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Meaningful long shots
Winona 2022-01-19 08:01:47
Dilapidated farms, muddy and dirty roads, ignorant people cheating, drinking, and stealing. The little girl abused the cat very cruelly, tortured the cat to death, and walked around with the cat’s body, and then died of rat poison. At the funeral, Ilimias advised everyone to leave the farm. Everyone took out the money. He would make arrangements. All 8 people agreed to do the same. He tricked them into working in different places, but he made up the work. Later, when he was arrested, the police just regarded these deceived people as fools, recorded them as cases and put them in the cabinet. Nowadays, some directors deliberately show literary and profoundness through long shots, but they don't express the profound meaning as appropriate in this film.
Extended Reading
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Gerry 2022-03-18 09:01:06
Satan steps on the tango dance steps, a day longer than a hundred years of loneliness; seven hours of long shots, endless rain, damp despair makes people breathless; the same sentence: the real master speaks on the camera, not on story.
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Trycia 2022-03-24 09:03:26
There is no magic, such dampness, silence and vastness are the hundred years of loneliness in the heart of man
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Százados: Not that human life was so highly valued. Keeping order appears to be the business of the authorities, but in fact it's the business of all. Order. Freedom, however, has nothing human. It's something divine, something... our lives are too short for us to know properly. If you're looking for a link, think of Pericles, order and freedom are linked by passion. We have to believe in both, we suffer from both. Both from order and freedom. But human life is meaningful, rich, beautiful and filthy. It links everything. It mistreats freedom only... wasting it, as if it was junk. People don't like freedom, they are afraid of it. The strange thing is there is nothing to fear about freedom... order, on the other hand, can often be frightening.
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Futaki: I shouldn't drink. When I do I keep thinking of coffins.