It takes an angle to integrate into this film, and I understand this film as an allegory of isolated two people establishing a bond.
The same dream and the two deer in the dream represent a lonely person in the real world who finds the spiritual connection between the other party and himself, which is the unity of emotion and spirit of two people. In reality, the emotional and spiritual connection between the two will never be as absolutely certain and strong as the movie, so this movie is a fable, which represents a pure world that requires us to purify and extract from our own experience. This absolute and certain. Everyone may imagine that there is another half in the world who shares weal and woe with them, just like Kielovsky's twin flowers, but in reality, this spiritual connection is not pure and changeable, and needs to be maintained and created by both parties, but after all The two sides have this connection.
Perhaps it is more important to understand the importance of this connection, the importance of this connection to the lonely individual, because when the individual loses the connection, the consequence can be death, as in the cut wrist at the end of the film, or as in a few pages of Lofsky. It is said that most of the time people die because they can't live anymore. Understanding the importance of connection requires understanding the meaning of connection and the state of the subject.
If the previous love narrative was a kind of love full of passion and impulse, full of rationalism, then this kind of love narrative in Hou Hsiao-hsien's love affair is the taste of Hiroeda Edema and Hengshan's family is mixed with history and life, and love is laid out in the undercurrent. A kind of not pure emotion on the dynamic life, it contains too many contradictions and sadness and helplessness, but if you understand the world of Hou Hsiao-hsien and Hirokazu-eda, but you may not understand the world of flesh and spirit, eight. In the 1990s, it was impossible for the local life in Taiwan to be connected with the love of Koeda and the family, neighbors and communities. And the greatness of this film, or what I would like to improve on it, lies in the fact that it was born in today's grasp of the emotional state of a part of the isolated individual infiltrated by postmodernism, and the connection of this part of people and their emotions may be history and future trends.
So, what is the difference between time and love? When Xu Zhiyuan interviewed Ma Dong, Li Dan and Yu Feihong, everyone had a sad background. Everyone saw that the red dust that they saw through was not the red dust. It doesn't matter to anything. This may be the existential state of existence, where we are left behind to accept the desert of meaning and the storm of earthly annoyances.
Only by understanding the tragic background of being thrown into the world can we understand what loneliness and the origin of loneliness, and the meaning of spiritual connection. I understand this kind of loneliness as world-weariness, which is an active isolation and clearing of boundaries from the world, because everything is meaningless, everything is irrelevant, everything is uninteresting, everything is external to me, and thus I live my life. In the world of self, become the hedgehog of this world, become a lone seed in the desert of meaning. An isolated individual is almost equal to a dead person, and everything in this world is equal to acclimatization or poisonous water to him, so the survival of an isolated individual needs to find a connection, find a refuge of feelings and meaning, gradually build an oasis in the storm of meaning, and cultivate survival. Soil, to withstand storms.
If everything in the world is irrelevant to the isolated individual, that means the new connection that the isolated individual seeks must go beyond parents, beyond erotic flesh, but in a purely spiritual sense. In this way, I also understand how precious and difficult this connection is, and it may also mean the real person in life. At first you will be quite dissatisfied with such a pair of men and women, why is it a blonde beauty and a disabled sloppy old man, and when you understand the meaning of personal isolation, you also understand the nature and meaning of the re-established connection . Those earthly material standard considerations have long since been relegated to nothingness, and the spiritual connection doesn't care about them at all. If viewing doesn't go beyond this irrational pairing, then the movie won't mean much to you. won't have much sympathy with you.
Isolates are the most down-to-earth and most relinquishing of everything, so imagine how difficult it is for them to start making a bond. It is very possible to look down on and give up this connection at any time, to return to the individual, or to return to the dead and death. Perhaps the most important part of the film is the process of filming how an isolated individual establishes a connection, which is full of twists and turns, suspicion, and accidental misunderstandings and misses. And this growth and loss of love may be understood by most people and discussed in most movies.
I almost made a different view of this film as a metaphorical text, even different from the director's own idea. As for the director's original title, I felt it was such an outdated theme, and perhaps the feeling of the movie itself should not be limited by this theme. Then there are two interpretations of the ending of the movie...and perhaps, the ending is not important to me anymore, I have my own answer.
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