A powerless exorcism

Demarco 2022-01-16 08:02:38

"Time does not pass, and the circle is not round"-the sentence in "Before the Rain" has lingered in my heart repeatedly for many years.

Never sensational, unrelentingly true, this is my favorite movie, always favorite! From the hands of young talents, but the vicissitudes of life is like an old man's forehead, wrinkles are riddled and broken, only the pain and light hidden in wisdom. Sad and open, in my opinion, there is no more objective narrative than this. Kurosawa just said: Everyone has a truth. But Milcho Manchevski speaks more thoroughly of an endless loop, in which the "meaning" is completely eliminated, but death comes to life. Clouds are surging under the hazy sky, and there is a more real and eternal truth. At this point, even the "temperance" that I love has no place for it.

Time, only time! ——It is so powerful that it has become a terminator.

But you can still love this disorderly world, and even love your destiny that is drifting with the tide. The wonderful thing is: this kind of love is "useful" because of its "uselessness". It is no longer a tool, but the most basic vitality. , Like the only straw in your hand.

The expression is similar to exorcism, and it is liberating when you say it. I can’t get rid of the devil left on the tip of my tongue in "Before the Rain". Magic, the trick to it. When it becomes a common disease, it may alleviate my anxiety about describing it. Just like a flu, no one will be tortured by the desire to accurately describe it.

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Extended Reading
  • Darryl 2022-03-14 14:12:27

    Watch it again in the last film festival. When I remembered that when I was a hairy boy, Goddess Liu showed us this film, and Ren Yi and I were stunned and shouted. . . .

  • Janice 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    Can’t give five stars because the expectations are too high

Before the Rain quotes

  • Father Marko: I wanted to take a vow of silence, like you. But this heavenly beauty merits words.

  • Aleksander: With a shriek, birds flee across the black sky, people are silent, my blood aches from waiting.