Franz Rogowski, a German actor, is quite powerful. At the beginning of this year, two starring works entered the competition at the Berlin Film Festival. ” is much inferior. If this kind of theme is made by American director or Finnish director Kaurismaki, it will definitely have more vivid colors. Although the film's main setting is a boring big box store, it has a surreal flavor (such as the kind written by Charlie Kaufman), and the taciturn personality of the hero and the cold style of Kaurismaki are a match made in heaven. , and his awkward courtship with the heroine bears the shadow of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Love Disorder." On the other hand, the background of the male protagonist also hides many elements of Hollywood genre films (tattoos, prison experience), and it seems to be the entry point for many social problems, such as the reflection of the re-acceptance of the society by criminals who have reformed themselves. All in all, the film has the potential to be a sweet and touching romance, or a thought-provoking critical drama about social issues. Unfortunately, the director's anti-genre strategy keeps the film in an awkward position between the two genres. Especially the third paragraph tells about the accident of the old master. It can be seen that the director intends to break through the love theme pattern created by the first two paragraphs. He could have outlined more social backgrounds outside the work environment, but unfortunately it ended hastily, and finally settled in On the topic of meditation on loneliness. This is indeed in line with the usual temperament of German films: indifferent, rigid, serious, but fails to show much of the director's personal style. I have to mention that the "sound of the waves" that many audiences liked actually appeared as early as the end of the Coen Brothers' Palme d'Or movie "The Dream of a Talented Man".
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