A tour de force. Stunningly nuanced and emotionally charged. A meditation on loss and grief; a subtle exploration of guilt, karma, and war; a tender and tragic tale of how personal history, the choices that we made, and memory haunt us. Poetic and bleak.
The most political is the most personal. 不见战争,却将战争的形态和荒诞,以及战争对个人生命最细节的影响展现得淋漓尽致。战争在每处。Jonathan在border生活的那一段真是美轮美奂。
全片以小见大,用工整的(但有趣的)three-act structure展开故事,探讨了很多话题,对各种human conditions都有所注视,但丝毫不乱,每一个都精炼清晰地呈现,每一个都和其它的融合得很好。The disaster of a nation and of a family are equally devastating; and strangely, a lot of times, they are inseparable.
Natural and pinpoint performances. Exceptional visual language, sound design, and score. Great use of bird’s eye view shot, even thought it’s a little bit repetitive.