"The Grand Budapest Hotel" divides different time periods in the narrative process. At the beginning of the film, the director tells the story of a young girl looking up to the writer, and then begins a nested narrative. The time is the 80's, 60's and 30's. Corresponding to this is the use of three different frames. In 1985, the frame was 1.85:1. The aging writer tells the story of his youthful recuperation at the Grand Budapest Hotel. In 1968, the format was 16:8. The young writer tells of encountering zero at the Grand Budapest Hotel. In 1932, the frame was 4:3. Zero tells the writer about his adventures. In the nesting of the story, the core is the pursuit and escape caused by an oil painting that Zero and Mr. Gustaf experienced in the 1930s. At that time, fascism began to sweep across Europe, and the war forced Jews to flee their hometowns. Zero was such a refugee. And the priceless "Apple Boy" implies the search for truth. In the Bible, apple is the fruit of knowledge, which lured Eve into sin, but it is the first step for mankind to seek knowledge. And in Europe under the shadow of fascism, the Nazis tried to replace the truth with violence and discrimination. "The Grand Budapest Hotel" dispels the darkness of reality with dreamy colors and comical expressions, but it also hides profound connotations.
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