You see that city, so gloomy and deserted, it always seems to have just rained. You soon feel the flatness and closure here, as if isolated from history and the future, as if already dead. You can still see some expressionless people who wander the streets and bars, but you don't know anything about them.
The film strives to portray the state, which is an inescapable state, so it appears extremely stylized. I mean, the film almost stubbornly maintains a slow and restrained rhythm, the picture is dignified and simple, with little modification and change; while the people in the film are trapped in a cold life and cannot extricate themselves from greed, selfishness, lovelessness, and the weak. They are desperate, they succumb to despair, which is numbness.
In such an environment, there are also idealists, protagonists, and a silent security guard who is squeezed out by colleagues. He often says: "This is only temporary." He has very ambitious plans. It's magnificent like a joke, but it's actually a joke.
Then he fell in love with a woman, and as a result, she just used him-the same thing happens every day in every city, but this story is especially sad because he knows everything, and he just watched her hurt himself. Listen to her liar one sentence. But he didn't show anything, because he loved her. "You know what kind of person he is. He won't betray you. He is very emotional and loyal to love like a dog." You can imagine the kind of pain, but you can't see it in the movie. The movie just describes the unchanging state— -Life is still as peaceful as dead, except that he was framed by her and sent to prison.
In prison, he continued to remain silent. He might miss her occasionally, and occasionally think about the magnificent plan, but it didn't matter. Only an ugly woman wrote him a letter, and he tore it up without reading it.
The story is not over, but my narration ends here. This is enough. In the calm and slow picture, we have seen enough despair and enough love to burn our bodies. The rest of the film, in my opinion, is nothing short of superfluous. That's it, what else?
"Twilight" means the faint hope in the dark, but there is no hope, but it is actually looking for hope that does not exist in the dark. The world is a hard net, and within it, it is inevitable. But there are always people who look forward to the aura of love, it flashes quickly, and the river of time begins to flow, and that moment is heaven. But there is no real heaven, or to put it this way: one person's heaven is another person's hell. However, who wants to let themselves fall into hell in order to achieve the heaven of others?
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