues, such as "Three Billboards" in 2017, "Roma" in 2018, "Why Home", and in Asia, "The Thief Family" and "I'm Not the God of Medicine" are also themes that focus on social issues.
Shooting children as the theme, the filming of social issues is actually a good starting point. "Why Home" and "Nobody Knows" are good films that can make people cry and think. However, the director's handling method weakens the power of thinking. To put it bluntly, it is the form and content.
Some European directors are still making such literary films. It doesn't mean that it is literary and subtle, it is not good to have its own video style, and the narrative style is all right. It's just that the world is different, and many people can no longer sit in the cinema and enjoy the fables for about three hours. In Europe, what people see is the social unrest, cultural conflict, and long-term economic downturn caused by the refugee tide in the Middle East. This year's epidemic has made the world even worse. Many people have to consider housing loans, car loans, pensions, and children's education, which are rising day by day. Living expenses, dreaded medical problems. What the audience wants to see is how to solve these problems. Is it useful for you to shout "tolerance and love" indifferently?
At the end of the film, the child shoots and kills the stall owner who bullied him. After watching it, will European audiences think, "If it's not good for MSL, they will shoot us too?" From the perspective of non-white Hollywood, you dark-skinned people will eventually choose to take away the interests of our white people. You are better than us.
I read the original a long time ago, the original is more realistic and people speak different languages. The background setting is that the little boy comes from the wealthy upper class of Warsaw. He was taken to the countryside by his parents for refuge, and he ended up in the backward eastern part of Poland. He couldn't understand the dialect spoken in the eastern countryside, and he spoke the upper-class language that no one in the countryside could speak, so it was completely impossible to communicate. Later, there were Russian and German, which made it difficult for most people to communicate. The villagers in the countryside are all blond or brown hair, with blue or gray eyes. The little boy with black hair and black pupils is considered to be the messenger of the devil, a heretic, and there is no one to protect him, so he can step on it casually.
After reading the whole book, the sense of Poland is not very good. As a result, the film deliberately downplays the nationality, and everyone speaks a similar language. Presumably a compromise made out of practical considerations.
Historically, after the Poles invaded Germany, many people were willing to be the vanguard of the Nazis. Because they hate the Soviet Red Army more, the Jewish stance is biased towards the Soviet Union, and anti-Semitism is rampant in Poland, there is a reason why Auschwitz is located in Poland. liquidation, but to be remembered in the image of the victim. It's like Austria retreated after World War II and hid behind the German target, so that now people think that Nazis are German Nazis, but Hitler was actually Austrian! But now I think of Austria, it's all musicians, artists, Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss and the like.
Poland is an amazing country. None of the bosses it followed had a good result, that is, the legendary bet must be lost.
In 1806, for the first time, the country was destroyed by Russia, Prussia and Austria-Hungary. It was the first time that Napoleon was defeated within a few years.
During World War II, Poland was invaded by Germany, and a few years later, it became a defeated country again.
Joined the Soviet camp, reluctantly, within a few days of his birthday, the Soviet Union was gone again. Immediately after that, I hugged America's golden thigh. Da Bobo is like an idiot who has never seen the world. He is arrogant and arrogant on the surface, but inferior and timid in his bones. Compared with him, Italy is like a swinger brother, who will eat and die tomorrow, but every time he can step on the wind in time, turning crisis into opportunity.
Another problem in Poland is the joy of dancing. If you don’t understand a small country, you need to be low-key and loyal. In history, the country has been destroyed four or five times without a long memory. tragedy.
Now, as an American gou, I am inexplicably anti-China. In 2008, Poland took the lead in boycotting the Beijing Olympics. Poland was also the first to boycott Huawei's 5G, and even arrested a Huawei employee. During the epidemic, accepting donations from China on the one hand, and boycotting Alibaba's sales of masks on the other hand, is simply a story of a farmer and a snake.
Historically, there are only three famous people in Poland, Copernicus, Chopin and Marie Curie. Copernicus was a priest and scientist in the 16th century. Musician Chopin and scientist Marie Curie are both modern 19th century people, and both of them lived in Paris for a long time. That is to say, there have been basically no famous politicians or military strategists in Polish history, and after the 17th century, there were not many elites.
The protagonist, Petr Kotlár, actually looks more like a gypsy, with darker skin.
I personally think he looks a bit like the famous host Trevor Noah.
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