dark, cruel, difficult

Jany 2022-04-21 09:03:38

The encounter of the male protagonist's pet little white rabbit at the beginning of the film is almost a microcosm of the male protagonist's later fate - being bullied, tortured, ridiculed, and ignored, all of which are the lowest darkness and the most humble difficulties in the world, which cannot be modified. , so except for the final subtitles, there is no music in the whole film but the original sound of the plot: screaming, crying, scolding, whipping, gunshots, crows croaking, mice squeaking, ..., this kind of sound without soundtrack Together with the black and white film, a period of life in a village in Eastern Europe during World War II is thrown to the audience in the most original way. The mournful snowstorm and the boundless forest are presented in the widest and deepest way on the wide screen. Life has made a child who was originally unreasonable more and more tough, more and more cold, and even more and more dark. If he can survive the war, what will he become? people? Or ghost?

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