[Wild Pear Tree] After three long hours, I was so tiring to watch, and I had to read the subtitles and the pictures, so I had to split it into two days to watch it, but even if I paused and watched it again, I could quickly enter the plot, because everything in the movie The emotions of the characters created are still coherent. Since the structure is relatively loose, you only need to find a general structural point during the pause. It is a bit similar to the end of a large paragraph in a novel, and the next chapter is a new event. Continuing to watch will not affect the entry into the plot.
To put a little digression, the seemingly unstructured European "life flow" movies actually have their built-in classic "flow", not a simple and straightforward running account on the surface, such as some movies written by Truffaut and Duras , if you look closely, you will find that the internal structure that has been carefully calculated is also obvious. Each "event" is developed around the actions of the characters, and the motivations of the characters are determined by their own characters. Seeing is to show "a person's experience", but in fact it is to show the process of connecting with the surrounding things due to the character's own personality characteristics (advantages/disadvantages). Relatively speaking, the plot of life-flow movies will appear relatively bland and less complex. There are few ups and downs of fierce conflict, so it is more taboo to have too much dialogue. If there is too much dialogue and too long dialogue time, the overall rhythm of the film will fall, and it will appear protracted and protracted. Several films in Ceylon in recent years have this problem. , There are many details hidden in each film, which is more like an excellent novel than a movie. It takes repeated viewing to gradually realize the beauty of it. Unfortunately, the movie is not a novel after all. It is the first time on the big screen. When watching the movie, the audience will not notice these very cleverly designed details. During the linear viewing time, the audience's thinking moves with the progress of the plot. The plot is stagnant for a long time and there are too many dialogue scenes. It is difficult for the audience to concentrate on watching, and they often miss a lot of things in the constant dozing...
"Wild Pear Tree" returns to the early theme of Ceylon, about the confusion of growing up and breaking through oneself. The Maotou boy in a rural town in a fourth-tier city with a dream of literature and art graduated from college and returned to his hometown. As for the plot, there is basically no plot, but a compression of a period of time in real life, just like your daily life, there are no big ups and downs in life, but I always feel empty and lonely, looking at it, I always feel inside It is somewhat of a Ceylon autobiography, and the name of the protagonist is somewhat similar to the director himself. The country boy is not happy when he returns to his hometown from the big city of Istanbul, because the closed social environment and interpersonal relationships of the acquaintances in his hometown have already made people feel all kinds of inconveniences. Habits, so I collide with people everywhere, I don’t fit in everywhere, I don’t like everyone around me, and I can’t find any way out. This may be a common phenomenon in developing countries in today’s era. In short, when I look at it, except for the language barrier. The depiction of the plot and the interpersonal relationships in it can be replaced more quickly. The wandering literary youth returned to their long-lost hometown, and their feelings were mostly similar. First of all, they did not feel the warmth of a long-lost reunion when they returned home. Due to endless quarrels over various trivial matters, family affection has long since been indifferent; on the road, I met a female classmate in my youth, and learned that the other party had to leave her lover under the pressure of the family, and married a jeweler who she did not love. Although the daily life after a wealthy family is mediocre and depressing, it is difficult to say that it is not happy; because of different ideas and inexplicable fights with childhood; asking questions from well-known local writers but breaking up; seeing clergy attend After the wedding in the countryside, I climbed to the apple tree by the roadside to steal apples to eat. It turns out that praying and blessing is just a job...
The monotonous and dull daily life of the small town, the future that can be seen to the end is clearly in front of the protagonist, and the protagonist suddenly realizes that he will eventually be emptied of all his dreams and feelings like his parents. After all, I am unwilling to choose to leave, where can I go? My own dream of becoming a writer is just as incomprehensible and ridiculed by the people around me, just like my father's obsession with opening well Full of curiosity and fantasy, he also had the same artistic feelings that yearned to express himself...
At the end, the protagonist who left for military service and returned from military service again came to reconcile with his father in front of the log cabin built by his father on the mountain, and silently watched the death of himself, who was full of juvenile ideals and feelings... Finally, he jumped to his father to dig In the well that was half decided to give up, he silently tapped the hard stone wall, and under the seemingly persistent and meaningless repeated beating, finally, the trickle at the bottom of the well, which was unanimously considered by the local villagers to be unable to dig water, gradually penetrated through the stone cracks. Flowing out from under your feet and flowing around...
After all, there are only two ways for young literary and artistic youths who return to their hometowns: either to return to their hometown and stay completely, which means that they will be integrated into the boring and boring daily life like everyone else and quickly sink and get lost, or they will run away again and continue to find a new way out. .
So I think the protagonist will still choose to leave and continue to wander after a short stay in his hometown?
ps: Ceylon started to talk more after [Three Monkeys]. I used the characters of the film to express the ramble after entering old age in [Hibernation], but this time in [Wild Pear Tree], the ramble is even more, sometimes It is almost unbearable. The length of the film is completely prolonged by the lengthy and trivial dialogues. The original two-hour length has been dragged into three hours. The boring dialogue scenes that cause people's emotions are all cut out, which does not affect the film. The overall narrative, the rhythm may be much brighter.
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