————— Mesa Selimovich
In 1994, the young director Mirko Manchevsky submitted a perfect exam paper for the world cinema treasure house. "Heavy Rain" is divided into three frames "Words, Faces, Photos". They are independent and can be connected with each other. Perfect logical thinking and insight are closely combined, and time will not lapse into infinite reincarnation.
One word:
This is the first frame of the film. Macedonia and Albania have been at war for a long time, and even children can easily touch guns and get bullets. There was thunder in the sky, and the territory of Macedonia over there was covered with black clouds, as if mourning for a dead soul. The torrential rain is coming, how will the rain baptize Albania here?
Beyond verbal communication, the communication between Corey and Samina is entirely heartfelt. Words are not an obstacle to love between two people. When Corey brought red tomatoes to Samina, love burned in the hearts of the two like fire, and even their eyes became hot.
In a turbulent society, love can replace faith, and faith can fly high for love. The thunder sounded again, and the silent words were like dull days.
Two Faces:
If this is a full-fledged movie, from the second story, it jumps the frame of the first half and becomes subtle. Time is never die, The circle is not round. Time is never die, The circle is not round. The seemingly simple words have actually appeared in the film for the second time. By the way, this is the foreshadowing set by the director.
Unlike Chinese films, foreign films like to use beliefs to illustrate theories and ideas. Just like the church and the cross in the film. Everyone has a belief in their heart that affects their life and destiny.
The face, like the broken face in Ann's mirror; Madonna's half-covered face wet with coffee. Is it the mask? is it real? Is it the face? Or the circle mentioned multiple times? This is when our logical thinking is being put to the test. The magnifying glass magnifies Corey's face, which is another expression of the heart. Photos open the door to another story.
Photo 3:
Where did the photo of Corey and Samina come from? If that was Alexander's photo then he didn't die! So who is Ann mourning? The director succeeded in disrupting the audience's logical thinking.
Cleverly, the end of the third frame echoes the beginning of the first frame. Corey was still picking tomatoes, and the old pastor was still repeating his lines, as if caught in an infinite cycle. With thinking and guessing, "Heavy Rain is Coming" finally ended the 113-minute journey, but the plot is still constantly arranged in the human mind.
Time is never die, the circle is not round. This is the foreshadowing of the director. The director drew an imperfect circle for us, so that we couldn't find an exit and could only go back and forth in the circle. Our thinking was not wrong. What disturbed our thinking was the distortion of our beliefs and the affirmation of our destiny.
It finally rained heavily in the sky, and the rain washed every piece of parched land and every sad person. Time is never die, the circle is not round.
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