Movie diary

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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Extended Reading
  • Meaghan 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    #pullsheet# 06:52, Longitudinal away. 07:46, the opportunity to use music. 10:24, Poems and Poets. At 12:25, use the child to shift the point of view, then pull back the point of view, and meet. 15:27, the writer who gave up writing, the history is explained here. At 16:48, time was broken by a layer of yarn. At 20:32, going back is closer to memory than going forward. 32:50, a maze-like ruin scene. 59:19, writing poems with movies, people walk through the poems. 1:24:44, compassion. At 1:31:13, the poet travels through time and space in memory. 1:45:30, the performance at the rear of the car, the romance in my heart. 1:55:32, dealing with death. (The last wish has been fulfilled, and it should end here.) 1:58:07, nothing. 2:05:46, back and calling.

  • Thaddeus 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Long takes often begin or end with a zoom, and the scheduling, soundtracks, and sound effects are brilliant; however Angelopoulos' films have always made a focus on form over an empathic investment, with a style that lends itself to an essentially unadorned emotional subject matter. It is too calm and difficult and unnecessary, but for a larger topic, it shows a lack of abstract form; it also involves death, private memories, feelings of family and country and loneliness. Compared with "Nostalgia", this film is a high judgment. ——So An Shi actually just "changed a style (usually not used for sensationalism) to continue sensationalizing" and failed to rise to the level of intuition or subconsciousness. In this sense, he and Wim Wenders can be described as Shaw Like; they may be essayists, but not poets.

Eternity and a Day quotes

  • Alexandre: Why, mother, nothing happens as we wish? Why? Why does one have to rot in silence torn between pain and desire? Why did I live my life in exile. Tell me mother, why can't one learn to love?

  • Alexandre: My only regret, Anna - but is it only one? - is to not have finished anything. I left all as a draft, shattered words here and there.