The deceased has passed away, and the living are like this. In the face of those who have experienced the passing of their relatives, friends, and loved ones, we tell them that life must go on. For the dead, their life stories have ended, but the living have a future. . But if death is not the end, when the living people have experienced the loss of their loved ones, recovered and healed, and welcomed a new life, what are the dead people experiencing, this film adopts a undead vision and tells us what is left after death . Ghostly Floating
This is a love movie with a horror atmosphere, but it is not scary at all, but very moving and simple. The English title A Ghost Story is simple and straightforward enough, a ghost story. However, I have to admit that this is a vigorous and rotten love story. Finally, this time it is not a symbolic oath for love. It is true that you can love someone until the sea dies. I have never seen such a high-level ghost movie, like poetry. 1.33:1, the rounded corners are nearly square, allowing the audience to watch quietly from a distance and feel the feeling of a ghost trapped in a box. With a minimalist video style and a slow narrative rhythm, some audience members at the film festival left early. It is estimated that they could not stand the dullness of the first ten minutes, but if you look down, you will be full of praise. Oscar winner Casey Affleck played a ghost, the bed sheet ghost on the poster. In the whole film, Casey didn't have a few lines and was covered with a bed sheet before he even had time to show his face a few times. In a car accident, lovers M and C are separated by yin and yang, and C "wakes up" from the hospital and becomes a ghost. A door opened on the wall of the hospital, and if you walk through it, you might be able to reach heaven, but C chose to go back to the home with M.
C is by his side, but M can't see C, C tries to imply his existence, but it doesn't work, the only thing he can do is look at her from the side.
In the process of dealing with C's death, M is more calm than numb. Even looking at C's body, he just quietly covered the sheets and left without a single tear. M is alone in a daze, eating and sleeping. There was a scene where M came back from outside and received a pie from a friend. She cut it up and ate it, ate it big, sat on the ground and continued to eat until she vomited. This long shot lasted 7 minutes. Like ashes, heartbroken, powerless.
Time washed away all the sadness, M let go of the past, she had a new boyfriend, and decided to move out of this house and start a new life. For the living, the past becomes the past, but for C, the past is everything to him. The house changed hands several times, moved into new families, held various parties, and finally turned into high-rise buildings, and the former suburbs developed into the city center. A party is taking place during this period, and this scene has become the most densely populated place in the entire film, where a dialogue about time and the universe takes place. The Ninth Symphony created by Beethoven is remembered by the world, but generations will die, continents will drift, mountains will collapse, and mankind will return to its original state, but some people may still remember the melody of the symphony. It is possible to immigrate to aliens and bring it to the future, but the future will eventually hit the southern wall. Everything that is dying, surviving, and reborn in surviving will eventually usher in the sun to engulf the earth, and the universe will shrink and become invisible to the naked eye. Singular point.
Everything you fought for, everything you shared with someone, everything that made you feel great as a human being will be gone. Seeing this, I thought of the phrase It's All About Time on the poster. Everything is because of time, creating meaning in time, and it is time that makes everything meaningless. C stood on a tall building, the result he had been waiting for was the city in front of him, unrecognizable, without all traces of M, so he jumped down.
The film doesn't end there, the next paragraph is the surreal in what was already a surreal movie. Time goes back to the wild era, C and M's house doesn't exist yet, C looks at the family who was planning to live here going through hunger. , kill, perish.
Watching the house being built, he and M moved in and relived fragments of their lives, kissing, hugging, arguing.
Until M left, the former C silently watched M leave, and now C watched M leave again, he was powerless to change, and he is the same now. Before M left, he stuffed a note in the crack of the wall. Finally, C found it, the door of the house opened automatically, C opened the note, and the moment he saw it, C disappeared.
In the film, there is also a female ghost who lives next to C's house. C once asked her who you were waiting for, and she said, I don't remember, they don't remember the person they are waiting for, they just live in their past In my memory, I don't want to come out.
After the house was knocked down, the female ghost told C, I don't think they're coming, and then the sheets fell to the ground and disappeared. Without the obsession to wait, there is nothing left, as long as there is a trace of obsession, you can still continue waiting. In the end, is C to let go of his obsession, or to die ashes, give up waiting, and leave like a female ghost. A quote from the opening credits: whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. - Whenever you woke up, you heard a door shutting. From a world classic novel written by British author Virginia Wolfe. In the film, C was dissatisfied with M meeting a new boyfriend, and knocked over the books on the shelf.
The novel is about a ghost couple who came to the old residence, recalling the past while looking for the treasure in their mouths, and the ultimate treasure is "the brilliance in the soul". What exactly is written on the note, I think it should be this sentence "The Treasure yours." - your treasure C and M's treasure are their common memories, let this memory stay in this house, we don't want it Let the attachment make it ugly and painful. C finally understood everything, found the treasure, the door opened for him, and he completely let go of the attachment. Memories belong to the past, isn't it better to let go when you should leave and keep love in the most beautiful time?
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