1
My girlfriend asked me, what movie are you watching?
I replied, the taste of cherries.
She was very strange and said: How can Cherry still masturbate?
I really burst out laughing, I said, people are the taste, not our masturbation.
The girlfriend asked again: What does the taste of cherries look like? What is he going to say?
I thought about it for a long time, but I can't seem to find an answer.
I've seen this movie since I was in college in 1999, and now 20 years later, in 2019, I still don't know what he wants to say.
It's like masturbation.
2
A man driving a Land Rover wanted to find someone to bury him.
But as for the reason for his suicide, the whole film did not disclose it. At the beginning, I talked to my Kurdish soldier brother that he was the happiest when he was a soldier, and I still remember the way he shouted at that time.
At the end of the film, we see that he has a nice apartment. When he was driving in Tehran, which was full of sand and dirt, many people asked him if he wanted to hire a job because he looked like a big boss.
Yet he was very indifferent to his own life, as if people's lives had nothing to do with him.
So we know
, why should one live? Why die? Totally a mystery.
3
This man is a very worried life.
Not so easy when he died. He had to find someone to pay him 200,000 yuan as an employment fee when he took an overdose of sleeping pills and lay in a dirt hole dug in the mountain, and let him come to see if he was dead on the second day.
The story is that simple.
The Kurds mentioned earlier did not agree, nor did the Afghan theology students, until they found an old man who was about to retire, and he worked in the autopsy room in the zoo. In order to treat his child, the old man agreed to his request. Persuading in the car.
And our protagonist, Buddy, suddenly remembered something, and went to the zoo to find the old man, and asked him to bring two stones to smash him on the second day to see if he was dead, afraid that he was still alive.
He was just so worried.
4
Islam and Christianity are fraternal sects, and both oppose suicide. In fact, Confucianism in China pays attention to fulfilling one's life, and is also opposed to suicide.
Suicide is irresponsible for one's own life.
And Buddy didn't know what happened, maybe "his emotions hurt his family", he didn't have a trace of nostalgia for the world and felt hopeless.
However, his pit was dug next to the cherry tree.
I suddenly remembered what the old man said, when I was in despair, I ate a mulberry, and it was the second and the third. I suddenly felt that the surrounding life was also gratifying, and that everything was full of possibilities.
I think of the old revolutionary I interviewed. He experienced the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Civil War, and the Counterattack in Self-Defense. He said that he was lucky enough to come back with a life. He has seen so many comrades leave, but in his heart Save that glimmer of hope. When we saw him, when we saw him walking with a cane, we saw that ray of sunshine, a green leaf, and a cloud, all of them were so contented and smiling with joy.
I thought of the film War of Flowers. When a little girl was about to commit suicide, she suddenly heard the sound of the lotus opening, and she had hope for life.
When man cannot find a reason for his life, he is inspired by the things of nature.
Life and life can encourage each other, even in a country like Iran with mountains and mountains, you can't see large tracts of water.
Suddenly I thought of the Spanish movie "Tian Di You You", which is also about to commit suicide, also in the loess-like hills. And how we come to terms with Van Gogh's suicide, and Louis Mahler's "Wraith".
But they are not as solid as Abbas reflected.
, the real sense of life!
5
The whole film uses a long shot similar to a real movie, which also appeared in Abbas's later "10" movie, let us reflect on this mysterious life event.
What are we looking for?
Why do people choose to end their own lives?
I think what's great about Abbas is just how open it is, it takes the film to zero.
This is both the way we talk about masturbation, and the way this film comforts despairing human beings.
6
Before persuading you to commit suicide, think about cherries and masturbation.
View more about Taste of Cherry reviews
