Toyland, the Oscar for the
best live action short in
2009, was directed by a German film director Jochen Freydank.
The story happened in Germany
during the World War Ⅱ,
when the Nazi were searching Jewish on the large scale. “‘Toyland’ is a
euphemistic name a German mother invents when her son asks where his Jewish neighbours are going.”
To be frank, I love this short
film. At the very beginning, audiences including me think the mother was
finding her son. At last, the great mother saved her neighbour's child from the
Nazi, which make me feel really surprised and moved. The film also interspersed
the boy’s and the mother’s memory, helping the clue of the story more clearly. The
short film uses different camera angles and camera heights to help audience be
personally on the scene.
The setting in the film is
also an important aspect which is worth to talk about. For instance, the cloudy
day and the messy room with an upside down piano let me feel depressed and
upset; but at the same time, the piano before destroy in a warm-lighting room
makes me feel tender. The background music of the film is piano music, which
seems that eulogize the great mother love and the friendship between two boys.
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