At the beginning of Burning the Sheep, the shrill whine pierced into my ears through the screen. It was very real. I admit that I was attracted by this extremely painful scene. With the black and white film texture of the picture, I entered the story. First, my grandmother's death without warning brought the little one. The protagonist's upcoming misery slowly unfolds.
1. The witch
He was caught by the villagers, probably because the shape of the teeth was given to the witch as something unknown. The boy assisted the witch to go to the village and go to the village to perform exorcism. Due to exhaustion and serious illness, the witch tried to exorcise the evil spirit in the boy's body. He recovered: the seriously ill boy was buried alive with only his head exposed. A group of crows pecked at the boy's bag, dripping with blood. The girl chased away the crow, and the boy regained his strength and began to work in the fields again, and was pushed into the river by the villagers.
2, cheater
The laborer and the miller's wife rescued the boy, and the boy began to work at the miller's house and was treated by the miller as the lowest form of labor. The long-time worker and the miller's wife had an affair and was discovered by the miller. He beat his wife and dug out the long-time worker's eyeballs to feed the cat.
3. Birdman
Lu met a bird breeder in the forest, and he was his helper. He walked in the wilderness and released birds to catch birds. The symbolic description of the title here is to release the dirty birds into the flock of birds in the air. The members who joined were pecked and bitten to death, the bird breeder who loved the mad woman in the forest seduced the children in the village, and the mother of the village child took a wine bottle and inserted it into the lower body to death. Died, the boy was helpless again and walked into the distance.
4. Wine dealers and priests
The boy jumped off the train with the fleeing people and was massacred by the Nazis. The boy escaped and waited for another boy to die and took his shoes. Unexpectedly, he was taken back to the German-occupied city and executed by the officer because of his eagerness to survive. He wiped his shoes, saved his life, was taken away by the church priest, and became the priest's entourage, but he was not welcome in the parish, and he probably had no time, and soon the priest gave the boy to a liquor dealer in the parish . The wine dealer raped the boy that night. From then on, he was tortured and abused in every possible way. The boy tended to be lewd by the wine dealer and dared not tell the kind priest until he found the bunker, and when the wine dealer went to check the bunker, he also killed the wine dealer. , attended the funeral of the priest, made a mistake, and was thrown into the cesspool by the people who hated him, here is the second title "The Painted Bird"
5. Female addicts
The boy fell into the frozen lake in the severe cold, and was rescued by the woman in the forest and became the woman's helper. Maybe because of the war, the lonely and dissatisfied woman raped the dying old man, which made the boy who had not yet entered puberty scared again Worried, the old man died, the woman and the boy had secret feelings for the boy, but the boy could not satisfy the woman physically, the dissatisfied woman stimulated the boy through an indescribable thing with a goat, and the angry boy killed the goat and cut off the goat Throwing his head to the woman, he fled into the dark forest by himself. Echoing the protection of the little lamb in the opening chapter, the heavy suffering distorts the young heart, the kindness fades, and the cold blood and cruelty gradually occupy the boy's heart.
6. German soldiers
The boy encountered the injured horse and took it back to the village for help. The villager ignored the boy's plea and killed the horse, and told the boy's Jewish identity to the robber disguised as a Soviet army, and handed it over to the German army stationed here. The German soldiers came out. Out of pity, he volunteered to be the executioner, but he let the boy go on the way.
7. Cossack Soldiers
A small group of Cossack cavalry broke into the village, burned, killed, and looted. Wherever they went, a whining (most of the content of the second paragraph was deleted from the suspected version) In the eyes of the boy, the strong bullied the weak, the slaughter in the sea of fire, and the evil of the world. Ruthlessly devoured the boy's kindness and innocence, the boy slowly cooled and fell slowly amid the ferocity and blood.
8. Soviet sniper
The Soviet army drove away the Cossack bandits, rescued the boy, and let the snipers take care of him. They became good friends. Unlike the villagers who were violent and tired of the boy, the soldiers could treat him kindly, save his life, and take care of him. Life. In a revenge operation, under the boy's watchful eyes, the sniper shot the villagers indiscriminately, avenged the killing of his fellow Soviet troops, and warned the boy that it was a tit-for-tat. From then on, the boy broke with the past completely.
9. Kill the peddler
The boy was indifferent and lonely in the orphanage. He was slapped by a peddler as a thief in the market, and he killed the peddler with a pistol given to him by a Soviet sniper.
10. Joska
The lost father took the boy from the orphanage. The boy was full of resentment and ignored his father. Finally, he sat in the bus with his father and wrote his name on the glass, heralding the return of youth. The movie ends.
The three-hour-long narration basically tells about the boy's experience and experiences of living with people and families under the drive of survival instinct. It's like a style painting in the background of war, but these pictures are full of brutality. , blood, fornication and filth, this is far beyond the cognition that a child can accept, and these cognitions make the boy gradually lose his innocence to meet cruelty and resentment.
The extremely poetic black-and-white shots are easily reminiscent of the works of Anze Ropoulos and Tarkovsky. The film itself is also a story of the turbulent times in Eastern Europe, which seems to be a convention. Using this lens language to present it is more Eastern European and more humanistic. Symbolic shots with pan-Slavic language and heavy, murmured arias make for most of the film's excellence.
This film, which was released at the Venice Film Festival, cannot meet the mainstream Western values from any point of view, but it is said that the original work "Colored Dirty Bird" itself is a large-scale novel. In any case, the three-hour viewing process did not The scale of the story and the degree of biased viewpoints caused discomfort. On the contrary, because of the familiar faces of Europe and the United States to test the characters in the film, people once had a friendly atmosphere in Hollywood. If it weren't for the beautiful frame-by-frame photography that could be used as a wallpaper, I would really have the illusion of watching a road adventure movie, and that dog-tailed, alienated and abrupt ending is too worthy of popcorn and Coke.
The narrative structure of the story is clear and simple, and the transition of the boy's departure in the middle of the large-paragraph narrative text seems to give me some guidance for writing. Simple, clear, without too much skill, the simpler the more advanced, the same is true of writing, and the same is true of any technology. The dazzling and fancy will eventually fade away, and only a clear frame structure can linger in memory.
On the whole, this movie seems to have enough sincerity in the first half, and the second half is a little sloppy and perfunctory, especially the boy after the fall has not been indulged in brutal sins for a long time, and he has returned to innocence and kindness, which is a bit unreasonable. .
Then my four points are given to the poetry of the movie, even if it is filthy, it is better than the far-fetched and vassal pandering in the second half - white leftists see the kindness of soldiers, especially the kindness of German soldiers, will there be any A little discomfort may have caused him to leave the film halfway through the film festival.
The suffering of the Jews is obvious to all. In the eyes of children, the world is twisted and deformed, perverted and ugly, and has lost its light. Only the feathers and shells covered by darkness and filth can rise and fall in the world.
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