"The Price of Fear" is a product of that era, a collision between fanatical dreams of fortune and chaotic reality-thus giving the film a strong atmosphere of the times and traces of emotions, as well as values, ideologies and artistic tendencies.
The first part of the film shows a scene of a small town. There are young people who are eager to leave, there are peaceful town residents, and the protagonist of the film: the tramp. Although the main frame of the story is not this paragraph, it will give me some assumptions: If it is not for making such a film, but starting from a small town, the filming will become "The Man from the Wind Cabinet", and the filming will become "The Platform". What will it look like to become "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" or "Green Light"? Such a hypothesis is that I myself quite resist those sad movies that show the struggle of small people. I hate the limitation of the sorrow and sorrow of life. It is also a limitation of my personal aesthetics. I am afraid that I am often exposed to the dark side of life. With a cowardly mentality or an avoidance mentality... I think what I hope is not a desperate movie, but hope to see the little happiness in a small life, and it is even better to have a commercial HAPPY ENDING. So I will like some of the little warmth in the film. For example, at the farewell banquet before the homeless people set off, the background sound filled with a blues-scented choking guitar, adding some kind of sadness to the sad story. This is the director expressed in the most objective place. The most subjective attitude.
Combining the situation at the time and setting the environment in South America in the early 1950s, the film reveals a certain expression of fate, not only showing the absurdity of fate, but also the absurdity of personal struggle. The tone is full of reflections on civilization, but the conflicting ending in technique is quite unpleasant. Probably this is the art that French director Henri-Georges Clouzot's likes to express.
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