When I first saw the film, I didn't think too much about its in-depth philosophical connotations, but I just watched the long shots and the black and white composition and burst into tears unconsciously.
The ideological soul of a good movie may not be understood because it is too deep, but it must bring deep and direct feelings to people. I would like to try to analyze starting from the most intuitive tension element of the film, step by step to dig out what the director hopes to convey, and to understand Nietzsche's thought.
First of all, there is a sense of "lost color" in black and white images. Loss of color gives people dead silence, loneliness, and desolation and despair.
However, the high-contrast images under certain lenses show a wild and uninhibited life.
The two are contradictory in themselves, as if the contradiction between the desolate reality and the will to power pursued by Nietzsche is just right to maintain a peculiar balance. Until not only lost its color, but also lost its water, lost its light, until Nietzsche saw the "horse of Turin"...
Black and white give people the background color of the world, but life brings dynamism and vitality to the desolate monochrome, such as the dark light piercing the house from the window, such as the long hair of the girl who broke the pale white of the world.
And when life itself gives up the struggle, it will also be the moment when black and white can be played up.
I have been thinking that the film may not be a reproduction of Nietzsche's thought, nor a criticism of Nietzsche's thought, but an interpretation of the events of the "Horse of Turin" in history, as well as an interpretation of it and its impact on people in the world. an inspiration. Why did the father and daughter in the film "die" on the seventh day? Is it really force majeure? Since Cambodians can come and go, it means that they are not lifeless, but they chose to give up because of the natural environment before they went far. This is not just a renunciation of future survival, but a shattering of hope, a spiritual death. That's why on the sixth day, "death came".
What really causes force majeure is not the harshness of the natural environment, but whether people can be persistently willing to "re-evaluate and rebuild new values to obtain a reason for survival." After all, "God is dead", when certain aspects of When beliefs are broken, we need new beliefs as spiritual support in order to survive.
Second, I love some of the elements that are used a lot in the film: wind, smoke and sand, hair, and layers of clothing. Among them, the wind and smoke are both flowing and uncontrollable, just like the world is full of contingency and turbulence; as for the hair and clothes, they drift with the wind, drifting with the current without losing their originality, and at the same time strengthening the sense of power of the shot.
From birth, everyone begins a lonely journey towards death. "The spirit of tragedy is not to affirm a fair and just world order, but the power that can be inspired by being in the destiny." It's what we really want to do.
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