dark, and faded quietly from the night. At dawn, the sun rises from a distance, and the seven-color neon derived from the light stretches to the left and right sides of the sky, and then, one after another, the singing of insects, birds, rain and dew The sound of the sun and the woods, like the water bursting a bank, quickly jumped out of the screen, and then, a burst of sound higher than a burst of sound from the ground sounded in the dreamy sky... The
beginning of the Mexican film "Light of Silence" It took a full six minutes to show the beauty of nature with such a gradual change of picture. In the morning, when nature wakes up, its composition is so rich, and every color is full of vitality. Every existence is using its own voice to present the beauty of life.
In a small town in northern Mexico, John and Mrs. Esther are leading six children around the food, praying devoutly before making breakfast. During this period, John couldn't help but open his eyes and looked at his wife Esther. Esther, who was usually silent, closed his eyes tightly and pressed his lips tightly at this moment. John remembered something, his eyes gushing out. Tears.
In a person's life, there are always things that are not known to outsiders. Once you have a secret in your heart, you will feel a little panicked! Especially with extramarital affairs. John believes in the Mennonite sect in northern Mexico, which prohibits adultery and divorce. In this regard, John, who was faithful to the doctrine, was very contradictory. He told his father the secret. The father remembered the past and reminded John to be faithful to his feelings.
Marian, the extramarital, lives in a nearby town. She has a small restaurant. She is as tall and thin as John’s wife Esther, and rarely speaks. After John goes deep with him, the two are full of explosive power. All fell into desire. Although John's wife Esther had no fault with John, John still wanted to live an unspeakably happy life with Marian in the future, and promised Marian.
What about his wife Esther? Esther, who looks good after giving birth to six children, is usually like a taciturn statue. Maybe she already knew the hidden affair between John and Marianne, but she never mentioned it. John and her both drove out. On the road, John wanted to take this opportunity to talk about him and Marian, so that Esther could prepare psychologically for the future.
In the car, Esther didn't answer his words, just talking about how happy they were in the past! She couldn't imagine what would happen if John wasn't around? Thinking of this, she was extremely sad. Suddenly, in a heavy rain, she asked John to stop. After she ran into the wilderness, in front of a jungle, she couldn't help feeling infinite sadness in her heart. She was heartbroken and cried bitterly in the majestic rain...
John got out of the car and found the heavy rain. Esther was down, she had fallen to the ground at this time, and there was no sound. After being sent to the hospital, the doctor told John that Esther had a heart attack caused by being too tired, and John was desperate for life... It turned out that he thought that after persuading Esther, he could bring his love to Marian, but he did not expect Esther reacted so fiercely to this, and even chose to die, for this, he was very painful.
This swift and violent rain whipped the heart of the victim and caused a qualitative change in everything. The director of the film, Carlos Regadas, told reporters: My favorite scene in the film is such a strong downpour.
In the end, Esther woke up. Under Marian’s lips, the extramarital woman's sympathy was not easy to arouse her sympathy in behavior. She was like Jesus who chose to be nailed for the atonement of the believers. She was loved by her. Man chooses to die. Because of God's will, she was resurrected like Christ Jesus, so the three protagonists returned to the original position of the universe.
At the 60th Cannes International Film Festival in 2007, the screening of this film ended. The audience gave a long time of thunderous applause to the director Carlos Regadas in the venue. Tears filled their eyes and praised." great". In this regard, Carlos Regadas believes that this is due to people's lack of faith, too much desire for miracles and excellence.
The new Mexican director Carlos Regadas often pays attention to using the lens to present the shocking beauty of nature and the inner struggles of the characters that he pursues in the film. Under his lens, the frozen movie screen is full of poetic and allegorical meaning. The characters in the movie are like statues with very few words. The plot of the story is quiet and intense.
There is a third person in the marriage, and the space is a bit crowded. This eternal human subject matter has not been touched by the fathers in the past, but now the generation of John has encountered it. It is very difficult to deal with it properly. If John was gentler, he would not be able to reach the sense of respect from his parents. But his insistence on going his own way became resolute, and his wife's decisive thing happened. The third person, Marianne, was full of thoughts of walking with her good man John, but facing Esther and their six children whose blood is thicker than water, Marianne was obsessed with the strong John in every possible way. She gave up sensibly.
Unlike the current fashion movies, the triangle relationship in Carlos Regadas' films is not about handsome men and women. They believe in religion, are almost harsh on themselves, and wear extremely monotonous clothes. But there is a kind of nobility in them, a kind of simple, restrained and faithful nobility. Descriptiveness and the use of old or ugly images as the protagonist are the labels of Carlos Regadas.
After the hell-like purgatory, the three were reset. In spirit, they followed the extremely pious and respectful Lord in their hearts and surpassed their original selves.
In real life, such as John, there are many cases where he chooses to break up with his wife. For example, his friend George left the family because of extramarital desire and lived in a rented house outside with an extramarital person. After the two got together at close range, when the outsider learned that he was not as gold as she thought, and George was also wondering about the details of the outsider’s life. Day after day, the two sides could not help being disappointed in each other, so everyone broke up. Each returns to his own home.
George's wife, seeing George ran away from home, came back again, and after hearing his confession, broke up with him. Originally, a family where both parties were contributing to the future was destroyed when the man got lost. It would be an eternal scar on the hearts of both of them.
People need faith. People who have faith, under the secret guidance of God, generally won't leave too far when they are lost. Such as John in "Silence Light".
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