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In the past few years, I wrote and sold books. In 2018, which is about to end, in the last few months, I went to many places and quarreled with others.
Ever since, the feeling of "Wild Pear Tree" is like that old well that can't be dug out of water, people dug quite deep. I touched the stone and couldn't get the water out... The writing topic in the movie, the literary youth with an unpleasant and unpleasant expression, is just a metaphor for the plight of life.
If you think it has limited vision, spend more than three hours and talk too little. Then I can't help but want to say: life, yours, mines, his, at best, add up, it's not a big deal. Except for life and death, life is a small matter. Right?
Many viewers have gone through confusion, sleepiness, lethargy, and distraction, and ushered in the ending father and son. The original wild pear tree written by the same name, the wild pear tree described by the father to the child, their appearance, their growth, are so lonely and distorted, they will always remain on the rural land of Turkey, wind, frost, rain and snow, all year round. .
The wild pear tree is incompatible with the surrounding environment, just like everyone has their own character. How do you accept it and like it? You know, it's really difficult, just like it's difficult to embrace unconditionally and accept the shortcomings of loved ones.
Going back, Jielan made a change and won Palme d’Or's "Hibernation". My impression is average. When Jielan wanted to take on a greater, inexplicable sense of responsibility for the country, and even the deepest part of human nature, the intellectuals. His film format has also become difficult and heavy.
I have a personal bias towards "how to watch movies". If something is not something to be said, but the movie is eloquent, then this is undoubtedly an unwise, or dumb, and laborious way of expression. I understand what many people say, "Hibernation" is not good, because I also think it is "not good." All of Jielan's films can be classified as boring films, but I prefer the boring films with few words and no words at all. After all, some words don't have to be spoken. For the same talkative "Wild Pear Tree", my preference is more from the loss of a young man in a small town. His life is a lot of perplexity and confusion. His family, all entangled in Huli.
The form of "Wild Pear Tree" this time is very similar to Li Cangdong's "Burning". Both films can have another topic at the same time: "Letter to Young Poets." The theme is correct, not only the heroes see the same, but also the two outstanding contemporary film directors, who have not forgotten the social reality of their own country and the young group, took the initiative to defect and write down their concerns. The difference is that "Wild Pear Tree" reached a reconciliation with the surrounding world, and "Burning" took the risk and broke completely.
Compared with the works of Geran that I am familiar with, the shots of "Wild Pear Tree" have changed a lot. They are more arbitrary and aimless (such as the kiss under the tree), and they are not like Alfonso Cuarón in "Rome". Work in scheduling, thoroughly show off skills. I chose to ignore this flaw.
The whole piece is densely covered with quarrels, with broken mouths, long and short. There were two large-scale dialogues about literature and faith that were nearly twenty minutes in length. These two topics happen to represent different trends in human spiritual pursuits. The protagonist is not cold about religious beliefs, he wants to hang himself on the wild pear tree. However, no one supported it, and the last book was not sold. This is no longer a "not-selling novelist", but a disaster, or a black hole novelist.
The protagonist bowed his head to fate. "Wild Pear Tree" is very light and silent when dealing with the jumping and sliding during this period of time (snowy and glacial river sentry). On the contrary, he was angry and struggling to publish a novel, but the movie seemed to take too much time.
I think someone who writes a novel, of course, wants to sell it for a few dollars. A large number of people, either desperate or dare to practice writing, choose to live with words. Articles are valuable, and words have their own value, but literature is more of a need for expression. Human beings hope that other people can understand and identify with themselves—the value comes from this. Especially in this era, when you can't talk show, you can't cope with social interactions, and you bite the bullet to manage so-called contacts and circles, scoop resources and mix resumes. At this time, literature is a vast and blank private space. You alone, roll up your sleeves, and you can do it yourself.
Except for "Burning", "Wild Pear Tree" is not isolated. There are so many in "Deeper Than the Sea", just like the superimposition of the image of father and son in "Wild Pear Tree". A father who loves gambling and a son who wants to write, when they become one, are they not just the characters in the movie.
Hippie smiling father, angry grandfather, son, father, and grandfather of "Wild Pear Tree", the image of three generations, the relationship between father and son, has been deepened in the dream and the end. The son sees the father in the cradle, and the father sees the son hanging from the well. It is not only a counterpoint in the play, but also a deep bond between each other's fate.
"Wild Pear Tree" is not the self-pity of literary youth, but like the last verbal hope. Even if it cannot produce apples, it must grow lonely and bravely like a wild pear tree. Even if you haven't sold a single book, your most despised father is your most sincere reader.
In the current version, Sinan, the protagonist of "Wild Pear Tree", has been translated into Ceylon (this article uses the director's translation name that is closer to Turkish pronunciation: Jielan).
With the help of Google Maps, it is easy to search for the location of Jielan's "Wild Pear Tree": Canakkale, Turkey (the Trojan statue), which is also the hometown of Jielan's father. At the age of two, due to a job change, Jielan's father moved to Yenij with his family. Jielan and her sister’s childhood was spent in the countryside of Yenijie. "Wild Pear Tree" also has a round trip between Canakkale (a seaside city) and Chan (a mountain town). After graduating from university, the protagonist has an unknown job future, so he returned to his hometown to rest. One-fifth of Turkey's population is concentrated in the metropolitan area of Istanbul on the Eurasian Continental Bridge to the west. The east and north are relatively turbulent, conservative, and economically underdeveloped regions (for example, where the movie "Wild Horse" took place). Therefore, "Wild Pear Tree" is closer to the strong autobiographical colors of "Small Town" and "Blue Moon Sky in May" in terms of personal genealogy. What's a little unchanging from the beginning is that Jie Lan has spent twenty years paying tribute to Chekhov, a Russian.
The unknown junior who wanted to be a writer was yelled at by a well-known local writer on the bridge and reprimanded. This 15-minute conversation finally ended on the bridge in Canakkale. The mermaid statue that was pushed down the river should have been set up by the film crew of "Wild Pear Tree". It's easier to find this bridge...because Canakkale town seems to have only two bridges.
If you have the chance, I would like to take a walk to Jielan's hometown. Although those wild pear trees are far away.
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