The movie "Wild Pear Tree" tells the story of a small town in Turkey. Ceylon, a young man who loves literature, wrote a book "Wild Pear Tree" based on his hometown. In order to raise money for the book to be published, he sold his old notes at home. Selling his father's dog, accusing contempt and exploiting the last value of the family, the last book published remains unsought. This film is a very rare masterpiece of literary and artistic films in recent years. It pays great attention to the hearts of the characters and depicts it in a real and delicate manner. Even in another country, in another era, you can still find empathy from the characters. The film focuses on the young age, and Ceylon's thinking and acceptance of life cannot calm his anger towards life. In his eyes, everyone and everything is like a wild pear tree, lonely and deformed, with an ugly appearance.
This is the struggle process that must be experienced in the stages of life. The film is not neat, and the plot is very wanton about what Ceylon saw and thought during this process. There are two paragraphs of discussion, which are very interesting from the perspective of literary films. In one part, Ceylon engages in a theoretical debate about literature with the town's most famous writer, who berates him angrily for not understanding the nature of life. Combined with the film's strong autobiographical overtones, it's more like the director berating his past self years later. The other end of the discussion is more sensitive. Ceylon discusses Islam and the backwardness of Turkish society with young people serving in two religions of the same age.
There are too many metaphors and symbolic symbols in the film. If you want to analyze it in detail, I am afraid that after watching it many times, you will not be able to find all the things hidden by the director. The amount of information is too large. But at the end of the day, it has to come down. In a dream like his father, the unhappy Ceylon hangs in a dry well. Back in reality, my father woke up to find Ceylon digging in a dry well. On the one hand, this represents a layer of reconciliation in his relationship with his father, and on the other hand, it is also a life attitude that is still unwilling to give up. At this time, digging a dry well has nothing to do with land, right or wrong, but Ceylon's own attitude expressed after understanding that his father had also failed.
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