"A man wanders in the chaotic world. Wandering is a man's favorite task. It doesn't matter whether he is a director or a poet. But if he is a tramp or a philosopher, he is even more exciting. Because of the world and soul he can reach It will be more expansive. Crowds, vehicles, streets, lights, gardens... What can be found in it without distinguishing anything, just touch the human instinct, or just pass, experience, search-and then you can be in the clouds I'll explain it to you down."
This is an introduction to this film that I have seen before. So the name of the film was engraved in the mind like this.
This is a movie about "encounters". Four seemingly unrelated stories unfold from the perspective of a director traveling alone. The four stories about love are spiritual love, abnormal love, craving, and divine love in order. However, is this love at all? At the end of the movie everything becomes ethereal.
The first story.
Shifanuo: "The most beautiful thing is that I just passed by accidentally."
Carmen: "Why is it beautiful?"
Shifanuo: "I once let the car go at will."
Carmen: "I was trapped here by the fog. "The
fog is scattered and the people are scattered, there are always so many mistakes that make people feel more ripples." Until two years later the two met again. That soul wandering, still ended without a reason. "Since then, he has been in love with the girl he has never had, perhaps because of the unattainable arrogance, or the silent ignorance of the city he lives in..." The
second story.
The director watched the clouds and the clouds on the plane, and watched the ebb and flow of the tide on the beach. It seems to be thinking, it seems to be pursuing, but I stumbled upon my own story. The beautiful girl turned out to be a murderer of fathers. What does the difference between three knives and twelve knives imply? The distance between reality and imagination? Doubt, redemption, regret? Loneliness is flowing, and desires flourish.
The third story.
It's about betrayal. Every betrayal keeps us away from the starting point. The man circulated between his wife and lover, causing extreme harm and pain to both women. The unbearable wife ran away from home and rented another house, but met the landlord's husband, a man who also suffered betrayal from his wife. Human nature is greedy. As a Sony Ericsson, endless desires will only bring endless sinking.
The fourth story.
The handsome boy and the devout believer seem to be in love. But the next day, she will put on a black veil and go to serve God. It seems that God's treacherous laughter can be heard. Touching and helpless love.
The gloomy weather, the damp roadway, the wandering crowd, the weary steps, the silent stare, the indulgent touch, the scorching waiting, the lonely waking up. Such gloomy and humid light and shadow make people feel cold and accept the most heartbreaking confession.
At a certain corner of a turning street, in a certain rainy afternoon, in a certain lonely eyes intertwined. "Encounter", such a word with unknown, ambiguous and confused. No one knows what will happen after this, and it often ends like this without beginning. This kind of plot makes us wonder whether the narrator sitting in the cloud muttering to himself is the director, himself, or God.
What happens after the encounter? What is after the encounter? Enthusiasm meets, love germinates, love engenders hate, and it becomes empty in an instant... In the end, there is only choice to be indifferent and forgetful. Nevertheless, we still say that meeting is a kind of beauty, and our unchanging days are often like lotus flowers because of an unexpected encounter.
We stand in the palm of fate, with nowhere to escape.
At the end of the movie, the apartment lights up at night, and every window is lit up. Each window has a different story. Life is so trivial to carry all kinds of fragments floating on it, staged and curtain call. We encountered suffering, sorrow, loneliness, depression, pain on this dark road... and finally returned to death.
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