Nuri Big Ceylan is a Turkish label-style cultural figure who won the Palme d'Or in Cannes with "Hibernation". He has previously won a Best Director Award ("Three Monkeys"), a Jury Prize ("Far Away") and six Palme d'Or nominations.
After four years, he was nominated for the Palme d'Or again with "Wild Pear Tree" .
Some netizens commented that "Wild Pear Tree" is the movie that the most literary and artistic people in the country are waiting for, and every frame is a painting.
The protagonist of the film, Ceylon , is an ambitious college graduate who aspires to be a writer.
Just like all college students who have just left the school, Ceylon is full of enthusiasm for the future and firmly believes that once his novel is published, it will shock the literary world.
But the reality... Publishing funding is the biggest obstacle on the road to dreaming.
Ceylon chose to return to her hometown to raise money for the novel's publication.
As soon as Ceylon returned to town, he was stopped and urged to pay back the money for his father.
Ceylon's father, a primary school teacher, was well educated and had a decent job, but he slowly became addicted to gambling, borrowing money everywhere, and his neighbors and friends became creditors.
As for my mother, under the weight of daily trivialities, she has long lost her enthusiasm for life.
Seeing Ceylon come back, my mother was not too happy. After a few simple conversations, she continued to indulge in soap operas.
Relieve the stress of life with short-lived pleasures.
His parents could not give him any help, so Ceylon had to turn to the local government.
The mayor, who seems to be democratic and maintains knowledge, after listening to Ceylon's remarks, his words are full of perfunctory and rejection .
But in order to show that he had made a difference, the mayor recommended a sponsor to Ceylon, the owner of the quarry.
However, when Ceylon approached the quarry owner who advertised his "hungry to read", he found that the owner's bookshelf was meager.
It turned out that he set himself such a character, just to get more business .
Not only that, the philistine businessman even boasted to Ceylon about "the futility of education" .
Publishing fiction is increasingly hopeless.
About dreams, falling apart in his struggle with reality.
In desperation, he obeyed his parents' arrangement and took the teacher's exam.
But in this world, it's not that you give in to him, he will give you a chance.
He failed the teacher's exam, and his once-loving girlfriend also left him.
Like all unemployed youths, he wandered the town all day long. The increasingly decadent Ceylon did not completely compromise, but grew increasingly angry.
When talking with his mother, he always unabashedly expressed his disgust for his hometown, saying that he would never marry a local girl anyway.
When his father asked him to work to dig wells, Ceylon always asked back, "Did I come back for this?"
Who of us has not had a time when the sky is too high?
When we broadened our horizons and increased our knowledge, we thought we understood this society, and wanted to make great achievements, but in the end we lost to our mediocre talents.
Who of us has not had the urge to go to the distance?
Perhaps after studying abroad, or after the development of the hometown is not smooth, we will all have the urge to leave our hometown and make a move in the big city, but how many people will really decide to jump out of the comfort zone?
At the end of the film, Ceylon finally raised enough money to publish a book.
But when he returned from military service, he found that none of his books were sold in the bookstore.
He accepted it calmly and entrusted the owner to continue selling.
He came to the well that his father dug, and saw that his father, who he once looked down on, was still insisting. So he picked up a hoe and went down to help his father dig together.
"Grandpa, father and myself, like wild pear trees, are misfits, lonely, deformed people," Ceylon said .
When he was young, he was high-spirited, but he was eventually smoothed out by life, and finally he lived a mediocre life in mediocrity.
Should people remain lonely, deformed, and unsuitable for the environment like a wild pear, or should they be able to retreat in time and compromise with reality?
In fact, each of us is a wild pear tree. We used to be independent and feel that we are different from those around us.
When I wake up, I find that I am an ordinary person, no different from the surrounding.
The world will not change, and the only thing that changes is us.
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