thinking outside the embankment

Verna 2022-11-26 12:13:21

Today I watched "The Embankment" in a daze, and I was at a loss. The whole film is like a fragment of memory played in the form of pictures (suddenly thought, this can also be done with VideoStudio...), statues, animals, airports, scientists, she, him, the logic of the incomprehensible.
The cute mike of the couples is happy to see it, maybe it is a cultural difference. What impressed me the most was his ending, and the only thing I understood a little bit, "prisoner" realized that the dead man he saw when he was a child was himself. The surprising and satisfying ending made me feel like a ghost. This scene seems to have been seen in Hong Kong ghost movies. Under the guidance of ghosts and gods, someone saw himself falling from a building, so he died like that. Think about it, the gap between China and the West is really big, science fiction and ghosts, science and superstition. In fact, the Chinese are very smart. They have thought of many important points, but they went in the wrong direction later. The difference is that ghosts and gods will not lead us into the future, but will only make us curl up in the corner of time and tremble; science fiction may be equally absurd, but it is a breakthrough, it is the imagination of people trying to get out of the status quo. The power source of creation.
But it is not difficult to see that it is this breakthrough that brings about the problems of nature and human nature. Desires are often difficult to control, and unknowingly it is easy to deviate from the original intention and go to the other extreme.
In any case, this is a peculiar world, a world shaped by the director's way of thinking, with many personal factors, it is reasonable to be difficult to understand, and it is in this process of doubt-thinking-clarification that >1 +1 for something.

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La Jetée quotes

  • Narrator: A peacetime morning. A peacetime bedroom. A real bedroom. Real children. Real birds. Real cats. Real graves.

  • Narrator: No memories. No plans.

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