Essay/Sun Mengjin
Have you ever read the poems of the German poet Holderlin? I'm not showing off, but I read a story about a girl on the Neckar River, the hometown of Holderlin. What I saw last night, there was an unbearable peace, because a girl who had resisted epilepsy stubbornly finally chose the road of no return very peacefully.
This remake of the film is called "Requiem" (also translated as "Spirit Boundary"). German director Schmidt changed it based on a true story. No, it should be the "exorcism" that shocked the Western world. Two priests He was later sentenced to a severe sentence. The damn director was very calm, and sometimes used a camcorder to show the protagonist's inner turmoil. When this turmoil was restrained again, we could only despair.
This movie can stab everyone's stuff in their hearts. It's straightforward, and it portrays people's tenacity so poetically, and the resonance you produce will never be mercy. A world where the wicked do a lot of evil does not need mercy. But you will definitely enter that girl's heart and want to hug her.
The story takes place in the southern German city of Tübingen. This university town looks very beautiful. It is said that a quarter of the population there are teachers and students. I checked the map. The German city Heidelberg I went to this summer was only an hour away by train. Holderlin lived there for 36 years, and Hessel and Hegel also finished their studies there. What's terrible is that Hesai's novel "Under the Wheel" that I read in college happened in the school there. The friendship story in this book is teary. And "Requiem" actually doesn't lie to you tears.
When cruelty and beauty are so entwined, everyone's reactions may be similar. Some people will touch their bodies to see what is missing; others will shout out because they have found depression; some others will think, that kind of blank contemplation.
Life is fragile, and life can respond. Why do I still say this in this article? I think the lens inside is stacked up, do you believe it? They became gushing fountains outside my window. Shot very high, spray very far. People and people are pulled by something invisible.
The movie has a terrible feature. There are many location scenes, but none of them are sunny. They are all shot on a cloudy day! I was watching and waiting. I thought that at the end there would be a very hazy lens, similar to paleness and helplessness under strong light. But the director did not do this. Instead, the girl was in the car, only taking pictures of the half of the car she was sitting in, with the shadow of the tree hanging upside down on the car glass.
The 80-minute movie has been telling how the girl worked hard to get closer to the ordinary people. She went to class after she took a break from school, and almost kept all her companions including her boyfriend from her. And the more she wanted to run towards normal people, the more she couldn't control the psychological fear when she came on.
Her expression is full of things that ordinary people can't describe. It is forbearing and strong, but also quiet and irritable; it is a soft hope, but also a closed restraint; it is a defiant inner crying, and it is also a helpless kind prayer... There are too many, it almost feels like a falling vase, it took more than 80 minutes to fall. Her kind father wanted to catch it, her lovely sister wanted to put it in her heart, and the only female college student who knew it wanted to take it to the green grass and bury it in the mud.
Only one pastor firmly believed that there was a devil in the vase. She also believed it after experiencing the hard work of the world. Regarding the cruel ending of this true story, the film didn't mention it. The film aims to describe the failure of all her efforts bit by bit. She sat there with her classmates in a vast grassland, but the grassland did not accept her.
I want to mention a rock star Ian Curtis who hanged himself. He often had epileptic seizures on stage, and then everyone saw him flying and dancing. The girl in the movie did the same in the bar. Later, people exaggerated the anti-social side of Ian too much. The title of his song-Love Will Tear Us Apart was written on Ian's tombstone, which was very gloomy.
If I have the opportunity to go to Germany again, I will definitely visit Tübingen. Now, we should all hug the sun, for the girl in the movie.
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