A day's wandering
The old poet Alexander, who is suffering from terminal cancer, will be admitted to the hospital tomorrow. This ordinary day disguised as a daily life is the last day of Alexander's life in the free world. On the last day, he bids farewell to everything. Say goodbye to your dog, say goodbye to your daughter, say goodbye to your old mother, say goodbye to your relatives, and say goodbye to the memories of the past. Alienation and loneliness seemed to be particularly heavy on this last day. My daughter and myself had been separated for a long time. The old mother in the nursing home was too dazed to recognize her, and her beloved wife had long since passed away. Seeking, the only warmth that Alexander, who lives in isolation, gets every day is that the strangers across from the apartment always respond to him with the same music, which has become a rare consolation in his lonely days, because it is rare, it reflects his loneliness and desolation. . The Albanian child was right, "Although you are smiling, you are actually very sad", which corresponds to Alexander's depressing and desolate heart, and the picture shown by the camera is particularly cold and desolate.
Alexander wanted to entrust his dog to his daughter, but was rejected. He also learned that the old seaside house carrying memories of the past had been sold by his son-in-law and was about to be demolished, which meant the end of the good memories of the past. Alexander, who left sadly, entrusted her dog to the old housekeeper Orania at the wedding of her son, who had just been dismissed. Alexander, who rushed into the wedding in progress, seemed incompatible with this ceremony, which represented love and happiness, and even more so. Being reprimanded by Orania seems to mean that this world of love and happiness has long been unwelcome to him.
Alexander, like the 19th-century poet Solomus, was a wanderer, an exile, a person who pursued a sense of individual self-existence. He had common experiences and feelings, so he was very famous and would ignore the confusion of others. Exhausted the rest of his life to continue writing Solomus' unfinished poem "Free Besieged" (Free Besieged), but he encountered the pain of lack of words and was unable to complete this writing mission, which was a disgrace to himself. The denial of meaning and existential value, this frustration haunted him for the rest of his life. For his poems, for his self-existence, he has given up or ignored the love and kinship that ordinary people cherish. He has sacrificed so much, but he still cannot change the fact that he is powerless, "Anna, my only regret is the only one. Is it that I have achieved nothing, and the sequel project has not progressed, only fragmentary words.” The loss of self-meaning is accompanied by loneliness, which makes his dazed and lost even more.
The bus that Alexander and the little boy ride together is like the cycle of life and death. After a circle, it returns to the starting point. In the end, Alexander bought three words from the little boy: korfulamu, exile (xenitis) ), late night (argathini). Korfra, the heart of flowers, represents love, intimacy, comfort, and is the hope of Alexander, the exile represents the state of Alexander's wandering soul, and the late night is the state of Alexander's life at dusk. These three words reveal The loneliness and longing of old Alexander. In the middle of the night, Alexander's car stopped at the intersection, the green light came on, and the other cars had already disappeared, so his car had been parked all night, as if time had been frozen. In the lonely rainy night, with nowhere to go, his expression was inexplicably sluggish, and silence and loneliness spread out endlessly at this time. In the hallucination, the voice of his childhood mother calling him home could not stop, as if calling for the lost soul to return home, as if that was the final rest and destination of life.
drift of time
During Alexander's wandering trip on the last day, the memories of the past kept breaking into the present, and Alexander remembered the good times he had with his wife Anna in the past. Alexander, who is constantly traveling in memory, fantasy, and reality, breaks into the past time and space from time to time. The old poet in black long trench coat is out of place among the crowd dressed in cool summer clothes and laughing. He looks out of place and old. The frail Alexander hugged, kissed, and danced with his young and beautiful wife in memory. The beauty he once had is long gone, and he can't keep it, he can only reappear it in his memory over and over again, greedily seeking the warmth and joy that has passed away, so as to escape and contend with the loneliness and the loneliness that can crush people today. cold.
Anna loves Alexander so much, but as a woman in love, her desire for love threatens Alexander's self-space and self-world. The poet's inner self is absolutely superior to others, including love and affection, so in love and Anna, who was struggling in pain, was never able to enter Alexander's spiritual boundaries. Despite Anna's repeated requests, despite Anna's condemnation of being a traitor, Alexander still stubbornly climbed the cliff to find the stone carvings of his childhood. In the end, he stood alone on the top of the mountain. This scene is obviously a metaphor for his life choices. He chose himself, neglected and abandoned family and love, and did not cherish the happy family life he once had.
Anna's belated letter tells of her heart-wrenching love for Alexander, but the person has passed away, and repentance is beyond reach. Those good things can only be replayed in my heart again and again. At that time, the blue sea and sky, relatives and friends gathered together, and the love was just right. Concise, the young woman is youthful, and I am absent.
each other's wandering
The Albanian homeless boy escaped from the desolate and war-torn homeland, and smuggled through a deadly minefield with his only companion, Sailin, to Greece. The reality of being kidnapped and sold by human traffickers gave him a glimpse of his own helplessness, and the silent death of his companion Sailin gave him a glimpse of his possible future destiny. Alexander rescued him twice from the police and human traffickers, and he desperately sought refuge and comfort from the poet he came across. The young and old accompanied them all the way home, but when they reached the border of Xi'a, the stowaways' bodies hung on the barbed wire made the shocked two escape this cruel scene together, and they could no longer return home. "I lied, I have no family", even the only relatives and grandmothers are made up, the wandering children are completely helpless and helpless, this last day is the only warmth the children have, and late at night he has to take a ride and don't know where to go The ship at the place, continue his dazed and unknown life.
When the child was about to leave, Alexander shouted desperately, "Stay with me! Your boat won't leave in two hours, and I only have tonight", what kind of inner loneliness and pain makes a famous A proud adult shouted such helpless words to a strange child. The common fears and fears of the two made each other hug each other tightly, comforting and warming each other. Alexander is a wanderer in time, a wanderer in soul, and a child is a wanderer in space, a wanderer in body, a self-exiled, old and nowhere to go, a forced exile, a wanderer, two people lost in life, both. Faced with a predicament with nowhere to go, I don't know where the way out is. The shared fear and escape of the deep loneliness and the unknown tomorrow brought their fragile and trembling hearts closer to each other, getting closer and closer. At the two ends of each other in the morning and evening, the two echoed each other and bit each other, forming a circular ring. After spending a day together, the couple separated from each other, the old man is about to die, and the future of the child is uncertain, and there is no possibility for the two to see each other again. This separation is forever.
Eternal wandering
Alexander told his old mother sadly, "Why do we have to stink, wandering between pain and desire? Why have I been wandering all my life?" The stronger the self-awareness, the more independent the mind and spirit, the more lonely the person will feel. Fat is rich, unfortunately, the poet is such a person. His soul is always in a state of wandering and wandering. He can't change the status quo that he is constantly losing, can't fill the huge hole in his heart, and has nowhere to share his loneliness. For the sake of dreams and pursuits, he stubbornly chose to maintain his integrity, abandoning and ignoring the warmth and love of the external world and ordinary people's families. His choice and abandonment have long been doomed to future alienation, isolation, emptiness, and eternal loneliness and loneliness. drift.
Loneliness is the eternal suffering and destiny of human beings. Nothing can change this reality. We are an accidental existence in the cosmos, coming from nothingness and going to nothingness alone, and we can't take anything away. Fundamentally we are separated and isolated from each other. The communication between different souls is always with invisible gaps and mutual incomprehensibility. Nothing can change this situation, not even love and warmth. Love and warmth can only bring temporary emotional and spiritual comfort, so as to comfort the loneliness in the heart and create the illusion that loneliness can be eliminated. But loneliness can only dormant temporarily, it cannot be eliminated forever, and loneliness cannot be completely eliminated, which makes our need for love and warmth never ending.
But love and warmth will not last forever, and loneliness will always exist with the ego, the ego is there, and the loneliness is there. The lonely soul is chilled with cold in the helpless emptiness, and can't seek a trace of warmth. I like the ego accompanied by loneliness, but I am afraid of the cold brought by loneliness. I endlessly seek and long for the most ordinary warmth and love in the world, so as to fill the huge black hole of loneliness that can never be filled in my heart. A need that cannot be fully met is the tragedy of our human nature.
The film organically combines reality, fantasy, and memory into one, and does not give people a sense of abrupt connection. For example, the old protagonist is used to play the young protagonist decades ago, and even the long winter coat worn by the protagonist has not changed. , instead of another young actor, nor in costumes that match the seasons in the reminiscences, let's make it clearer that it's all just a recollection of the protagonist. And the protagonist remains the same. At first glance, I thought it was a current event that happened in real time and space, but it was only when I watched it, but I unknowingly entered the atmosphere in my memory, entered the protagonist's heart, and passed through the protagonist's heart. Look at it, not just through the pure past plot, in this case, there will be multiple layers of plot, emotion, and psychology, rather than just a monotonous plot.
In the section on the bus, the film perfectly combines fantasy and reality. Tired revolutionaries, noisy couples, and wandering bands, all the symbols that bear the imprint of the poet's life in the past are presented one by one, and the plots symbolized by symbols are staged on the bus. , and finally the nineteenth century poet Solomus appeared, wearing a top hat and black dress, chanting verses to Alexander, two generations of poets far apart in time and space stared at each other in a fantasy world And the communication on the spiritual level, the appearance of these characters are all in the form of fantasy, but again, the director did not explain at all, the audience can only understand it by themselves, if they don't pay attention, they will think it is real time and space. The staged scene, but if you pay attention, you will find that only the protagonist has feelings for the characters that appear, and everyone else treats them as transparent. From this, you can know that these are images presented by the protagonist's spiritual realm. The director naturally placed the illusions of the characters' minds in the real time and space. This natural degree has made many audiences mistakenly believe that it is a real scene, so many film critics have explained it accordingly. I don't know if this experimental shooting method is good or not, but it is definitely helpful for presenting the protagonist's spiritual world. If the film is based on the character's heart, it can be properly applied, but it will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of the audience's appreciation. Because if you don't pay attention, you won't be able to tell which ones happened in the real time and space, which ones happened in the past time and space, and which ones happened in the fantasy time and space, and these three time and space are connected with the change of the protagonist's mind, the order of connection It is also constantly changing, and its presentation sequence follows psychological logic, rather than plot logic and objective logic. These require proper attention in the process of appreciation.
The time-space montage switching in the film is very clever, there is no trace of connection between the in and out, and the transition is very natural. For example, when Alexander was at his daughter's home, he heard the dusty letter of his deceased wife being recited by his daughter, which evoked his long-term memory, so he walked towards On the balcony, I looked at the figure outside the door curtain, opened the isolated door curtain, saw my wife decades ago at a glance, and then walked up to her very naturally and talked to her. Here, the medium that separates different spaces, such as doors or curtains, is used by the director as a prop for the transformation of time and space. It is very natural and casual to use, and there are no traces of deliberate and artificial at all, so that when I first saw it, I still Thinking that the ongoing plot is happening in the current time and space, and the director has no explanation for this, the audience who are exposed to this technique for the first time may be confused, because they feel that there is no prompt for the scene transition, and the plot connection is broken, but As long as you are familiar with this technique, you will feel its beauty, because this is the re-emergence of the image of the protagonist's inner world. We reproduce the past world through the filter and perspective of the protagonist's heart, rather than simply entering the past world, so that The technique is not just a simple objective presentation, but a subjective presentation of the characters' hearts, with double strong imprints of poetry and psychology. If the protagonist travels in different time and space, it will be more free, because it is the subjective world of the poet, so it can continue to change with the changes of the poet's mood, psychology, and memory without hindrance. The psychological level of surreal techniques, such techniques used in emotional, impressionistic shooting natural and smooth, unique.
An Zhe's film is based on the presentation of a ring structure. The elderly and children, one twilight, one childhood, based on the common loneliness, are naturally connected at both ends of life to form a natural occlusal ring, such a ring represents the The turns and loneliness of life are endless. At the beginning of the film, the protagonist appears at a young age, and the protagonist's mother calls him to go home for dinner. At the end of the film, the old protagonist still hears the voice of his mother calling him to go home. Juveniles and old people, in the early and late stages of life, hear All are the affectionate calls to let him go home, which all represent the protagonist's longing for a place where the soul rests, and the mother's affectionate call is the embodiment of this psychological longing. The protagonist and the child are on a bus together. If you pay attention, you will see that the last bus has completed a full circle, just staying at the starting point of the original departure, just like the starting point and ending point of life. Together, life has been reincarnated in a circle and returned to the original origin, but the scenery during the journey has been appreciated. The circular-circle is a reincarnation, but it is a reincarnation with a memory imprint, not a blank reincarnation. , the cycle repeats, but has been painted with memory and experience.
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