Give yourself a chance to face death and see if God will do it

Jessika 2022-04-20 09:02:35

Three feelings:
one is the scene where the protagonist's wheel is empty and the workers spontaneously come to help, which makes people teary-eyed;
the other is Abbas Kiarostami's cherishing of the camera. The innocuous people are more just voices, except that the security guard finally gave a scene and the woman who bought the ticket;
the third is the controversy in the last part, which can be simply understood as a tidbit, and it can be considered that the director was teased nonsensically. , can also be used as a part of the play, telling people that even insignificant people are still living full of vitality.

Finally, for the subject of the film. In a word: Give yourself a chance to face death and see if God will do it.


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Extended Reading
  • Zion 2022-03-15 09:01:10

    A moving vehicle = a life's journey, a car window = a screen border, a character's eye = a camera lens. Construction strategies of slow movies: First, not revealing relevant information about the plot, the audience witnesses not that nothing happened, but does not know what is happening, thus causing a delay in the narrative. Second, repetition and circulation. The dialogue keeps returning to the topic of suicide, and the characters keep being taken to the same graveyard. At 00:02:19, the three seats showed the driver to be very calm. 00:24:18, the purposeful delay, the real life is like this. 00:36:11, the scene is excellent. 00:58:01, imagery. 01:04:03, half-rolled windows. The choice of three characters, three different ways of dealing with them, and three different ways of solving problems. 01:05:32, emotional fluctuations. 01:10:51, the scene changes on the way, from dusty and bare to luxuriant and vigorous. 01:21:46, on and off the field. 01:27:26, scene, one scene is multi-purpose. At the end, the black field is bravely used, and the white space is more powerful.

  • Troy 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    "Life is a galloping train, and death is the end of life." Every character under the lens faces various difficulties in life, and the greatness of life lies in struggling in pain without giving up the will to live. It is obvious that the four people the protagonist encounters have a progressive understanding of life, and whether suicide can break through the mundane and bring real relief depends on the audience's own thinking.

Taste of Cherry quotes

  • Mr. Bagheri: Some things are easier to do than to say.

  • Mr. Badii: I've decided to free myself from this life.

    The seminarian: What for?

    Mr. Badii: It wouldn't help you to know and I can't talk about it and you wouldn't understand. It's not because you don't understand but you can't feel what I feel. You can sympathize, understand, show compassion. But feel my pain? No. You suffer and so do I. I understand you. You comprehend my pain, but you can't feel it