Taking off from Beijing, flying to Helsinki, Stockholm or other Nordic cities, the long flight will be boring by the narrow and confined space in the cabin. When you keep looking at the dynamic trajectory map, you will find that there is a country that is so big. Test your patience, 7 hours in the air will be occupied by his vast space. As a result, you will remember the names of those distant places more clearly: Lake Baikal, Siberia, the North Sea, the Barents Sea, mysterious and lofty areas, nourishing giants, shaking waves, churning dark clouds, and slowing in the ocean currents near the Arctic Circle. Growing, they are hypnotized by the extremely cold sea, and when they wake up, it is the time of many people's lives. Leviathan is the behemoth that dominates this sea, and is also the title of a Russian Oscar-listed foreign language film. With such a mysterious and mysterious title, it tells the civilians on the Barents seaside, because of the demolition fee and the mayor. The story of another defeat in court.
Leviathan is a sea monster that symbolizes evil in the Bible. A book published by Thomas Hobbes in 1651, the full title is "Leviathan, or the Essence, Form and Power of the Church State and the Citizen State". Leviathan is used as a metaphor for a powerful country in the book. Leviathan exists in the film in two ways: figurative and imagery. The first glance of figurativeness is the poster. A boy sits on the Barents Sea, facing the deep sea of Russia, the kind that is darker than the azure blue. Blue, with a sense of heaviness, beside the boy is a huge whale skeleton, white with a harp-like graceful arc, in the apocalyptic twilight, as if crying like a boy. This poster’s sense of loneliness and the end of the world can rank among the top three on the poster list. You can’t tell what the movie is based on the poster alone. It doesn’t show the relationship between the scene and the characters. It has the soul of a disaster movie and a science fiction movie. The composition is a classic Russian oil painting style. The distant, medium, close and props are all permeated with desolation and depression, but the slightly clear sky widens the picture.
In this remote Russian town in this bleak, desperate Russian town, everyone is affected by the intervention of Leviathan in fate. It seems that monsters in the sea often covet here and want to take something away. The image of Leviathan is everywhere in the film.
After being discharged from the army, the protagonist made a living by repairing cars. He spent half of his life saving on building a two-story house by the sea, sleeping on the sound of the waves every night. This sea-view house occupies an excellent position that makes the mayor coveted, so he dispatched the public power to order the demolition at a very low price. The protagonist invited a former comrade-in-arms lawyer from Moscow to defend, and the book has been reduced to a court under the mayor’s shack. He once again discussed the case and was detained. Chaos, the mayor's face paled when his comrade-in-arms lawyer mentioned the people of the Moscow Committee. The mayor asked the lawyer a meaningful sentence: "Do you have faith?" "I am willing to believe the truth," the lawyer replied.
There are three dialogues about beliefs in the film. It can be seen that this nation, like any time, still wants to believe in something to resolve the difficulties and injustices. In the long Middle Ages, people's words and deeds were controlled by the church. Martin Luther's religious reform began in 1517. Protestantism allowed people to no longer be importers of church interests, but to believe in Jesus instead of slaves to the church. After the Crusades, Eastern Orthodox doctrine became widespread in Central and Eastern Europe. While hiding in the doctrine, Russians kept secret of their sect, especially in the top leadership. The sect of faith has also been known by the media in recent years.
The answer to faith appears for the second time in the film, very clear and decisive. After convening a private meeting with the heads of public prosecutors and lawmakers, the mayor came to the priest's office to seek comfort in a panic all day long. In the dining room where the "Last Supper" was painted, the mayor was uninterested in enjoying the gold-inlaid candlestick and red cabbage soup, but was constantly worried about whether the lawyer's episode would affect the next year's election. He asked the priest: "What can faith do? Why can't the weekly worship and fundraising save me?" The priest raised his head and told him: "Faith is the right in your hands, and God allows you to have it." It is not difficult to think of it, the Tsar. The tyranny of the times also under the banner of faith, let the faithful people be surrendered and fooled.
Today, one hundred years later, in Russia, faith is still the hoisting tool of the state apparatus.
After his comrade-in-arms lawyer left and his wife committed suicide by jumping into the sea, the protagonist stayed with vodka all day long. The Leviathan was a heavy vehicle sent by the mayor, and he pushed his house away like a monster. This long shot should be included in the history of film because the camera was placed in the room and shot from the inside to the outside. The tassel tablecloth , Potted plants, milk jugs, picnic ovens and fishing rods were all shoveled away. It was the life and dream woven by the owner, crushed to pieces by the incarnation of power, Leviathan. Seeing here, what Leviathan is, already Paying the surface of the water, in response to the mayor’s line: "You ants, you will never have power!"
The question of faith appears for the third time in the film. The male protagonist asks the priest in the town: "What is faith and why do I The letter is not rewarded yet?" The priest said, "Because you did not pray or take the sacrament, my faith is in my heart, and I don't know yours." This answer obviously did not satisfy him. At the end of the film, the director commendably chose the truth of the event. Like a disciplinary film, there is no rising meaning. There is only a bleak reality. The male protagonist is planted and imprisoned, but the mayor still enjoys power with the wings of faith, because he is only by Leviathan. Occupied place.
In this desperate Russian town, everyone is affected by the intervention of Leviathan in fate. It seems that monsters in the sea often covet here and want to take something away. The image of Leviathan is everywhere in the film.
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