After watching some movies, you will still have a lot of thoughts, and feel that you don't understand it but it attracts you. "Wild Pear Tree" is such a film, and the fable needs to be chewed repeatedly.
The protagonist Ceylon is very similar to my roommate when I was studying in the United States, with a kind background but angry and conceited. He sneered contemptuously about things he didn't believe. He was frizzy and lonely. The difference was that he was a Persian and not a Turk.
In the plot of the father-son relationship, we see more innocent sons and teenagers facing alcoholic and violent fathers, such as "Four Hundred Strikes", the director Ceylon here has reversed the role for us, frizzy and pessimistic young people who are provocative to the world and He has gone through life gambling but throws away his childlike father.
At the beginning, a young man stared at something blankly. He looked at his watch and the luggage on the side all hinting that this is not a leisurely afternoon, where should he go? The aerial footage took us to the vast and beautiful Turkey, and a passenger car snaked into the distance in the countryside. After that, there were many shots of cars between the roads, representing the departure and return of Ceylon several times. Road, this symbolic expression.
When he returned to his hometown of Ceylon, the first person to "greet" him when he got out of the car was a fellow who seemed to greet him but actually "collected debts." Torture.
Before entering the house, I saw the words "Teacher's car for sale" written on the back of the red car at home. Everything was a shadow of poverty. (I want to talk about the problem of film translation. It is misleading to translate the details of this car sale late. It seems that Ceylon wants to sell the car in preparation for the book. In fact, his father will sell the car at the beginning, because the family can't open the pot.)
Under the two main lines of father-son relationship and book-selling survival, it is actually a reflection of all aspects of the reality in Turkey. The mayor keeps talking about the truth but he refuses to help the young author with a small amount of money. Of course, this is also justified and he must follow the procedure; the coal merchants despise those young people who are useless to study, and you will learn it today and tomorrow it will be useless; Xi In a phone call, Lan’s friend told her how to bully people and get pleasure as a violent policeman, “I will beat them up wherever I can’t see it. Why not? This is the philosophy of life. Everyone Dump stress trash to others." "This world is just a bitch."
The long shots of the middle and large sections of walking are so heavy in content, passing through the countryside, iron bridges, and streets. On the phone side, there is a Ceylon classmate who has completely given up on being a teacher and is trying to “integrate into this society”.
The only tenderness comes from the encounter between Ye Lishu and her old lover. Except for the cruel reality obtained from relived dreams, she decided to marry a rich middle-aged man. It's the same everywhere, love is too vain in the face of reality, and it's safer to "sitting in a BMW and crying". The fighting by the lake of two young people who were also injured was youth and anger that had nowhere to rest.
A person’s poverty can be tolerated, but a family’s poverty is a sin. The Ceylon mother was tortured by reality and couldn't afford the electricity bill. She had to store the food in the refrigerator at the neighbor's house. The family could only light candles at night. Even though he faced the horse betting husband like this, he still said, "If I was asked to choose again, I would still choose to marry him."
The aggressive and self-righteous Ceylon, with implied sarcasm in his words, is full of "malicious assumptions" about the world, the disrespect of the predecessors in the bookstore, hiding in the Trojan horse, being chased by people, awakening in the car, which one is a dream? That kind of deep anxiety stems from inner anxiety and fear. Do we all have this dream of being chased and nowhere to hide?
"Time is like a silent saw. You never know what he will do to you."
Ceylon may have a kind of "persecution delusion". After losing 300 yuan at home, he felt that all his family members were thieves. He was not only in society, but also isolated himself at home. He has no friends or family. In this excellent shot scheduling, the slowly retreating shots gradually revealed every family member.
Climbing up the hills behind their homes, the prayers of Muslims in the distance echoed, just like when people need to climb up the old city wall in "A Small City Spring", staring into the distance is their only way to soothe their breath.
Who "stole" the 300 yuan?
The imam who steals the forbidden fruit is like a fable. Religion and secularity. Is religion a more strengthened sacred connection in modern times, or has it been reduced to a tool for collecting money? (This large period of dialogue between the three people is intensive and requires a lot of background knowledge of Islam. It looks very tiring but rich in nutrition.) Someone said, "If it can be proved that Islam exists outside the truth, then I would rather choose Islam instead of the truth. ." Is it difficult to understand? Does this prove that "faith has nothing to do with truth"?
Ceylon desperately wanted to sell his father’s dog. The camera was clean and compact. First, he stared at the dog outside the yard when driving the door, and then immediately cut to the outskirts to count money at someone else’s house for one night. The dog was already tied up when he left. In someone else's house. The dog appeared several times afterwards. It was actually a combination of looming hallucinations and reality. It was Ceylon’s self-blame and guilt of seeing things and feelings. He stole his father’s most beloved thing and his father was the only one who had read him. The book person, he has been slandering and maliciously speculating about his father, but his father's love has not been caressed about and changed with him, especially when he accidentally discovered that a newspaper clipping from his book was treasured in his father's wallet, and tears fell.
Ceylon, who had to bow his head to reality, was in military service, holding his gun blankly on the border in the ice and snow, and the future was at a loss. This picture is very Tarkovsky. The snow faded out and turned into a distant view car driving in the countryside. In the morning mist, the back disappeared home alone.
The snow flying all over the sky, a nation that has not experienced the harsh winter and falling snow cannot be profound and romantic.
When we were young, we talked about the truth, and when we really understood, we only said, "It's cool and it's a good autumn." The father can only invite his son to listen to the natural symphony, there is no reason to tell.
The anger and gloom of Ceylon reminded me of Hu Bo and the "elephant sitting on the ground". The difference is that Hu Bo did not find a kind of "reconciliation" with himself in the end, and Ceylon was lucky, at least There is a dad who still innocently loves him in the muddy world.
Do we have such a Ceylon around us, or we were once a Ceylon, we have habitually negative evaluations of everything, full of negative energy, but they are not bad in nature, but they are still to the world With ideals in mind, they do not accept chaos trying to find the truth, hope that they will have a day of reconciliation with themselves instead of gradually becoming greasy, and hope that they will always be as young as their hearts.
There are several "surrealist" passages in the film. All "surrealism" is just to approach "reality". It is only when we mortals turn a blind eye to call them "surrealism", just like those that we can't see and deny existence. "miracle":
1. Hiding in a Trojan horse and being chased by someone, the inner truth and fear are a subconscious dream.
2. In the horse betting shop, Ceylon said that they were all idiots, but when they looked back, there was no one, because there is no "idiot" in this world.
3. The door opened by oneself at home, the chandelier that shakes alone. Is it the wind? Or a mysterious induction?
4. Under the withered tree, a rope hangs down, and the half-naked person with the upper body lying down, is it dead or alive? The only thing in the open field. Is this a metaphor for the fate of Ceylon and everyone?
5. A dog who committed suicide in a river? Did Ceylon see it?
6. The baby with ants crawling all over its face symbolizes the rebirth of Ceylon.
7. Everyone in Ceylon who was hanged in the well had two birthdays, one was born, and one was rediscovered.
Note: The original public number "Come and Go Yishan"
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