Don't look away

Melba 2022-03-23 09:03:02

out of my expectation. It's not clear what kind of hazy meaning the film is trying to convey. Instead of looking for the so-called truth, it feels like a metaphor for political parties with artistic genres. When you deliberately pursue an avant-garde expression or realism, you will eventually lose what you want to express and eventually get lost in the painful pursuit. . The father of the male protagonist originally resisted the Nazis and was taken away from the house and lost his job. In order to cater to the times, he joined the Nazi party. After the war, instead of getting the so-called capital, he became a cleaner. Being restrained by environmental trends will only lead to losing one's self and persevering in one's own heart to achieve the ultimate detachment of the soul. This is why it is said in the film that people can only find true freedom in art, don't look away. Just like the movie itself, it uses a calm and restrained vision to be cautious about everything that history has created, and does not evade the cruelty of war and does not make subjective judgments. What is truly presented is harmony and beauty. When I ignore why the pictures are created and regard them as works of no master, only viewing all of them from an aesthetic point of view is the only meaningful thing that relies on nothingness. There is a sense of Nietzsche's philosophy.

At the beginning, I couldn't understand the slowly raised hands in the sound of the whistle. At the end, I echoed the fading whistle and the passionate soundtrack, and my soul was detached at this moment. Maybe that's what this movie is trying to convey.

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Extended Reading
  • Crawford 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    The director still hasn't broken the curse of "debut is the pinnacle", the three-hour time span and epic narrative are emotional but not powerful. The tone and goal of the whole film have been fluctuating, and the sad and happy style has not been well neutralized. After the soundtrack intervenes, the image flows like an ocean, but there are also too many extremely weak passages. The opening chapter criticizes the atrocities of Nazi ethnic cleansing (groups and individuals struggle with the concept of "blood"), then turns to satire on contemporary art, and ends with a sudden influx of historical scars, bringing the theme back to "don't look away" (continue watching to resist forgetting) up. It is a blunt stroke in the play, and the whole also relies too much on coincidence, and the final volume is quite bloated and complicated. #HKIFF43#

  • Lottie 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    Compared with "Eavesdropping Storm", there is less political criticism, but more gentle humanity. The fateful entanglement between the male and female lords is enough to make onlookers worried, but love makes their soul and body fit together, so that they can hug together without knowing the truth, ignoring the Nazis, ignoring the patriarchy, and ignoring the XXism. There is no loud cry, but it seems to hear the roar of history...

Never Look Away quotes

  • NKWD Major Murawjow: If my child were born with health problems, should it be put to death?

    Professor Carl Seeband: It so happens that space and resources on this earth are limited. Who should have them? The healthy or the sick?

    NKWD Major Murawjow: Soon there will be one more place available on this earth.

  • NKWD Major Murawjow: Whoever saves a life saves the entire world.