The story of "Ghosts and Ghosts" is very simple, but it contains a lot of unexplained things, coupled with the slow rhythm and strange atmosphere, which increases the difficulty of watching the movie. Before watching it, I simply imagined that it was a love movie that "ghosts and ghosts are not over", but it is actually a horror literary film that expresses some kind of philosophy.
The film conveys the imagination that people will turn into ghosts after death, and the door to the afterlife will glow with colorful lights and open to the deceased. A door, glowing with colorful lights, but he did not enter, my understanding of this is that it is the place where the deceased should go, and many people call it "heaven"). But those who still have nostalgia for their previous lives will return home and wait for the person who matters most to him.
However, ghosts cannot communicate with their family members. At the beginning, there will be anger that they will no longer participate in the world, and they will be restless in the house, so the legend of "haunted houses" is formed in the city. But the longer she wanders, the more she loses her humanity and memory, just like the ghost in the flower sheet, she has been waiting for someone in the house, but she has long forgotten who she was waiting for. Xiaoka must be just like her, the old nostalgia has long been turned into a deep obsession - took out the note that Little Luse put in the crack of the door. Only by letting go of obsessions or achieving obsessions can we leave this world, just like Xiaohua's obsession with giving up waiting after the house is demolished and disappearing in an instant, leaving only the sheets falling.
Xiaoka's ghost moves from one room to another, but from now to then, the film's exquisite editing gives full play to the media's magic-like control over time and space. Walking slowly, traveling through time and space, sparse lines, gloomy music, the process of watching the movie is painful, but perhaps a slight sense of the loneliness of the ghosts wandering in the world.
Tenants are constantly changing in the house, and even the house was eventually demolished and turned into an office building. Xiaoka not only went through the vicissitudes of life, but also traveled back to the past and fell into reincarnation. Purpose of Xiaoka and Xiaolu's life. The strange sound in the room at the beginning of the film is explained at this time. It is made by Xiaoka's ghost. Is everything a meaningless and sad reincarnation? So, the photo card in the second week also turned into a ghost (there is a strange thing here is that the ghosts of the two photo cards appear in the same shot, but it does not indicate that they have communication, whether they have no communication or can not communicate), Xiaolu in the second week once again left a note in the crack of the door, and this time Xiaoka took out the note for the second week, finally fulfilling his century-old wish and turning it into a ray of bright light (this beam of light at the beginning of the film) also appeared), the sheets floated in the void.
When studying Chinese in elementary school, the first answer is always the central idea of the text. The resulting thinking inertia is not settled after reading "Ghosts and Ghosts". This story is simple but ambiguous, and it seems to have no meaning. This part needs the audience to supplement. In the process of Xiaoka's ghost wandering and waiting in time, I seem to see eternity, and this eternity is loneliness and sadness. Traveling through time and space, I was surprised to find that the reincarnation of fate is the world imagined by the author of the story, and it may even be his worldview. But if this is his worldview, it may be too pessimistic and nihilistic.
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