After watching "On the Other Side of Life", some people will ask whether it has committed the taboo of three-stage or multi-stage style for several years, especially for Oscar, there have been too many such things in the past two years. .
Then I won't mention the Oscars here. It is not the main direction of the film, but an additional participation. It should be said that "On the Other Side of Life" is more likely to be classified as a category that competes in the three major sections. The 60th Cannes Film Festival has been over for a long time, and now I look back to see "No Country for Old Men", which was voted nearly 9 points by tens of thousands of votes on IMDB. The award is just a game. It may be because the Coen brothers have won too many before, and this year the organizing committee is pushing newcomers. Not out of doubts about strength, Fatih Akin and "On the Other Side of Life" have been lucky enough to win the best screenwriter (the award was Almodóvar's "Return" in 2006, many people called it injustice ). According to the sixth sense intuition of most people, the three-stage style has been in vain more than ten years after it first shocked the world. A more intuitive comparison is that last year, the Mexican Inaritu and his "Tower of Babel" won the title of best director in Cannes and also made a difference in the Oscars. But here, I can't wait to announce that "On the Other Side of Life" is stronger than "Tower of Babel", which "straddles the three continents of Asia, Africa and America, with a large collection of yellow, black and white skin colors", and it does not even have a line dividing Eurasia. The Bosphorus Strait, because the Turks have been planning to leave Asia and join Europe since 1987, but unfortunately they have not been able to do so (this film will touch on this). In this respect, "On the Other Side of Life" can be compared with a series of films that emerged as the Romanian New Wave, which (including "Two Days in April" and "California Dreams", etc.) Going collectively, the film reflects the changes of the country and people behind it in the past ten years. Eastern European Romania, which has disappeared for a long time, came first. As a country such as Germany, France, Britain, it is not excluded that there are curious elements.
The story of the film is divided into two parts, Germany in the center of Europe and Turkey in Asia Minor. People, living or not, appear between cities such as Bremen, Hamburg and Istanbul through planes, trains, and cars. The identification of the nature of "On the Other Side of Life" is like the identity of director Fatih Akin, who is of Turkish descent in Germany. It may not have a simple background like ABC, but is mixed in two civilizations (cultures), Two religions (beliefs), the differences between Eurasia, progress and backwardness, freedom and conservatism, all the terms that can be contrasted can be used to say. Fatih Akin's ambitions are not as big as summed up, the above list is just different possibilities. When it comes to the purity of the Turkish customs, it naturally depends on the Ceylon brother.
Speaking of Fatih Akin personally, he obviously adopts a three-stage form to express the differences between Germany (country) and Turkey (Eurqi), for example, Li An gets through things and chooses the things or themes he pays attention to. Some of the differences in the previous paragraph may be extracted, coupled with the fact that there is an emotional estrangement between the next two generations, the theme of "On the Other Side of Life" is not too mysterious, heavy or alert. Three families, a pair of Turkish father and son, a pair of Turkish mother and daughter, a pair of German mother and daughter, a three-part story. It seems clear and clear, there will be no traces of playing, such as who met in a bookstore in Istanbul, and met in the streets of Hamburg. We regard the possibility of two people's reunion as a kind of probability, magnified thousands of times, and it becomes the possibility of coincidence in the movie story. For example, in "Crash", the police officer sacrificed his life to save the woman, and in "Tower of Babel", the fart boy fired a gun in the mountains. They are understandable, and the stories that follow are made up of countless coincidences. On the surface, the first subtitle "The Death of Yeter" appeared from "On the Other Side of Life", and the story has the possibility of being vulgarized, just waiting for who and who to meet with tears and hugs on what occasions, It's just that Fatih Akin, who is the director, has eliminated the possibility many times. Until the end, he didn't let the most deserving person show a touching and sensational picture. He didn't expect it, and he didn't care about missing it. Aksu, who was driving back, didn't even find his father. In the end, the father went to sea, but he should be back soon. , he was sitting alone on the beach.
Not surprisingly, the three posters of "On the Other Side of Life" are all melancholy and cool blue, with the characters facing away from the audience and facing the sea. OK, many people have been able to connect the back of Yangyang's head or Haizi's poems in "Yiyi". The main purpose of the film is to show the invisible side to the audience, so life can only be missed, and it should be more cherished. I am not good at or willing to express thousands of words in a delicate and sensual style, just because I believe that there is such a thing in the film. I'm amazed at what Tiger Skin said, ("On the Other Side of Life") is equivalent to changing "Sweet Honey" New York Street to miss it again (compared to one time many years ago), but farther can think of "Sweet Honey" At the end of "Doctor Zhivago", Zhivago seemed to see a strikingly similar back. But, that would be a bit miserable.
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