CRWG4055 Studies in
Film and Television Classics
Mid-Term Paper
“4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days”
Can you imagine that a woman can’t abort? It’s true in Romania. And last weekend, I watched a film named “4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days”.
The story in the film was happened in the Romania. Because of the unique theme, the movie has gotten a lot of prizes. At that time, Romania was in the end of communism. Besides, abortion was still forbidden by law. Otilia and Gabita were college students and they are good friends, too. Gabita knew that she was pregnant one day. Otilia decided to help Gabita to find a way to illegal abortion. And they tried their best to get a lot of money. In a cheap hotel, two young girls met an illegal …show more content…
In the movie, he has led a new wave of Romanian. In artistic style, he used a several of long lens and fixed lens. Besides, he also used handed photography. About the light, he used natural light, low light. The most interesting technique was the live performance, which was used to build a realistic style. But in my opinion, they are more like the Italy new realism style and new movie style in Taiwan, which was essentially a continuation. Actually, it was a successor of Barzun long lens theory and real aesthetic. However, in fact, this way of shooting was useful to save money. In the style of movie, he wasn’t not limited to the type of self. Cristian completed the film with a series of narrative actions. Every scene was connected with another scene. And the movie led the audience to know the next second clearly, further towards introspection. In the narrative rules, Mungiu fully obeyed the definition of tragedy, which was the description of the serious events, was the length of the imitation of action. Besides, the tragedy aimed to arouse pity and fear, and led to the purification of emotions. The hero was often unexpected and unfortunate, and tragedy." Many times, he expressed the symmetrical composition way with intensive opposite words or forced silent tension at different levels. He also used fixed long shot directly for the stillbirth, which made us in shock at the same …show more content…
But the director balanced the cruel facts with a simple sense of abundance, through his use of a still camera. So the whole movie was keen and nervous. The movie had the perfect pitch and outstanding performance. There was no doubt that the movie was a shocking piece of work. In a pure and honest tone, it was not only a good description of the core of "illegal abortion", it was also to express the struggle and compromise. This was a movie that can be engraved on the heart, which was very similar to the real background of the story. The tone of the movie has been very cold, gloomy with depressing atmosphere. Abortion was not the subject of abortion; the baby did not intend to end life as a magnifying glass to accuse the ethics of life and morality. The director wanted to talk more, with more big shot under the background of the whole society. From first to last, dark, there was a dark and cold atmosphere in the full screen. Come to the end, Otilia went to abandon the dead baby. The night was too silent to walk. Moreover, the picture of the movie became more and more black, and even a few, then a dead black. This not only reflected the inner world of women, which more presented the horror and cold society at that time. The movie reconstruction of a chaos in miniature with its streamlined cinematography, unique fixed film