In the evening, the camera fixed outside the window was still watching the room of the North Korean family, when suddenly it was edited to a wider perspective, and countless similar North Korean stories were played out in the countless lit rear windows.
The piano sounded over and over again, the citizens of Pyongyang in the camera resembled the echoes of the former Soviet Union, the director’s birthplace, conductors, newspaper readers, crowds on the escalators, squares, and auditoriums. This empty shot of Pyongyang has a sadness. Lost magic.
Politics aside, there are families, childhoods, numerous large gatherings, and factories in the film. It has to be said that it was the forced intervention of the North Korean official that gave the whole documentary a complicated depth. The children who were distracted during the meeting, the veterans who did not know what to talk about next, the parents whose occupations were changed, and the lines sang kimchi, first 150 After the % is 200% of the factory's production increase... I don't know how the crew passed the trial and turned the play within the play into the most authentic record.
At the end, the little girl poked her tears. Outside the camera, the crew members gave instructions in Russian, "You can think of other happy things." After thinking about it, the little girl memorized their most familiar quotations in praise of leaders.
Not only politics, but also a barren society and limited thinking. The parents of the children in the audience watched their children wear exaggerated makeup for the Sun Festival. Understanding the hymn of the leader. Am I being superficial. Young pioneers wear red scarves to join the regime's "Great March". Is this a very sad thing? Poetic and realistic, all the "procedures" and "greatness" are unnecessary in the director's opinion. Only sadness is worth remembering. This is the memory of countless citizens and countless moviegoers.
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