I watched this documentary for the first time two days ago. Like the narration, this "medicine strength" made me speechless for two days after watching it.
Forget about the universe, just look at the earth where we live. The earth is so big that there are people feasting and feasting on one side, while some people are picking household necessities in landfills. The earth is cruel, so cruel that more than 1.3 million people have been killed in various bloody ways within 40 square kilometers.
This film does not have any narration, just like a composition without a proposition, let us find the story in various shots. From the beginning of the temple, the natural scenery, the primates in the water, the aboriginal people living in the forest are transformed with the sound of a chainsaw in the rainforest and the fall of a tree. Industrial production, people move towards modern life. Some people roll cigarettes in tobacco factories in Indonesia, and some people smoke on the streets of Tokyo. Some people come and go in the metropolis, some barely survive in the slums. But I think the author's position is higher. The contrast and irony of several transitions in the middle climax is simply a shock to my soul:
· The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong in 1992, a "dirty place" mixed with fish and dragons, densely packed with people. A cemetery in Baicheng, Ecuador, from the outside, the two places are divided into four squares by a cuboid, but some people are alive and some people are dead.
· Three Japanese women dance Japanese dance dance, full of ugly gestures. Dirty, morbid, decadent, and anti-morality have become synonymous with Butoh. After the defeat in the 20th century, Japan learned elegance and beauty from the West in terms of dance, and on the other hand, there was a dance that opposed all aesthetics, which can be said to be a product of the war. From here on - to the tarmac of the B-52 bomber at the US Atmospheric and Space Maintenance and Repair Center - to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem - to the Kuwait Oil Field Fire - to the current glass factory in Poland - - Transition to Auschwitz Concentration Camp - Transition to Tiananmen Square...
When I closed my eyes, it was as if I saw countless Jews returning to Jerusalem, standing in front of the Wailing Wall and praying. Seeing fighter planes set fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields, and seeing the wailing and screaming of millions of people in the Auschwitz concentration camp, the officers laughed happily with lampshades made of human skin...
Thinking of the heroine in "The Fifth Element" who came to save mankind, and then saw countless wars through the computer, and finally asked: Why do I want to save mankind, even you are killing each other. This question is philosophical and leads to another question, who are we? Why do we have to live? ...
In the film, the images of pedestrians and vehicles at the crossroads of the city intersect with the images of the chickens passing through the workshop. We are like chickens passing through the workshop one by one in the chicken farm. to produce. Is that so?
In the final picture, it returns to religion and virgin forest, ending with a solar eclipse... We come from nature, and we must return to nature in the end. In the face of "nature", everyone's answer is different, and the same is true for watching this film. (After reading it, I immediately went to eat up the rice left over from lunch)
God, in the temple, quietly, not saying a word. Some people ask, what did God tell you? I said, only me who is in the presence of God will know.
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