In the film, "time does not pass, the circle is not round", which has become the narrative structure of the film's chapters. The photos of the first story are intertwined in the second and third stories, like three parallel stories in time and space. The photos become the medium of connecting time and space, and the feeling of "time does not pass" is strong.
The Macedonian monk and the Algerian girl, the Macedonian monk's uncle and the Algerian girl's mother, the Macedonian monk's uncle's lover and the original husband, all of which could not be resolved because of the conflicts in a short period of time, which led to the tragedy of love.
The phrase "peace is the exception, not the rule," said by the friar's uncle, photographer Aleksander Kirkov, became an interpretation. The film was produced in 1994. At that time, various nation-states in the Balkans became independent from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The ten-year Yugoslav civil war was going on, and various nation-states fought for their own borders. Nominated for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, "What's Wrong with Ida" is also a feature-length film set in the Yugoslav civil war. The wars caused by the demarcation of the land continue, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict at the center of the recent topic is another evidence.
The director of this film did not limit the topic of peace to national wars. The second story takes place in London, England, where order and prosperity are in order. In a restaurant with decent decoration and good service, all kinds of families come together by chance. An unreasonable "intruder" guest, first verbally humiliating the restaurant waiter, and then shooting the diners with guns for no reason. This kind of accident was something that no one could have predicted. The crises that lie in ambush beside everyone have no rules to follow. The wounding incident in Nanjing last night was just as bad.
Vicious events in the background of civilization, power struggles in fragmentation, peace is so and so untraceable.
The restaurant manager fired the humiliated restaurant waiter without asking for the right or wrong reason, which is the director's spying on the geopolitical war. When the vested interests of those in power are violated, they must defend their rights and interests indiscriminately.
At the beginning of the film, a group of children burns young turtles with fire. The boundary between innocence and inherent evil is questionable.
Impressive, there are two photography. One is that the priest questioned other teachers about the private collection of Algerian girls, and the teachers' answers were interwoven with the murals in the church to build up the inner conflict of the monks; the other was that Ann and photographer Aleksander were in a taxi together, and the two were chatting in the taxi. , pieced together with the filming through the window glass, the complex emotions of the two are self-evident.
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