"Undine" has a traditional and classic narrative. The camera does not shake and there are few close-ups of characters. Most of the time, it keeps a distance from the audience. So the audience knows they're watching a movie with fictional characters, but director Christian Petzold tells the story so quietly, even knowing it's just a movie, I will still be moved by the characters and be saddened by love. The appearance of the film is a very modern love story, but the scenes have a textbook-like precise design, and every picture is pushed and every dialogue is intriguing. The love that has been talked about badly in the movie, under the director's rigorous and meticulous audio-visual language, also deduces a different real atmosphere. The infatuation and innocence of men, the happiness and brilliance of women, with only a few strokes and three or five shots, the description of emotion is calm but straight to the heart. This is an extremely concise but masterful expression in the director's work. The movie is destined to be a tragic mythical love story. Behind the real portrayal, the mythological embellishment can be called a magic pen. The hints so far are without abruptness and absurdity, and are seamlessly integrated with the entire plot. Love is real and romantic, myths are mysterious and far-flung, and the historical past and present development of the city runs through it. The stories of a city and the people living here, love, fate and death are closely linked. The final ending of the film is not deliberately curious, a touch of sadness, but not pessimistic, saying goodbye to the person you love, cherishing the love, and then working hard to start a new life
. The story of Undine ends up being a water sprite—once turbulent, now calm
. The cycle of destiny itself should be like this
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Undine evaluation action
2022-03-03 08:01
Extended Reading
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Bianka 2022-04-24 07:01:24
Wentini, a consultant for the Urban Development Authority, opens with an introduction to the city of Berlin. She said, "The name Berlin originates from Slavic, which means swamp or dry land in the swamp." In the first half of the movie, the heroine recites a lot of introductions to the city of Berlin. A literary film about the development of tourism in Berlin. I thought it was a love movie before, but it turned out to be a supernatural sci-fi movie. "If you don't know a little about European legends, this is a strange and supernatural film. In medieval legends, Wendine is the name of a water elf who kills a man who betrays her and returns to the water. The heroine originally wanted to resist Live this curse, but I still fall into reincarnation." After reading the comments for a while, I was suddenly enlightened after replacing Wendini with Chang'e. Wentini was betrayed by her ex-boyfriend, she had to kill him and return to the water, just like Chang'e had to fly to the moon. As a result, she quickly met true love, so she didn't kill her ex and didn't return to the water. Until her boyfriend encountered a diving accident, she could only kill her ex and return to the water, so the current one survived.
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Alisha 2022-03-16 09:01:09
Secret movie. The image of the river is a synthesis of the two opposing qualities of change and immutability, and it is also the deep texture of the time and space that permeates the city of Berlin (the original meaning of wetlands is mentioned in the film). These qualities are in Undine's dual identities. be manifested. She oscillates between the powers of myth and disenchantment—in that café, she hears the diver statue calling her back to her mystical qualities, when the most mysterious thing happens: love. Christoph's movement as a diver is the opposite of Undine's: from land to water, from the surface to the deep, which seems to cloud his relationship with Undine in a metaphorical way. The search for secrets is dangerous, and in the end we see that the explorer has returned to shore, and the city has retreated into the shadows she once inhabited.
