After watching honey, milk, and eggs intermittently, I suddenly realized that it turned out to be a complete story, and the three movies combined the life of the protagonist Joseph. I watched the last egg first. No wonder it was like a fog in the clouds. There were very few plot lines and few characters and no explanation. It turned out that there was an explanation in another movie. Followed by honey and milk, the quality of the film is from low to high, from drowsy to still water, there is a sudden feeling of getting better and clearing the clouds and seeing the blue sky.
Tarkovsky uses all the films to tell one thing, Ingmar Bergman all the films to tell his own story. It is common to see a character's life in a movie, so the emotion it brings decreases gradually, but it is the first time to watch a character's life in three movies. First of all, I am amazed by the director's confidence and patience. First of all, four and a half hours is too long for a story and too short for a lifetime. How to choose the period and how to control the rhythm has become the biggest problem. Secondly, this kind of narrative method is a test of the quality of the audience. If it hadn't started from Honey, I'm afraid that in the confusion, this dedicated director would have been thrown into the cold palace.
When I was watching the food trilogy, I happened to be sick, wrapped in a quilt and holding a notebook while watching a dish, maybe this kind of film is suitable for watching in such a state of mind, the people on the screen are concentrating on writing or working or in a daze , I also occasionally wandered off the screen to think about my own affairs. When I came back to my senses, the people were still there, the scene was still there, and I didn't miss a little bit.
In "Honey", Joseph is still a child, slightly silent. Children's silence is beautiful, but unfortunately very few adults can detect it. They are always afraid that their children are different from other children. However, this innate silence will bring children a more delicate heart and a pair of I prefer staring eyes, this quality is what this fast-paced society lacks and needs. Like most directors today, they are eager for quick success, only seeking box office and hype, and have no patience for narrative. In their films No soul, just a commodity on the assembly line. Silent Joseph is not autistic, his eyes are always locked on this tall figure - his father. His father would treat him leniently and his silence. Only in the face of his father did Joseph feel the need for language. At school Joseph is a very ordinary and even low self-esteem student. He wanted to get a medal from the teacher, but this kind of medal would only be given to students who excel in reading aloud. Reading aloud in front of everyone is precisely what Joseph is not good at. Joseph was close to nature, and the environment he lived in and his father's occupation had long ago developed such characteristics. Nature can teach us much more than books. Joseph likes to go with his father to collect honey, put the ignited grass roots into the bellows, and use the smoke to disperse the bee colony to obtain honey. He looked at his father aloof, there was another world that could be seen but out of reach. It was also from this time that he understood that the relationship between human beings and nature is always inseparable from plundering and being plundered. The father plundered the honey that the bees worked hard to come by, and naturally plundered the life of the father. It is difficult to determine which is more important. For us, life is the only and important existence, but for nature In other words, it is just like thousands of ants, crawling on the ground and heading for decline.
Is this life, which is covered by the content of three films, special? Is it tragic to lose your father at a young age? Switching to the macro perspective of the world, no, not at all. Whenever I encounter something sad, I think, worse things are always happening in this world, and someone dies every few minutes; war, famine, plague, human stubbornness, I have a house to live and eat I have to be full and warm, but I have encountered some difficulties in life that are all too common. This is also the point expressed by the director through the calm lens. There are no mournful howls, no deliberately provocative music, only the sounds of nature and life are pervasively interspersed in the lens, this is a real world, but it is so delicate that it seems illusory; this is a calm and peaceful nature. , but covers all kinds of sordid deeds and sad deaths. A silhouette of a mother picking up her belongings against the light, staring silently at the dinner table, if there is sadness, these are enough, life still has to go on, and the pain will eventually disappear.
The relationship between man and man, and the relationship between man and nature, as long as we are still in it, we will never be able to look at it objectively. Hurt and being hurt, plundering and being plundered, can we reach a consensus and live in peace? I think it is really difficult.
The director's restraint is extremely amazing. He records all sorrows and joys in silence. The people in the camera are always focused on doing something, writing, working, staring, dazed, as if they can hear the sound of time covering the body. , and the director also used the camera lens to shoot these people so intently. We are all like the director, he tells this story from his heart, and we experience it first hand, and so on, tirelessly.
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