If I am Enemy with the whole world-Golden Dreamland Prequel

Janis 2022-01-22 08:05:44

When watching this movie, my mind has been interspersed with fragments of golden dreamland in parallel. What the two have in common is that a person is trapped by an irresistible force—it can be power, political ideas, religious beliefs, or even more inexplicable—someone just wants you to be the one who takes a lot of money. What do you do at such a moment? How did you get through many difficulties just by relying on your small power?

At this point, the Sakai Masato in the golden dreamland is really lucky. His family, friends, and former lovers trust him unconditionally. It can also be said that he has been rewarded by his unrelenting trust in this world for so many years. However, the noteworthy feature of this trust and assistance is that these help—whether it's a phone call, staying overnight, or assisting him in playing Tiaohulishan with the police, is almost a one-stop service. In other words, it is difficult for us to say whether someone who has helped you once will help you a second time. Therefore, if you carefully consider the Golden Dreamland, after a wave of people helped one by one, Sakai Masato is still in a safe escape state at the end of the plot, but it is actually unknowable whether there will be a movie like chicken soup on the road in the future.

The dark light is really refreshing and crisp in comparison. There are not so many characters and so many secondary lines. All Nimr has is Roy, and even his family has abandoned him. Among these two people, the truly respectable person is not only Nimr, who flees all over the world just for the freedom of love, but also the one who gave up the whole world for love, even I said, for the impulse to love. His name is Roy. . In his own heart, he banished himself.

The double blank in the ending is too interesting, I like this kind of narrative too much. It makes people unable to see any clues of happiness or sorrow. It does not predict, announce, irritate anyone, or challenge any ideas. It is just an objective and casual message to the audience, you guessed it. I'm not happy to think about Nimr's life in France, or whether Roy is imprisoned or not, and how long should he be imprisoned in case of imprisonment. I just wonder if the two of them will be like Masato Sakai and Yuko Takeuchi in the golden dreamland in the future. They can't hold hands, can't make love, they are deprived of all freedom about love-this is also close to being deprived of all freedom, if they meet each other, they are just hidden inner surges, nodding their heads when they are standing next to each other in the crowd. , Smiled slightly. Will they finally have their own lives, just becoming a glow in each other's lives?

"Seems like an old friend is here" sings: There is no place, there are constant memories, but life is short.

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Out in the Dark quotes

  • Nimer Mashrawi: To Mustafa.

  • Roy Schaffer: One time we used a stopwatch to see how long we could kiss underwater.

    Nimer Mashrawi: How long?

    Roy Schaffer: 36 seconds.