The Stork Hesitates - Geographical Boundaries
The Gaze of Ulysses - The Limits of Human Vision
"One Day Forever" - The Boundary of Life and Death
The old poet Alexander was not afraid of death. What he was afraid of was the emptiness of the soul, the depletion of hope and the feeling of floating without roots in the face of death. What he was afraid of was that before death, he had already become an empty body. Memories of loved ones and times gone by will also fade away with the moment of death.
In the face of death, "Have you started to reflect on the life you've lived through? Or, have you allowed yourself to drift, open yourself up to all coincidences, follow someone, open a window, meet someone new, be open to all To be open to everything that comes at you, to take all the unforeseen and unconnected events head on, and then finally connect with them?"
Angel leads the way
Perhaps the acceptance of the contingency of life made him feel the last sense of existence. On the one hand, he wants to help the child, on the other hand, he also longs for a sincere communication, longing for trust, and longing for an unprecedented meaning of life.
Barbed Wire Border - Alexander's Own Border
1:42:22 When the child asked to leave at the door of the hospital, Alexander leaned down, he curled up in a corner, the child's upright figure was in the center of the camera, and the relationship between strong and weak was suddenly replaced. At this moment, Alexander blurted out: "Stay with me." The emotional floodgate instantly collapsed, revealing Alexander's lonely and fragile heart, which made the viewers' heartache.
The child gave the old man his last moments a pleasant form of contact with others. In Alexander's memory, he found himself so withdrawn. Going up the mountain seems to symbolize the pursuit of the sublime. As an excellent poet, Alexander has been constantly striving for perfection in his life, but he has neglected the people closest to him. And this little boy may be leading him to a perfect and unburdened communication.
He is always afraid of something and is reluctant to take a step to understand others. - the guy across from the house
Alexander felt deeply guilty for his neglect of others.
Old Alexander was always looking for a bridge that would transcend the boundaries of identity, language, and life and death. In the film, Alexander hugs and kisses his wife tightly in his memories. The past and the present are integrated. What makes "death" and "life" communicate? Love may be the only thing that can transcend life and death. This fusion of memory and reality, this passionate love between death and life, enabled Alexander to finally obtain a trace of balance, comfort and tranquility in his mind.
come back, my language
Solomos
Why can't we find words to express. Perhaps, this is the vocation of poets, to constantly reflect and think, and this kind of thinking will make them fall into pain and disappointment.
picked up words
"The Heart of Flowers": A Child's Feelings of Care and Happiness in the Arms of Mothers
"Experience one's existence as an outsider": Stranger, feeling of exile
"Dusk, Twilight": The Approach of Death
Language: the place of existence
Language has become a sign of regression.
“Our mother tongue is our only true identity. To quote Heidegger, language is our only home.”
For Alexander, his own language, his mother tongue, was not a language in an objective sense such as Greek, but a language of homecoming, a symbol of identity. Why does Alexander's creation have no words to continue? Because with the gradual loss of tradition, he feels that the current Greece is so unfamiliar, he can no longer feel the pulse of the times, and is left behind by the trend, and he even feels that he has no words to describe his own existence. Alexander did not stop, he pursued relentlessly, hoping that words could transcend death. Even if the body is physically dead and rotten, his poems, his words from the bottom of his heart, remain eternal.
express in your own language
Alexander: "I didn't finish anything."
Angelopoulos himself admitted: "I have to admit that I haven't accomplished anything I want to achieve on my own. There are always boundaries, physical and emotional, and they always prevent me from reaching a state of complete satisfaction. From a superficial From his point of view, Alexander looked like a normal man who didn't accomplish anything, but when he looked into his own heart, he found that his ambitions were much bigger than what he ended up with. The same is true for me."
A long journey through time
Reality, Memories and Unreal
Beyond physical time, he roams in a sea of psychological time, which includes the reality Alexander faced, the memories and inner imaginations he was often caught in.
Unreal bus
Epitome of modern Greek history
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