I haven't watched "Arctic Circle Lovers", and I feel that such a theme will have too much literary and artistic capital, and it must be associated with boring, but I feel relieved when I know that the director and the first two films are the same person.
After watching this film, I guessed that there are three "North", "Red" and "Lu". "North" seems to be a relatively late filming. The director is already familiar with the two tricks in the filming using various movie elements. It is clear at a glance. Forgot He is very suitable for shooting this kind of event with multiple contexts and branches, and all characters have a relationship line, "The Garden of Forking Paths" Hey. Of course, the director's own thoughts are mixed, and an interesting point of view is reproduced in the lens language through details.
I really liked the first time Ana and Otto met in their parents' car when they were young. They talked to each other in their hearts. When Otto got off the car and went home, Ana watched his back jumping away and blew kisses in the car. , If you are the reincarnation of your father, you should give me a kiss, and Otto walked to the door and turned around and blew a kiss to the car that was running. Loving someone really belongs to oneself and has nothing to do with others; and people only believe what they want to believe, but the occurrence of love is dominated by fate.
The death of Otto's mother also awakened Otto from the dream of love. When I was a child, I swore to my mother that I would love her forever and die when I ran out of gas. Running out of gas is a metaphor for Otto's father's loss of love for his mother. Otto's oath has always been with him subconsciously. His obsession with love, his unwillingness to be smoothed out by the world, and his passion did not disappear because of his growth. It erupted when his mother passed away. After suffering in his heart, he finally chose pain. to survive, to be who he wanted to be when he was a child, and to fulfill his desire for airplane fantasies. An Ran, who forgot about the numbness of life, left her father who abandoned her mother, and left Ana, who loved her dearly. The two met on the street, and even stayed on chairs less than one meter apart and sat down at the same time, thinking about each other strongly, but passed by. They looked at the same white cloud in the sky and made a decision to change the path of their lives. Otto found a newspaper advertisement and decided to apply for a postal pilot, while Ana told the elementary school teacher in front of Otto that she believed in fate, implying that she wanted to be with him. Therefore, Ana and Otto, two palindromic names that read the same in reverse, intersect and continue into bifurcations.
Mediocre numbness lived years without love, and things looped back like their namesake. Ana goes to find Otto's grandfather, an elderly man also named Otto. This is a bit flawed. In little Otto's memory, what his grandfather told Otto was that he met a German soldier named Otto and rescued him from a parachute hanging in the air. They exchanged cigarettes and names with each other, and then named his grandson Otto, while Ana was named Otto. When he found his grandfather, he said that he was originally a German and his wife was a Spanish; just as when he found her crying in the hut because of the loss of her only relative after leaving the team, soldier Otto caught up with her and just looked at her apologetically, hoping to spend his life. to make up for the pain caused by the war. When encountering this kind of director who has no strong sense of logic but also likes to shoot complicated characters, you'd better indulge in his wonderful and whimsical expression, don't look for flaws, otherwise you will be dizzy. Just like humor, it's casual, not necessarily deep.
If Julio Medem likes to use the warmth of sunshine as a metaphor for love, then in "Lucia's Lover" it is just "a ray of sunshine that illuminates my heart." The warm sunshine on the island, then in "Arctic Circle Lovers" The love is like the dazzling sunshine of midnight and day in the Arctic Circle, this kind of love is the intense love that Ana and Otto yearn for, without the darkness of night. The last shot, when Ana dies, followed by Otto's face expanding in her pupils, seems to say: When only the lover fills all the corners, it means death. They end up being burned by this infinite loop of love.
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