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's lens language - expressed through imitation of classic lenses. In "Motorcycle Diary", when the fire plug and the fat man walked into the deep mountain of the Indians, a group of funeral Indians walked on the ridge outside the car window. If you have seen "The Seventh Seal", this scene, you will know that Bergman is used to say that the god of death is inviting them to "dance". And this scene comes from a famous saying - the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca said, "If you are willing, fate leads you; if you don't want to, fate drags you along." Those who know this sentence should have heard of a book -- "The Fall of the West".
As a result, in a 40-second shot, the theme of the film seemed to suddenly become clear - the Indians were drawn to the dance floor of death by fate, but the power of the Western colonists had declined, so the protagonist of the film, the silent and melancholy senior dog of the medical school, It felt like the world had changed and he should have done something. In the next paragraph, the fat man said directly and clearly that he wanted to marry an Inca descendant, form a small team, incite the villagers to referendum, and then set off an Indian revolution.
Of course, maybe the author just thinks too much.
Walter Sellers, who has no Chinese entry on Wikipedia, is a famous Brazilian director who became famous in 1998 for his self-written and directed warm sketch "Central Station". He is very fond of "road movies", 2012 It even shot the "Beat Generation" Bible - Kerouac's "On the Road". In 2002, he adapted a diary written by a famous person (don't check if you don't know, otherwise the viewing effect will be greatly reduced) written during a graduation trip during a one-year break in the senior year. The memories of the fat man who was with him at that time made a step in "Motorcycle Diary".
For this trip, the 29-year-old fat man said that he had been preparing since he was a child. As he said at the beginning, he did not imagine living a life like the old man at the next table. He has a restless and wild heart. However, the author can see that Fatty has already started to live such a life, so he is afraid, and he hopes to get rid of such a life. But the fire plug is not. What is not explained in the film is that he has been to the southernmost point of South America once during college, and he is riding a motorcycle.
Their first stop, designed by Fatty, was to visit Fire Plug's girlfriend. He's like a pirate trying to steal the girl's most precious diamond (smiling emoji). However, he didn't succeed, not because of the strict supervision of the woman's family, but because of her girlfriend's condition - whatever he left behind was fine! Although she is willing to wait, but not forever.
However, an unknown force made the fire plug break free from her arms. Between the girl and the distance, his heart chose the latter. The poet did not know the reason for this, but the author felt that it was a kind of anger, a kind of anger of rejection. He thought she would wait, but she couldn't wait even a year, so he left with disappointment and anger. Although the woman is a wealthy aristocrat, the fire plug is also a middle class, and there is no plot of diaosi being abandoned. Maybe both of them are too selfish, maybe they are not in love enough, maybe this is the realistic plot of the prodigal son and the castle princess.
At the second stop, they lost the tent, and with the fat man's three-inch tongue, they were able to eat and sleep. However, what was shown in the film was the elm-head-like honesty of the fire plug "Brother Jing". The two get into an argument over an old man's tumor when the fire plug is stubborn again - now we know why his name means "grumpy". The stubborn guy fell ill because of his stubbornness, but he swore to the death that he would not spend his girlfriend selling him bikinis.
But the fire plugs began to learn to be a "hypocrite", so they made their situation better by boasting in the newspapers. However, because he fell in love with a wife, the fire plug got into an accident, the two fled, and then had a car accident. They held on, but their motorcycles couldn't hold on.
Then, he even started to sing double reeds with Fatty, pick up girls, and rub wine and meat. It's just that the "hypocrite's promise" was vanished with a sigh in front of a dying old woman. Afterwards, their motorcycle was scrapped, and the amorous fat man burst into tears, but the fire plug remained silent as always.
The knights lost their horses, and stepped into the distance.
Then, Fire Plug received a letter from his girlfriend, and we all know what kind of letter it was.
Never fight with a broken-hearted gourd, even if you are a Gobi, not to mention you are just a fat man. GALA sang, "You can do whatever you want, and I'm restless. I want to keep you and my life will stop wandering. I want to write you a letter. My mood is indifferent... I want to say goodbye to you. , I won't cry if I lose you, just like a silent coral underwater" - it turns out that people who are brokenhearted are all dead.
I once heard a saying that Pushkin had trouble with the tsar because his wife liked the tsar and masturbated to the tsar, he had trouble with the aristocrats and bureaucrats, and because his girlfriends and lovers also played with them , and then he ended up dying in a duel with someone for love. Our minds can't believe it, perhaps because of the lack of free love in our history and have a brothel culture, but in Tolstoy's novels, the Russians don't find it strange. So as a person who grew up in a Spanish colony, the mania behind him, I guess, mostly stems from his grief and anger.
After the old woman, he met a couple, a communist couple. The incomparably sad eyes of the communist who wandered because of the persecution, a sadness that cannot be swallowed up by the fire. Before this pair of eyes, travel became a shameful thing.
As a South American film, "Motorcycle Diaries" is backed by a bad economy, and they are not supported by a film system, so it can be seen from many clips that it is more like a documentary than a movie, such as the Inca Ruins section, The barge section, and the final leprosy hospital section. This is also the helplessness of South American movies. Except for road movies, plot sketches, stage dramas, and country loves, it is difficult for them to make some large-scale genre films. They are crazy about dance. Thousands of "square dance". As for the "City of God" that jokes about life, it is a special case in any country.
A section of the Inca village was shot handheld, not very stable, and a little wobbly. Therefore, the paragraph at the beginning of this article is likely to be shot by chance, not necessarily a plot arrangement. Therefore, "Motorcycle Diary" may not have too deep and profound meanings, such as the guides of children in the ancient city of the Incas, the doctors who received them, the prostitutes on the barge, the leprosy girl who said "to live is a kind of torture", Their conflict (this is the same role as the filming of "The Veil" in China in 2006)... They are covered with a mysterious veil, and every frame is full of charm , makes people curious and reverie, but this may be the ultimate in the film's thinking, it is just a wonderful journey. Not even the shock of the sap at the end of Easy Rider.
Because everything was not enough to deduce that at the birthday party of the leprosy hospital, the paragraph that Fire Plug said suddenly became solemn and solemn, and it made people awe-inspiring speech about the independence and unity of South America. And his next crossing of the river may not have too much meaning. We occasionally uttered seemingly profound and incisive words, but we always felt that life was full of nothingness and the soul was agitated, so we had to do something crazy to relieve it. The end of the narration of the movie, put it at the end of the travel notes of any traveller who has passed through sentimental, doesn't feel that it is too inconsistent.
Until the end of the film, the author found out who the fire plug was.
Of course, there's a celebrity halo factor here, but it's not the main one. What matters is the years he lived in - "If you remember what happened in the sixties, you didn't really experience it." - Revolution, rock, anarchy, rallies, anti-war, space, marijuana, sexual liberation, Feminism, people of color...
But at the end of the day, a flock of sheep by the waterfalls in Nicaragua, a flock of sheep on the Red Sea, a flock of sheep by the Berlin Wall, and the flock of sheep by the river at home, they don’t seem to see the world differently. The sixties belonged to the idealists. As a political thought, idealism was killed by the foreboding of World War II and buried in its rubble, but as a popular trend of thought, it blossomed everywhere in the crisis-filled 1960s.
After the Berlin Wall was erected, people had half the world's scars, and half the world's threat, but this threat began to disappear after the Cuban Missile Crisis - since the world is about to be destroyed, what are we still doing?
Before leaving, Fatty chatted with an old man, "When do you think the revolution will come?" The old man smiled and said, "Here? A hundred years later!" Fatty laughed, but the author felt that he was very disappointed. A stable life, in a world of wars, revolutions, marches, madness, is a shame and an injustice. It's like hiding under the roof and watching a child playing wildly in the rain. For a moment, we don't care if he will fall or catch a cold, but think "I want to go crazy too!" So children in the south yearn for heavy snow. Inland children yearn for the ocean, urban children yearn for peach blossom forests, and rural children yearn for amusement parks. In the age of realism, all emotions must have a reason, but at the same time there must be a reason to suppress your emotions.
In the 1960s, under the crisis of the Cold War, the world was about to perish. What are you still doing? Forget about samba dancing! Although our 1960s later went the wrong way, they were compensated a little in the 1980s, but they have made us so fascinated.
In the idealist's mind, reasons and conditions are not important, although he is still confused. In order to motivate himself, the fat man took the old man as a warning, and enjoyed dancing, hooking up and alcohol on the road, but when he finally reached the end, he found that he still accepted a stable job, a beautiful wife, and a potbellied life. But idealists never think about these issues, so incentives are not needed. They don't even have to go as Van Loon and Kerouac explain to their wonderful travel diaries that "a memory is good because its pain has peeled away". Their souls never eat human fireworks, so they are silent, eating with their eyes, not their mouths, they are hungry for the pain of the world, and they never pay attention to their own body - because he has asthma, pain is part of life.
Perhaps the old man was looking at the departing plane, and his heart was filled with jealousy and resentment from that birthday speech—the exhausting journey that had come to an end in his opinion was just a mental preparation for the fire plug. That's it. And once again, looking at the taking off plane, thinking of that year, the author has no idea what was rolling in his heart.
They crossed the borders of Argentina on that magnificent, silent, foggy river, where Fire Plug said he wanted to open a clinic for the rest of his life. But he eventually flew to Cuba, which may be explained as "he wanted to give other people a chance to live like that." I just want to say, a few times, do you need a reason to live? Love, ideals, and beliefs are beyond death and need no reason.
"I thought of my birthday on the other side of the river." Then he undressed and jumped into the swift river. Just as he took off his white robe years later and jumped into the frenzy of revolution. He said that the rivers and the blurred borders slashed South America, the entire mixed race. This melancholy Greek director Theo Angelopoulos poetically depicts in The Stork Wandering, the bride who believes that one day the groom will cross the river one night to take her away, even though she has I fell in love with the person who listened to her, but this person is not a nation after all, and there is no common pain.
At that moment, I suddenly understood what the third bank refers to in "The Third Bank of the River" - that is, the one who "trodden death underfoot", crossed his own bank, but could not reach the other bank, only A man who is forever drifting on the river.
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