Artists are also "social people"

Lisa 2022-03-23 09:02:48

I watched this movie on a cloudy, bleak afternoon. You know, this is by no means a wonderful life experience. But the film may also be well-suited to watching in this depressing atmosphere.
The beautiful sea, the well-built actors and actresses, and the Jazz that seems to emerge from the ground from time to time, in this seemingly beautiful scene, the crisis is quietly fermenting, forming...
It is very delicate, very artistic, and very European .
What Polanski wants to discuss with the audience in this film is actually the motifs related to human society, "same-sex repelling, opposite-sex attracting". "When men and women look at each other, they get tired of it."...
Of course, Polanski also borrowed this film to criticize those Eastern European countries at that time, which caused serious class hostility due to the disparity between the rich and the poor and the extremely unfair distribution. Social Reality.
"Roman Polanski is an artist". This sentence is not wrong. But no artist can stay away from the hustle and bustle of the world and be alone.

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  • Burdette 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Couldn't have done a better set of dramatic conflict scenes, and actually did a good job, making me anxious from the beginning to the end. . There's nothing really cute about these two characters. . Only the only female characters are normal, so it's even more regrettable that she has to stay in such a boring pathetic male-dominated world. .

  • Herminio 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Multi-camera scheduling in a narrow space, restrained anti-climax narrative, and character relationships that wrestle and balance each other, Polanski is not a warm person, he observes the distortion of the world with a pair of cold eyes. This is also the basis for his creation of characters. Emotions are necessary but not sufficient. Characters are closer to carefully selected samples. During the imaging process of social experiments, their emotional fluctuations can be purified. Variables.

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Knife in the Water quotes

  • Krystyna: Why do you carry that murderous thing?

    Young Man: A knife comes in handy. Especially in the woods. You don't need one on the water, but cutting your way through the woods...

  • Young Man: Sailing's easy. It's when you hike that you need a knife. That's how it is in life.

    Krystyna: You're a real child.