When the phrase first appeared in the movie, I was completely at a loss. When the three stories are finished and the screen returns to the title, the pastor once again said "time does not pass, the circle is not round", the intuition is that this movie sets time as a circle, and when you watch it over and over again In the movie, it will keep looping, like the whole world keeps repeating this story, time does not pass; however, in this circular story, life is born again and again, tragedy is always tragedy, the circle is not round.
I can't help but think of the latest micro-movie I saw, "23:59" directed by Wang Xiaoshan. At the beginning of the film, four people walked into the house of the god of death, and they died one by one in the development of the story. At the end of the film, four people walked into the house of the god of death again. It's like this forever and forever, and the terror is reincarnated. The same method, but the latter clearly tells people about this bloody cycle.
There are three stories in "Heavy Rain", which respectively tell three love stories, Corey and Samina, Annie and Nick, Alexander, and Alexander and Hannah. The seemingly complex emotional and character relationships can actually be strung together in a straight line, "Corey-Samina-Hannah-Alexander-Anne-Nick"; however, this straight line is scattered and tangled in the plot network of relationships. The sequential arrangement of the three stories disrupts the relationship between the characters in a straight line. The protagonists of the first two stories seem to be unrelated until the third story appears, where Alexander and Hannah string together the previous characters all at once— - Alexander's lover relationship with Anne, Hannah's mother-daughter relationship with Samina. When Alexander was visiting Hannah, Samina's brother, who appeared, suddenly realized the relationship between these protagonists. It was like the previous scattered relationship was on a rope, and the two ends were connected at once, and The scene of Keri picking tomatoes is the knot, and the story draws a circle. However, after careful analysis, it was discovered that the connection between them was such a simple straight line. Oh, maybe this is another way of understanding that the circle is not round.
In each of the three stories, a person dies. Samina died at the hands of relatives, Nick at the hands of strangers, and Alexander at the hands of his people. When Samina's brother shot, I was shocked. Death can be so random. My brother can also kill his own sister for a reason that doesn't seem to me at all, but of course it's just because I don't understand their beliefs. However, in any case, whether it is the violence from strangers or the ruthlessness of loved ones, I am afraid of this world and of human nature. I know it's just a movie, but I also know that art always comes from life. Recently, I was watching the TV series "The Tudor Dynasty". The bloody and violent scenes of Henry VIII's period were staged one by one, and I was terrified. The funny thing is that when I open the application of the Internet Easy News on my mobile phone, one after another social news, the human nature is ugly and the world is hot. It is completely exposed, and it is matched with Netease's main color red. It is really a realistic version of the Tudor Dynasty, which is hard to bear. Death is bloody and violent, perhaps only for the deceased, time is immortal. It's like a person going to pay homage to a friend who died in childhood in World War II: the people on the ground have gray temples, but the people on the ground still look young.
All three stories end with death, but in the end they return to the calm before the rain, which is really emotional.
This is not the case throughout the history of mankind. History will always stage repeated scenes, like a nightmare that cannot be avoided. People have been circling in circles in history for thousands of years, but they can't draw a circle. Those successes and failures, love and hate, laughter and crying, will eventually be buried in the dust of history. When mankind ushered in its demise, it will return to the tranquility of the starting point, and then reincarnate again, endlessly.
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