The film’s final dedication reads: Dedicated to my child. The darkest night, the brightest light.
What is this dark night? What is that light? 4 countries, 12 people, connected with a rifle. Meet their different destinies within 5 days: arrested, killed, repatriated, amputated, this is the darkest night. At the same time, a marriage is saved, a life is saved, and a pain is released. This is the brightest light. When all the events have occurred, the film ends. And all the corresponding relationships have been established:
Love: Pete’s love has survived, the Japanese deaf girl’s love still has nothing to do, the Moroccan teenager’s love ends in bathroom voyeurism, and the Mexican nanny’s love is on its way.
Family: Pete’s family is kept, the Japanese deaf girl’s family is reconciled, the Moroccan shepherd’s family is broken, the Mexican nanny is forced to repatriate, and she reunites with her family in the most bizarre way.
Life: The Moroccans continue to live in poverty and tyranny, the Japanese continue to live in unaffordable depression and depression, the Mexicans live a vibrant life but they are just criminals and beggars facing their strong neighbors in the north. Americans have everything, Americans have nothing.
The film tells these stories with a slow time scale, so that every kind of pain is presented in a delicate and vivid manner, and to see how life is polished in life. Only by rubbing the sand very slowly at the fingertips can you truly feel the shape of each of them. When Pete waited anxiously for the helicopter to arrive, he had the opportunity to weigh the weight of those lives. When the Japanese deaf girl stood naked on the balcony, although she could not speak, she let all the audience hear the most shocking shout.
"Tong Tian Pagoda" is very rough, and the process of watching it does not allow us to get rid of the world, but to feel life itself more truly. Remind us of the existence that may be forgotten, such as a certain life state, a certain inner need, certain people and certain things. Therefore, communication is not a language problem. According to legend, human beings finally gave up building the Tongtian Pagoda due to different languages. In the movie, the deaf women are speechless and the Moroccans are speechless, but they seem to be the ones who have the most dialogue. If there is a tower of Tongtian, it is not a geographical concept, it is in people's hearts.
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