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Noel 2022-04-20 09:02:22

Grandpa's words become the fact that the protagonist Alexander has been convinced since he was a child. The twilight old man on the sick bench dreams of being naughty as a child, and the taste of sea salt in his mouth is actually bitter. Saying goodbye to the maid and leaving the writer on their own in "Devil Tango" feel completely different, but both embody loneliness. The children cleaning the car windows told about their childhood incomparable with the protagonist. They may all be street children of the times. Since they appeared in groups, it must be the responsibility of the government. The poet's decision to leave is also a bottleneck to find, the same memory, the same family and love, the difference is that he is about to lose his life. Time freezes with the poet's memory in the family gathering after the birth of his daughter, accompanied by the daughter reading the letter written by his wife Anna. The old man only had memories, no future, and no sustenance. His daughter could not be the sustenance of his soul, so he left in depression. After one old and one young arrived at the border, they fled and left the soldiers guarding speechless. At the riverside, the old man fell into his own thoughts again, thinking about the meaning of the poet's existence, which is also thinking about the meaning of his own existence. The old man should continue the poems of the great poet, liberate the trapped people, and paint for his upcoming death period. Compared with the wedding across the river, this wedding was much lighter. It is interesting that neighbors and relatives have been following the custom of carrying stools. The vocabulary collected in different periods has a sense of the times. The old man travels back to the boat with his family. At this time, his father has passed away, and his wife's love for her husband is gradually disappearing in her heart. The appearance of the doctor has made a conclusion on the condition of the old man, and his life is not long. The accidental death of a homeless child interrupts his memories of a beach dinner, and a visit to his Alzheimer's mother reconnects his memories. The reason why the old man could not continue to write the poet's poems was because of his cognition of returning home in his hometown, and he had been wandering all his life. Children and the elderly witnessed life on the bus, as well as group portraits of people at different stages in Greece. At last the great poet got into the car and told them that life is sweet, and they went back to the beginning, and the beginning is the end. He condensed the memories of his relatives and his dreams in his life into one day, parted one by one, and walked through it in the last day. The old man sitting in the car in the early morning has been reborn, returning to the home that has been sold, returning to the arms of his lover and relatives, which should be the world after his death and a sign of his rebirth.

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  • Alexandre: All passed by so quickly. This suspect pain... my stubbornness to want to learn,to want to know... then the darkness... the silence around me... the silence. All made me believe that before the end of winter with the ethereal silhouettes of the boats,and their sudden breakthroughs in the sky, with the lovers along the promenade,in the declining sun, and the hypocritical promise of the spring, all made me believe that before the end of winter... My only regret, Anna... but is it only one?... is not to have finished anything. I left it all as a draft, shattered words here and there.

  • Alexandre: I once asked you "how long will tomorrow last?" and you answered me: Eternity and a day.