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Neil 2022-03-24 09:03:02
Roman Polanski's first full-length narrative is hard to imagine a debut in terms of technical and mastery sophistication. The story tells the story of a middle-aged couple and a young man on a private boat. The middle-aged man has a strong desire for control, revealing his own boredom and ego, while the young man is immature with impulsiveness. The middle-aged man is in trouble everywhere, and the heroine is more like a cold-eyed bystander, connecting these two seemingly incompatible people like a thread. 1. Tell the young man that her husband once was as poor as him, and when he pursues fame and fortune, he will have the same virtue, because he cannot bear poverty, and the young man does not refute it. 2. The frank derailment toward her husband forced her to be distrustful of herself. The metaphors in many places in the film, such as the middle-aged man at the helm and the young man's knife, reflect the external abstraction under the contradiction of different value systems of different classes, but the film's position is like the heroine without obvious inclination. Being unable to adapt to the changed environment is like a knife in the water having nowhere to work, or a sailor stepping on glass in the story of a middle-aged man. Roman Polanski uses three simple characters and a simple boat as a single scene, and interprets profound contradictions in a way close to a stage play, full of dramatic tension and artistic depth.
Extended Reading
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Stan 2022-03-21 09:02:47
Finally, I saw the debut feature of Laosky's feature film. It can be said that it is my favorite among the few Polanski works that I have seen. The setting of two men and one woman is very similar to True who was born in the same year. The difference in Frederick's "Jule and Jim" is that the various innuendos in this film are more subtle and intriguing. There are not many three characters, but each has multiple identities. The eternal triangular relationship tells of love and hate. Love and hatred, a closed play on the sea, wonderful
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Kathryne 2022-03-26 09:01:10
Roman Polanski's 64-year debut, when he was only 27 years old, this small-budget film with only 3 actors, it still seems that the director has a lot of interesting ideas. But as far as the rhythm of the movie is concerned, this one is a bit dull. Some people say that this is Polanski's best movie, but I don't think it's as mature as "The Pianist".
Top cast
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Krystyna: [Speaking to the young man, comparing him with her husband] You're just like him... only half his age, and twice as dumb.
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Andrzej: When I was an apprentice helmsman, we had a bosun - Krystyna, what was his name? The guy with the willow. He'd say: see that willow? It was an oak. If the bosun says it's a willow, it's a willow. "To the willow, quick march!"
Young Boy: Shit. Excuse me. So much water in there.
Andrzej: We'd sit on that willow maybe an hour at a time.
Young Boy: On that oak.
Andrzej: Willow, for us. And he made us go "cuckoo".
Young Boy: Made you do what?
Andrzej: Make a cuckoo sound. Like the bird.
Young Boy: And you cuckooed.
Andrzej: He wasn't all that smart but he turned us into men.