I don't know if it counts as destruction

Justina 2022-04-22 07:01:42

The beginning of the film is the way I like it, and there is no subtitles to enter directly. The same is true for the "Confession" that I like very much. When the car entered the field of vision, disappeared, appeared and disappeared, I realized later that it was the same car running in circles, and then he drove over again, stopped and walked out. The protagonist's life process is blurred, and so is himself, a brief sexual pleasure, a genuinely happy time with his daughter, and then, when he stops, blurred again, but then suddenly feels an even greater emptiness. He still called his wife and begged her to come back, but no one came. In the end, he drove the car far away by himself, and turned off the car and got off for a walk on a random roadside.
When the protagonist's head was completely covered by the model, leaving only two air holes, the camera stopped for a long time, and started to zoom in little by little. I didn't turn on the lights, and it was very quiet, so I followed the camera and zoomed in a little bit, and I was very panicked. , I wondered when he suddenly tore open the mold, but, I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed, listening to his light snoring, I felt relieved.
Those scenes in the back are really beautiful, the part in the swimming pool. At the end of this place, the two of them lay there quietly basking in the sun, the camera stopped for a long time, and then slowly zoomed out a little bit, and the children playing around, the people swimming next to them, many people, and the fluctuating pool were slow. Slowly added in. So, it is a kind of not knowing whether to smile or be disappointed.
I think I was looking for answers in these, and as a result, the answer he showed was this: Normality is not about motivating you to live for the better, but life is what it is, no different from your past life. Even life hasn't gotten any worse (some say even the word is about the same as about or about, well, that's it).
However, you have changed, you have become more empty and more confused. Now everyone is feeling empty and confused, which is a normal life, and everyone is looking for a way out. This is an opportunity of the times, because everyone is looking for a spiritual outlet.
Yes, speaking up to now, it's just like what I thought in the title. As soon as I saw the beginning, and at the end he was walking on the road, all I thought was, this man will be destroyed. In the end there is destruction. Such a life is ruined. But I kept waiting until the subtitles were all skipped at the end of the movie and there was no sequel, and it was all over. I felt like: Is this the end, is this the end, and I walked away like a walk, is it just Are you not coming back? It's so naive to try to find answers in the movie, to ask the director to tell me something.
There is a lyric I often think of, a song by a small rock band in Beijing (probably): We keep drawing a circle, and the end of the circle is another starting point.
A friend replied to me another sentence: You want to escape, but you can't leave.
I think the movie might still tell us happy end.

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  • Griffin 2022-04-23 07:03:25

    Material rich, spiritual beggar! The little girl is very good, very optimistic!

  • Drake 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    This movie can get the Golden Lion because this kind of life pokes the hearts of the judges, right? It's really weird that long shots can be so ugly, the rhythm is poor, the narrative is meaningless, the story is boring, the performance is poor, and the whole is hypocritical.

Somewhere quotes

  • Johnny Marco: What's that book about again?

    Cleo: It's about this girl that's in love with this guy. But he's a vampire, and his whole family's vampires. So she can't really be with him.

    Johnny Marco: Why doesn't she become one too?

    Cleo: doesn't she become one too? Cleo: Because she can't. He doesn't want to turn her into a vampire. And if she gets too close to him, he won't be able to help himself.

    Johnny Marco: Oh, man.

  • Johnny Marco: Whoa! What the fuck, dude?

    Ron the Masseur: Oh. Did they not tell you how I work?

    Johnny Marco: No.

    Ron the Masseur: I have a website that explains my technique. I feel that if my client's naked, it's just more comfortable if I meet them at the same level.

    Johnny Marco: Yeah, it's - it's not for me. Thanks, though. Why don't you just pack it up.

    Ron the Masseur: Alright.

    Ron the Masseur: [after putting his clothes back on] S'sorry about that.

    Johnny Marco: Nah, it's cool.