I miao čung
One Second
Tartalmak(1)
China during the Cultural Revolution. In the midst of a lonely desert landscape, two people appear like dots on the horizon. The prisoner and the orphan girl do not yet know each other, but their paths will soon cross. He has escaped from a labour camp, risking being handed down an even longer sentence, and is undertaking an exhausting trek in the heat because he absolutely must see a particular newsreel. But of all things, this is exactly the film roll that the girl steals. While the villagers wait impatiently for the screening to begin and the fugitive feverishly awaits the one second in the film that counts for him, the silver film can is passed from hand to hand. (Berlinale)
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Recenziók (1)
I liked how the film works in an obsequious, fetishistic way with the newsreel, except that it then films everything with an ugly digital camera. Which also exposes how badly lit the whole thing is. Half the film takes place at night, where everyone has quadruple shadows of similar intensity as if they were being lit with someone’s high beams. In terms of content, it's sort of a juvenile declaration of love for film in general as a social event that bonds communities and influences social development. The characters pretty much pay second fiddle to this and mostly act like little kids, their motivations are very much forced, and they change their personalities hectically depending on where the mood of the film needs them to be at the time. At least the exteriors and the original setting/time period are interesting, but I still didn't find the film altogether believable, because my only experience with Zhang (Matt Damon in The Great Wall) so far suggests he's more of an overfed, over-the-hill movie whore.
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