It is the same director as "Sister Ada", with the same video style and first-class visual effects. Using the solemnity of black, white and gray to describe a strong, burning, tumbling love, it contains the beauty of tragedy.
Compared with "Other People's Life / Eavesdropping Storm", "Cold War" does not focus on criticizing Jiquan brick system, but concentrates on composing love variations under the background of Jiquan brick system. The female protagonist is an artist, and so is the male protagonist. Artists, the love of artists has nowhere to settle under the high pressure of killing, and when they are exiled in a foreign land in a free country, they almost wither. I think the most moving part of the film is that it expresses the pain of love, the pain of conflicting personalities between male and female protagonists, the pain of conflicting ideas, the pain of separation by the iron curtain, the pain of missing, the pain of no root, the pain of no solution, the pain of bruises all over the body, Silky to the bone. The film maintains a relatively objective tone, allowing the audience to see that the tragedies of the hero and heroine are partly attributable to their own personalities. commend.
As far as my personal opinion is concerned, I am more sighed that the male and female protagonists are already privileged to some extent, they may still escape the Iron Curtain, and they still have a chance to choose. Think of the suffocation and despair of other ordinary people under the Iron Curtain who longed to breathe free air.
The film is partly based on the real experiences of the director's parents, and even the names of the hero and heroine come from them: Zula and Wiktor. The New Yorker interviewed the director on December 22, 2018, and let us know that this love story spanning 15 years in the film has been entangled in reality for 40 years. The director himself left Poland at the age of 14, graduated from Oxford University, and speaks 6 languages.
The director's mother was born in the upper middle class in Poland. She was ardently rebellious and ran away from Girls' Generation to pursue a career in acting. In 1948, he met the director's father, a handsome and romantic medical student. The two have been in love for ten years and have split and reunited many times. The director was born in 1957 and they married in Warsaw. Although both of them were high-level intellectuals (the director's mother later became an English professor at the University of Warsaw), they still quarreled constantly after their marriage. In 1968, the director's parents divorced and his father moved to Germany. In 1971, his mother remarried and moved to the UK with the director. After that, the director's parents got divorced, and they reunited in Germany and remarried. Clashes erupted again afterward. Until old age, the director's parents finally held hands with each other calmly and went to the end of his life.
PS: There are 9 shortlists of Oscar foreign language films this year, and I have watched 6: "Oscar Impression 6/9"
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