Samsara (Sanskrit): Reincarnation. In Buddhism, people believe that there is a past life, this life, and reincarnation after death. They believe that all living things, if they do not seek "liberation", will forever continue to be born and die in the "six realms" without end, which is one of the main teachings of Brahmanism in India.
The film kicks off in a mysterious and exotic dance, accompanied by a strange soundtrack. The three little girls are swaying stiffly like marionettes, their eyes like copper bells are slightly terrifying, pulling us back to the distant tribal society. Unknown mystery. The camera changes, the volcanic eruption brings good news in the depths of the earth, the infant is born, the dead body is dead, the camera slowly looks at the eyes of the bronze statue of the pharaoh, and the opening subtitle Samsara is played, implying the reincarnation of life and the eternal existence behind it. , endless time.
It is followed by a long list of picturesque scenery, beautiful natural wonders, solemn religious places, natural architectural wonders, and magnificent art corridors. A variety of aerial photography, time-lapse photography, close-up shots, mise-en-scene, director's lens art is breathtaking. The entire 102-minute film does not have a single line, but it thunders in a silent place, inspiring our infinite reverie with silent intuition.
The film took five years and covered 25 countries on five continents, covering a wide range of fields, not only the natural scenery of clouds and clouds, but also the interpretation of Buddhism's understanding of reincarnation. The director used a more sensitive and profound lens to penetrate into every human society. Corners and fields, across the long river of time, led us into a wonderful journey to appreciate the development of human civilization, which deeply shocked the hearts of every audience.
Reincarnation is the finishing touch of this film, which perfectly covers all the content of this film, or it contains everything in the world. Reincarnation is a kind of understanding of the world. Heraclitus said that "everything is produced by its opposite, and everything changes, like a river", while Taoism uses yin and yang to explain the development and change of things. For example, the opposite of life is death, and the two transform each other into endless life. The unity of opposites of all things is another explanation for reincarnation. The replacement of the sun, the moon and the stars, the changes of spring, summer, spring and winter, primitiveness and civilization, production and destruction, freedom and bondage, wealth and poverty, war and peace, are not the same.
The content of the film can be divided into two categories: those inevitable and free things like the eternal night make me fall into the abyss of eternity, and those accidental human beings like splendid fireworks make me indulge in the eternity of a moment. Dotted palaces, immobile stone statues, cities swallowed by yellow sand, abandoned schools, dead branches that cannot stand, mirror-like lakes, magical canyons, waterfalls in the morning light, all these are this blue color. The background colors on the planet are breathtakingly beautiful, for fear of disturbing the trajectory of nature.
And on this natural background, there is a picture of human civilization, ancient and mysterious primitive tribes, reinforced concrete cities, night scenes like the stars, robots indistinguishable from authenticity, towering Burj Al Arab Hotel, filling The artificial miracle of the island, the crowds of people on the city streets, the production lines of the assembly line, the sensual places, the slums living in a corner, the prisons where prisoners are imprisoned, the mountains of garbage, and the pair of eyes that stare. Eyes are the windows to the soul. Through your eyes, have you seen the universe as vast and deep as the stars?
The performance artist smeared himself beyond recognition with sludge, and frantically tried to open his mouth and eyes with the blade of a knife. The crazy behavior reveals the primitive animal nature, as if the ignorant people who are blinded by the world are trying their best to see, see through the essence of the world, and call out to themselves. The crowds who went to Mecca for pilgrimage looked like a gate of reincarnation under the camera, and like a religious black hole that devoured people, annihilating one fresh individual after another, and the group belief was terrifying. With the proliferation of guns, when backwardness and development meet, when primitiveness and civilization collide, and yin and yang meet, can a new balance be found in the unity of opposites? . When civilization has the power to destroy everything, and when Islamic fundamentalists chanting "Let everything go back to the beginning, back to the Quran" to eliminate all infidels, what will the world look like tomorrow?
The perfect mandala is completed, the violent crowd, the guns in their hands, and the hands that are always ready to brush the mandala, will all the beautiful pictures eventually return to the original chaos?
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