Under the Sun Comments

Friedrich 2022-03-08 08:01:53

Luxembourg Film Festival. The ending is great with Simmi's confused and crying face at the end. She must have felt uneasy under this grand and joyous appearance. They were stripped of their freedom, pretending to be childhoods like ours. Young Pioneers red scarves and parade honor guard. I used to be one of them and got away with...

Rosemary 2022-03-08 08:01:53

Rather than being eye-opening, the film is surprisingly familiar. In fact, we are not as free as we...

Jerod 2022-03-08 08:01:53

"Under the Sun" is like a sister story to Antonioni's "China". The two image styles of realism and "official arrangement" are ironically juxtaposed. The tragic close-up captures the disappointment and fear hidden under the surface of North Koreans. . As chilling as Orwell's 1984, strictly speaking, it should be a meta-movie rather than a documentary. For the Russian audience and us, the name "Once Upon a Time" is more...

Gideon 2022-03-08 08:01:53

The North Korean official propaganda film carefully rehearsed and the part outside the rehearsal formed a subtle contrast and strong irony. Fortunately, it was a Russian director. If it was an American, it should be in prison...

Major 2022-03-08 08:01:53

A country living in an official hallucination... When I finally asked the little girl if she had any happy or memorable things in her memory, the little girl couldn't think of anything except "the great General Kim Il Sung", which was...

Effie 2022-03-08 08:01:53

I thought that there would be a great sense of superiority, but when I saw the ceremony of joining the team and the moment of taking the oath as the successor of communism, I felt that it was a fifty-step smile. The plot structure is a bit too loose, basically what is put on it. The highlight is that the North Korean cadres have repeatedly asked for reshoots and given guidance, just like the...