This is a movie that is not afraid of spoilers.
Most of the plot is narrated by a female voice in the form of narration, and the voice is calm and serene, which makes people want to listen to it forever.
The following are all her original words.
For convenience, digital labels are provided.
1. I saw a man who wanted to surprise his wife with a delicious dinner.
2. I saw a man who was a little absent-minded.
3. I saw a woman, a personnel director, who couldn't feel ashamed.
4. I saw a man who didn't trust the bank and hid his savings in his mattress.
5. I saw a boy who has not found love yet.
6. I saw a man who accidentally stepped on a landmine and lost his legs, which made him extremely sad.
7. I saw a man who lost his faith.
8. I saw a pair of parents who lost their son in the war.
9. I saw a man and woman, two lovers, floating over a city once famous for its beauty, but now in ruins.
10. I saw a woman who thought no one was waiting for her.
11. I saw a woman who likes champagne very much.
12. I saw a man who went the wrong way.
13. I saw a man and begged others to let him go.
14. I saw a woman with something wrong with her shoes.
15. I saw a man who wanted to save his family's reputation, but he soon regretted it.
16. I saw a man who wanted to conquer the world, and then realized that he would eventually fail.
17. I saw a man and his daughter, going to a birthday party, and it rained, it rained heavily.
18. I saw a rout army marching towards an enemy prisoner of war camp in Siberia.
19. I saw a man with a problem with his car.
There are several scenes where she does not appear.
The real first scene at the beginning of the film.
I try to tell the story in a female voice.
20. I saw a man and a woman overlooking the city.
21. I saw a family, taking pictures of the newborn baby.
22. I saw three girls dancing to the music of the restaurant.
23. I saw a man and a woman, troubled by love.
24. I saw a man and a woman discussing the first law of thermodynamics.
25. I saw a man crying in front of strangers.
26. I saw a man lose his patience with his patient.
At this point, almost all the stories have been shown.
There are a few exceptions, the priest of the 7th story, who has the most scenes, has four acts in addition to the ones shown earlier.
In a nightmare, he was overwhelmed by his beliefs, woke up in a dream, and sought a psychiatrist. The second time he sought a psychiatrist, he was rejected because the doctor had to catch a bus.
This pastor no longer believes in God. The pastor is just a job to make a living, but he uses his faith to bring comfort and hope to the world.
The man in Act 1 also has a follow-up.
He cooked food for his wife.
But he was confused by the old classmate who greeted him and ignored him.
The old classmate who didn't do well in school seemed to be no worse than him, making him suspect that he was a failure.
The doctor in Act 26, the next scene appears in the tavern, ignoring the beautiful scenery outside the window, with a lot of thought.
So far, all the scenes in the movie have been explained.
I don't know if you're unfulfilled or bored.
The film is a Swedish film called About Endless.
The director is Roy Anderson, born in 1943.
Roy's films are not many, but in fact he was nominated for the Berlin Golden Bear in 1970 for "Swedish Love Story".
In 2000, it was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
In 2014, he won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. In that year, his work may be his most well-known one, "Han Zhi Que Jing".
Exactly the same style as this movie.
The difference is that the movie seems to still have a main line and story, and this one has been completely fragmented.
"Singing from the Second Floor" in 2000, "You Are Alive" in 2007, and "Quiet in the Cold Branches" in 2014 are known as his "Life Trilogy".
During this period, his style became increasingly distinct.
Minimalist, cold, fixed lens, absurd.
Parallel lines, corners, perspective views, chaotic space-time.
Some spaces can be extended indefinitely, and some spaces are already converging in a corner.
This is true even for very obscure scenes.
It may be visually fatigued, but even if you have watched thousands of movies, you will still remember his movies at a glance and unforgettable for a lifetime.
The director actually revealed very early that this film will be wilder than the previous one, exploring charm, respect and discourse power, and a dialectical attitude towards beauty.
So, we saw the movie "About Endless", which did not have any protagonists and main lines, and was completely composed of fragmented scenes.
There are many scenes of our daily life, some important historical scenes, and even chaotic time-space and surreal scenes.
There is sadness, joy, decadence, and almost all the emotions and dilemmas faced by human beings.
There are many sources of inspiration for the director, mainly from the heroine of the story behind "A Thousand and One Nights", that is, the wise girl who tells the story to the king, named Sheherazade.
The film is told by a female voice, which is actually an imitation of Scheherazade's storytelling. You might be like a king and hope the story goes on forever.
The film's soundtrack is also from the Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov 's representative work - the symphonic suite "Sheh Ratchad".
Another inspiration comes from the paintings of Marc Chagall.
Marc Chagall's Baidu information is as follows: (1887-1985) Born in Russia , Jewish customs in his early years were the source of his deep-rooted imagination. Marc Chagall is a great man in the history of modern painting, divorced impressionist, cubism , abstract expressionism all genres such as pastoral author.
The most obvious scene in the movie is a man and a woman flying in the sky.
The original work is called "Over the town", which is generally translated as "Lovers in the Air" in China.
Chagall's paintings may mainly express the love with his wife, and in this scene in the movie, the bottom seems to be Cologne, Germany, which was destroyed by the war. The lovers may have died in the war, and their souls are in the air. Continue to embrace.
In fact, there are many scenes about war in Roy Anderson's films. In his films, not only the scenes have a lot of parallel lines, but also in time and space. Modern dramas are interspersed with, and even intersect with, scenes from the war years.
For example, there is the following scene in "Hanzhijingjing", which is unforgettable.
In this film, there are 6 scenes, 6, 8, 9, 13, 16, and 18, which are directly or indirectly related to the war, which account for a large proportion. Perhaps, the director wants to say that human history is in the endless war. , repeated in the endless calm.
In addition to the distinctive visual features, Roy's films generally have very little dialogue, and with fixed long shots, it often makes people feel that they want to communicate with the audience but cannot communicate, and the loneliness between people is about to emerge. The loneliness of a small person in the world can be felt without a story, but you are neither sympathetic nor miserable, you just look at it coldly, and then quickly imagine his story and your own story in your head.
This time, the director added a warm female voice, just like the perspective of God, watching all kinds of small people and big people come and go in front of him, although the voice is calm and not mixed with emotion, but there seems to be a kind of hard work for all living beings. Compassion.
The first law of thermodynamics says that energy is conserved and does not disappear.
Perhaps, human beings are endless, and the same is true.
Presumably this is about the endless story.
In addition, as an architectural design practitioner, looking at these pictures with excellent color matching and composition, I really feel that the story is insignificant, and maybe, excellent architects can also make excellent movies.
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