Satantango (1994)

"the film is seven hours long, but every minute is fascinating. I wish I could watch it again every year in my lifetime. " Susan Sontag's opening eight-minute track push has already revealed the epic verve of the film. The cattle poured out of the barn and the camera tracked them through a line of dilapidated farmhouses. Interestingly, they rushed forward blindly and tried to mate all the way. The Tarkovsky-style picture, however, is a typical Tarr style that teaches people to hold their breath, predicting the demise of a collective farm with a stroke of a pen. The story begins when a rumored dead swindler comes back to the village. He tries to cheat the farm income, but gives the villagers the idea that he is a great savior. Then there was a tragedy, then a satire. The structure of the twelve chapters of the film is like the original work of Krashnahorkai, which is inspired by the tango dance with six steps forward and six steps backwards, and different perspectives sometimes repeat the same plot. The ultimate fate of the farm is not only a metaphor for the bankruptcy of communism in the early 1990s, but also a reflection of the common destiny of mankind. The best two paragraphs of the film, one is the doctor who acts as the narrator secretly records the activities of the villagers, he stumbles to get drunk with the mirror, becoming the most touching experience of watching the film. Another girl abused the cat and wrote down the number of people in the history of the film.