In fact, it's a bit difficult to understand The Grand Budapest Hotel, because it's really too European, even though it's made in the United States. But if you don't understand, you don't understand, so don't talk about it and pretend to be ridiculous and mislead the masses. Enough nonsense, you should do something practical. Cultural background The whole movie is not only a tribute to the master, but also a metaphor. Simply classifying it as comedy, suspense, adventure and plot is superficial. In fact, it is more like a documentary, a historical film and a literary film. The documentary recorded the classic film techniques left by Liu Bieqian, Hitchcock (controversial), Rossini, Zhuo Berlin and others. Historical films record the spiritual connotation of the decline of European civilization, while literary films focus on color and style. To understand its cultural background, we have to mention two people-Walter Benjamin and Stefan Zweig. Forget Zweig. The author's resume is too long. Let's choose a few simple and key features: he is an Austrian writer in exile, a Jew and a defender of European traditional culture. He was persecuted by Nazi Germany and finally committed suicide in Brazil. The Grand Budapest Hotel is actually talking about the decline of traditional European civilization. Specifically, it is about the history of Jewish exile. More precisely, it is an autobiography about Zweig leaving his declining spiritual home and dying of a broken heart. German walter benjamin is the most important philosopher, critic and "the last scholar in Europe" in the 20th century. He was persecuted by Nazi Germany and finally committed suicide in Spain. I don't know why he is important. Anyway, in European academic circles, he is always regarded as a great god. Benjamin lamented the disappearance of traditional narrative techniques in the Storyteller-Essays on Nikolai Leskov's Works. The Grand Budapest Hotel adopts a four-layer storytelling structure, and always presents an immersive storytelling process. A story can't be separated from the storyteller and the listener, and it can't be separated from their simultaneous environment. This is a tribute to Benjamin's thought.