When the director made this film, he did not intend to make the audience feel better from the beginning - the shaky footage shot with the hand-held camera; deliberately blurred The constant screeching gunshots and moans; the 4:3 aspect ratio of the film; and the abundance of close-up and close-up shots that allow the audience to see only a narrow perspective within two meters of the protagonist. If you feel disgusted, hesitant, helpless, hopeless, or even a little scared because of the above, then yes, this is exactly the emotion the director wants to convey to you.
If the film is like painting, it can be divided into two types: realism and freehand brushwork. That "Son of Thor" must be a freehand film. What it tries to convey to the audience is a feeling rather than a picture. The film uses a lot of symbolic things, such as the boy's corpse. Another example is Sol's smile at the end of the story. Let the audience's long-suppressed emotions shine into a trace of sunshine when watching the movie. The director's ability to control the audience's emotions is evident.
No wonder the film can sweep Cannes and Oscar two major film festivals. If there is any best movie I've seen in 2016, it has to be this one.
Finally, I will tell a little story, a long, long time ago, Zeus punished Prometheus and the humans he sheltered. Vulcan was ordered to make a box and named it Pandora's Box. He packed drowsiness, pain, confusion, fear, greed, plague, and other terrible things in it. Athena, the goddess of wisdom, sympathized with mankind, and put one thing in at the end of the Pandora's box, which was hope.
Note: Since there are more corpses than living people in this movie, the young and the mentally handicapped should watch it accompanied by others, and those with mental illness should not watch it.
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