放弃求生 Life Overtakes Me(2019)
简介：
- 瑞典的数百名难民儿童面临被驱逐出境的危险，他们饱受放弃求生综合征的折磨，开始逃避现实并陷入一种昏迷般的状态，仿佛被冻结了数月甚至数年。《放弃求生》让观众了解这些患儿父母的痛苦，以及他们如何努力照顾生病的孩子。
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影评：
This is honestly the weirdest documentary (my least favorite) out of the nominees. The camera brings the audience to see the extremely beautiful natural scenes but I wasn’t very emotionally affected. To me, the film emphasizes more on the mysterious part, rather than showing the hardships that the family encountered so far. The re-enactments romanticizes the refugee families’ urgent living crisis. Speaking of crisis, this documentary goes on with a relatively slow pace, which in retrospect is very annoying— it’s as if the filmmakers were trying to stay objective by not showing their confusion, questions, and soft moments. The juxtaposition of the unexplored land with angel-like children in coma seem to echo to the general mysterious feelings. However, it inevitably to some degree holds back the viewers’ empathy for those refugee families.
I didn’t gain much understanding of how refugees’ life was like nor did the film ever zoomed in on the tension on refugee issues in Sweden. It’s not a very informative documentary compared to In the Absence. I know the challenge here is that this is still an enigma waiting to be solved, but the filmmakers should know beforehand that the irresolution will almost always lead to viewers’ dissatisfaction.
There isn’t any interview footage of the medical expertise, but I think this is an interesting choice. The lack of scientific evidence works out well with the overall tone, prepared by the scenes of intact forests and rivers. Besides, why should I continue to buy this false credibility created by interview footages?
After viewing, I’m left into this paradoxical feeling— should I believe the families based on this documentary that seemingly lacks of medical credibility? But if the disease is not true, is it ethical that I care less about their cases and living situations?