awareness of the heart

Landen 2022-09-07 14:17:56

At first glance. Surrealism, stream of consciousness, metaphor, symbolism... tedious, unintelligible. Look again. Sublime means to satirize world affairs and lash out at human nature. The content is rich and structured. know why. A complete life course, ultimately summed up in the core of consciousness. The profound thinking about life and life can be summed up in simplicity: sincerity is like a child, restraint can lead to love, tolerance can clear the clouds and see the sun, and wisdom can only lead to ambition. Adore the classics. At the same time, it proves a truth: technology can only determine how good things are. Kung fu is outside the matter, and people's virtues and realms define the absolute height of things. Those who are deficient end up in mediocrity.

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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.