Poetic movie

There are many kinds of movies in this world, and one of them is poetic. For me, "Under the Olive Tree" is such a movie. This movie has no protagonists who are beautiful or handsome, no hot action scenes, no exciting plots, and it does not need all of these. It is enough to have poems. The film is very slow, with long shots one after another. The poetry is in these long shots.
In this age of half-dead poetry, when watching movies of this type, some people will say that the story of the movie is too boring, and the plot is too messy, that is because they separate the movie and reality too clearly. From the beginning of the selection of actors, the director made this movie like documentary and fiction. You have to care about the earthquake, care about the echoes in the valley, care about the people going to the remote market, care about the people who moved from the mountain to the roadside, care about this love, you can understand and accept this movie, knowing that it is for reality While writing poems.
Of course not understanding and not accepting it is not a bad thing. My understanding and acceptance are only self-righteous understanding and acceptance, maybe just being smart. Whether to read poems or not, how to read poems, is my own business. Everyone and every scene in it is a poem. There are too many things that can be read. For me, this is mainly a poem of love.
When watching a movie, I have no expectations for the plot, I have expectations for the fate of the characters. Especially the anticipation of this love. The director spoke about this love slowly in the movie. A persistent boy, a persistent girl. In fact, it can be vigorous, from the boy said that if I do this again, it is only for you to see his determination. But the movie was handled very quietly and cleanly. The boy whispered about the future of the two that he had planned, carefully serving his own tea. The girl reads the book without saying a word and does not give answers. The girl walked in front and the boy followed, and would never stop her from questioning rashly. I believe that they are in love, so I even think that their respective accidents of saying the wrong lines and wasting the director's film are actually intentional, in fact, to spend more time together. As for the ending, I also believe that it must be a happy ending, and it must be the ending we want to see. Look at him running so briskly. If she doesn't agree, he will definitely keep following.

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