one and a half

Miles 2022-10-19 11:06:50

I suddenly found out that one of the good movies downloaded by many teaching and research offices has Chinese subtitles. I am very happy at the moment, so I eagerly hope that my colleagues who are conducting teaching and research activities in my private theater will get out of the way as soon as possible. After a while, my sneaky whereabouts were discovered by the sharp-eyed Chunping, she said softly—pp, why are you always wandering around here...I stuck out my tongue—he...hehe...it's okay, it's okay! Usually when I don't watch a movie, my colleagues always slap their buttocks away with thousands of names. Today, they are actually engaged in teaching and research activities for a whole class, which makes me anxious. The bell finally rang, and they actually delayed for a few minutes. Damn! Why are they so active today? After everyone was gone, I quickly closed the curtains, closed the door and turned on the projector -
"Eight and a Half", just by looking at the name and poster, I knew that this was definitely not a good movie to deal with, and the facts proved it again I have an extraordinarily sharp intuition. The opening scene of the movie is very shocking: there are cars parked under the big arch, there are buses, there are private cars, there are people in the cars, and the bus is full of people. There were people in one of the private cars, but the people in the car were slapping the windows, slapping the windows, and the doors and windows were sealed and he couldn't open no matter how hard he struggled, oh, I said he was in Struggling, why is he struggling? Let me tell you that the car broke down, white smoke was coming out of the console of the car, and the white smoke soon filled the whole car... However, there was a dead silence around, and the bus was densely packed with people. His eyes stared straight at the car, like a row of unlit candles; all kinds of people were sitting in the surrounding private cars, some people also stared at the car, some People are doing some cool things. For example, the man in the driver's seat stretches out his hand and keeps stroking the big breasts of the fat woman next to him... Closer to home, the person in the car mentioned above keeps struggling and struggling... ...Finally—
something like a black man floated up slowly from the top of the car like a balloon... Could
it be a man? I don't know, is that person dead? I have no idea. I just think the chief designer who created this overcrowded silence is fucking awesome! Don't ask me why, I don't know why, and I don't know why... Forget it, I confess I confess, actually... I didn't understand this movie.
The movie later featured a very stylish protagonist who was a director. He seems to be preparing to make a movie, so many people want to be his actor through the back door. He also cheated with a married woman, and asked his lover to be a prostitute during the cheating, and then the camera sometimes ran back to his childhood. , he bathes with the kids at home or something, sometimes now he is chatting with the bishop of the monastery, and sometimes the camera goes back to his childhood, when he watched a shaggy crazy woman striptease with a group of little priests ... Later, someone said to him, I know you want to make a religious movie, but your script is about the experience of being punished for watching yanwu when you were a child, and it has no profound meaning...
After reading my description, If you think that the shots of this movie are dangling like Aunt Li Shaohong's "Baby in Love", you are wrong. When the director expresses the melancholy and sensitivity of the male protagonist, the scenes where memories and reality are intertwined are not so neurotic. The illusion and reality in his hands always appear inadvertently, leaving almost no trace. And then...I don't know. Before I could finish it, it was time to get off work. Don't worry, I'll always finish the movie, even if I don't understand it. Whenever I encounter movies and books that I can't understand, the words Xiaoniao said often stimulate me. She said:
I have never encountered a book that I can't understand! If you don't understand it once, read it twice, if you can't read it twice, read it three times... You will understand it one day.
Thinking of this, my face turns red, otherwise I'm not even better than a bird? Then, then, I will say something cheeky -
all the officials, if you want to know what will happen next, let's listen to the breakdown next time!

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  • Guido: Enough of symbolism and these escapist themes of purity and innocence.

  • Guido: I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film. No lies whatsoever. I thought I had something so simple to say. Something useful to everybody. A film to help bury forever all the dead things we carry around inside. Instead, it's me who lacks the courage to bury anything at all. Now I'm utterly confused, with this tower on my hands. I wonder why things turned out this way. Where did I lose my way? I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it anyway. Why don't those spirits of yours come to my aid? You always said they had lots of messages for me. Let them get to work.

    Rossella: I've already told you: your attitude is all wrong. You're curious in a childish way. You want too many guarantees.

    Guido: Fine, but what do they say?

    Rossella: The same as always. They're very reasonable. They know you very well.

    Guido: Well then?

    Rossella: They say you're free, but you have to choose. And you don't have much time. You have to hurry.