Well-structured, well-photographed foxtrot

Celia 2022-07-20 12:43:42

I love this film so much, I'm going to describe it in three points

1. Well-structured

The most terrifying thing about "Mourning Movies" is that the protagonist has been shrouded in low air pressure. No matter how delicate the actors' acting, the audience will sooner or later become numb within two hours. At this time, "setting suspense" is a useful trick. The film uses two suspense, the first is the suspense of "being told that your son is dead -> how did he die? -> it is not your son who died", the second is " The third act begins with an unusual atmosphere -> my son died -> how was my father killed?" The suspense of "Manchester by the Sea" the previous year was also a high-level mourning movie that used "suspense setting". These two places, together with the very flying second act, are very attractive and lead the audience to continue watching, plus "Act 1 - Family, Act 2 - Battlefield, Act 3 - Family" itself is a step back to the original place. Foxtrot! The structure is exquisite and well-proportioned.

2. Careful photography

There are two "vertical looking down and rotating shots" in the whole film. First, the father appeared in a chair alone after the soldier told the bad news and left, and then the son mistakenly thought he was attacked by a grenade and shot and killed four innocent people in the car. Smoke and shock. Echoing the story that appeared in the middle section, "Dad is confused by pornographic books and can't help "watching himself" doing stupid things, selling family classics like a zombie in exchange for pornographic books." This set of shots surprised me so much, so accurate Convey that when a major event comes, I don't want to be detached and dizzy. Bravo! The cross use of subjective and objective lenses enhances the sense of detachment from "looking at oneself", and the tilted containers and paintings symbolize the loss of human hearts. Photography is poetic, but supported by a meticulous backbone.

3. A powerful argument for "fatalism"

Before watching this film, I didn't believe in "fatalism" at all. Assuming that there is no layout, or the last scene "the chariot slips and rushes under the cliff in order to avoid the camel" is followed by the second and third acts, the author will definitely laugh out loud (yes, this is the structure of this film again. But the director used the outrageous misunderstanding in the first act, the absurd nothingness of the war in the second act, and the parents’ remorse and self-blame in the third act. Painful; the father wanted a child, and felt that it was God's forgiveness for killing his peers, but he cruelly took back this apocalypse, and it was the result of his own creation. Such details and layers of foreshadowing completely convinced me about the fatalism of the ending. .

The film is inspired by the life experience of Israeli director Samuel Maoz: his daughter was taking a bus to school, but TV news reported that the bus was attacked, and the phone could not be connected. Finally, her daughter appeared at the door of the house, but she missed the bus! Although according to the interview, the director himself does not believe in fate, and he feels that there is no lesson to be learned from the experience of his daughter, but I am very grateful to the director for persuading me to see the world from a different perspective of fate.

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