The comeback of 490 black and white 'color' color

Roger Ebert's perfect praise obviously opened a better start for the first round of reviews of "Schindler's List", with full scores and star recommendations, this is Roger's highest praise for a movie, and this is also the highest praise that any film critic can give to a movie.

The firepower of the "Chicago Sun" is so ferocious that it also exceeds everyone's expectations, and everyone was still worried about whether Steven and Spielberg will be able to master the scale of such a heavy subject matter as the Holocaust in World War II, but now it seems that Steven has not only completed his work, but also has always been extraordinarily 'colorful' work, which also makes the "Spielberg + historical heavy theme" burst out with a powerful effect greater than two.

The subsequent review of "Variety" magazine also continued Roger's view of the film, although the score of 95 points is not a perfect score, but it is not far away, and "Variety" magazine, which has always been known for its rigor and prudence and professionalism, can give such a high evaluation, which is obviously the best echo of Roger.

"This is a film that profoundly exposes the horrific crimes of the German Nazis in the murder of the Jews, and there is no doubt that it is also a film that deserves to be watched and remembered by all

It is precisely because Spielberg had Jewish blood in his vein, and that he had experienced first-hand the pain of discrimination against Jews in his childhood; Seventeen members of the extended Ukrainian family, from which his family name derives, were killed in concentration camps; Deep down, he was reverently grateful to Schindler, the great benefactor of the Jews, and this series of facts close to the heart has long been a success of this film.

This film is Spielberg's review of the tragedy of the murder of six million Jews in Germany during World War II, the film tells the great experience of Oscar Schindler with a pessimistic "gloomy" tone and a calm but tense perspective, returning to Krakow during World War II, showing people the whole process of the destruction of the city, and at the same time trying to find the glimmer of human "nature" in that era when human "sex" was annihilated.

Spielberg did not approach the story with historical hatred or criticism, he did not want to examine that period of history with his "private" and "colorful" eyes, he just told the story of an ordinary person after his morality was severely challenged in the war-torn era, so as to examine the impact of this event on the parties, the entire era, and future generations. Finally, turn this influence into a reflection in your mind, comfort the soul of the dead, alert the surviving to others, and inform others who have not experienced it.

Whoever saves one life saves the whole world. Whoever saves one life saves yourself.

The film shows a world that looks ridiculous in times of peace, and those Germans regard the slaughter of Jews as a natural, normal job, and there is such a scene in the film, a one-armed old man is trying to shovel snow, but he is caught by the SS on the side of the road, and after asking a few casual questions, he is shot and killed, and the other soldiers around him are talking and laughing with hot tea. The old man's colorless blood made the snow filthy.

The more you kill, the more tragic it is, it is never calculated in this way, but the indifference in the process of killing, as if this qiē is taken for granted, and this contempt for life is a tragedy. Scenes similar to the one-armed old man abound in the film, and we can often see people chatting while Jews two steps away are suffering - even losing their lives.

Before he died, the one-armed old man kept muttering: I am an important laborer, and his trembling voice was full of a strong desire to live, and he longed to live. Although there are many unpleasant and unfair life force, he longs to live no matter what. However, this wish had no meaning in those soldiers, who simply ended the life of the old man, and it was like a game.

Such a game has made 'Schindler's List' great. Schindler is the strong man in this game, but he gradually changed his mentality in the game, and in the end he was tortured, the pain of the 'flesh' body can never compare to the tearing of the 'spirit', we have no way to imagine the psychological struggle that Schindler experienced, because we are not Schindler, we are not Schindler at that time and time, our speculation is just an 'interpretation' of Schindler, and this interpretation is not told in the movie, which is precisely the success of the movie.

In the end, Schindler traded his life's dream of becoming a billionaire for the life of a Jew, and the dream is priceless, and so is life. So, Schindler succeeded, he saved this group of innocent lives, and he also gave his life meaning.

This is a film where details determine a qiē, and all the details become complementary to the theme of the film, like a puzzle piece, piecing together this outstanding film.

The first piece of the puzzle is the balcony, the balcony of the house of the Nazi officer A'Mon' Goss. There are many images in the background of this balcony, but the most impressive one is, of course, the picture of Goss standing shirtless on the balcony in the early morning, leisurely aiming at the prey of the concentration camp below.

Goss smoked a cigarette and stretched his waist as if he were aiming at a hare in a hunting ground, or as if he were aiming at a target in a hunting ground, pulling the trigger accurately and calmly, and then reaping life after life. When he's done, and the 'bed'. Chatting with each other, going to the bathroom to solve physiological needs, as if he had just finished his morning exercise.

This picture is so life-like, yet so real and so cruel.

In addition, there are countless moments of time on this balcony, moments of party drinking, moments when Goss lazily undergoes a medical check-up, moments when Goss sleeps and hugs the 'woman', moments when Schindler and Goss 'sex' talk late at night, this balcony is like a paradise, where a beautiful and simple moment in life happens. But the irony is that just a balcony away is another world, where people are treated as a kind of plaything, and their lives and self-esteem are no longer there, but only part of the game.

So sad.

The second piece of the puzzle is the 'color' color, which is also the strongest and most direct part of the movie

The film opens with a candle lit in the dark, the faint light of the fire struggles to burn in the surrounding dark space, accompanied by an ode, serene, beautiful, warm, and the soft yellow 'color' flame surrounds a pale blue halo, dispelling the darkness around it, symbolizing the Jews' desire for a trace of space, trying to illuminate the whole world, and then extinguishing and turning into a wisp of green smoke. Then, in the place where the ashes were gone, the roaring whistle of the train dragged a long tail of smoke, dragging this tragic era into our sight.

There is no need for 'color' to reproduce that period of history, because it was a cold time, and that kind of deformed human 'sex' had no 'color' color at all, only black and white, and the calm, 'dark' and heavy black and white can explain that era better than any kind of 'color' color. But even so, Spielberg still pointed out a touch of red 'color', that little red 'color' figure is the only 'color' in the black and white era, this little 'girl' in red clothes, like a bouquet of wild 'flowers' that grow hard and stubbornly in the stiff land of suffering, lovely and beautiful, drifting in the wind, but in the end it was submerged by the whole bleak years, and the only red 'color' was swallowed up completely.

This also makes the rigor of the film's ideas and extraordinary artistic expression reach a rare depth.

At the end of the story, the Jewish people finally ushered in their dawn, a dark era finally ended, and the Jews who survived the catastrophe came to the distant horizon. The people also breathed in their depression, and they came from the darkness, as from night to dawn, step by step to dawn, and the sky slowly turned blue, first navy blue, then light blue, and finally bright 'bright' blue, and the Jews finally came under the bright blue sky.

From 'color' to black and white to 'color' color, the film's use of 'color' color symbolizes the transformation of mood, which is simple but profoundly integrated into the whole story, sliding into the bottom of the heart, and has an unparalleled effect.

The final piece of the puzzle is the soundtrack, which is arguably the most important but overlooked part of the movie.

John Williams (Johs), probably the most famous soundtrack artist in film history, has once again dedicated a classic to us after winning four Oscars and countless nominations. It can be said that it was this film that adapted Williams's creation and formed a new peak; It can also be said that it is Williams' outstanding soundtrack that deepens the theme of the film. But no matter how you evaluate it, the soundtrack of this movie is an indispensable part, a perfect work of flesh and blood, and real progress!

He uses the pathos of the viola to make people repent of the sins of that time; He uses a sharp and piercing violin to tell the grief and desolation of that period of history; He used the galloping piano to contrast the cruelty and cold-bloodedness of the unbridled massacre; He also used the choir to sing nursery rhymes to feel the grief and redemption in his heart...... That deep pain whispered the pain and sadness in my heart.

The poster of the movie is an adult's hand grabbing a small hand in red, that hand is so impactful, but it is weak, in that crazy era, there are only a few sober after all, just like the soundtrack in the movie, the slow in and out of the background and the very skillful 'sexual' rhythm, constantly described, describing the pictures, numb eyes, numb movements and finally numb to be taken away by the poison gas to the last trace of breath.

Life is no longer noble and mysterious, stripped of its clothes, stripped of the last hypocritical mask of human pity, silent in front of six million corpses, like a cappella of choir girls, without emotion, and even without sound, without any breath of life. The sound of the piano is like a grievance, like a cry, and the melancholy melody seems to tell the tragic fate of the Jews, but after listening closely, there is some bright 'color' and hope in the smooth melody, just like the candlelight at the beginning of the movie.

At the end of the movie, the piano solo quietly draws the curtain, all the stories dissipate in time, and no one can bear to interrupt the oppressive and empty piano sound, so the violin quietly comes again to sublimate this poem full of blood and tears. The 'color' that disappeared in the darkness turned into a musical note and remained in everyone's heart.

Spielberg uses the most simple lens, the most simple 'color' color, and the most simple technique to tell us the most colorful story. ”

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