The Deep Creek Tiger, who particularly likes Amway movies, is here again, and this time to introduce a good movie:
The Hidden Life A HiddenLife.
It is a work based on real historical events, during the Second World War, austrian soldier Franz Jaggersted, out of his inner faith and conscience, refused to fight for Nazi Germany, experienced isolation, discrimination, humiliation, torture, and finally sentenced to death, from social death to physiological death, becoming the one who said "no" in the unanimous cries of the crowd.
Obviously, this is a sad story, but at the beginning of the film, everyone's first reaction is estimated to be the same as mine, which is obviously a magnificent and magnificent scenery blockbuster, okay? Look at the director's name, Terrence Malik, Hollywood's biggest image king, his films are not necessarily all fine, but there is no doubt that every film is "good-looking", and the last time he was impressed by his shots was the famous "Thin Red Line".
A Hidden Life is no exception.
The main background of the film takes place in the Alps in Austria, snowy peaks, deep valleys, alpine meadows, wooden houses, farms, rural life, a quiet pastoral pastoral. And the director uses a large number of low camera positions, wide frames, and elevation shots, which highlights to the greatest extent how enviable the protagonist's life status is. If it weren't for my delusion, these frames of frame by frame were not just beautifully described, but seemed to be constantly extending to the sides of the screen, if in terms of perception, the texture of the picture was soft, flowing, gradually invading and filling the gap between heaven and earth. This rare visual effect, whether in the first half or the second half of the film, is used to show the protagonist's different fates before and after have produced an unusually strong impact effect, the good time is infectious, the bad time is oppressive, this clever use of the lens technology is really cattle, not only the film is so simple, but also belongs to the real film to live.
In addition to the shots, the lines of the film are also very distinctive.
A large number of poetic language, almost whispering, reminds people of prayers in the church, and if you link the twists and turns of the male protagonist's fate in the plot, it makes the whole film have a religious-like sacrificial flavor. From a happy man to a prisoner in prison until he is finally taken to the execution ground, the great turn in personal destiny is reminiscent of christians on the cross. Such a metaphor full of symbolic meaning can be said to be ubiquitous in the film, thus transforming the film from a simple narrative into a sigh of fate, a torture of the system, and a speculation about what is right and what is wrong.
If you can't say no, what's the point of freedom?
If you happen to travel back in time to the 1930s and 1940s, and you land right on the land covered by the Nazi flag, and look around, it is the masses that have been incited by National Socialism, even if you already know the historical results that followed, who can have the courage to stand up and say "NO" to the Gestapo?
The male protagonist is not a crosser, of course, he has no way of knowing the fate of the Third Reich in the future, so what others see as an absolutely deviant act is actually just a projection of his true inner thoughts, he just thinks that this is not right, we have to do the right thing. Specifically, he refused to swear allegiance to Hitler and his Nazi Germany, and refused to join the army as cannon fodder on the battlefield. This is not a profit-oriented choice, but a trade-off based on one's own values.
However, in such a big environment, the cost of this kind of behavior is extremely high.
At first, he was a strange person in the eyes of others, but everyone could still get along peacefully, at most pointing;
Later, as the war progressed, the atmosphere became more and more tense, and the neighbors who lived day and night looked at him not only strangely, but disgusted, because you were not with us.
Later, as the war entered an increasingly brutal phase, this antagonism gradually evolved into hostility, especially when others began to bleed, wound, and even sacrifice on the battlefield, and the constant brewing of contradictions finally reached the stage of hatred. Moreover, the balance of strength between individuals and groups is undoubtedly extremely disparity, and the principle differences in views, the size of the forces, and even the conflict of interests have turned the originally harmonious villagers into different enemies and enemies of different heavens.
You're not like us! So we can't tolerate you!
Human beings have a herd mentality, and even sometimes this herd mentality will evolve into a kind of "bullying" behavior, if this kind of behavior can be draped in a layer of "collectivism", transformed, with the slogan of the minority obeying the majority to standardize, institutionalize, and even legalize, all illegal and irrational behavior once cloaked in the cloak of law, relying on administrative power and even violent weapons, then for individuals standing on the opposite side of the collective, the fate is self-evident.
For example, if I can't convince you, then I can insult you, humiliate you, and hit you until I destroy you physically, even to the point of ashes, whipping the corpse to vent my anger, and using various names, such as "truth" as an excuse, so as to completely extinguish you in the cold darkness. Are you convinced? Are you afraid or not? Do you dare to? Oh, sorry to forget that you're dead, can't talk, and won't be "NO" anymore.
So I look at the other people, who disagree? Stand up!
Throughout the ages, every totalitarian tyranny has arisen in this way. From the beginning, first divide yourself differently and treat them differently, if not called discrimination. Then the next thing is to try to see if he can transform it, for my use, if you can, then let him wear the hat of transformation, and be enslaved all the time, but you can leave him a way to live. If not, then continue to exert pressure, escalate, oppress, ravage, such as social death against him, such as coercion and induce everyone around him to oppose him, and of course, physical torture that proves more effective. If that doesn't work, then destroy him!
It's not enough just that, this guy is so unconscious, has wasted so much of my energy, isn't it too cheap for him to die? I had to dig it up, splash it with dirty water, hang up placards, and step on ten thousand feet to solve the hatred in my heart! Look at who among you still dares to disobey, ahem!
Franz Jaggersted is the best example.
So is this the life we want? Is this our ideal society? Is this the fabled future?
If it cannot be said no, then the so-called freedom has no meaning.