The grief and helplessness on the deathbed, finally relieved

Clare 2022-04-21 09:03:11

As always, the pictures and music are beautiful. If you look at it from a literary perspective, it is a poem rather than a novel. It has a structure, but it does not focus on the story. The scene kept flashing and flashing. When Alexander was dying, he recalled the past with too many regrets, reluctance and melancholy. Facing my mother, I think why do people experience pain; facing my wife, I have too much guilt, because I am immersed in my creation, I have little company with my wife, and I often travel far away, and my wife has many complaints; Poets who read, continue to write their own works, are in trouble. A child who escaped from a foreign country and came to Greece, met with him, and accompanied Alexander through the last day of his life. While watching the movie, I always think of "The Taste of Cherry" and "Father Trapped in Time". He will leave "tomorrow" (severely ill, terminally ill, and the doctor also said he is powerless), Alexander has to deal with a lot of things "today", such as his dog needs foster care, but his daughter and son-in-law obviously let him down, and the son-in-law does not like to see him So he had to leave it to the nanny. He kept walking into scenes from the past, with his old friends (wife and friends) by his side, and the movie didn't let a young man play it, just "walked in", but they appeared and disappeared, leaving Alexander behind. Much like a dramatic form of expression, "The Gaze of Ulysses" also jumps and leaps across history. The songs sung by the little boy are very poetic, but at the same time he faces a cruel reality - the situation in his hometown is turbulent, bandits are rampant, he becomes an orphan and escapes with a big partner, but he is kidnapped and controlled by the local triad, and finally he is a big boy. Playmates have misfortunes.

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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.