At the beginning, I saw women gathering ears in groups, and I remembered the time and space so far apart, but how similar the wisdom of the people is!
Before the city monopolized people’s lives, picking and picking should still be a very natural thing, but as the narrative of the shelf life and ownership follows the arrival of city life, we have begun to lack the ability to understand anything unowned, everything has nothing to do with price The ways of establishing contact with objects have become marginalized, so we lose our naive vision.
But how naive Varda's eyes are! Innocence is the only source of a deep sense of morality. Innocence is balanced, indescribable honesty. It is neither sensational nor cold, nor compassionate nor criticized. It becomes a childlike innocence, which is the most special place of Varda.
A clock without hands, placed with two cats, is very beautiful. The beauty of it is that this is not a clock that the artist contributed to or damaged out of his own selfishness, but a clock picked up in the trash. The objects it stumbled over in other life worlds were bumped by accidental concrete but unknown events and lost their pointers. They were finally picked up in the garbage and stood at this end of time. This makes this clock without hands different from the clock in Dali’s paintings that only stems from the artist’s personal will and exists as an image. Varda’s clock is first of all an object that has nothing to do with art. Ordinary rubbish, even a nameless person silent in the gloom, has no intention of revealing his own existence.
In fact, the material of the documentary is like a garbage dump. Varda's shooting and selection is like the attitude of placing the clock on the table, there is no special attitude to speak of. On one side is the messy and discarded accidental world, on the other side is the fair shot, picking up the things in life, so that they all stand at this end of time. So we know that they each have their own reasons, and they each have their own reasons. Seeing the last vegetarian slum teacher who buys newspapers every day and picks up trash, I feel for the first time that the vegetarianism theory discussed in the philosophy class has its rationale, but this kind of rationality cannot be seen by philosophers. The reason for it is to let you know and believe that he has his reasons. Just like the man who was dismissed because of drunk driving and can only make a living by scavenging waste, there is also his reason. This is the fairness of the lens.
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