In fact, when I watched this film from beginning to end, I didn't have any special feelings, and I didn't feel how brilliant or deep. So after watching it, I only scored four stars on the platform. Samsung is too harsh for a 1937 movie, so to sum up, I don't actually plan to write a movie review for this movie.
Later, after watching a lot of film criticism, I gradually understood the film and the reason why Renoir was famous in film history. If a film has a high rating, there may be mistakes (such as "Hello Li Huanying", which recently scored 4 billion at the box office. ), but the judgment of its historical status cannot be wrong.
"The Great Phantom" belongs to the period of French poetic realism. I can see some of the poetry. Regarding the French people's leisurely and comfortable character of the country name, their films are all poetic. Now, the realism I understand is a documentary-style shooting method, with ordinary people as the protagonists, seeing the big from the small, and revealing social contradictions through the lives of ordinary people, such as "The Bicycle Stealer", "I'm Not the God of Medicine" "My Name is Blake." The entire film of this big phantom is a group of officers and nobles living a prison life leisurely, without much pain and conflict. As for the author Renoir, he understands the theory of realist creation that "the more ordinary the subject matter, the greater the creative space", so he despises the common symbolic elements used to express war, such as heroism, soldiers, and battles. He chose ordinary prison escape themes to show the war. In his films, he tried very hard to "dilute the plot". The development of the prison break is extremely inconspicuous. This is just an ordinary stick with a lot of good meat. After eating the meat, it will be thrown Lose.
For example, in order to dilute the plot, all the characters in the whole film do not have a strong desire to escape from prison. Instead, they eat something good, and there are women. They are more attentive to these, and they are digging a few hard. When Yue's tunnel was about to be completed, they were suddenly asked to change camps, and they didn't have a lot of pity, and still let them laugh and play happily. In addition, there are many good meats. For example, when the soldiers were searching for the rope to escape from prison, the German officer asked the French aristocrats to use the dignity of the nobility to ensure that "there is no tendency to want to escape from prison in this room". It can be seen that the director wants to express class more. Gap - Self-esteem and upbringing as a noble.
In the film, for the shaping of all characters, there is one thing in common, which is to hope that the war will end sooner. However, everyone is in it, and no one can influence the war, and they all participate in it tacitly. Individual kindness is covered up by group violence, which is what the director wants to express.
The portrayal of German soldiers in the film is full of goodwill. Is it the reason why France was quickly occupied by Germany in World War II two years later? The French may think that the Germans are as friendly as in the film. Whether it is or not, you can see the power of the film.
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