If you knew you were about to lose your life, what would you do for someone important to you, someone you didn't know well?
First shot It is the diamond on the finger handed over to the daughter, the family heirloom represents the transmission of love
and then the screen switches to the woods in the snow, the dead owl spitting out the hairball, symbolizing the soul leaving the body
Who is his identity? Father or Son?
It is also the intersection of two generations, and it is also going forever. The story begins here and ends here.
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu uses different visual images to compare life
and think about the soul and society, all in his wide-scope photography, exquisite The
fish and the deep sea in the prop design .
The sound of water appeared in the simulation radio program at the beginning.
Later, the endless ocean slowly moved to the left to the shore, and the corpses floated up to
the scary sea in the lens one by one, without pushing people to the shore. The never-ending distance does not sink people into the bottomless abyss. The
TV sets, the stranded fish, and the corpse of the floating
fish are also presented in different places throughout the film,
which are psychological hints in the storyline. It is an omen of sickness and near death.
In Christianity it is the symbol of Jesus Christ. In the
beginning Uxbal was cooking fish,
when he did not know his disease,
he had not yet begun his journey of redemption.
After that, the street art paintings are full of different Fish, representing the current state of mind, is a sign of stepping towards the end of life, and at the same time, it is a cross image
of the process of regaining conscience and moral responsibility .
Even though people are in dire straits, the sun still shines in the city of Barcelona,
strengthening the hope of redemption and letting go, and also brings a glimmer of light in the tone of pain and despair throughout the film.
The church at the beginning hangs a cross, Uxbal sends The soul that still cares about, put down the burdens and sins of his life and
returned home. The cross reflected by the light on the ceiling indicates that he also has the burden of life and the mirror image of the sins of the world
. The
mirror reflects the true self, The face of the soul (the weight of 21 grams, which is clearly expressed in the video in this film)
many times in front of the mirror, that is, looking directly into the deep inner heart
, breaking the previous silence, re-accepting and sincerely helping
myself to Struggling to accept the
dying Pain can be turned into a beautiful butterfly, which is the best metaphor for the life process . The wallpaper in the ex-wife's house is a continuous pattern. The different stages of a family's life are hung on the corridor of Shanai. It is also an infinite journey of life. In visual art In addition to the use of metaphors, the background sound effects also strengthen the documentary-like realism, and also bring out the theme of the film about the integration of different languages and cultures . The pressure of life Noisy disco dance music, loud songs with deliberately turned up volume symbolize the voice of escaping the world, and it is also the meaningless music that hinders the sincere communication between people , while disturbing Uxbal's intention to tell the truth to his brother
Playing down the elder brother's handling of his father's body in front of his wife, and at the same time showing the fragile and ambiguous relationship between his wife and his elder brother.
In addition to advancing the development of the story, the dialogue has also been transformed into a film language to highlight the theme.
Chinese people speak Mandarin with unknown Spanish,
police officers and goons Negotiating deals between the two, deliberately speaking the same language will also cause conflict.
The father's silence to his children, compared to the mother's sharing,
continues to highlight the indifference and alienation of the relationship between people in the film,
but the difference is that it combines the search for life. After the redemption proposition, it turns out that the relationship can be repaired through sincere and simple.
Communication is not limited to the dialogue between the two parties
. Physical contact without speaking can sometimes be more accurate to express emotions.
Rejection of sex puts the wife into the predicament of losing love.
The scars of the son do not need any The plot explained that he and his mother had problems
hugging, dragging hands, and sleeping together by the bed. Small movements have been able to build deep emotions
. The gift of the first diamond has been given a more intimate meaning
. A
stranger broke into another family's life with the force of drama.
From being irrelevant to each other, walking in parallel,
slowly approaching, and then following closely, the fusion of races, and the self-examination
of personal life occurred in silence .
It also involves the
fringe characters of the complicated background of the city of Barcelona struggling to survive, just like a moth,
the wife has to deal with emotional fluctuations, the husband has to face the threat of cancer and
put all kinds of people in the city (the metaphor of different fish in the sea), It's just the tip of the iceberg
. Some people want to pirate and sell drugs. Some people want to be human snakes.
Even if Uxbal, a black market worker, wants to be an angel on earth, he will inevitably fall into the whirlpool of self-blame and guilt.
But, who can decide what is wrong with black and white? Just like Biutiful
, life is like a typo, and there is still beauty in imperfections
?
Accept the flaws of the fate, so that you won't have to beg for forgiveness when your life is gone.
Uxbal's surreal powers, in reality, are only
intriguing with a hopeless ending, making people optimistic about the future and hope that
she will come back after all ?
The final frame is the winter jungle, is this immortality?
Maybe we just want to ask, just to reflect
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