1996-2006, 10 years after Kieslowski's death. The "Heaven" he wrote was shot 5 years later by "Lola Run" director Tom Tykwer, and I'm only seeing it today.
It's a belated love...
Soon after the movie opened, I knew I was going to be captured. The psychedelic flight simulation scene, the boy's crisp and neat sentences are accompanied by the roar of the propeller and the low background music, and the Italian articulation has a melodious beauty of "big beads and small beads falling on a jade plate".
For most of the time, the woman played by Cate Blanchett is indifferent, murderous, and not greasy. However, when she learned that she accidentally injured four lives and the enemy was still at large, she finally collapsed palely. When I woke up, I saw his concerned face. With her eyes blurred, she asked like she was born in the world: "Where am I?"..."Who are you?"
The boy fell in love with her, and he couldn't tell when it started. It's Kieslowski-esque warmth, transcending the boundaries of reason and madness, and reminds me of the little postman in "Love Short", the silent, determined and thorough emotion. He fell asleep with his fists clenched, as if clasping her helpless arm...waking up with wet sheets. He said to his father, I am in love.
The woman's name is Philippa and the boy's name is Filippo, and both have May 23rd birthdays. They never knew each other until they knew each other and lived together. The fate is like fate, and the coincidence is like God's will. There was no redundant laying out, no ideological struggle, he did not hesitate, and even abandoned his police position as a matter of course, to help her escape and kill... The whole process was smooth and easy.
The revengeful woman became very peaceful, and she took him to the town where she grew up. In the church she confessed her sins, and he just listened quietly, and then said "I love you." The woman looked at her with wet eyes and murmured "I know. It's just...It's just that I want the end to come soon.”
The boy took her to get her bald head trimmed, and the innocent side surprised me. It was a mighty beauty that I thought only Sinead O'Connor could afford. Wearing the simplest white T-shirt and jeans, the two walked in the old square, in the open fields... The advance and retreat felt so coordinated. In the crimson twilight, they stood under the lonely tree, two small black shadows, stripped of their clothes, merged into one... It was like the unspoken beauty in the beginning, so primitive that it was almost divine.
The final plot is so dramatic, it is not too real, but it achieves another kind of reality. They robbed the police helicopter and fled, flying higher and farther, until they disappeared into the blue sky... Who can say, that is not the destination of heaven?
Combining Tom Tykwer's tense rhythm with Kieslowski's philosophical narrative, the film is filled with careless and natural detail. The piano and violin accompaniment almost throughout, soothing and deep, reminds people of "Blue" and "Two Lives of Flowers", that long-lost touch...
Everything comes and develops so naturally, I can't help but love this story, the delicate images flowing in the ethereal music, his gaze and pity for the veins of life. Traveling through time and space, all the eternal paradoxes and incomprehensions are his warm philosophical thoughts and compassion... He makes my life so quiet...
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