The experimental technique of dislocation of space-time background is clever and effective

Damaris 2022-04-17 09:01:14

The Berlin Film Festival, which is dominated by politics, has always preferred such works, and it is not surprising that Christian Petzold, who is good at political themes, has become a frequent visitor to Berlin. This year's new entry in the competition unit is also a political theme. The most special thing is that the story of World War II has been completely moved to the current European background. The sense of chronology is uncomfortable at first, but as the plot develops, it can be seen from it. There are many satires on the current world political structure and European social problems. The director's experimental method of dislocating the time and space background is quite clever and effective. If filmed according to the original novel, the recognizability and freshness of the film are not much different from other World War II stories.

The director found a lot of plots corresponding to reality in the background of this time and space dislocation, which made the audience realize the incomparably accurate realistic meaning in the absurd and humorous scene. As a fugitive from a German concentration camp, the male protagonist met many European refugees while waiting to board the ship in the French port of Marseille. Ironically, these "refugees" were all well-dressed and carefree European whites who were only trying to escape the Nazis. And exile. This is undoubtedly reminiscent of the intensifying refugee problem in Europe today. Refugees in two different eras each bear different fates, but they have reached the same destination in the United States as an ideal paradise. Does this imply that the current European refugee problem can only be solved by the United States in the end?

Compared with this carefully designed and metaphorical time and space background, the love story in the film is much less interesting. The male protagonist who stole his identity as a writer, a woman whose background is unknown, the former's feelings for the latter seem to be atonement for the latter's guilt, while the latter always cares about the writer's husband at the expense of his feelings. The whole love clue makes the film gradually fall into a vulgar melodrama routine, and even the ending is a mess of romance, which regrettably destroys the amazing time and space background created before. On the contrary, the image of this mysterious woman is worth thinking about. She is like a ghost traveling through history wandering the European continent, with intriguing metaphorical colors.

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Extended Reading
  • Nikita 2022-04-21 09:03:53

    The ingenious creation that integrates the escape story of World War II with the elements of contemporary refugees, and puts it into the contemporary context to repackage and tell the ingenious creation, the Great Cleansing, Marseilles, refugees, identity replacement, and erratic women, even though the story itself is full of all kinds of strange love and blood, but However, the film is full of literary atmosphere, filled with melancholy beauty, and the importance of narration is self-evident. Comparing the history and the present, there are some amazing similarities. The illusion and reality are already indistinguishable. (70)

  • Dana 2022-04-20 09:03:00

    In the half-new world, I met you/you. In addition to talking about the "half-new" of the German occupation of France in the refugee issue in modern France, the details always converge (plastic syringes in the old iron box, listening to the phonograph-like "Bat" prelude on the trampoline... ) under various parallel dislocations, everything is between transitions and in-betweens (such as the film title transit), people and people, people and things are shadowed: the setting of two layers of time and space, the replacement/acting/even internalization of identity, the other Occasional staggering caused by the superposition of a layer of fiction (the difference between the text and the image of the narration, and even the thick scribbles that overlap each other), until the end, the meeting of the beginning/end (life/soul) - that look back, like we The audience also acts as a follow-up creator, and the eyes are misplaced and twisted for a moment. But only for this moment. The love between men and women before Qingcheng was based on love, and they used the same emotion to illuminate similar corners in different time and space. They all confuse the boundaries of time and space and cannot be distracted. But in other words, it's not emotions that shake the world, it's the world that keeps changing us. Looking back at the inevitable distortion of vision, but not the effort that will eventually dilute the world

Transit quotes

  • Georg: It was cold. The Mistral. He was tired. Nobody looked at him. That's the terrible thing. Not that she's your dirty face staring at the torn clothes.The terrible thing is that they are you do not see that you are not there.

  • Georg: Then he thought, 'This is Marseille.' A port city. Port cities are cities, in which is told. That's what they're there for. And these people have the right to tell and that you listen inside.