凭借《新闻记者》荣获2019年日本电影学院奖最佳影片的藤井道人导演,其最新力作转而呈现黑帮家族史诗,以1999,2005,2019三个年份为切入点,故事线跨越平成与令和时代的风云变迁,以极度压迫性的镜头语言诠释现代社会中的黑社会真相以及黑道族人的生存准则。绫野刚再度贡献影帝级别的表演,实力演绎年少漂泊被黑帮收留的主人公贤治,自此一生陷入残酷恶斗与亲情挚爱的两难之中。。Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date.
The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer.
The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。