The first time I saw this kind of footage was in an anthropology film, I forgot what it was called, it was a village in India. The beginning is a long sound of cicadas, and the camera is only aimed at a few leaves, and it takes five or six minutes to face each other. Needless to say about the rear camera.
I just feel anger, anxiety. I think this is also a feeling that many people feel when watching this "Uncle Pommy Who Can Remember His Past Life". We're used to fast-paced, fast-moving films because this is part of modernity's internalization of our mental structure: efficiency, efficiency, efficiency.
I don't make movies, and I can't say good audience. This film is clearly not a member of the modern cinema. The director uses the lens to describe his views on life, but you can clearly feel people's emotions from the procrastinating lens: confusion, nostalgia and warmth.
Speaking of past lives. In the film, after Uncle Bomy's deceased wife came back, he said to his son who had returned home: "There are so many things in this world, right?"
No matter whether there is reincarnation or not, in this life, who are you? What will you do? This is what we need to think about. Don't wait until the end of the day, if we are not as lucky as Uncle Bommy, see the past life, realize the cause and effect, then there will be a reincarnation.
In reincarnation, is there true happiness?
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