Thoughts on "Sunrise"

Annalise 2021-12-20 08:01:15

1. The mature film skills are fully integrated with the delicate feelings of the characters: the speed of the melting mirror, the ups and downs of the silent film font, the German expressionist composition composed of the melting mirror, etc. 2. In terms of audio-visual, the film has done a lot of poetic treatment: the appearance of the bell means the end of a relationship or event, the messy shadows projected on the wall when catching a pig, etc.; there are also many imagery interventions: when starting, the same It is the dog barking, the wife is concerned about it, and the husband is afraid of it. 3. Aside from the love line, there are also many irrelevant incidents inserted in the film, such as the playfulness between two bystanders when the couple danced, and the joke between the savior and the couple's mother after the wife was rescued. . . . With this, the author raises the story of a couple's relationship to the level of the global village, and intends to be ahead.

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Extended Reading
  • Marley 2021-12-20 08:01:15

    (8/10) All four stars gave Murnau's brilliant lens language. The theme is not flattering. To be honest, even if I forgive the guy who once killed me, I can't love each other again. I don’t understand why some films always like to whitewash Chen Shimei and Pan Jinlian. When watching the US version of Infernal Affairs, I just want to smoke female pig’s feet...

  • Camylle 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Watching "Sunrise", you will suddenly realize the origin of Ozu's aesthetics. This too simple story shows strong conservatism tendencies, the demonization of cities and urban women, the choice of men between traditional family ethics and modern society, and the handling of female images, all of which were in the late 1920s. The embodiment of conservative thinking, not to mention the whole story, is the reunion treatment of Dresser's "American Tragedy." But with the dramatic advances in film technique and sound processing in the late silent era, none of that matters anymore. The most magical passage in the film is not the application of various superimposed paintings, but the silent scene between a man and a woman on the tram. Murnau found endless emotional poetry in the two, and this is the human power that the conservative Ozu has been able to capture in his life pictures. No wonder he likes to shoot trains so much. Rail travel is a cinematic experience.

Sunrise quotes

  • The Maid: They used to be like children, carefree... always happy and laughing... Now he ruins himself for that woman from the city - Money-lenders strip the farm - and his wife sits alone.

  • The Woman From the City: Tell me! You are all mine?