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As one of the most high-profile films at this year's Berlin Film Festival, the premiere of "Transcendence" came to an end, with a standing ovation of nearly four minutes, audience questions and media interviews for 90 minutes. , has undoubtedly pushed the atmosphere of this year's film festival to its peak. In the icy and snowy February, a rare wave of warmth has ushered in, which is really encouraging.

However, does this mean that "detachment" has been successful?

Obviously not. The applause means the audience's approval of the artistry; the noise means the reporter's affirmation of the topicality. However, that doesn't mean that critics appreciate the movie, nor does it mean that audiences will love it. Controversy and hilarity, praise and frenzy, these reactions are all closely linked.

James Bernard didn't like the movie.

This time, James came to participate in the Berlin Film Festival as the representative of the film critic of "Village Voice". Before the film festival, James' most anticipated work is undoubtedly "Transcendence". Not because of Tony Kaye, but because of Renly Hall.

James has always admired Renly, not only those independent works, but even "Fast and Furious 5", he is also highly appreciated. Among the new generation of actors, James has always admired Renly, not only because of his acting skills. , but also because of his vision for film selection.

However, this time, Renly's choice made James begin to question.

"There is no doubt that Tony Kaye is a special director. His camera is always aimed at a real problem, dissecting it with a plain but sharp perspective, and showing the dark side and corruption of society to the blood. The audience, let people have nowhere to escape. There is no tolerance.

This time, Kaye takes the knife to the education system, and the film sees teachers as a bunch of mercenary, profit-oriented, and complaining flypapers. This is a bold and resolute attempt, rooted in the essence of education, and proposes a topic that contemporary society has gradually neglected: What is the ultimate goal of education? Jobs, degrees, ideas, or wealth, and even… politics/politics.

However, the perspective full of criticism and scrutiny is too extreme and too arbitrary.

After raising the problem one-sidedly, there is no in-depth discussion, no dialectical thinking, let alone a solution. What's worse, the second half of the story loses its edge and takes a sharp turn, and all the weight falls back on the male protagonist's personal problems. It directly caused the discussion of the problem to go off track, leaving only limited room for reflection.

So sharp, so sharp, so bloody, so cruel to raise a problem that cannot be solved and lacks discussion. In my opinion, the aggression is too strong, more like criticism for the sake of criticism, but it lacks the humanities of the real essence care.

The sharpness and tenderness that Kaye once showed in 'American X-Files', but in 'detachment', there is only a vague concept left, which is not only disappointing, but also disgusting. "

James expressed his position in a sharp but coherent manner. According to the scoring standards of the three major European film festivals, the full score was four points, and in the end, James only gave one point. If it is calculated according to the hundredth system, this is twenty-five points, which can be said to be an ultra-low score, and it will go to hell.

James' disappointment and embarrassment can be seen between the lines, but then the conversation changed, and James expressed a diametrically opposite position.

"Throughout the film, Kaye made a bold attempt: by using the method of zooming in on the close-up shots and restoring the film grains, to present the texture of a pseudo-documentary, and to magnify and re-amplify the performance of the actors, the surging emotions were suppressed. Publicity to the extreme, and then bring the response of the soul and the shock of the soul.

The advantages and disadvantages of such an almost experimental shooting method are very obvious——

The acting shortcomings of the two newcomers are put under the microscope. The performances of Sammy Gale and Betty Kaye are already rare for the newcomers. The emotional expression in most scenes is real, natural, simple and pure. But the flaws of delicacy and lack of layers are also revealed, especially in the emotional expression of key nodes, they all failed, they failed to really show the character's heart, and even exposed the jerky to embarrassing performance handling.

This can be said to be the goal that the pseudo-documentary hopes to achieve, but it can also be said to be a source of regret for the film's reflection and resonance.

Correspondingly is the excellence of Renly Hall. The leader of Generation Y actors, once again, showed his excellence to the audience. Even in the face of a lot of familiar old actors, Hall still gave a well-deserved best performance. The almost theatrical presentation of the camera gives Hall enough space to give full play to his heart and soul, and his solid performance skills are fully demonstrated in every detail such as eyes, corners of mouth, expressions, movements, demeanor, and limbs.

In just the last scene of the movie, Hall easily once again proved his absolute status as a leading actor. After experiencing the amazing performances of 'Buried Alive', 'Crazy in Love', and 'I Fight Cancer', I can still say with confidence: This is the best performance of Hall's career.

Or, so far.

Hall's performance endows the whole film with a deep weight and rich reflection, the connection between the individual and the society, the relationship between the individual and the family, and then the influence of the individual and education. Come on, it's amazing. If there is one reason to watch 'detachment', then Renly-Hall is the answer. "

After writing this film review, a reporter curiously asked James what he thought: why he gave Renly so high

The evaluation of the movie is only one point?

In this regard, James said, "As a whole, the film is undoubtedly a failure, even embarrassing. It misses the most important soul of a work of art. Just because of Renly's performance, I am willing to give four points. How many points are there? , give as many points as you want. But for the whole work, one point is the limit."

In fact, James isn't the only critic who doesn't like "detachment." After the premiere, the critics were also divided, but they also agreed that this is an author's film and cannot be measured by common sense.

The so-called auteur's film, first formed in France in the 1950s, holds that film forms a special language and becomes the work of freely expressing thoughts and emotions, just as a writer writes with a pen and a director uses a camera Do screen writing. Over time, this has also formed a wave, and gradually developed into a "author" theory that highly affirms the director's personality and depreciates the phenomenon of vulgar creation. Later, it directly promoted the birth of French New Wave films and began to affect the world.

The author's film can be simply understood as: the director gets rid of the interference of the producer and the producer, and completely completes the film with his own style and characteristics according to his own ideas and concepts.

In terms of expression techniques, long shots, mobile photography, voice-overs, inner monologues, natural sounds, and even unconventional shaking shots, which break the unity of time and space, are widely used to express personal subjective feelings and competition. Some "documentary" techniques such as follow-up shooting, rush shooting, telephoto, zoom, freeze frame, continuation, and simultaneous recording combine "subjective realism" with "objective realism".

This kind of film can even be further understood as that this is the work that the director shot for himself, not for the general public, but more for real professionals to study, discuss, criticize, and study.

"Transcendence" is a typical auteur's film.

It is because of this that the author's films are often cold and esoteric. Even professionals can provoke backlash and even boycotts, not to mention general audiences.

Above the premiere, the audience applauded for up to four minutes, in a sense, affirming Tony Kaye's boldness and persistence, which is a pursuit of art. Of course, this is only limited to the Berlin Film Festival. If you switch to any other film festival, even the New York Film Festival, I am afraid that the audience will leave the venue angrily.

In addition to James, another senior film critic also expressed his discomfort.

Time's Amy Nicholson said in a review, "I like Tony Kaye, I like Renly Hall - more precisely, I'm crazy about the latter, but I hate this movie, I hate it."

In Renly's previous works, Amy is also a staunch supporter. She gave "Fast and Furious 5" a high score without hesitation, and called on audiences to go to the cinema and watch "What It's called acting in a commercial film," she said; and during this year's awards season, she's also the biggest supporter of "Crazy in Love", believing that Renly deserves more than just one nomination.

However, this time in Berlin, Amy still gave a bad review.

"The whole film is full of self-talk and self-justification, there is no spark between the characters and the three female characters revolving around the male lead, the plot is not convincing at all, and the emotional connection of the story is cut off coldly and arrogantly, In turn, all confessions and narrations are reduced to self-talk.

sad? Pain? bitter? difficult? Lonely?

I don't believe in any of the emotions in the movie, and I didn't feel anything during the entire movie, I just felt - I'm sure that wasn't what Tony Kaye intended - detached. My soul is completely removed from the atmosphere created by the film, aloofly rejecting any point of view that Kaye is trying to force.

For me, this is a work that is not necessary to watch. "

Of course, as one of Renly's supporters, Amy still mentions him in the comments.

"As for Renly Hall - in the past two years, I personally admired one of the leading actors, don't worry, you are still the best actor in Generation Y in my opinion, but, sorry, this movie In the meantime, your performance has not been able to keep me in the movie. Can only wait for the next time.

Also, this is a Tony Kaye filming for Tony Kaye to watch, so we don't have to mix it up. "

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