Review of Lore (2012) by Jun K — 27 Apr 2013

Visually poetic story of the aftermath of WWII. Like most of a child in a war film, an innocent child experiences the cruelty and brutality that mankind do to each other, which ultimately causes scars that will never heal. But the thing that make this film uniqueit that the protagonist isn't from the usual side; a girl is left to fend her young siblings after her Nazi parents are taken away at the end of WWII. The story is told thru Lore's pov from the start, so when she is left alone to take care her young siblings, and undertake this harrowing journey to their grandparents, we sympathize with her.

Even tho, I liked this film very much, I felt it could been shortened a bit overall pacing, but also needed more beats in few places to explain the consistent characters' emotions; there are few place where I could not understand the changes in characters' moods and actions.

I wondered why dir. Shortland and her editor decided to stay so long on the shots of dead bodies, because it was disgusting, and very uncomfortable. After thinking about it, it's a quite brilliant, bc it puts us in Lore's pov. She is force to witness those gruesome imageries, it's inevitable, and can't walk away from it. Also, with those three gruesome imageries, Lore's action changes to show progression of her arc.

Anyway, it's def a film to rewatch when I get time.