Text/ Mr. Tambourine
Official account: put aside the book
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First of all, "Wild Pear Tree" is undoubtedly an autobiographical film. The story comes from the true story of the co-writer and actor Akin Aksu’s father. The director moved this story to the seaside city of Canakkale where he lived in his childhood. The actor is Sinan, and the director himself is Ceylan. The names are very similar, and both are translated as "Ceylon."
The whole story also tells of a college graduate returning to his hometown to raise money to publish his novel "The Wild Pear Tree". The dilemma reflected in this must have been faced by the director of Ceylon himself, or the current one. Circumstances.
The director of Ceylon was originally the author of the late bloomers. From his short film debut "Cocoon", "Wild Pear Tree" is already the ninth work. When he can shoot his own "Eight and a half", he summarizes his career as a director. At the time, he focused his eyes on when he was young, when his career was just starting out, which meant that he hadn't changed his original intention.
The filming location, Canakkale, is the site of the ruins of the ancient city of Troy. A huge wooden horse stands on this square. This wooden horse is a prop used in filming in the United States and was given to this historic city. It has become a major symbol of this small seaside town.
The Trojan horse, as we all know, the Greek soldiers hiding in the hollow Trojan horse finally opened the gate of the city of Troy. In the film, this Trojan horse appears repeatedly and is a symbol of Ceylon's heart of his hometown-he hid inside the Trojan horse when he encountered danger in his dream.
In the subconsciousness of Ceylon, the hometown is still a city where you can retreat from the frustration after a long discussion with the best-selling author. In the face of the cold reality. The wooden horse in the city is also the soft part of the heart, and finally wakes up from dream and is pulled out of the wooden horse by reality.
The hometown under the lens of Director Ceylon is very alluring, with the growth of vegetation, the fragrance of the soil, there are familiar things here, and those who love him, the hometown is by no means useless, vulgar and ugly. But Ceylon, this newly graduated college student does not want to "fallen" here.
What this young man rejected was a mediocre life. It was an easy and comfortable life, and it was also the life of most people. American poet Frost wrote: "There are two paths in the woods, and I chose the sparsely populated one." Faced with the temptation of mediocrity, this rejection seemed precious.
There is another kind of mediocre life similar to the mediocre life in a rural town, that is, the mediocre life of a modern city, such as the "Patterson" style of life. Patterson writes poetry, which is essentially a resistance to mediocrity.
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"Wild Pear Tree" is mainly based on the experience of returning to Ceylon. Various characters appear on the stage. The high-intensity dialogue is supplemented by beautiful and subtle shots. It shows bureaucracy and mainstream values, and explores love, literature, art and religion. Belief.
Bureaucratic faction is hypocrisy and prevarication. I believe everyone is not unfamiliar. The mainstream value is reflected in the quarry manager's view of "life culture". Ceylon believes that his novel reveals the "life culture" of Canakkale. For example, an old man in his 80s who wears a hat is still working in the scenic spot. Ceylon believes that he has the "secrets of life" in him. This old man only needs 250 Lira can solve their own hardship problems.
And this manager believes that Canakkale’s “life culture” should be closely linked to the war cemetery—such a historical city should be labeled with a grand history, and the actual experience of life cannot be its footnote.
Canakkale was also the site of the Gallipoli battle, the largest landing battle of the First World War. It was here that the Turks resisted the Allied attacks. It is true that the memory of the country and history has made this seaside city famous all over the world, but this cannot conceal the ordinary life of ordinary people.
On this issue, the manager couldn’t argue with Ceylon, so he had to give the young man advice in the voice of someone who came over. He explained a problem with his own experience. In Turkey, education may not change the destiny-he runs the quarry by himself, and His classmates who went to college are not as good as him.
He slandered, or stated the uselessness of knowledge, in order to show his own existence. After such a conversation, you will be stunned to find that we are not unfamiliar with the problems revealed by the film.
Regarding love, Ceylon first ridiculed the fashionable feminist rights at the beginning of the dialogue. At the same time, it also consciously or unconsciously warned the audience not to over-analyze the next character image, just one point, this old love of Ceylon. , Is essentially a layman.
Following the conversation between Ceylon and the old love, we found that this young girl has a seemingly chaotic, unconstrained, unconventional, but in fact unified and extremely realistic view of love, marriage, and life—romantic love, stable marriage, and generous. Life.
This girl stays on the surface of a beautiful image for love, recognizes that marriage is staying at home with children, and stays in a state of desire for material wealth. There is no problem. As Ceylon said, This is a personal choice, but it must be said to be an overly "mature" state, a state that is safe, comfortable and easy to reach for young people who are flourishing and prosperous. (Of course, apart from material wealth, this is not easy to get)
The ambiguous atmosphere of the two facing each other ended in a passionate kiss, and the girl bit Ceylon's lips. And the expression of this ambiguous atmosphere is also very subtle-the camera cuts from the two people to the surrounding golden woods, and the sound of the wind passing over the treetops occupies the entire screen, and then a little bit closer from the leaves to the two.
Implicitness is a major feature of directors from Ceylon. He has been cleverly using the lens to "weaken" the strong points of the drama, so that the whole movie is in a simple and elegant state. Later, when Ceylon had a physical conflict with this girl's ex-boyfriend, it was also the reflection of others, then the sound of broken wine bottles, and finally fixed the lens in the perspective.
"Wild Pear Tree" is three hours long, and there are a lot of long dialogues in it. This is different from the director's previous works. The dialogues on literature, art and religious belief lasted 15 minutes and 20 minutes, respectively.
And this kind of long dialogue is by no means a superficial one. It does not focus on the answer to a specific question. It keeps moving forward. The subtle changes in the attitude of the characters are also included. It is also because of this that the amount of information in the dialogue is extremely large, and the audience It is not possible to fully understand everything in this short period of time, which left an overall impression on the audience. A large number of dialogues became "meaningless" at this time, showing the heart of a young Ceylon who has just graduated. The world and the state of mind.
After Ceylon and the local best-selling author's long talk, the director used a symbolic act to express the attitude of this young man: Ceylon accidentally encountered a fragment of the mermaid sculpture on the bridge that was broken but still fit. He thought for a while, and pushed the piece down and fell into the river. Ceylon did not want to maintain such a perfect illusion. He wanted to reveal the truth behind the illusion, and at the same time, it was also a portrayal of the collapse of the image of this "successful" writer in his mind.
The two of them have fundamentally different views on literature and art. You will find that Ceylon is the one who really cares about art and literature, even though he is young and reckless, even though he came back after his military service and found that he didn’t have a single book. Sell. The irony is that this so-called best-selling author who does not care about art and literature continues to sell new books.
In the large discussion about religion, the three-person dialogue was divided into four small parts by motorcycles that appeared three times during this long 20-minute period. Each part has its own religious-related theme.
The first part of the dialogue before the appearance of the motorcycle, opened with a Ceylon prank, and with the symbolic incident of teasing two imams eating apples, laid the sharpness and reality of this part, that is, about religion ( Islam) conservative and reform.
The apple is the forbidden fruit that tempted Adam and Eve. It is a symbol of original sin in Christianity; the imam is the priest in Islam; the two are juxtaposed, the imam is tempted to commit the original sin, leading to Islam and modern times Social (Christian world) discussions.
This part is mainly started by two imams who come and go, one is the "reform" imam who is dressed in a suit and admires change, and the other is the "conservative" imam who is stubborn and resists reform. The conversation ended with the hype of "conservatives."
In the second part of the dialogue between the first appearance of motorcycles and the second appearance, Ceylon joins the dialogue between the two imams as an atheist holding aloft the banner of "freedom", and undertakes religious conservation, reform, and transition. When it comes to the topic of the role of religion, the previous "alliance" relationship between Ceylon and the "reformers" has become a situation where Ceylon is "one enemy and two".
Ceylon’s main point is that faith has a very limited effect on believers, and people who have a conscience and free will are truly reliable, and use phenomena to reverse the essence, that is, "the low crime rate of atheistic countries shows that morality has nothing to do with faith." This cannot convince the Imam, because "conscience" and "free will" are inherently based on a priori.
The views of the imams were also influenced by the cognition of the director or the screenwriter. The two imams did not entangle on this issue, and proposed that "atheistic countries have a high suicide rate" to prove the spiritual role of religion. Finally, this part ended with the embarrassing question of "Do you want to live in a world where Allah exists or where there is no Allah".
In the third part of the dialogue between the second appearance of the motorcycle and the third appearance, the passing Ceylon father brings up the topic about life and destiny. This part is relatively brief, mainly to explain and function the concepts of "whether life is absurd" and "destiny", which is a simple presentation of these two aspects.
The third appearance of motorcycles until the end of the dialogue, that is, the fourth part, using motorcycles as a tool, sparked discussions about religion, technology, and reality. Ceylon believes that technology has changed material life, then technology will act on ideas, and material will act on reality. The implication now is "Your religious superstition is out of date." This "conservative" imam did not respond positively.
Ceylon went on to tell a cruel and ironic story, that "someone threw his Iphone during stoning" as an example to illustrate that religion provides a single illusion and prevents people from searching for reality and truth.
The "conservative" Imam's response is simple. Most people don't know what they want, they just evade reality and are busy saving themselves. The close-up shot is cut to the middle shot here, and the "reformist" imam looks down on his mobile phone. This shot means that a great way to escape reality is to hide in the virtual online world. The logic of Ceylon actually shows that technology hinders people's exploration of reality.
Ceylon’s response is that such a bad situation, that is, to avoid reality on their own, everyone is responsible, no one is pure, and to question the income of the Imam ended the entire discussion of religion.
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Ceylon's mother and father, they corresponded to two completely different kinds of love. Maternal love is direct, passionate, and unreserved. She takes care of her child Ceylon in every detail. Ceylon certainly understood, and wrote on the title page of the novel he published, "All this is due to you, only you" as a gift to his mother. "Only you" was clearly aimed at his father.
But the mother tried her best to defend when her children accused her husband, and recalled that her husband was vigorous and talkative when he was young. He was very different from other vulgar suitors, and she vowed to say that even if she knew the current situation, she would choose again. Will still marry Ceylon's father.
Here, the image of mother ushered in a strong and colorful portrayal, that is, truly loving her husband and willing to endure the hardships of life. Of course, this is not to accept it, but to truly understand the reason why her husband is addicted to gambling, although she cannot describe the reason.
Ceylon himself easily stated the reason in the dialogue with the Imam, that is, "This (depravity) is a resistance to the absurd life", but he didn't really understand what he said. It just came from The rational thinking of a young man with a certain degree of literacy.
In the face of his gambling father, Ceylon has always held a contemptuous attitude, mocking his father's use of verses when he was young, and even suspected that his father had stolen 300 lire of his published books, and then sold his dog behind his father's back.
However, all this is only from the perspective of an innocent young man, as the best-selling author said he is still too young. After two years of difficult military service, the director himself decided to embark on the film road. Ceylon returned home and found that his mother had not read a novel signed by himself. This is not irony, but a prelude to revealing the deep paternal love.
After returning to Ceylon, he found that his self-exiled father was the one who really cared about his writing. His father was naturally his first and only reader. Strictly speaking, the money for the publication of the novel was also paid by his father because Ceylon sold it. His father’s dog. The father is familiar with the content of the novel, not only that, but the father not only does not blame his son for harsh criticism, but even thinks it is a sign of young people's aggressiveness.
After experiencing the "absurd life", Ceylon really understands the absurdity of life. The writer who does not care about literature continues to sell well, understands that his father was also young, and understands why he fell desperately, letting go of the remaining hope. In the well that can't get water in the mountains. In the end, my father gave up digging the well, admitted his failure, and admitted that he had done nothing.
At the end of the film, there was a long three-hour highlight. The elderly father fell asleep and saw Ceylon hanged in a well in his dream. This is the same as Ceylon saw his young father in his dream before. A cycle is formed.
The father in the cradle is still a baby with his face covered with ants. This image shows that the father is the son of this land. The three generations of son, father, and father’s grandparents were raised by this land, and were confined and restrained by it. It is the ugly and lonely wild pear that grows on the wild pear tree, but as my father said, the wild pear is sweet and juicy.
What plans does Ceylon make in the face of its homeland and reality? Only continue to dig the well that his father gave up, even though the well will never produce water.
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