You know, some restaurants don’t give out menus, because the chef only cooks one dish—even if there is a menu, you don’t have to choose. In the "author-director" circle, Aki Kaurismaki is such a personality chef. Unlike some other big directors, he is trying to achieve breakthroughs in technology or themes and continuation of artistic life-but on the contrary. , Regard the persistence of one's existing style as "breakthrough" and "continuation" itself. Participating in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival (and finally winning the Best Director Award), the new work "The Other Side of Hope" is still another variation on the bottom class, social welfare mechanism, immigration and other sensitive issues composed by Aki. Audiences who love the Finnish director must first be fans of "Aki Aesthetics": film-based light and shade and color, minimalist scenery, unsmiling characters, dialogue with stage effects, and beautiful rock music . These elements are easily found in "The Other Side of Hope", and they continue to increase. What is slightly new is the treatment of the story line. When the plot is not centered on one of the two male protagonists, Wikström (restaurant) and Khaled (Syrian refugee), the director cleverly asks him in the first hour of the film. Two irrelevant clues run side by side-at this time, the tone of the whole film is very soothing. After the audience's grasp of the plot and characters gradually became clear, the two lines began to converge, and at the same time, the rhythm of the film began to accelerate. With the tension brought by the two lines together, it finally came together and looked very comfortable.
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