Let’s put it this way, if there is no ending, I would even think that this is a light comedy of love similar to "Angel Amelie". Lovers who have seen a rainbow after wind and rain have completed a mysterious journey of life. Otto and ana, their sour but stubborn growth, special and extraordinary experience, with an incomprehensible interlocking, completed the last encounter of life.
From the names of otto and ana to the small accidental collisions, there are also paper airplanes and pilots. At the beginning, we heard the calm but sad tune of otto rushing to Rovaniemi at the end of the film. The trivial details of life are narrated back and forth from different perspectives by both men and women, and emphasized repeatedly. Two secretive and sensitive little friends are destined to perform a sad and great encounter. I have seen too many movies that play with narrative methods, from comedy to tragedy.
To be precise, once you know the ending in advance-this story really has to be too flat, you will find that this story has too many coincidences but is not influenced by your kindness, this is no longer between two lovers The self-torture, but the director’s torture to you, so you let it go and don’t look at it.
If there is a sweet ending, "Arctic Circle Lovers" will fall into the cliché again. No, life is full of so many coincidences, just to complete a vulgar trick. If this is not true, you will find that your tears are so cheap that it is really not worth betraying your fragility time and time again.
Mi Tan didn't let the story fall into the overlap of the circle, so we have another European film that we recommend to others with good reason and confidence: it has the secret words in life, and lovers who have bizarre experiences go their separate ways. Finally, we are on the road of reunion.
Otto said that his life is a circle, but it is not complete. The moment the rings finally met, they did not overlap. This trace of incompleteness was not caused by an error, but in the process of moving, otto's life path had already started to deviate from the trajectory and could not complete the cycle.
The miss on the white chairs in the square indicates that the life trajectories of the two young lovers have begun to have deviations in real life. You can't understand how many coincidences or inductions of them as a child will not turn around and look back. Reality and history always have to be different, and the identity relationship between otto and ana also prevents him from making more determined actions. Ang Lee said: "If you want to create a great love story, there must be huge obstacles." The obstacle between otto and ana is the self-identity that they have been neglecting. Not touched, but this neglect is enough to make them miss and never meet again.
Ana was watching the sunset by the lake in the Arctic Circle. It drew an arc on the horizon but did not disappear, and the afterglow was warm. The years have eroded her face, and the old footprints quietly stepped on her. In women, this is undoubtedly sad. She was waiting for the coincidence of the circles of life, as the old pilot Otto said, everything must be moved to her and Otto again. In the room, she thought that it was Otto who came in. She looked back again and again when she was looking into the distance, expecting Otto to appear in the boulevard. I just hope that I've been emptied several times, so the otto who fell from the sky didn't meet the ana who had been searching for many years.
Ana, who was immersed in grief, couldn't restrain her inner feelings. She spread out the newspaper and saw the picture of the crashed plane. In an instant, sadness enveloped her.
At the end, in Ana's eyes, we found otto's face, which was close-up and enlarged. Sadly speaking, he (she) is everything to her (him).
Although they are both so important to each other, the sensitive and delicate Otto couldn't accept the fact that his mother died, the two inevitably separated.
After four years, Ana finally chose to leave the unsatisfactory life. In her, she has the same paranoia as Otto. After four years, otto finally thought of Ana, that sweet time, consciously or unconsciously. In Otto's memory, on a stormy night, his panic and unexpected surprises. In Ana's memory, she was dragged down from the sled by her father when she tried to ski.
Otto hated his father, Ana angered his mother. A large part of the embarrassment between otto and ana comes from misfortune in life experience. Perhaps the beginning of their love is embarrassment. When Otto was in love and left the lonely mother at home, he neglected his identity as a son; after the death of his mother, he was in piercing pain, and he forgot his responsibilities as a lover. These two omissions caused him to lose the two most important women in his life, so it is not an exaggeration.
You can't explain whether this story is happiness or misfortune. Just like the online debate about the ending, Mi Tan also apologizes for the ending of ana. Fortunately, there can be so many interesting secrets in life. Unfortunately, Otto witnessed the absence of his own circle of life.
The heaven of ana and the hell of otto are at the moment when the circle of life is missing.
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