is the season when autumn leaves begin to yellow, and the short, unique and warm beauty of the year is about to come. Years always go back and forth like this, and countless people have chanted this time. People say that every year is so nothing new, but if you remember to smell the first scent of sweet-scented osmanthus, and occasionally see the first piece of ginkgo slipping quietly, grasping these details, you naturally know how to appreciate the ordinary beauty. Countless people have said what Ou Rong's "Time Stays" has to say: People are about to die, and their words are good.
The last time, the time staying, the time dying, and the dying time. These Chinese translations are already familiar to many people, but they are still full of strong energy. Director Ou Rong didn't mean anything about mystery. At the beginning of the film, he told the audience: Photography Shi Luoman is about to end his splendid life. He is only 31 years old. He has a successful career, but only three months. Ou Jong's turn around this time is very strange, like if there is no homosexuality in Almodovar's movie, and there is no dew point in Catherine Brea's movie, it makes people feel that they can't adapt. But the story he told this time is as simple as that, how a person who is about to leave this world spends his last time.
The cruel shadow is still shrouded. Although the movie is nothing like Faulkner's famous novel "When I'm Dying", there are magical and unbelievable stories and ugliness, but there is almost no gentle shadow between Roman and his family. Although his father loved the family deeply, he had an affair. The mother liked children but he could not give birth to a grandson. As a famous portrait photographer, he had never taken a photo of his sister who loved to be photographed and her child. The last time he went home, facing the begging of his mother and sister, he actually yelled at her sister: You are so ugly and I hate you. He didn't tell them that he would die soon, nor did he tell his gay boyfriend Sasha, and drove him away. He only told the news to the grandmother who had severed contact with the family, on the grounds that the grandmother was also about to die. Of course, these are not the focus of the director's attention, but can be regarded as background.
So, what should be done? The identity of the photographer is very important here. Photography is the art of keeping time, and it often freezes a certain moment. Roman, who always takes pictures of others, finally wants to take pictures of himself, and the pictures are finally connected inside and outside. Memories are a bridge between the present and the past, and a cure for loneliness. Roman constantly recalls the beautiful childhood, the childhood without worry and guesswork by the sea. He photographed the beloved Sasha's warm sleeping posture when he was in good dreams, and photographed her wrinkled smile when sleeping with his grandmother. What is especially moving is that my sister sent a letter expressing her understanding and care for her younger brother. Roman finally plucked up the courage to call her sister back. It was sunny when the phone was on. My sister was playing in the park with her cute child. Full of natural beauty, and he, hiding in the shade of a tree not far away, hung up the phone, took pictures of the most beautiful moments of his sister and children, and then quietly left. With all the warmth that was frozen by photography, he calmly returned to the place where he lived in his childhood. In his lens, it is no longer a fashion moment full of pretense and vanity, but warmth, like his heart at the time. This kind of warmth shines on himself and any stranger, such as the pair who longs for children and can’t. Strange couple giving birth.
I caught a glimpse of the strange woman in the cafe, and the strange woman sprouted the idea of breeding by borrower. Maybe it was Roman's handsomeness, but she must have insight into Roman's human beauty at that time, but she didn't mention it. When they met for the second time, she finally asked, but he flatly refused. After the ideological struggle, he still agreed to this unsympathetic request. For Roman, this is almost an impossible task: first he is gay and doesn’t love women, and second he has to face the woman’s husband (although he has agreed and the problem lies with him, how can normal people easily accept it) What about this requirement? Again, he also had to consider the child's life in the future. And the only reason is morality, it is morality that drives his adult beauty, and thus warms himself, parting his farewell to his dying illness, telling the truth, the woman is worried about her inheritance, he humorously once: my disease will not be inherited, and I I also have a question for you, do you feel your child kicking you in your stomach? I want to take a picture of him. He left his legacy to this impossible child.
He came to the beautiful beach in his memory. At this time, he had his long hair cut off and his figure was thin. No one knew where he was or where he was going. The ringing cell phone was thrown into the trash can. The beach was crowded with people, he saw the past, the past happiness, when the crowd left, he lay down quietly, the setting sun fell bit by bit, and he never got up again.
Ou Rong rarely used smooth and delicate images to show this last time, and perhaps the best time.
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