Regarding "The Taste of Cherry", I found that I couldn't squeeze all my insights into the short review.

Eloy 2022-04-23 07:04:38

For no reason, a middle-class Iranian man decided to commit suicide. As if through his eyes, wherever he sees the ground is bare, dusty, plants linger, and all living beings are busy, scavengers wearing clothes they have picked up, farmers cultivating, and even those basking in the sun. That man, why do these people deserve such vivid signs of life? No one in the universe has the same troubles as him. It is not intentional to seek death, but when the meaning cannot be dissolved, death becomes the only choice. It seems that such an end has been deliberately and unavoidably planned, so that someone needs to cover his body with dirt, willing to give all his possessions in exchange.

The young soldier couldn't help him, thinking back to the happiest years of his life, that birth was something that didn't need explanation, and naturally he couldn't comprehend that someone went to death willingly and peacefully. The seminary students could not redeem him, and the self-contradiction of religion made it impossible for God to convince God himself. Got a response while driving an old Turkish man to the museum. An hour later, the old man guides him to a fork in the road, where green and withered yellow trees appear for the first time in the movie. The old man did not give up his advice. The journey is full of twists and turns, and the scenery is enriched: children in colorful clothes, dark green pines, and even hordes of annoying crows. In the camera he took pictures of couples, it is unknown whether he has regained the eyes to perceive the world, and finally confirmed to the old man in every possible way: If I am still alive, don't let me die like this.

Personally, I will take out the old man's words. "Have you lost all hope? When you woke up in the morning, did you ever look up to the sky? At dawn, don't you want to watch the sun rise? The golden and red sunset, don't you want to see it again? Have you ever seen The moon? You don't want to see the stars again? You don't want to see it again on the full moon night? You want to close your eyes? Choose the right way! ... Don't you want to drink another spring water? Or wash your face in the water? Look Four seasons, every season brings fruit, summer has fruit, autumn has fruit; winter has different fruit, so does spring. . . . You have to reject everything? You have to give up everything?…You have to give up trying cherries taste?"

I think I once spontaneously asked about the meaning of life, thinking about it and thinking about it with the current knowledge and cognition, I can only come up with - meaningless. There is no solution. At that time, there was no air conditioner in the room, so I fell asleep in the heat and sweat every night, and wrote some words that I haven't dared to look back yet. The predicament came out suddenly: one night when I was struggling to leave, I chose to stop asking questions and go to simple and direct happiness. Suddenly came to life. No matter how many times I look back at this series of tortures of life and death in the movie, I will burst into tears, as if it were an answer to the once paranoid me.

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Taste of Cherry quotes

  • Mr. Badii: I don't want to give you a gun to kill me. I'm giving you a spade, a spade.

  • Mr. Bagheri: When you want to help someone, you have to do it properly, with all your heart. It's better... more just and more reasonable.