The beginning of the film is confusing. It is difficult to guess the main point of the film from the beginning. Watching the entire film, I feel that this structure is somewhat similar to a certain writing technique learned before, and the total score is total. The appearance of the characters is very special, and the appearance of the characters is ahead of the development of the plot. The first is the male protagonist, who plays the role of a psychic. It is hard to imagine that what will be shown in the next plot is his real situation as a father and a man. The protagonist’s wife was brought out by the protagonist’s scum brother, so that the first time I saw this woman, people would mistakenly think that she might be some street prostitute or call girl. However, with the advancement of the plot, all of the characteristics of the characters that have been explained in advance gradually have their own meanings. At this point, I have to admire the director.
The hero has all the reliable conditions and a tragic fate. This is a deeply saddening contradiction. The seemingly straightforward story in this film is in fact full of contradictions and backfires. What a person wants to do is often very different from the opportunities the world gives you. At the beginning of the film, the psychic male protagonist uttered the dead soul's last words, but was questioned, perhaps because of the truth, which often means harm. All contradictions exist, and they seem extremely reasonable. The protagonist treats his son harshly and harshly, giving people a feeling of depression, but he is the same person who is extremely disgusted with his wife beating and scolding his children. Perhaps all fathers are like this, their love for their children is rude, but at the same time with a little tenderness. From this point of view, the love between family members seems to have quite a variety of ways, but perhaps, in terms of content, it is indeed eternal.
Another place that makes people feel the tragedy of realism is that the electric stove purchased by the male protagonist led to the accidental death of many Chinese smuggled laborers. The actor who is struggling in reality inadvertently causes a tragedy, and then suffers even more painful torture in his soul. Perhaps from the beginning, the film has been cast in an atmosphere of realism and tragedy, because the hero is terminally ill and has been dying.
Reality is the magical thing that you are tired of and bored with it when you are in it, but you are obsessed by others, but you are deeply attracted by it. And no matter whether it is plain, agitated, beautiful, ugly, ironic or gentle, all of this is life. Facing it, it seems that all explanations are very weak. All that needs to be done is to present it in front of you. Look, look carefully, and it will be fine. It's like the protagonist's wife, sleeping with the protagonist's brother, and then ran to the protagonist's house, with self-esteem, crying and saying: I love you, and then stretched out her hand to ask the protagonist for money. Does she still love? Love, does she need money? Need, is she a qualified mother? No, should she sleep with the actor's brother? It is difficult to answer. In her, the contradictions of human nature and the irony of reality were all exposed. The actor didn't say anything, but silently counted out a few more bills and watched her Jue Chen.
Reality often doesn't give you room to fight back. No matter how piously praying, no matter how compassionately weeping, nothing can be changed. I wanted to seek spiritual comfort, but what I heard was often: Before you die, you have to arrange your life. This is the reality, you can only face it. The so-called reality may be arranged by heaven, or it may be caused by the inextricable connections between people.
Stowaways who live a miserable life in a foreign country are from China and Africa. Between each other's use and exploitation of others, the occasional trace of true affection is precious. But human beings are selfish, and this seems to be all said on the corpses of homosexuals on the bedside at the end of the film. Perhaps it should not be so pessimistic, perhaps, it should not be understood that all goodwill should be hypocritical. Because if you are not so pessimistic, you will feel that there may be sunshine in your life when you drag the sick on the streets.
A person's life may not only have the simple meaning of life and death. It’s like seeing his father’s hero in the afterlife world, listening to his father’s voice of the sea and the wind, showing a long-lost smile, a childlike smile, which only appears in some old photos in the film Smile. The protagonist who could not go to see the snow with his son, stood in the snow with his father in the world after death. This may be a kind of inheritance and another meaning of life. It is like that ring, passed on from generation to generation until the eternal end of the universe.
The sufferings and shackles of life are painful, but they cannot be cut off because of emotions. All the hard work may be just to get one percent of comfort and pleasure after 99 percent of fatigue. Knowing one's responsibilities and love may be a compulsory course for growing up as a man and a father. In the ending scene, the father lights the actor’s cigarette, which seems to mean that he recognizes that the actor has grown up, and the actor who follows in his father’s footsteps seems to only contribute his father’s love during his lifetime, but he can’t find it. Fatherly love, and after death, he may finally find it. This may be a kind of inheritance, or it may just mean that all fathers and men who have gone through the vicissitudes of life were just naughty children and ignorant sons.
PS: I have watched a few Spanish films recently and I feel pretty good. It was a coincidence that this film was watched successively with "Everything About My Mother". Therefore, writing down this note is to record the mood at that time.
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