I don't believe in God. I don't believe in gods. I don't believe in bearded horses. I don't believe in aliens. I no longer believe in Qianmen Mao. I don't believe in politics. I also don't believe in morality. I believed in money, but turned around and cursed that it was "brought by a bitch." So, you see, I'm not religious at all. Jodie Foster's line in Contact has been remembered until now: I hope there are aliens, because then, we will no longer be alone in the universe.
If we believe that there is a world behind death, maybe we will not live so flustered, so greedy, and so unscrupulous.
Maybe we can die calmly.
Colin Eastwood quietly spread this possibility before us.
From the time when this old cowboy was still a young cowboy, I took every opportunity I could use to express my disdain for him. He became one of the few people in the history of my movie watching who didn't bother to raise his eyebrows and look at it. After demonstrating all kinds of killing skills in various forms, situations, and reasons, the old cowboy finally put down his gun and turned around. I marveled at how graceful this turn was, so silent, without any sign, so without a trace. A former actor who is accustomed to holding guns and fists, the current director, the first moment is still noisy, the next moment is as quiet as dust, just like life and death.
If "From Now On" is talking about life and death, I think it's a bit heavy. Obviously, this movie has not yet reached such a level of subtlety. However, through smooth images, the old cowboy expressed a feeling of death, a kind of reluctance, a kind of sorrow-a kind of graceful sorrow like autumn leaves.
I played back the scenes of the heroine falling into the sea over and over again in my mind, it was so beautiful. The pain is gone. She floated on her back in the sea, with her back facing the darkness of the world and the unknowable light. There is no doubt that he is whitewashing death with the lens. If he wants to use this to tell everyone that there is a world behind death, Wuning said, he just wants to make himself believe.
I don't know what happened to the old cowboy in these years. Perhaps, with advanced age, the problems of that world will flood up like a cold flood.
No eloquence, no argument, no hysterical obsession. Looking at the whole film, you may even feel that the intention of this film is quite vague. What does he want to say? What does he want to make people believe? What do the three separate stories represent? When the editing walks between the three stories without a trace, like sunlight on the surface of microwave rippling water, jumping freely, I know that these three stories will flow through the same rock at the same time at the end. When the protagonist of the story meets, when the male and female protagonists hold hands together, what does it mean?
I didn't bother to answer these questions. Because I believe that the old cowboy may not be clear. This is a movie made with heart and intuition. Brain and reason are obviously the least important in the world after death. Colin Eastwood only offers a possibility, a kind of care. In addition, the whole movie is submerged in an uncontrollable emotion, using a hard lens to touch and perceive the other shore and the people already on the other shore. That feeling may be like a slightly warm wind stroking the skin.
I prefer to treat this whole movie as a confession, perhaps Colin Eastwood is the case. Let us believe that death is not a hard and cold end, it is just a door leading to another beginning. Use this kind of kindness to comfort yourself and comfort all people. Some people will say that this is kindness; some people will say that this is ignorance.
Perhaps we can penetrate life, but we can never penetrate death, at least we in this world can never. However, believing that there is another shore, at least makes us feel that this world is not so desolate, and we can also die calmly.
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