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The latest work "Wild Pear Tree" by the famous Turkish director Nuri Big Ceylan tells the story of Sinan, a college graduate who returned to his hometown after a long absence from studying abroad. He felt a little at a loss and got off the bus in the town. The owner of the jewelry store asked him for his father's debt: two pieces of gold, the car in front of the house was stuck with a paper for sale, the family was the same as before, the mother and sister were watching TV in the living room, and the heroine's story was being broadcast. Lines: You are escaping from reality, father came back and asked them if they had eaten? My mother gave him a cold look and didn't answer. She probably thought why was this useless nonsense asking? A man can't earn money, and his family life has no important place for him. He must feel guilty, so he always has nothing to say. Looking for words - Father saw him and said: Welcome, he always said that, always with an awkward, dry laugh that seemed to be amusing himself.
Xinan wrote a book - "Wild Pear Tree", about the local life and culture. He brought the manuscript and wanted to find someone to finance the publication. The mayor recommended him to transport sand in the village, saying that he likes books and reading. The mine owner, after a polite conversation with Xinan, the two argued about the moral issues of the war cemetery and the martyrs. The mine owner said that he was a high school dropout, but he did not regret it because he learned to adapt early. Look at those college students again, some are working for him, some are working for small people in other places, some have committed suicide, the market is ruthless, they don’t know how to adjust themselves, and all they learn are useless things— - Are these words very familiar? This is a real world, and there is no room for a useless person to think about the secret of happiness in life for people.
Walking on a country road, I ran into a high school girl I used to like. They were kissing in the woods. The hot wind was blowing in the summer afternoon, and the sun was shining through the tips of the leaves. After kissing her, she bit his lip, she said. She doesn't want to be rotten here, so she's getting married... This scene is too beautiful, the movie should let the image flow, unlike many people who abuse long shots, whether they are masters or not. A long black hair covered her face in the wind, and her eyes were full of helpless sadness. She cried and laughed, and the yellow leaves were cracked by the wind. Such an afternoon was dizzying, as if time had been stretched. The sound of the wind in your ears, the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves, the cries of women, the breaths and sighs of each other...but the reality will not allow you to stay for a moment longer to soothe the sadness in your heart .
When she was unemployed after graduation, Xinan was depressed and hesitant. She had a fight with the ex-boyfriend of her female classmate. She went to take the teacher qualification exam without much preparation. Her mother borrowed travel expenses from her neighbors, and her father took the opportunity to follow the name to tell him. In order to get some money to buy cigarettes and bet on horses, for a long time, he despised his father and had nothing to say to him. His father was a loser in an irresponsible life. The exam was not ideal. He sold an old book from his grandfather's house for 700 lire. When he returned home to help the worker move the sofa, the 300 lire disappeared. Did his father, sister or worker take it? unknown.
In the bookstore, he met the most famous writer in the area. He was pressed, insinuated and mocked by him. The writer was annoyed by him. ? The writer replied to him: Why not? If your conscience can handle it. During the interval of their conversation, the writer gradually felt restless, but it was raining heavily outside and could not leave immediately. At this time, a woman running into the rain was wiping the rain off her forehead with her hands. This is a wonderful scene, very real. On the wall of the bookstore hangs huge posters of Nobel Prize writers: Marquez, Kafka... The rain stopped, the writer left the bookstore, Sinan asked all the way, the writer couldn't help standing on the bridge Roaring and scolding him, he pushed a broken arm of the statue of the woman on the bridge into the river, and fled in a hurry after being discovered by the fisherman next to him. .. The self-portrait of a typical literary youth - cynical, contemptuous and arrogant, dissatisfied with reality and doing nothing, wandering all day long, suffering from a lost future - is too accurately portrayed.
The dean of the village went out to collect gold, but asked his grandfather (the old dean) to help him in prayer, and also claimed two pieces of gold from him. The vain people debated their beliefs all the way. I like this part very much, it reminds me of "Love Comes at Midnight" Before", there is also a long way to talk.
Dad insisted on digging a well on that hillside to make the place green, people laughed at him, grandma said it was a never-ending saga, everyone thought he would never end, because people knew it from years of experience There will be no water. Sinan has always misunderstood his father, feeling that "his affairs are basically absurd resistance to life". He used the money from selling his father's favorite dog to publish his own book, and together with his mother, he mocked his father for losing his dog and was alone in the dark at night. Crying, the mother said that the father was too dramatic and that many mistakes would not be confessed. He was deeply disappointed with his father, but his mother said he shouldn't think of him that way, after all you can go to college because of your father, and mother recalled meeting him when he was handsome, educated, and everyone was talking about money and calculations Who has what, but he talked to her about the smell of the earth, the smell of lamb, and the color of the fields, and he could say good things that would stop you in your tracks, in those days, she couldn't hear enough, she was only then At 16 years old, she had never seen such a person, so she ran away with her father. If the clock was turned back, she knew she would still choose this... Once he went to the mountains to find his father and saw him from a distance Father fell under a wild pear tree with a rope hanging from the branch. He walked away in fear, and when he came back, he saw that his father was just asleep, with ants crawling on his face and body. Grandpa said this before, maybe Father thought of death more than once, but never in the end. There is a scene where the face of the baby on the rocking bed hung by the rope under the wild pear tree is also covered with ants, which reminds me of Eileen Chang's famous saying: Life is a gorgeous robe covered with lice.
He wrote in the book to his mother: Dedicated to my dearest mother, I owe everything to you, you alone; my mother was proud of him, saying that she knew that he was different, and she was moved to tears. After returning from military service, my mother used my father's pension to exchange for a new refrigerator and my sister's laptop. His books were piled high against the wall and became moldy. My mother said it was because the rain sprayed in from the window. He asked his sister if she had seen it? My sister said that there is no time to deal with schoolwork. The father moved to Grandpa's house on the mountain by himself, with his sheep and dogs. Xinan inadvertently found a newspaper clipping in his father's wallet in the room that covered the publication of his book. In the end, only his father was a reader of his book, and none of the books were sold in the bookstore. There was a poster of the author's new book on the window. .
The ending seems to have two endings: one is that he can't stand the guilt in his heart and hangs himself in the well; the other is that in the heavy snow, he followed his father to dig the well, and the scene shot upwards is meaningful... ...the world is so fucked up, life is absurd, die or go.
This land made him love and hate, the wind in the valleys in the summer afternoon, the withered and broken dark yellow leaves in the bleak autumn day, the snowflakes fluttering in slow motion in winter, everything is so beautiful, picturesque, and everything is It's all so sad, people live here, love each other, start a family, and then hurt each other and fetter each other, bitter, depressed, and occasionally sweet, shed sad or moved tears, life is like a dry well, and there is no water... .. Finally he talked to his father about the wild pear tree: sometimes what I see in you, me and even grandpa reminds me of the wild pear tree, we are all unsuitable, lonely and deformed people; Father said: Everyone has their own temperament, the key is to accept and like it.
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