Sunrise and sunset, stars shifting, broken walls, vicissitudes of life, vicissitudes of life, changing seasons, the documentary "Samsara" has a magnificent picture, endless changes, and very beautiful. It makes the audience seem to be able to view the world without leaving home, from green forests to deserts, from mountains to oceans, from ruins to buildings, from inaccessible to prosperous and noisy, from the gorgeous windows of churches to the solemn statues of Buddha, from the assembly line of consumer goods to Guns and ammunition that threaten peace, from friendly smiling faces to indifferent isolation...
Of course, "Samsara" shows people far more than just the beauty of the lens, the vastness of history, and the profoundness of religion and humanity. It tells people about people. The relationship with heaven and earth, nature, the cycle of life, the alternation of nature overlaps, and the interpretation of human nature in it has a touch of calmness and tranquility.
The photography and editing of this film are very beautiful, which can enhance the aesthetic appeal, broaden the horizon, and greatly broaden the depth and breadth of thinking. The heavy-duty director Ron Frick is worthy of being a master of time-lapse photography and large-scale scene films. This time he combined the dual perspectives of visual technology and philosophical thinking to deeply explore the relationship between mankind and eternity. To this end, he lasted 5 years, traveled across 25 countries on five continents, and intercepted a large amount of material, just like the author’s film. Flick organically intercepted the parts that could be used to express his views, and used a certain mode of thinking. Editing and cohesion are roughly divided into comparison, classification, and summary. Perhaps, in a sense, this artificial structure contains some factors that are not objective, but in such a film, these seem to be irrelevant. important.
The film has no narration, no subtitles, and apart from the soundtrack, not even humans make any sound. The faces that are frozen by the lens in the film, whether they come from the primitive tribes of the green hills and verdant valleys, or the noisy and busy cities, most of them are suffocating. Staring directly at the camera with a seemingly expressionless appearance, as if there is no reason, no explanation, and there seems to be a lot of speechlessness to modern society. When the camera focuses on large farms, slaughterhouses, and home appliance processing plants, part of the picture There is also a sense of discomfort, that is, "When we see that destiny is so carefully arranged, everything is orderly and immutable, we always feel faintly afraid." (From Saint Exupéry)
Many pictures of the film seem to span reality and dreams. The real part is chilling, and the dream-like part is illusory and beautiful. In a strong visual conception, "Reincarnation" will gradually exist on the planet Earth. The good and the ugly, the light and the dark, are presented in a magnified and dense manner. On one side is large-scale manufacturing, on the other is overwhelming waste. It seems that the excess material has overwhelmed the initial tranquility of mankind, and in a corner of the earth, garbage The mountain is the “treasure hunting paradise” of the slums. All this is like Chekhov’s comment that “the world is beautiful, and only us are bad”. However, the theme of the film does not stop here, it goes further. .
The film title samsara means the cycle of life in Sanskrit. The meaning of the word also includes the past of human beings and the eternal life after death, and guides how to live in harmony in an unknown world. In the film, when the lamas finally erased their painstaking work-the incomparably gorgeous sand painting thangka painted with grains of colored sand, a kind of calmness to zero is released. No matter how beautiful or bad this world is, everything will disappear in the cycle of reincarnation. This tail is well collected.
Verne said: "Nothing should mature prematurely, including progress." Today, both human beings and the earth are not at the beginning of their ignorance, and they have either actively or passively entered the premature aging period, in the dust of time. , No one is eternal, life will eventually be cleared, there is no such thing as sorrow and joy.
(Magazine draft)
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