Tears flowed from Benjamin and Erin's farewell at the train station until the end of the credits. I want to watch it again starting from the kiss that the two of them have been entangled with for a long time but still can't kiss, to see how the director has brought these few emotional lines to such an extreme, but I can't bear to feel the pain again.
"The only thing a person can't change is his hobbies." Sanvado's words almost summed up the entire film.
Sanvaldo's is wine, Benjamin's is Irene who can't put it down, and Morales's is the love for Liliana in this life.
For a year, he went to the station every day to wait for the murderer to appear. What made him so persistent was love and hate. For 25 years, he has never forgotten his wife. When I realized that I was forgetting, I forced myself to recall every detail of my life with her: Did she add lemon or honey to the tea she brewed for me that day? Since that day, he has been living in the past, and he knows it well: "This man has countless pasts, but no future."
By the time Benjamin returned to Morales's house and walked into the woods in the backyard, it was obvious that Morales had been imprisoning the murderer for a long time. But in this extremely long shot of Benjamin seeing Morales carrying a plate of rice, following him into the place where the murderer was imprisoned, and seeing the old murderer, I didn't feel a bit of revenge, but endless. of grief. The scene progresses slowly, so that the emotions are gradually brewing. But the director still felt that it was not enough. The murderer came out slowly and saw Benjamin, without calling for help or hysteria, but just begging Benjamin to let Morales speak to him.
During the 25 years he had imprisoned the murderer, Morales didn't say a word to him, and only delivered him meals every day, that's all. This hatred has already been pierced into the bone, and there is no need to condemn it, as long as he gets the life sentence he deserves. Was this a way for him to force himself to remember Liliana? After losing his love, he lives in Liliana's shadow. For revenge, he gave up all possibilities in his life. Without justice, he sentenced the murderer to life imprisonment, so he unilaterally sentenced him to life imprisonment, but this life sentence was also sentenced to himself. Whether it's worth it, he doesn't care, he just knows that this is what he has to do. It was the superposition of love and hate that made the pain of this memory never dissipate, and he would never allow himself to let go.
Let's talk about the technical aspects of the film.
The excellent use of long shots naturally does not need to be repeated, and the seamless editing is even more amazing; the two-line narrative processing is clean and neat, the use of the soundtrack and the advancement of the close-up shots of the characters are in place, and at the same time, the characters are exquisitely shaped, which can be seen by the director. Excellence in technique. And the most outstanding point is the director's clever use of the two emotional lines. The male protagonist recalls his unfulfilled feelings in his memories of the case. After knowing that Morales has never let go of the pain of his dead wife, 25 years The love for Irene finally boldly walked out of the deep buried heart. Memories in memories, love in love, echo each other and complement each other. The rhythm is well mastered. The series of foreshadowing in the first half and the mature skills will not make people feel tired from watching the movie; the emotion in the second half shows great tension because of the previous brewing, the best foreign language The film deserves its name.
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