1. There is wine today and you are drunk today, and the snow will turn into mud tomorrow. The sky changed overnight, just as Ceausescu fell, the firecrackers (salutations) went off, and the dictator (father) fell. The old order came crashing down, the people revelled, and ideas were reversed. But in the past 16 years, looking at the pigeon-shaped bungalows and dirty streets, has everything really changed? Reminds me of the irony in "Silent Wedding" that "communism turned the countryside into a factory, and capitalism turned the factory into a resort". Surname capital and surname society? Romanians are not birds. 2. The question raised in the subtext is whether the people chose the revolution, or how much the people played in the revolution. There are two views of history. First, the people are nothing but the folly. They only choose the victors. They are the tools used by the elite group. 2. Even if there is a commotion, the smashing of drums and the beating of thousands of people is a form of revolution, such as street lights go on and off, quantity changes and quality changes. 3. The truth is not available, and the memory is not reliable. For that revolution, the frustrated people in reality want to reveal it, but the beneficiaries in reality want to hide it, but no one cares about the real martyrs. Most people only care about firewood, rice, oil, salt, grain and vegetables, and the memories of the big era and the trivialities of life are mixed into a pot of porridge. 4. The metaphor of the street lights at the beginning and the end can be understood as the street lights go out one by one, or it can be understood as the street lights go out at the same time (the editing technique of displaying things that happen at the same time in parallel), creating ambiguity in the language of the film. Throughout the TV interview-style camera, people are going in and out in front of the camera, as if it is the truth in front of the camera, some people want to squeeze in to show their faces, and some people want to escape.
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