Dreams are in opposition to reality, and when I look back, I find that the person standing behind me is still my parents. The long three hours and eight minutes unfolded with various dialogues, and the last thirty minutes actually condensed everything in the world. (The people who despise the people who stay in their homeland are short-sighted, but they have been wandering in the spiritual world. The dry land will not produce water, and the lonely person can dig out the oasis. The disgusted father, when he was young, he thought he was going to be hollowed out in a well ten meters deep. It was the first time I saw a Ceylon movie. I was deeply nostalgic and immersed in the simple family love of life. I fell into thinking and analyzed myself. Returning to the movie, after graduating from Ceylon, he went home with a dream but was pulled back to reality by his father's creditors. Every young person will feel this way more or less. I admire those storytellers the most, who express plain and simple things directly, which is why I like Jia Zhangke. Love, affection, nostalgia, and reality escape and return are mixed in it: kissing the bitten lips under the tree, the hair tangled in the wind, and the lit cigarette finally returning to reality. This scene resembles the scene in Abbas' "The Lover Under the Cherry Tree". Entering the billiard room embarrassed in the heavy rain and being watched from the sidelines; the dilemma of being seen through the money in his pocket by his sister; the non-speculative conversation with the writer; the society has ignored his existence, and suddenly he feels very much like himself at this moment. I stood on the top of the mountain many times and looked at everything, but found that nothing could escape and nothing could change. When Ceylon returned as a soldier, he went to his father's residence and found that the person who knew the most was actually his father, and only his father. In the second half, I have a deep memory of two scenes, one is the father lying on the grass and sleeping, covered with ants, and the other is the baby lying in the cradle also covered with ants. Is one old and one young implying that the father was smug and had many dreams when he was young, and an idealist was faced with realistic debts and could not realize it. A well that cannot be drilled, an unfulfilled dream. After all, he chose to reconcile with himself and bring his dream back to reality. When he returned to his hometown, he returned to the side of the wild pear tree, with his "palace", the shepherd dog and those sheep. Several dialogues in it express the ideal and reality of life, the first dialogue with Heidis, the second dialogue with the writer, the third dialogue with the Imam, and the fourth dialogue with the father. These conversations are worth pondering deeply. Maybe we can find our own figure in them. So close and so far, each of us is unique because of our own meaning. The search continues, and I'm still on my way.
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