The lush rainforest is right under my eyes, and the vast Amazon River passes through the heart of the rainforest, like a giant python, winding through the South American continent.
The movie El Abrazo de la Serpiente, translated into Chinese as the Embrace of the Snake, tells the story of the Amazon rain forest. There is a saying: Amazon is called the son of anaconda (son of anaconda) because of its winding shape. The story of being coiled by the python, let's make "Snake's Embrace", this is my idea.
The film was nominated for the 88th Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the 68th Cannes Film Festival Director’s Fortnight Art Cinema Award, the 31st Independent Spirit Award for Best International Film, the Munich Film Festival in 2015, the best international film nominated, India International Film Festival won gold Peacock Award for Best Picture... The
story was inspired by two expedition diaries by German ethnographer Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes, the father of modern botany. Two unrelated stories are connected by the wizard Karamakate.
Along the Amazon River, we see poor people still living in the shadow of the rubber war, blinded by ignorance in a closed world, mutated religion, compromise and perseverance, and see the entire Amazon.
The crazy demand for rubber has pushed modern people into Amazon. At the same time, it has also brought modern languages, technology, religion, and more.
The rubber slave who was crying and begging others to kill him had experienced too much pain before he was willing to give up his life without hesitation, and regard life as suffering. If there is a trace of mercy in the faith brought by the white man, how can this man who has lost his arms be saved?
When I went to the National Museum of Bogotá, I saw a phrase: "white blood"-rubber. You can see the leopard in the tube.
Cannibal white people only feel sick. A closed world can easily cause people's self-inflation, resulting in a closed world and personality worship that are transferred by personal will. The white people came to the Amazon, slaved them, edified them, and ruled them. The indigenous people regarded the white people as gods and treasures. The picture is so ridiculous that it is impossible to add to it, a crown made of chicken feet, human flesh, empty and contemptuous eyes, and a dance without rules. What did the white people bring to the indigenous people? Although the aborigines were slaves, the whites seemed even more pathetic.
The scarred body that was whipped by the priest, the children who were forbidden to speak aboriginal language, the hanging corpse, the black and white picture was even more terrifying. Here we talk about another theme-mission. One belief replaces another. Is it really replaced? Is the nature that nature teaches us evil? Children will still speak their own language when no one is there, and even if they are dissuaded or dissuaded, they still desire, because they know that disobedience is synonymous with beatings. Because of fear, I had to compromise.
Regarding Caapi, that is, the main ingredient of Ayahuasca we can see on the market. During my stay in Colombia these days, I heard various friends talk about this mysterious water. Various opinions vary from person to person. It is not ruled out that many untrue ingredients are added for grandstanding. But for me, Caapi itself It's too unreal. They said that after drinking ayahuasca, the human body first vomited and vomited up all the filth of the body, and then fell into a deep sleep, seeing the past and present life in the dream, and foreseeing the future.
The wizard worked hard to find the remaining plants, but saw that there was a white Caapi flower in everyone's cup, and everyone was drunk and dreaming. Purity is discredited, beauty is ruined. The hard work of the trek turned into anger, and the wizard's expectations of white people and even his own people were burned out.
Am I a soul or an entity? Are you a soul or an entity? Are you in my dream, or am I in your dream? It seems to have triggered a thinking similar to Zhuang Zhou's Mengdie. Should I believe what I see, or believe in my dreams and the guidance of my heart?
The compass that the Germans never change, is it the progress or regression of the aborigines? Is the robbery-like behavior of the aborigines barbaric or natural? To determine the next route, do you need to look at the map? Or follow nature's guidance?
The movie leaves too many question marks.
What do the things we are proud of, technology, civilization, etc., bring us? When enjoying all the conveniences, I have thought about the killing and destruction behind it.
As for the Amazon culture, the Amazon I saw in October last year was a comfortable and peaceful Amazon. The ports and cities I passed by had gentle and kind people. Even one night when I stayed in the jungle, without any modern equipment, I opened the duckweed with a pole and stunned the fireflies on both sides of the river. I lay in the boat and floated on the narrow channel of the Amazon tributary, with the Milky Way above my head, on both sides of the boat. Fireflies are flying, this is the best night.
——There will never be a night like this again.
The Amazon culture of the film is a culture I hadn't thought about at that time. The Amazon family where I live has been civilized by the government.
Compromise under material conditions and compromise under violence.
In May I read "Chernobyl Grief" and I cried bitterly on the bus because I read "We can't return the bodies of your husband and son to you". These should have been two unrelated stories, but both stories must convey the same idea to me. We are heading forward tirelessly with infinite development, but when will we be able to complete the salvation of ourselves.
The explorer finally drank the water of Caapi, but I don't know how to interpret the scene in the dream. When I woke up, the wizard had disappeared, and the Amazon was still flowing in the distance, flowing through countless river banks.
How many banks does a river have?
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