The whole movie is immersed in Apichatpong’s profound Thai philosophy. Its narrative structure breaks away from the traditional narrative mode. It uses a large number of long shots and panoramic shots to show ethereal and abstract stories, which makes the movie more enjoyable. Weakened, but this film is not an entertainment film, and its artistic pursuit is extremely deep and obscure. The story of Apichatpong is scattered but not scattered. The whole movie is maintained at a slow pace in an orderly manner. Apichatpong controls the overall artistic temperament of the movie with its unique philosophical vision and artistic concept.
Uncle Bomi is terminally ill. He returned to his hometown in Northern Thailand and spent the rest of his life with his relatives. The film shows us a person’s attitude towards death with extremely smooth and gentle long shots and panoramic shots. Facing death, Bomi Uncle embodies a kind of calmness, a kind of harmony that returns to nature itself. One day at dinner, the ghost of Uncle Bomi’s dead wife returned to him, and his son who had been missing for many years turned into a ghost to go home to visit. This depiction of the return of ghosts always reflects the characteristics of the oriental philosophy of God and Buddhism. The table dinner unfolded in a gentle atmosphere, and the deceased wife and children narrated their experiences and their concerns for Uncle Bomi in a peaceful tone, and accompanied Uncle Bomi to the end of life. The road to the world of bliss is smooth, and the Eastern philosophy that runs through it is the attitude of people facing death. A very important element in the story is the primitive deep forest, and the unknown exploration and covering of the primitive deep forest is both a mysticism The primordial deep forest is the birthplace of mankind, and the operation of nature also allows us to eventually return to the primitive. In the virgin forest, human nature can easily return to its roots, get rid of the impregnation of civilization, and get rid of the impetuousness of urban and modern civilization.
Uncle Bomi hopes to find the cause of his illness, so he takes his family through the primitive deep forest and came to a cave. Uncle Bomi firmly believes that this is the place where he was born. Apichatpong uses surrealist narrative methods to show the cause and effect of human reincarnation. This is an Eastern philosophy of life and death, a concept of reincarnation of life and death. The movie is interspersed with a story of ancient princesses, which also has a strong transcendence. With the color of realism, the aging princess dedicated her life to rebirth with catfish. The catfish enters the princess’s body and enters the womb to be reborn. This is the symbol of life gestation, and Uncle Bomi can be regarded as the catfish of the past life, and the final one The cave is the womb that gave birth to new reincarnation. Uncle Bomi believes that this is the place where he was born in his first life, and dying here is a kind of natural belonging and reincarnation. In returning to nature beyond time and space, people can get a new life reincarnation. , And the son of an ape in the movie is an expression of man’s return to nature, abandoning the worldly thoughts, bathing in the moisture of nature and gaining a new life, a kind of pure belonging, and the concern for Bomi also makes his wife become Ghosts cannot reincarnate for a long time. The final curtain call of human beings is to return to nature, and nature gives birth to the next reincarnation. The return to nature beyond civilization is a reflection on the problem of reincarnation of life. It can also be understood as the expression of naturalism at a certain level, but its ultimate artistic essence It is the measurement of the spiritual level of modern people, and this kind of thinking and measurement is the Eastern way, or it is the exploration and artistic thinking of the origin of human beings by the use of Thai Zen Buddhism.
The dead are long gone, but the living are still living in the shackles of society and civilization. Dong, the guardian of Bomi, is contaminated by the impetuousness of modern civilization. He is no longer willing to be restricted by the monastery. Modern civilization has given us too With so many temptations, it becomes impossible to return to the origin of nature. Human beings have lost their faith and are living on an isolated island in the boundless ocean of information. The end of the movie is filled with cold water on the Zen philosophies described earlier. The process of modernization is a process of people losing their faith. The pictures of soldiers who traveled through time and space at the time of Bomi’s death are also Apichatpong’s accusations against the political turmoil in Thailand. Nowadays, people have abandoned their beliefs, their gods, and their respect for nature. The process of modernization is a process of trampling on nature and faith. Apichatpong pursues returning to nature and the origin of human philosophy with its Eastern style of Zen. This makes people think of Tarkovsky in the West. The two have many intersections in artistic styles and artistic concepts. Tarkovsky is based on philosophical thinking on the level of Western culture, while Apichatpong insists on Eastern style meditation. Both of these artistic expressions are, to a large extent, a stigma and controversy of the spiritual outlook of modern humans. Pursue the process of human civilization and spiritual beliefs to return to innocence.
Apichatbang’s films embodies many Thai-style philosophical cultures and cultural symbols of gods, buddhism and cultural symbols. Under the shell of mysticism and surrealism, it is an artistic analysis of Eastern Zen and the pursuit of human spiritual state to return to its natural origin.
For such experimental art films, existence is perceived, and everyone has different opinions and different understandings. This existence has different manifestations in everyone's thoughts, and I think the greatest value of this movie itself is to inspire people to think. In the age of impetuous and vain, it gives us a glimmer of light and lets us know that human artistic expression and philosophical thinking are always moving forward.
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