Time does not pass, the circle is not round

Reyna 2022-01-16 08:02:38

The first time I heard about "The Rainfall Down" was a few years ago. A friend spared no effort to praise this movie to me. The language was sloppy and the expression was flattering, which almost made me suspect that the director was a relative of his family. Later I learned that the place of production of this movie was Macedonia. I secretly calculated that one of the relatives of my friend's furthest house was farming in the countryside. I guess other relatives would never go to Macedonia, so I began to believe. He has a high praise for this film.

It’s just that this movie is like a legendary martial arts master, and the dragon is never seen. In the following years, although several people have talked to me about it one after another, but I still couldn’t buy the plate. In 2004, my friend Qiqi came back from Shanghai and brought me a burned disc of "The Rainfall Down". I was overjoyed and almost agreed with me. It's a pity that the disc is a film version of a burned disc, and the image quality is unparalleled. It makes me feel like I have returned to the era of watching the gun version of the VCD. I couldn't stand it for 5 minutes, so I didn't continue. This movie, like Yang Dechang's "Guling Street Juvenile Murders", has become a movie that I have never been able to buy high-definition DVDs.

Later, I learned that "The Rainfall" was the first film since the founding of Macedonia. It has always been protected by the Macedonian government, and other countries are not allowed to distribute DVDs of this film.

The so-called time is like an arrow, it's really not bad at all, because it's just a blink of an eye to get to the point. In 2006, it was a spring. After several years of hard waiting, the omnipotent Chinese pirate finally got the fabled movie, and I finally got a glimpse of it.

The video is divided into three parts: WORD, FACE, PICTURE. In 80% of the viewing time, the movie appears to be unremarkable. When you are about to be disappointed, when you see the second half of the third story, suddenly a flash of lightning flashes across the clear sky. You understand the director’s Intentions and his superb narrative method, so you start to thank you that you did not miss a masterpiece halfway.

"The Rainfall" is a song of the same name by Bob Dylan. The characters in the film repeatedly said that it was about to rain, and the thunder from the sky also played up the atmosphere of the rainstorm. It was not until the end of the film that the heavy rain poured down. Down, the always suppressed emotions are released in that period. The film has beautiful pictures and beautiful music, but the story is sad and helpless. The characters in the film are all saying "You are our person". You must take sides, either left or right. No one can be the center. Faced with the root causes of love and hatred, none of the characters in the film can choose the path they want to take.

"Time never dies, the circle is not round", the time does not pass, the circle is not round, the director uses a clever circular narrative structure to tell us that these violence and bloodshed, these helplessness and pain, repeatedly appear in people's lives , The cycle is endless, there is no end, no end.

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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.