Dogme95 - the most influential and last film movement of the last century, more than two decades ago. Those stupefied youths who had just graduated from film school made a vow that they hoped the film would return to its simplicity. Nordic cinema should neither be the endorsement of the elite like French cinema nor be held hostage by technology and capital like American cinema. The creative rules in the manifesto are radical, but you can read their sincerity between the lines. The film features graduates who open bottle after bottle of champagne by the sea, cheering, running, and enthusiastic about the future. I think Winterberg agreed with them, and he was a part of the graduates himself, so he drafted that far-reaching dogma95.
However, as written in many books: "Since entering the 21st century, this organization and its influence have basically disappeared." The film has a history of more than 120 years, and there have been no new waves for nearly 30 years. . The leading figures in the film movement of all ethnic groups in those years were also facing a "mid-life crisis" in their creation as a whole, and the influence of various film groups was not as strong as before. New works appear frequently every year, but it seems to be slow and dull. The new way of viewing brought by the new broadcast media directly affects the creative concept of the film. Winterberg should have understood that when they were young, they hoped to bring the film back on the right track, and this goal was getting farther and farther away from them, and it was now almost impossible to achieve.
what to do? The Alcohol Project is in a sense an allegory for sobering up. Martin and his friends started an alcohol program, and the alcohol worked well at first, but it got out of hand and they lost Tommy. But are alcohol programs pointless? Is dogma95 just a drunken dream? The alcohol program gives the boy with glasses the confidence to score a goal, the restless Sebastian gets good grades, and the chorus finally sings a beautiful and sincere piece. Film freshmen influenced by dogma95 are still in the making. Those gloomy images that lack lighting, sketches of death, shaky hand-held shots, and emphasis on “here-here”—it can be said that Winterberg himself is still working with that creed.
At the end, Max jumped out, and the picture was frozen in this scene, ushering in the end of the movie. Winterberg himself interprets it this way: "Half of him is dead, half of him wants to take off." The old tradition is undeniably coming to an end, and the new creation is full of possibilities, because it is composed of countless frames. Take-off freeze frame composition.
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