In the setting sun, the priest's smiling and peaceful face when picking tomatoes; in the dark, the restrained and probing eyes of young boys and girls; the arc-shaped desert that the monks walked through when they returned late after a day's ceremony, and the blue and purple above their heads. skylight.
There is also the day when the face is mercilessly scorched on a sunny day, and the whining bird formation hovering in the sky on a cloudy day.
The extremely tense pictures, the heavy and desolate national soundtrack, and the unique narrative structure are perfectly combined to create "Heavy Rain", which brings Macedonia, the blood and pain of the war-torn Mediterranean island country, onto the silver screen.
Macedonia - This small country in the Balkans is populated mainly by Macedonians and Albanians. Between two people who speak different languages, there is a backlog of ethnic conflicts that have accumulated for hundreds of years. Men here carry smuggled weapons and pull the trigger at will, as a basic way to resolve ethnic conflicts that may be encountered at any time.
Guns, in the hands of every grown man, even a child, are the most depressing and disturbing symbols of violence in film.
Pogin, Alexander, Samina, all innocent victims of the conflict of hatred between the races.
However, violence, conflict, and racial barriers are just the director's way of expressing a deeper idea.
"Time never dies, the circle is not round."
This half-baked sentence runs through the whole text, expressing the director's warm and glowing hope under all negative appearances.
A circle represents a cycle, returning to the origin again and again. But even though the Macedonian villages in the film are always shrouded in the shadow of violence and conflict, this is not a circle or a cycle.
An Albanian girl fell in love with a young Macedonian monk, and for love, resolutely sacrificed her life at the gunpoint of ethnic conflicts;
An, a female photographer who originally lived in stable London, was inspired by battlefield photography and personal experience, and left the prosperity home, and finally set foot on Macedonian soil;
Alexander knew that taking the alien girl would put him in danger, but he still moved forward firmly and let his embarrassed cousin shoot;
all of this was a ray of hope under the shadow of violence.
Therefore, time is not static, and all the darkness, despite being suppressed, will not become a complete cycle.
The actions of the main characters of the film ultimately resonate with the connotation of this sentence.
Time never dies, the circle is not round.
PS: In fact, the narrative structure is not that complicated. The whole film actually starts from the second chapter, the 37th minute of the film, directed by Ghost.
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