The world is dangerous, and no one can be alone. Hibernating for too long, it's time to wake up.

Uriah 2022-04-21 09:02:50

In this small village, it reflects the social problems that exist all over the world, intrigue and inconsistency, how should we live?

Is hibernation, also translated as waking up in winter, reminding us: it's time to wake up, and we can't live like this anymore?

The male protagonist is hypocritical and has a strong desire to control. He has never had real self-examination and self-righteousness, suffocating the people around him. However, even though he has power and money, he thinks that he never needs to be in love with others in life, but he is extremely concerned about the public approval of strangers, and finally has to admit that he can't live without his wife, even if it is servile.

The male protagonist's sister has always resented living by the male protagonist's side and silently endured it, dissatisfied with the hypocrisy of his creations, and thought that the charity of the male protagonist's wife was hypocritical. Finally, because the male protagonist's writing forgery was exposed in person, the contradiction between the two broke out and could not be reconciled, and finally chose to escape.

The male protagonist's wife may be the most sincere, kind and beautiful person among them, but she lives like a parasite without dignity and soul. In the face of the male protagonist's spiritual PUA, she wants to escape but has no courage to escape. And when she went to help the tenant's family who had been hurt by her husband with sincere apology and generous money, but in exchange for the inexplicable ridicule of the other party, she realized that kindness may not always be rewarded.

The younger brother of the tenant's family, a slick and sophisticated man who can kneel and lick his disgusted male protagonist with a smile on his face in order to survive, not only abandons his own dignity, but even sacrifices his nephew's dignity, but he cannot exchange for the male protagonist's mercy.

And the elder brother of the tenant's family can slap his son in public for the sake of his goddamn dignity, ignore the sincere help of others, and burn the money that pulled the whole family out of the quagmire. However, then, the real problem has not been solved.

I think, people live in this world, maybe no one can really be alone. How to live is a lifelong learning.

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Extended Reading
  • Damien 2021-12-26 08:01:33

    In fact, it was an adaptation of "The Wife". The opening statement is just for transplantation. The sister is split from the protagonist, trying to express the reflexivity of this character more clearly through dialogue, which is not a big change to the novel. Ceylon successfully and perfectly imaged Chekhov, but the transplantation with Turkey is not complete in modern times. The problem with the dialogue drama is that it tries to clarify the cause of the character's crux, which magnifies the drama, which means simplification.

  • Lowell 2021-12-26 08:01:33

    For 3 hours and 16 minutes, resting in the outer planet-like landscape of Cappadocia, with a large amount of dialogue rarely seen in Ceylon movies, it pulls out the dilemma that the deeper the human communication, the longer the distance. All the characters in the play did nothing wrong, even good people in the self-world, but they are always brewing and erupting fierce and unforgivable contradictions behind contradictory thinking and behavioral logic. In many cases, the virtue of humility and concession will only make the opponent in the quarrel as a challenge

Winter Sleep quotes

  • Aydin: Justice doesn't even exist in nature, why should it exist here?

  • Aydin: [Epilogue] Nihal, I didn't go away. I couldn't. Whether it's because I've grown old, or I've gone mad, or because I've become a different man, think what you like. I just don't know. But this new man inside me for a few days won't let me go away. Please, don't ask me to go either. I now understand nothing is calling me to Istanbul. Everything is alien to me there as it is everywhere else. I want you to know that I have no one but you. And I miss you every minute, every second that goes by. But my pride will never let me tell you this. I know very well how to terrible or impossible it would be to part from you. Just as I know that you do not love me anymore. I know we can't go back to the old days. And there is no need to. Take me with you like a servant, like a slave. And let us continue our life even if we do it your way. Forgive me.