What is the time? At the beginning of the film, young Alexander and two other children go to the island to explore. Alexander asked one of them: What is time? The boy told him: Time is a child, a child playing on the beach. This became the motif that Alexander pursued in his life. In his later years, Alexander was terminally ill and decided to travel to find the answer to the question he had as a child: What is time? And his method is to complete the poem "Trapped Freeman" that the poet did not finish. He was trapped in time, trapped in memories, so he felt that this poem would give him the answer. Alexander walks on the seashore with his dog, the vastness of the sea brings out his loneliness. He pondered: Anna, my only regret, is it really the only one? He also has a regret that he did not finish the song "Trapped Freeman" and did not find the answer to the question. And the reason why he was trapped in memories was because he didn't know how to love, he was addicted to creation, his wife left in the cold, and he was full of guilt and remorse. Director An Zhe's way of dealing with several memories is like Bergman's "Wild Strawberry". Instead of flashbacks of memories, the protagonist directly walks into his memories to express his regret. In flashbacks, family gatherings, Alexander is still writing books. His wife invited him to dance, but he was going to climb a mountain. In the end, his wife walked into the sea angrily. And Alexander didn't know that there were other manifestations of love: his mother recalled that he had a bad relationship with his father, which made his father suffer. The son-in-law was unfriendly to him and sold the seaside house without his consent. However, this trip was interrupted by a smuggled child. Alexander first rescued the smuggled child when the police arrested him, and then bought him back after he was abducted. Alexander wanted to send him back to Albania, but when he got to the border, he found that the entire border was built with tall barbed wire, with countless bodies hanging on it. The boy is also a trapped free man, but unlike Alexander, he is a trapped one in space, trapped in a foreign land like Greece. He decided to find the lost words in the child, and thus complete the psalm that the poet had completed. He chose the same way as the poet, paying the little boy to avenge, and finally he got three words-little flower, foreigner, too late. Alexander goes to deliver the dog to Uhania, Uhania's son is holding a wedding, the crowd in the square is like a corpse hanging on the border wire fence, and the bride and groom are like Alexander and Anna in those days, implying that the old man is trapped in memories among. The crowds passing by by the seaside set off the loneliness of the old man and the warmth of the company of the little boy. The child's companion died, and all the smuggled children were raised for him Have a funeral. This aroused Alexander's fear of death, and also thought of his mother who was so twilight. In the hospital, he met a nurse pushing an old man in a wheelchair, which was also a hint of imminent death. At this time, his mother was already dementia. He opened the window and called him to eat. This corresponds to the scene at the beginning of the film. The memory of his mother has been trapped in his childhood. The mother is also a trapped person in time, just like when his father died, his memories were trapped in his father's lifetime. After his mother slept, he cried and asked her mother: Why is nothing as expected? Why must one choose between pain and desire? Why live in exile? Why not return? Why don't you feel confident in a place where you speak your own language? Why I don't know how to love. At this time, Alexander was not asking his mother, but asking his own soul. Alexander met the little boy who was going back home, and he cried and asked him to accompany him. He was afraid of being alone again, afraid of leaving alone, the company he had so easily, and he didn't want to lose it again. The two people got on the bus. The person riding a bicycle in a yellow raincoat outside the window represented time, sitting and moving at a constant speed, indicating that the time of objective time has never stopped. But the two grandparents in the car kept smiling at each other. The little boy opened the window and saw the ship taking him away. The time in the car turned into eternity. The man holding the red flag, the couple who are in conflict, the band, and the poet appear one after another. The man holding the red flag represents Alexander's youth, full of blood and passion, and he entered the car and began to fall asleep, symbolizing Alexander's inner exhaustion. The couple, the boy pursues the girl wildly, but the girl is obsessed with art, which represents the love of Alexander and Anna. The wonderful music played by the band symbolizes the beauty of art that Alexander pursues. The poet represents Alexander's ultimate pursuit, and he wants to find his own answer by completing the unfinished poetry of the poet. But the poet just told him that life is sweet, but not the answer. Farewell to the little boy, the camera zooms out, and Alexander's figure is compared with the distant ship, implying that he is back to loneliness. The little boy was out of trouble by this time, but he was still trapped in time. He stopped at the zebra crossing all night, searching for the answer to the question in his heart, and at the same time he did not dare to face tomorrow alone. He went back to the house by the sea, imagining dancing with Anna, the other people became their background, and the composition was centered on the two of them. He asked Anna: How long will it be tomorrow? Anna answered him: forever or just for a day. The answer that a poet cannot give, only love can give. Tomorrow is a day in objective time, but as long as there is love and company, this day will become eternal in memory. Alexander faced the sea and read the little boy to sell to
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