Beautiful things are always so short

Maggie 2022-06-06 22:36:01

Lucas: Is their opinion of Anton true?

Katya: What do they think of him?

Lucas: They said he was a good man.

Katya: (Thinking for a while) Is your wife a good woman?

Lucas: Yes

Katya: In the end you still came

Lucas: Yes, I'm here

Katya: Don't you think it is necessary to explain it?

After-view: A good woman and a favorite woman are not the same thing for Lucas.

Lucas: (Thinking for a while) My wife and I are old friends. Sometimes, in the face of an old friend, you will learn to look away from things, things you don't want to see.

Katya: Is she the only one looking away or are you too?

Lucas:...

Lucas: The problem with looking away is that you can never be sure what you didn't see.

Thoughts: The trust between husband and wife is a problem. It is cruel to face the reality, and the ending is split. The original intention of looking away is to escape reality and paralyze oneself (the good name is tolerance). As a result, people are curious, imagination is more cruel than reality, and the result is even worse division.

Katja: Grandpa always tells us that there are two types of prisoners in Gulag Castle. Some of them, if you put them in a wooden house and give them a flint, they will try to light the stove with the flint, and spend year after year, night after night, beating the flint, just not Endure freezing.

Lucas: What about the other kind of person?

Katya: You give them a flint and they will burn the house

Lucas: ...you mean my wife and I are the kind of people who light the stove? (The male protagonist is quite enlightened)

Katya: Are you?

Lucas:...

After-viewing: The heroine's classification of people, living plainly, or giving everything to experience the peak moment. Lu Xun also said something similar: Don't perish in silence, just erupt in silence. Wu Jun in the letter from Silicon Valley said: There are three things that promote human history, curiosity, the method of systematic thinking, and the spirit of challenging the limit.

Katja: Does your blue diamond never lose its luster?

Lucas: The word "diamond" comes from Greece. Diamond means "forever"

Katya: That's why you love diamonds?

Lucas: I love diamonds because diamonds are beautiful, rare and hard

After-viewing feelings: beauty (truth and goodness), scarcity (independent spirit, not blindly following, not following the crowd), hard (patience, calmness, courage)

In general, a very beautiful movie, the style is cold and rough, and the location of Siberia is a good contrast to the theme. The lines are refined, and the ending is somewhat unexpected, which makes people feel sad and sigh. Good things are always so short-lived.

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Extended Reading

Siberia quotes

  • Boris Volkov: [speaking Russian] Who are you, huh? Who are you

    Pavel: I think he speaks Russian.

    Boris Volkov: In heaven, we'll all speak Russian, no?

    Lucas Hill: In hell, too.

    Boris Volkov: [laughs heartily]

  • Lucas Hill: My wife and I are old friends. And sometimes, with an old friend, you learn to squint away certain things, things you'd maybe rather not see.

    Katya: Is it just her doing this, not-seeing, or you too?

    Lucas Hill: The thing about squinting, you can never be certain what you might not be seeing.