Jump out of the established concept of time and space

Joannie 2022-04-19 09:02:43

I would rather believe that they are independent stories in themselves, real things that happened to the Macedonians and Albanians in the small country of Macedonia in the Balkans, with people of different faiths and languages. They form a circle of circles because of the same language separation, the absence of faces, and the memory of images, and time keeps them flowing. Therefore, this world is a game of time and space, around which love and pain, blood and tears, life and death are endless.

This is a very, very good movie. Love without Word, people who don't see Face, emotions that can't be expressed with Picture. The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning. You can watch endlessly.

Macedonia – a small country on the Balkans, whose population is mainly composed of Macedonians and Albanians. In 1992, Yugoslavia disintegrated and split into 6 countries including Macedonia (and reached an agreement with Greece in 2018, agreeing to change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia) , this film is the debut of director Mirko Manchevsky at the age of 35 after the disintegration of South Macedonia into the state of Macedonia in 1992. Its a blockbuster.

This film has a profound impact on me personally, and completely changed my understanding of works: any works of life can completely jump out of the original understanding of time and space in our minds.

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  • Zita 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    Indeed, this movie is too "heavy". Let me just say one thing: when every perpetrator has reasons that seem impossible to refute, how can the blood of reality impregnate hope? When even hope is so suffocating, action, silence, everything seems powerless. As the film begins with a verse: "As the birds fly over the hazy sky, the people are silent. My blood ache for waiting."

  • Abby 2022-03-20 09:02:37

    The film with a circular structure has a peculiar narrative technique, but the story itself is a bit boring~~

Before the Rain quotes

  • Father Marko: I wanted to take a vow of silence, like you. But this heavenly beauty merits words.

  • Aleksander: With a shriek, birds flee across the black sky, people are silent, my blood aches from waiting.