cold

Ally 2022-04-21 09:02:43

I don't know which movie I started from, I don't know which song I started from, I started to like Ireland, just like Yeats, for no reason. After watching the movie, I kept replaying the image of him being shot at the end.
This is the end of the effort for the ideal. Reminds me of "The Years of Love" and the ending of "Blue Sea and Blue Sky".
The same death, this is too tragic.
The end is also the best way to contradict ideals and reality, like "21 Grams".
Just like "The Gadfly", the people closest to you dominate your life.
He was truly freed from the contradiction.
The sadness of throwing a butt to the person behind you.
Just like the theme song of the same name of the film, the wind crosses the wheat waves, and there is only one feeling left - cold.

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  • Dannie 2022-03-21 09:02:21

    "I tried to avoid getting involved in the war, but I got involved; now I want to get out, but I can't." From the Irish War of Independence to the Civil War, the two brothers went from joining forces to falling apart. When they went out together, they didn't do anything. They were either arrested while sleeping in the jungle, or watched their friends get humiliated and their stronghold burned down by the British... Finally, a phased peace came. But the nightmare-like question became clear: after all, what are we fighting for? Can we compromise for incomplete success? In the end, the elder brother chose to compromise based on the logic of politicians; the younger brother chose to continue to fight based on pure nationalism. They turned their guns on each other. The wind is blowing the wheat waves, and the town is still quiet, but no one has watched the struggle and cannibalism that took place here from beginning to end. They are just insignificant existences in a political game, two inconspicuous straws in the wheat wave.

  • Angie 2021-12-26 08:01:08

    7.5/8 It is easy for you to know what you resist but it is difficult to know what you pursue; the crowd gathers together because of the revolution and is torn apart by the victory of the revolution; the tragedy cycle of idealists and realists is not final in this struggle Victor; the revolution will never bring the goodness that was first promoted, but will only spawn more bloody hatred and disaster; this kind of movie is the type I want to make

The Wind that Shakes the Barley quotes

  • Damien: The Treaty does not express the will of the people, but the fear of the people.

  • Damien: And once again, with honourable exception, the Catholic Church sides with the rich.