When it comes to German films, Riefenstahl is a name that cannot be ignored. When it comes to documentary films, "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia" are monuments that cannot be avoided. The tradition of German cinema is like that of the German nation - unity, rigor, desire to win, collectivism. If this spirit of Germany is not curbed, history has already told us the answer, and the movie "The Wave" also uses a story to re-interpret the terrible consequences. But this emphasis on collectivism, strength, and the spirit of the strong is combined with football as a team sport, and the German nationality can evolve into an inspiring and inspiring spiritual force. The film "Germany, A Summer's Fairy Tale" uses recorded images, which seem to be inadvertent, but in fact show the audience the spirit and strength of the German people with good intentions.
The film records everything that the host German team experienced during the 2006 World Cup from the training camp to the end of the World Cup. The film uses a reverse order method, and the beginning is the well-known ending of the summer of 2006 - the host German team lost to Italy in the semi-finals and missed the final. In the locker room, the players were downcast and frustrated. Then, the film goes back to the days of the German team's World Cup preparations and training, which opened the prelude to the German fairy tale in 2006.
Although the ending of the fairy tale is not perfect, the process is beautiful and moving. Director Ronke Waterman has directed "The Miracle of Bern" and the 1998 French World Cup documentary, and the former is also a film about football. In "Fairy Tale of a Summer in Germany", the director, as a German fan, is full of love for football and Germany, showing the audience the real life of a group of men in the German team. The German team in the 2006 World Cup every game on and off the field, the camera is faithfully recorded. Coach Klinsmann, players Ballack, Klose, Schweinsteiger, Podolski, Kahn, Lehmann and many other stars all appeared. While showing every game of the German team, the film deciphers the most interesting events of the German team in 2006, including the choice of the first goalkeeper, Lehmann's magical note against Argentina and so on. Not only that, the film also shows the details of the life of the German players, such as the meeting of German Chancellor Murdoch, Ballack's leadership in the team, Klose's paranoia about hairstyles, Schweinsteiger and Podols. The friendship between the bases, the coaching team's choice of tactics, etc., these team tidbits are also included, which makes the film more watchable and interesting.
In the form of the film, the film is basically recorded in a way similar to a direct film. The camera is used as a bystander to record the German team's promotion road. Everything about the players and coaches is naturally uninterrupted. During the interview, the main creator did not participate in the question, but let the interviewee play on his own, speaking to the camera alone and expressing his personal opinion. In the performance of the scene of the game, all the upgraded lenses are used to show the poetry and beauty of the sport of football. The whole film does not have a single explanation, but uses real images and poetic montages to construct the fairy tale created by Germany in the summer of 2006 - although Germany did not win the dream of the football player in the summer of 2006. Hercules Cup, but three mentors with equal emphasis on kindness and prestige lead a group of lovely young people with unity and clear goals. The process of struggle remains on the screen forever. What people see is no longer the result, but a kind of German spirit. A hope and an unquenchable passion for football.
The beauty of the process makes the third place achievement also an honor. No matter what the outcome is, the German team will always be a hero in the hearts of fans. At the end of the film, with the end of the World Cup, the German players and German fans celebrate together, they sing loudly, "In 2010, they will be world champions", and then the film ends in a carnival. So far, the film shows another possibility of victory - the immortality of will and the perpetuation of hope.
Later words: I watched this film shortly after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. I was overwhelmed with emotion at the time. The 2010 German team, despite coming in full of hope, repeated the fate of 2006, and the results were strikingly similar: they lost the semi-finals, took third place, and the semi-final opponents finally won the championship. This seems to confirm the relationship between film and reality - film gives people hope and dreams, but reality ruthlessly breaks it.
2010/7/30 21:56 in Fuzhou
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