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Isabel 2022-01-15 08:03:10

If ideology is not mentioned, this is a well-deserved family social tragedy. But it is hard not to mention ideology: the director clearly expressed his criticism against the target at the end of the film (roughly): from 2000 to 2007, nearly 10 German immigrants were assassinated by an underground party with Nazi sentiment. Germany is a nation that knows how to introspect. As a director of Turkish origin, it is more understandable to help the Germanic nation continue to "introspect". There is no problem in reflecting on the Nazis, but think carefully: citing less than 10 people who died because of the neo-Nazi atrocities in the past eight years does not seem to be the kind of extremely critical reality on the surface?

The extreme right is extremely bad and heinous, but the extreme right brutality that the film resorts to, from the data point of view, does not seem to be a massive phenomenon of contemporary violence. The current atmosphere seems to be: the extreme right will be beaten to death with a stick (of course, well); but in contrast, it is not enough to directly reflect on other worse contemporary acts of violence. This phenomenon is also very unpleasant.

As far as the film is concerned, the heroine lost her husband and child; the criminal escaped because of a "loophole" in the law. The heroine's mentality was twists and turns, and finally chose to blew himself up with the criminal. In retrospect, it was the destined ending from the beginning. The plot processing, character performance, and sometimes the background music that renders the mentality are very appropriate. The most convincing thing is the choice of lens, which is of course very life-like, using handheld photography with random rotation, but it doesn't seem to be that elegant.

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  • Sadye 2022-03-24 09:03:18

    The ending was unexpected, and the female lead was not bad.

  • Kira 2022-03-20 09:02:35

    It is another European anti-extreme right violent film. The heroine is so good that she deserves to win the Best Actress Award in Cannes. The director Akin is a Turkish-German. I was a judge with him at the Berlin Festival in 2001. He was only 28 years old at the time, and he was a rookie director who had just emerged at the Locarno Festival. I remember that after watching "Seventeen-year-old Bike" by Wang Xiaoshuai, a young Chinese director, he couldn't help but praised him, and didn't need me to speak much during the review, which made the film win the jury award. Over the years, his work has been focusing on the reality of European immigration and has won various awards such as the Golden Bear. The film also won the American Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which is widely recognized.

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