In order to express such an extreme contemporary Virgin Mary, director Dietrich Bruggmann made a wonderful minimalist treatment, using 14 super-long shots to set up a 14-act theatrical stage, with scenes such as "Jesus First." Religious titles such as A Fall" and "Jesus Carrying the Cross" divide the film's story into 14 "cross stations" with rich meanings. Under the fixed camera, outstanding actors staged scenes of laughter and heart-wrenching tragicomedy on the cold-colored stage. The laughter stems from these strange and real characters. As anomalies of the times, their serious words and actions are like the absurd effect of throwing the biblical characters into a nightclub; the heartache stems from the girl Mary Ya's brain-dead behavior toward martyrdom, this era no longer needs ignorant saints, let alone this kind of victim poisoned by ignorant communities and rigid families.
This highly concentrated artistic technique inevitably reminds fans of Rossellini's 1950 masterpiece "Flowers of St. Francis", which also uses 11 fragments to show the missionary history of Franciscans. However, unlike the master who established a certain ethos from the ruins of World War II more than 60 years ago, Dietrich in the new era holds a clear critique of fundamentalism.
In fact, in the current German society, whether it is Protestantism after Martin Luther's reform, or Catholicism, a large number of believers have already lost a lot of believers, and Catholics who strictly adhere to fundamentalism are even fewer. Curious conflict stories. Maria met Christian, a boy in the school library, and the boy invited the girl to sing in their church. "In addition to Bach, there is also soul music and gospel." But in the eyes of Maria's stern mother, Protestantism The Bach of the believers is just an excuse, the gospel with jazz as the carrier is the rhythm of Satan.
Larger conflicts, very real, have entered social public spaces, such as campuses. In the physical education class, the teacher matched the strong rhythm of the famous song "The Look" by Lockset for the students' laps. For fundamental Catholics like Mary, this is undoubtedly the voice of Satan, who steadfastly refuses to run. Music teacher had to stop and start the flow joke education were boys confrontation, "we do not recognize all inclusive it?" "Teacher, as a personal faith of the Virgin, sacrifice the interests of everyone, this is the sort of inclusiveness?"
Because The dying girl on hunger strike was lying on the hospital bed, and the last piece of communion delivered to the corner of her mouth by the priest completely killed her. Our Lady, who finally got her wish, was blessed. The deaf-mute younger brother made a miraculous voice: "Where has Maria gone?" A sincere tribute to Bergman's religious miracle "The Virgin Spring"? The last fourteenth station "Jesus lying in the tomb", the camera finally shakes from the lonely tomb of the cross, rising higher and higher, overlooking the fields and communities from the sky, as if to say, these "cross stations" Not just a tragicomedy belonging to Maria alone.
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