After watching "Through the Olive Grove", I never knew what to name this text. After listening to the music at the end of the subtitles, I realized that I really overestimated my wisdom. How can one sentence include everything Abbas has included in this film? Later, I looked at the cover of the DVD: an Iranian woman with a white headscarf was holding a pot of flowers and a book standing under an olive tree, her eyes drooping, as if misty green lined her purple robe... Then she realized that, It turns out that the green has slowly entered my brain along with the ruins after the earthquake.
This film is part of the "Iranian Trilogy" by the famous Iranian director Abbas. The trilogy "Where is My Friend's Home", "Endless Life", and "Through the Olive Grove" are interspersed after Abbas consciously blurs the line between record and fiction. It's hard to tell whether this is a story or a real occurrence. Because of this, he was deeply confused and fell into the film.
However, the scenes in the film, except for the olive grove, the highway, the children on the highway, the people watching the cars, everything, everything, and the place where I used to "work and fight" is actually like this. resemblance! I stopped chatting with my friends, watched the film quietly, and invested myself completely.
In fact, the story of "Through the Olive Grove" is very simple. A film crew needs actors to make a film, and this film is "Endless". Then there is an actor, Hussein, who has been enamored with the actress Taheri for a long time. Hussein seized every opportunity to pursue Taheri, but Taheri never said a word. It is such a simple story, an ordinary story that happened in a village after the earthquake, even the actors are indeed locals. The whole film did not use any fancy lens changes or special effects, and Abbas seemed to simply record the story with a camera. But this story, the persistent Hussein in this story, the silent Tahri in this story, and Abbas in this story filled my whole mind after the movie ended.
Perseverance, Hussein is undoubtedly obsessive. He is obsessed with pursuing Taheri because Taheri has seen him when he was in the cemetery. And why isn't Taheri persistent? She was obsessed with Hussein's pursuit, never reacted to Hussein's pursuit from beginning to end, never even looked up at him, never slowed down for a word of him. I am really curious. In the last scene, on the side of the big olive grove and on the other side of the ZigZag Road, did Taheri really stop for Hussein? I rewind this last paragraph and read it over and over again, but still can't figure out whether the two small white dots really stopped to talk? Even if it's just a sentence, even without speaking. As long as she really slows down for him, then I can be sure that in the end Hussein rushed back frantically, full of joy! Unfortunately, I can't be sure of these. The hapless Abbas refused to push the camera over, he just stopped on the top of the mountain, looking at the two moving black spots from a distance through the olive grove.
The love in the ruins meets the silent you, but the silent you refuses to pay attention to me who loves you. Hussein is really unlucky. He carefully analyzed the reasons for Taheri's refusal to accept her, illiteracy, no house...all the reasons, he could eloquently refute them all. But Taheri still refused to pay attention to him. He refused to engage in the third line for Taheri, which was originally a very profitable business in his eyes. But he was willing to carry the plaster to repair the house for Tahli, because this house was his and Tahli’s home. He said that life is not only about education and housing, but about understanding. I think this understanding should be a kind of wisdom of life and an understanding of the essence of life. Hussein has his own understanding of life, his own principles. He said that he would not do three lines, and he would not touch anything involved, even if he had to make a big circle to reach his destination. In his mind, he wants to marry Taheri because he wants to be happy. He thinks that if he wants to marry another illiterate, his life will not be happy. His strange logic is his own perception of life, an illiterate's pursuit of life and hope for the future, just like the green olive grove that occasionally drifts over white flowers, it actually exists on the earth.
Regardless of whether Hussein’s ideas are correct or not, the only thing I know is that Abbas understands his "understanding", and I, who is watching this film, are similar to Hussein and Taheri. Living together well, I can really understand his "understanding".
The olive grove disappeared, the subtitles were over, I switched the TV to the movie channel, and on the screen, Az and his lover hugged each other tightly across the fence, full of enthusiasm. Just coming out of the indifferent feelings that Abbas gave me, I found that I couldn't accept the passion that once made me cry. Perhaps Hussein is right: sometimes you pour tea, sometimes I pour water, marriage is like this, life is like this...
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