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The lyric is brilliant, the reasoning is weak
Wyatt 2022-03-23 09:03:09
The fate of the little girl is moving and sighing, and her innocent performance, especially the cries of "Michelle" at the end, is really tear-jerking. The film is still very good in expressing the fate of a war orphan and the innocent friendship of the child, but it is a pity that the reasoning part is. Due to the limitations of the times, the film is not strong enough to show that children kill small animals - the mole was killed by the owl, and the death of the chicken is not clear, and the camera directly shows only the boy killing the cockroach. The film is vague at the core of its reasoning, so the chain of taboo games (from children stealing crosses to killing animals and then to adult war) is not clear enough, and the critique of war it wants to achieve is not enough. At this point, The White Ribbon is clearly several floors higher.
Extended Reading
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Kyle 2022-03-16 09:01:07
The children gave the cross to the animal. "The cockroach can only be buried when it is dead. Give it a cross." This satirizes the war. Children play in the world of the cross. They don’t fear death and don’t care about morality, because they are pure and unconscious; while the adult world believes in the cross and is morally conscious but struggling with each other. It’s so distinctive. Now they can finally understand this. The contrast is very subtle.
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Valentin 2022-03-27 09:01:19
Two pure feelings in a heavy social background
