There is no problem with the plot itself. This kind of film based on the novel is guaranteed at least in terms of plot. The problem lies in the orientation of the form. The scene is exquisitely arranged, but lacks real details, the light is dramatic, and the makeup is too exquisite, which is not the state that ordinary people would have during the war. The problem that this directly brings is the romanticization of the form, which will dissolve the concentration of the subject and make people separate from the film.
The other is the issue of language and writing. I watched "Papillon" before. One thing I was very dissatisfied with was that it was clearly a French story, and it was all in English. But for this German story from World War II, you can do it all in English. Why is the German national anthem sung when the Nazi officers speak and everyone burns books in the square in German? Then the books read by the little girl and the books stolen from the mayor’s wife are all in English... The writing on a blackboard at home is also in English, which is impossible in the era when Nazi Germany even burned its own literary and artistic works. It's a matter, and the close-ups of these books can be seen that it is not type printing...There is no bumpy feeling of type printing, and there is no special optimization for type type fonts. It is just computer fonts... If you want a sense of the times, these can't be done.
The story structure and narrative methods of novels, plays, and movies have been basically realized as early as the ancient Greek period, and they have been perfected in Shakespeare’s time. The current works basically cannot escape these frameworks, so the real attraction should be For the reappearance and imagination of the times, these story structures are interpreted in each era, and the state of the characters. If these are stripped away, it will be empty.
The film industrialization system led by Hollywood is like the software for taking pictures on the Internet. Through "filters" and the pursuit of clicks, it not only pleases the visual perception and the audience, but also brings about a change in the meaning of photography, and it is not good. Change cannot be said that the pursuit of beauty is wrong, but that not everything needs to pursue purely visual beauty, because the beauty that is separated from the real is a kind of romanticization, which will dissolve the meaning itself. Unless you want to shoot the innocent and beautiful scenery of the Alps like "Heidi and Grandpa", the visual romanticization is a plus.
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