It belongs to the kind of film that I dare not say I understand it. The main gap between theatrical movies and the new wave after them is not that they cannot understand them, but that they are too familiar with the topics that the movies want to talk about, or they are too good to guess. The religious emotions involved in the film are not complicated at all, and "Life and Death" hits nine out of ten in a pile of such films. In short, very general. Preaching more than fantasy.
However, the movie is beautiful, solemn and solemn, with different characters, with the thickness of the times and the will not limited to the times, which is much more interesting than some of Tarkovsky's characters who like to talk to themselves. I prefer to think of it as a diary of the director's contemplation, a piece of dream recording, with too many rich elements, rather than a monument full of hieroglyphs to be interpreted. Wouldn't it be boring if a movie had to be read to be understood?
The reason why it is difficult to feel friendly is not because of the theme and background, but because the core concern of the film has faded out of the central topic of the times. Compared with the backside of death and the existence of truth, now we are more concerned about the price of death and the burden of life. Faith is no longer a heavy topic, and nothingness has become real and heavy. Bergman's time also felt that "no one can live to face death, knowing that everything is illusory", but in fact we can, and this is our life.
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