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In Reply to: Re: Divided We Fall posted by jamesgarvin on January 19, 2005 at 09:14:52:
It was not an happy ending that did make this film an Eurotrash film a la Hollywood ( this ending was anyway a part of a true story ) but the whole visual and moral construction !
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"Visual Construction?" I am not sure what that means. If you mean that it was filmed to make it look the best it could, or that it was filmed to provide as much visual detail as possible, or that it was filmed to provide accurate, vivid colors, I do not see how those are bad things."Moral Construction?" I must admit to being really confused. Certainly, the film did not take a positive spin on the Nazis. Frankly, I do not see how the "moral construction" of the film was any different than "The Pianist", "The Harmonists", or "Divided we Fall." Which is simply that when confronted with their own demise, some people who were moral absolutists become moral relativists, and some people who were moral absolutists remain moral absolutists, even in the face of being killed for their beliefs. Like I prefer great athletes telling me about the nuances of their sport rather than "commentators", I likewise appreciate filmmakers who were victims of a plight telling me about the plight rather than a regular filmmaker doing so. It lends an air of authenticity to the proceedings.
Which dovetails back to Polansky and "The Pianist." I assume that his personal experiences came through in the visual style of "The Pianist", that his resources allowed him to show us what that time and place looked like.
Visual construction? It is a way Hollywood and the rest of the industry also now in Europe as opposed to art are using their clichés, there are so previsible that it get so boring.
It was not meant to attack the professionalism of well set images! The contrary of course.
See the filming in Bergman films as opposed to Polansky " Le Pianiste ".
The same vein for the moral construction. All set up and utterly boring.
I am so severe because Polansky had long time ago a magical touch. Seems to me lost for ever. Since " The Pirates " maybe.
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