This is Medem's work completed in 2002 and won many awards that year. Like his "Arctic Circle Lovers", the protagonist of the story is destiny, life and desire. Medem still uses the time-interlaced narrative he is used to, using numerous characters and clues to construct a structural maze. However, there are still many hints pointing to the exit. They seem to prove the logic of the story itself, even though there are countless coincidences in life, destiny It is the end of an inevitable return.
The circular fate image appears repeatedly in the movie, the full moon, the stone in the hand, the hole on the beach, and the island—the image is adjusted to a higher brightness to emphasize the dazzling sunlight of the island. It has endless beauty, but it has no roots and no stone is connected to the land. It is a hole to escape from reality, a piece of driftwood floating on the Mediterranean Sea. Lorenzo, Lucia, and Elena returned to the island one after another, either escaping or looking for someone they loved, but before they found out, the island had closely connected the three of them.
In the apartment in Madrid, Lucia once asked Lorenzo: Do you like crazy sex with a stranger, or crazy sex with a person you know but love? This question reminds me of the poem: such certainty is beautiful, but fickleness is more beautiful.
It is actually asking, does Rurensell need certainty or uncertainty? Lorenzo looked into Lucia's eyes, and he chose ok. The plot is still connected by a series of coincidences and accidents. Lorenzo is an unwilling novelist. He accidentally discovered that a strange woman with whom he had had a one-night stand was also living in Madrid with their children. A few years ago, the two of them met in the sea on a small island. That night, there was a full moon, and their daughter was called "Yue".
Life is often just sliding on the edge of the track. We must be like a balancing actor, not letting ourselves fall, and empty-handed to catch one after another apple thrown by fate. Bewitched by a dangerous idea, Luo Lun Su began to look for his daughter, and experimented with his own life to continue the novel that could not be continued. This is a game that is almost doomed to fail, because the world of life is always stronger than the world imagined. Lorenzo is involved in another emotion, desire and incest. These may be fascinating novels, but they are the hell of life. He lost his daughter Yue and also lost himself, almost collapsed.
Carlos is another good guy in the movie, he knows the secret of Kojima. He said to Lucia, "Whenever the tide is high, people on this island will feel dizzy, no one knows why." Director Medem controlled this dizziness with a shaking slow motion, as heavy as from the deep sea. The sound of breathing strengthened the duration of time. When everyone is led to fate, they sway like weak plants on the bottom of the sea. This way of rendering the character's psychology through the lens and depicting the subconscious mind, Medem is handy.
After a nearly fatal car accident, the frail Lorenzo came to the island, and fate finally brought him back to the right place. He once used novels to comfort the bereaved Elena on the Internet, and his love for Lucia also helped him find himself. At the end of the movie, Lorenzo said that his story also has a shortcoming, that is, you can go back to the middle of the story and modify the plot at will.
Although this ending lacks a tragic atmosphere, it doesn't need us to make any changes. It is a round itself.
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