As Plato's words quoted at the beginning. Life is constantly self-dissecting, self-abandoning, and re-assembling.
"The Balkan War refers to the First Balkan War and the Second Balkan War that occurred on the Balkan Peninsula in southern Europe from 1912 to 1913. The first Balkan War (October 1912-May 1913) The two sides are the Balkan Allied countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia) and the Ottoman Turk Empire. As a result, the Ottoman Turk Empire was defeated, and its land on the Balkan Peninsula was ceded to all except a small piece of land near Istanbul. The four nations of the Allied Coalition and Albania became independent. Afterwards, due to the problem of the distribution of benefits after the war, the Second Balkan War (June-August 1913) broke out soon. This time the warring parties were Greece, Serbia, and Romania. , Turkey and Bulgaria. As a result, Bulgaria was defeated and the Bucharest Treaty was signed. Bulgaria ceded a large area of land.
Serbia became stronger after this war; this caused anxiety in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the hostility between the two countries became the First World War. The fuse. Bulgaria was defeated by its neighbors in the Balkans, so it turned to revanchism. It joined the Allies during World War I (because Serbia, Greece, and Romania are all members of the Allied Powers), seeking to restore the glory of Greater Bulgaria.”
This is the big picture of the film. In the background, the whole film was moved across the Balkan Peninsula. Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. And this gaze is just another stare at the entire Balkan Peninsula after the Manakis brothers.
The only knowledge of Ulysses is the "stream of consciousness", and this film is also the most confusing one of An Zhe's films I have seen. Sometimes I travel through the past and enter the lives of others, but the transfer is just right. It is full of comedy effects, especially the scene in Romania in the same year. A long shot from 1945 to 1948 to 1950, watching the return of father, the arrest of uncle, and the arrival of the confiscation committee, the last photo, Then the family fell apart. In Romania, with eyes full of red, soldiers sang Katyusha and stepped onto the battlefield. People marched with banners that the revolution would surely win. However, the home of the so-called bourgeoisie was in an atmosphere of terror. And then to Lenin who was dismembered when he left, people with long shots were chasing barges and rowing crosses. What was right and what was wrong?
At the border check, he became Yannakis, and the fate of being exiled seemed to fall on the male protagonist. "The first thing God created was the journey. And then came doubt... and nostalgia..."
They were discussing whether the Serbs and Albanians came to the Balkans first. The final conclusion is that the damn Hegel influenced Marx. Think of the author's post in the stork's gaze, "By which cues could we spark a new collective dream?" The history of mankind is advancing like this, and because of this, the gaze of the Manakis brothers seems so different and falls in love at first sight.
However, what is more enamored than the first time I watched it is the story of a male protagonist that is not explained in the film, but can be considered by the side.
More than thirty years ago in Greece, the male lead was in the army, hoping for a sign in the eyes of the local girls. But they just laughed and passed on. There, they laugh and pass on. But not always.
-"Will you wait for me?"
-"Is it wrong not to love the city where you were born? But this place stifles me. Rain and mud in winter, dust in summer."
-"I'll be back to take you away from here. I can hear my train coming in."
-"Stay a little longer. Only a few minutes."
-"I can hear the train. I must hurry."
-"Tell me that you care, that you will come back. I will be waiting. "
From then on, it seems that everyone in my eyes has become her appearance-you can refer to the experience of the girl in "Stork's Footsteps". On the other hand, one can imagine the reason why the hero of "Stork Bird" will set foot on it later. The point is not who is responsible, the point is that the male protagonists are blinded one by one. This film can be said to be plunged into the pit of three rolls of film in order to escape her, while "Eternity" gave up everything for the sake of the pit. To some extent, getting into the pit is relatively easy, because once you are serious, you can temporarily forget everything. But it will be paid back after all.
Whether it was the girl who claimed to be singing Kurdish folk songs on IMDB to put him on the clothes of her dead husband, or the old man's daughter told him that she seemed to have known him a long time ago. It can only be said that they are blind. In other words, choose not to watch it. In other words, why not the male protagonist? He just chose to blind his eyes, but in the end, the meaning of the three rolls of film was that he finally dared to face himself.
"When I return, it will be with another man's clothes. Another man's name. My coming will be unexpected. If you look at me, unbelieving and say,'You are not here.' I will show you signs and you will believe me . I will tell you about the lemon tree in your garden. The cool window that lets in the moonlight. And then signs of the body. Signs of love. And as we climb, trembling to our old room, between one embrace and the next , between lovers' calls, I will tell you about the journey... all the night long. And then all the nights to come, between one embrace and the next, between lovers' calls. The whole human adventure. The story that never ends. "
In the beginning, it was "A way out", but in the end, a short evasion could not solve any problems. Face it and become it. From this perspective, it is true that the connotation and length of "Stork Bird" are obviously pale in comparison.
-"I'm crying because I... Because I can't love you."
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