In a troubled country, like all the lands that have been chaotic for years, people's kindness and bloodthirsty killers coexist, set off against each other, approach each other, and distance from each other. There are always people who insist on their dreams, and life is light and light in their hearts. heavy. The film comes from the hands of young talents, but the vicissitudes of life are like the forehead of an old man, with many wrinkles and fractures, so that you can only distinguish the pain and light hidden in the wisdom.
The film is divided into three separate but interrelated parts. 1. Words: The young monk Kilu in an Orthodox monastery in Macedonia made a wish. One day, an Albanian Muslim girl, Samina, fled to the monastery because she was suspected of killing an Orthodox Christian from a neighboring village, and hid in the Kilu house. Although Kiru couldn't speak, and they didn't understand each other's language, the two gradually fell in love. After being discovered by the bishop, the two were expelled from the monastery. Kilu wants to take Samena to seek refuge with his uncle who is a photographer in London. Samena's family chased after them. They could not tolerate Muslims and Orthodox Christians falling in love and killed Samena. 2. Faces: Alexander, a Macedonian photographer from a news photo agency in London, has just won the Pulitzer Prize. He has returned to London from the war-torn former South, and is preparing to marry Anne, a colleague of the photo agency and a married woman. Anne loves Alexander and can't let go of her husband Nick. In a dilemma, Nick is killed in a restaurant shootout and Alexander returns to Macedonia. 3. Pictures: Alexander bid farewell to his lover Annie and returned to his hometown alone for 16 years. The people of the hometown are still enthusiastic, but the shadow of the civil war is shrouded in the hometown. The contradiction between Macedonian and Albania is temporarily calm, but it can break out at any time. Alexander tried to stem the growing conflict. But because of Samena's mistake, a bloody fight was inevitable; Alexander didn't want to see the killings of the war, and was beaten to death by mad locals after rescuing Samena. After Alexander left, Annie was about to leave her husband Nick to go with Alexander, but Nick was shot and killed in the restaurant where they were dating. Anne rushed to Macedonia, only to see the funeral for Alexander. When the whole film was about to end, Samena fled to an Orthodox monastery. At this time, the film replayed the scene of Friar Kiru and the bishop talking to the bishop intact at the beginning, and the audience suddenly realized: the original three independent films in the whole film. Parts are actually an interlocking cycle. However, some careful viewers will find that according to some plots in the film, this cycle is impossible to set up. For example, when Samena fled to the monastery, Alexander was already dead and could no longer appear in the two stories FACES and PICTURES. This chaotic cycle of time and space not only confirms the phrase that appears many times in the film - "a circle is not a circle", but also makes the whole seemingly dull film in vain and intriguing. This illogical cycle unfortunately alludes to two realities: hatred and love. Of course, these two are the eternal themes of the film, but "Heavy Rain" interprets these two themes in complete opposites. In the former Yugoslavia, ethnic conflicts are so intense that the hatred between ethnic groups can even make people irrational to shoot their relatives. National hatred is like this cycle. There is no starting point and no end point. Forced unification is useless, war is useless, and the United Nations is useless. As long as a little festival happens, everything will turn into this absurd cycle that cannot be broken. "A circle is not a circle. ", there will never be a day of peace. And what about love? We have seen too many romantic, beautiful and happy loves, and the three stories in "Heavy Rain Will Come" describe all hopeless loves: not romantic, not happy, and never ending. There, there are too many obstacles for people to get a good love: religious, national, moral, war... One person, all generations are like this, it goes back and forth absurdly, the circle remains the same not a circle. "Heavy Rain is Coming" ruthlessly breaks the traditional film aesthetics and creates an abnormal psychological experience with people. Subsequently, he deservedly became the winner of the Venice Golden Lion Award. One person, all generations, in a ridiculous cycle, the circle is still not a circle. "Heavy Rain is Coming" ruthlessly breaks the traditional film aesthetics and creates an abnormal psychological experience with people. Subsequently, he deservedly became the winner of the Venice Golden Lion Award. One person, all generations, in a ridiculous cycle, the circle is still not a circle. "Heavy Rain is Coming" ruthlessly breaks the traditional film aesthetics and creates an abnormal psychological experience with people. Subsequently, he deservedly became the winner of the Venice Golden Lion Award.
2011-11-25
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