The Greek director Angelopoulos showed us the infinite possibilities of time in Eternity and a Day. He tells us: There is no difference between forever and a day. Everyone will be troubled by the problems of memory and time, because everyone will have many doubts about life, and have an unsolvable fear of the unknown of death. Sometimes, I always think: If today is the last day of my life, should I be afraid, and how should I spend it? Poetic Time Show "Eternity and One Day" is a classic literary film. Some people think that literary films seem to have no plot, which means dull, boring, and incomprehensible, but in fact, compared with traditional types of films, the plot of literary films takes place in the hearts of the characters. It can be said that the emotions and thoughts of the characters are what the plot shows in the movie. As long as you dive in, you will be moved by the emotional atmosphere. Director Angelopoulos is from the seaside region of Greece. In his films, the large patches of blue and white are clean and intertwined, and the wet scenery and poetic language of the shots are deeply influenced by the seaside region of Greece. I believe that everyone has heard a lot of stories about Greek mythology, so you must know that this is an ancient area full of mystery. In such an ancient land, it is suitable to tell the story of time in a poetic expression. Alexander, a poet, is now elderly and has terminal cancer. After decades of ups and downs in his life, he was still not understood by his daughter when his life came to an end. When he learned that his son-in-law was going to sell his ancestral home, he left sadly. For him, the ancestral home is the most important part of his life. This ancestral house carries important memories of his life: his wife Anna, and the relationship he did not cherish; his mother; and the poet Solomus, who he studied all his life. Before he enters the hospital to die, he decides to wander around alone and spend the last day of his bewildered life, asking them for answers about time. The film uses a combination of virtual and real, interspersed with imaginary scenes one after another in reality. We see that the dead wife returned to Alexander through the film, he asked her "how long will tomorrow last?", and they embraced again; he also entered the world of the poet Solomus; Finally, he returned to his mother, like the little boy who kept asking his mother questions decades ago. Even if he has lived to this age, he is still afraid of death and can't do anything about the impending death. Like each of us, in the face of death, we have to admit our own insignificance, and in the end, we can only go deep into our own Life seeks answers. On the last day of his life, Alexander rescued a little boy, an Albanian refugee living in Greece. Like Alexander, he had nowhere to go, no home. One is a twilight old man and the other is a refugee child. The director made their respective time and space staggered on this day and turned into eternity. The combination of children and old people fills the gaps in life. On the last day of Alexander's life, two lonely people accompany them and walk around. The boy is like Alexander's eyes, using Alexander's lost innocence to help him pursue the lost time. This day started to look different for Alexander. They get on a bus and pass cyclists in yellow raincoats outside the window. Alexander and the little boy sat quietly, watching the people getting on the bus: a pair of ordinary quarrelsome lovers, a tired revolutionary youth, a three-person orchestra, who held musical instruments and played the melody of life. melody. Buses are like life, with a beginning and an end. All kinds of people came and went, some got off the bus first, some got off the bus later. Sitting in the car is like a lifetime. Life is ups and downs on this bus, and it goes away at the stop and never returns. Alexander's hallucinations reappeared. He saw the poet Solomus sitting in the car. He walked over to him and asked him, "How long will tomorrow last?" The poet left only this sentence before getting out of the car: "Life is sweet. "It's time to get out of the car at this time, and the little boy should return to where he used to be. He is like a migratory bird that has only fallen behind the team and been forgotten. He only knows where he came from, but in a sense, he will never again. Can't go back to where it came from. One of them is young and the other is old, but they are equally afraid, afraid of being thrown into the long river of life, but they can't hear any echoes of the emptiness. Alexander and the little boy looked at each other silently, hugging each other and weeping. Send him away, and send him away for another day. Alexander felt as if he was close to the answer. Every day is eternity. It seems that many days are stored in a jar, and that is eternity, as simple as a child collecting candy. But living a life is much more difficult than collecting candy as a child. Before tasting the accumulated sweetness, there is more suffering than expected. Moreover, no one can guarantee that there will be a day when the sweetness will really be tasted. Every one of us, like Alexander, often feels that we are missed and cannot be chased, we are dying and we cannot avoid it, we have a home but no sense of belonging, we look to the world for an eternal tomorrow, but even it cannot give a complete answer, so we can only Turning to the memory to ask what happened. Today is gone forever, and tomorrow will come again. So how long is it today? How long will tomorrow's tomorrow last? Asia Before entering the hospital, Alexander sat on the head of his mother's bed and asked her: Mom, why? Why do things always go wrong? Why? Why do we have to stink, hovering between pain and desire? Why am I wandering all my life? Why do I feel at home when I have the rare opportunity to speak my native language? When I can still find the lost or forgotten words from the silence, will my footsteps return home again? Why? Mom, why...we don't know how to love? Facing Anna's phantom, Alexander returned to the original proposition: "How long will tomorrow last?" Anna smiled and said the answer: "One more day than eternity!" When you cherish every minute of the present, you can reach eternity, The advent of fearless death. Eternity is one day. Like the wandering with the little boy that night, like the reunion with the wife in the hallucination, and the encounter with the poet. In fact, in every moment of contact with them, Alexander was feeling love and cherishing, realizing the eternal existence. Eternity and a Day is both a self-exploration by Alexander and a direct conversation between Alexander and us: What is life? How should we face death? In life, many people always avoid talking about death, but we must know that death is a topic we must face and a key part of our lives. Instead of running away, choose to embrace life and cherish every minute you have. As the poet in the film puts it, "Life is sweet." I think if today is the last day of my life, I should cherish every minute more, and make tomorrow one more day than eternity. : What is life? How should we face death? In life, many people always avoid talking about death, but we must know that death is a topic we must face and a key part of our lives. Instead of running away, choose to embrace life and cherish every minute you have. As the poet in the film puts it, "Life is sweet." I think if today is the last day of my life, I should cherish every minute more, and make tomorrow one more day than eternity. : What is life? How should we face death? In life, many people always avoid talking about death, but we must know that death is a topic we must face and a key part of our lives. Instead of running away, choose to embrace life and cherish every minute you have. As the poet in the film puts it, "Life is sweet." I think if today is the last day of my life, I should cherish every minute more, and make tomorrow one more day than eternity.
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