Markovic came to a small town in Italy and he saw the love story of two young people. The drainage engineer played by Kim Stuart drove to this small town for a leisurely stroll. On the side of an arcade (can't every corridor door of the arcade be regarded as a window), he caught up with someone who was riding a bicycle. Girl Carmen, ask her which hotel is better. She pointed to him casually, and he came to the hotel, but saw her in the dining room. The goodwill of the two people burst out instantly. They went out for an outing and came to the arcade again. Carmen told him of her desire to talk. That night, Kim sent Carmen back to the hotel room, and then back to his room downstairs. Different things happened in two rooms of similar layout. Carmen lay on the bed, waiting for Kim to come back to find her, but he hesitated repeatedly in his own room, although his door was kept open, as if waiting for something. Markovic stood in the darkness of the hotel corridor, watching everything. The next morning Kim finally decided to rush to find Carmen, only to find that she was gone. Markovic’s voice said that the two have fallen in love since that day. They miraculously met again in the cinema in another city two years later. Kim, who was sitting on the second floor of the theater, spotted Carmen sitting below. He waited until the people who had left the scene to go out to catch up with her. Carmen talked again about her desire for conversation. In her opinion, people have stopped talking.
After walking through a long corridor, they came to Carmen's place together. Just as Kim showed the joy and curiosity of reunion, Carmen suddenly talked about the man she had lived with in the past year. She told Kim that the man wrote her a letter, saying that she must not forget her smell: "Some smells will stick to your skin forever, and I can still smell your skin's breath and words. A few nights ago, I went back. Last time we stayed by the lake, I wandered there, feeling that you were right by my side." She said the smell is beautiful and important. Carmen (intentionally or intentionally?) rejected Kim's kiss, perhaps because her skin still had memories. Kim suddenly turned and left. After walking downstairs, he hesitated for a while before returning. Next, everyone thought it would be a normal emotional scene, but what they didn't expect was that after the two people were naked on the bed, Kim never had physical contact with Carmen. He began to kiss her at a distance of one centimeter, and then his hand stroked her body, still one centimeter away from the slightly trembling but firm hand. Carmen thought he was just teasing her, but Kim suddenly put on his clothes again and hurried away. From his first departure, we can already see his rejection of the upcoming intimate contact-he does not want to be just a one-night stand in Carmen's life, and his return shows that he is unwilling. When two nudes appeared on the screen, we could see Kim's restrained desire mapped on the body he loved that had been possessed by other men. So what is the distance of this centimeter, is it the exile of desire or the salvation of desire? Does it give Kim the scent of love that other man once had on Carmen? Does it reawaken the memory of another man in Carmen's body?
After Kim walked downstairs, he once looked back at the window of Carmen's bathroom. Carmen, who was puzzled, was also looking out. A window separated the two worlds. When the camera shot up, we saw Markovic standing on the balcony of the same building. His narration appeared: "Since then, he has always loved the girl he never had, perhaps because of the unattainable arrogance, or the silent ignorance of the city he is in..." Is Kim because of arrogance or Don't have a reason? There is an old proposition of "how love is possible". For Kim in the film, a distance of one centimeter can give him a feeling of love. Nearly a millimeter, love is impossible. If Kim is on what Yeats calls "the old high way of love", then a distance of one centimeter is the expression of his "old and noble way"-because he can't bear being rejected, he can't bear being just Carmen The fact that in love lives meet each other. The distance of one centimeter also symbolizes the other man. Because of his existence and the important position he has occupied in Carmen's life, he has separated Kim and Carmen forever. Kim's one centimeter distance respected Carmen's emotional life, respected the insurmountable distance between them, and saved his inner perfect love. So they passed by like two clouds. That centimeter is also a symbol of the inability to communicate the delicate emotions between them (the emotional world of the two people is delicate enough, and only in this way, may they be unable to communicate) . And Markovic, who looked at their story, looked like a cloud in a sea of clouds. In this film, he has a God-like omnipotent perspective. After their story is over, he uses his own words to give them a conclusion that is not a "judgment".
Clouds are ethereal, uncertain, and hazy. The days on the clouds are a sign of modern life. It can pass quickly, making people elusive, or it can be unfathomable. Clouds cover up the unspeakable content of life. Even the "God" represented by Markovic can only observe and narrate the days on the cloud, but cannot be judged. And each cloud in the sea of clouds is completing its own life quickly, can they feel and experience everything else passing by?
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