light and shadow

Harmon 2022-04-21 09:02:33

Five separate stories in the nights of different cities in five countries. The mutual attraction experienced by taxi drivers and passengers. People can rationally clarify their thinking through psychological analysis. My career planning is a psychological analysis of myself, which is an adjustment to my mental health. It is also a treatment for loss and belonging. Movies allow ordinary people to spy on other people's privacy, such as the fourth story, the Roman driver and the priest, the confession. Movies can delicately reflect interpersonal relationships, people’s psychological dynamics, and penetrate deep into people’s subconscious. Pain comes from the badness of interpersonal relationships, others are hell, and others are the constraints of self-consciousness; others create rules, experiences, and shackles; these conscious or unconscious behaviors It causes obstruction, harm, and predicament to the main body's thinking growth. Thought is lonely, and only lonely thinking can find the path of self-consciousness towards freedom. The driver nags the priest to death and discards it. Racial discrimination in New York, more than a dozen taxis pass through, but they cannot be stopped. It is more about the exclusion of black people by the American social system. Foreigner, you live alone in America, and you can't find a sense of belonging at any time. These two types of people will feel comforted and help each other together. The degree of vision can cause people to judge the blind spot of others. The blind spot of vision is a constraint, and the hearing, smell, touch, perception and perceptualness will be stronger. These are two extremes. I haven't seen a blind man, haven't I?" The black man asked the blind man, you guess my skin color, I can't tell the skin color, and the color has no meaning to me. Can't see does not mean can't see in my heart, even if I close my eyes forever, I can still see your desire and soul. Helsinki, when I face to accept what I gave up before, I can only look back with helpless remorse. Loneliness runs through five stories, each with a serious and sad theme. The movie camera travels all over the world, every country is the same, the same people have the same broken things, and they are born to walk on the edge and have to bear life. It was dawn, and Jiamusu Guangying finished his speech, welcoming the next day.

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Night on Earth quotes

  • Paris Driver: I work from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., so don't fuck with me in my own taxi! I don't give a shit about you, Ambassador, OK?

    Passenger #1: Can't we have some fun?

    Passenger #2: We've had champagne and we're happy...

    Paris Driver: No, you don't have fun in my taxi! It's my place of business, not your fucking playground! Okay, get out!

  • Paris Driver: Okay, if you're so smart, let me ask you a question. What color am I?

    Blind Woman: I don't give a fuck about colors!

    Paris Driver: But people have different colors of skin.

    Blind Woman: Look, I don't care if you're green or blue like a carrot! For me the word color doesn't mean anything. I feel colors... but you'd never understand that!