The Four Journeys of Life by Italian director Michelangelo Fran Martino. After "Happy Lazzaro", another Italian literary film that has come to the bottom of my heart.
The whole film has no background music, no language, only natural sounds. People, sheep, trees, and charcoal make instinctive sounds (coughing and wheezing, bell ringing and bleating) in the independent and related ordinary existence and life. , wind blowing leaves, charcoal cracking). The director's view of the great love of life that "everything exists equally" is expressed naturally and candidly. It is this kind of "silence of human language system" and the dissolution of human's condescending "hegemonic" expression perspective that can be practiced in his works. It is an attitude and concept that "only the sounds emanating from nature are indistinguishable and universal 'languages'".
The shooting perspective also reminds us everywhere to let go of the arrogance, ignorance and boredom of "human beings absolutely first narrative and watching the protagonist". Little white sheep, pine trees, and even black carbon and smoke all have their own forms of life. This is shared with mankind. The observation of the world of "shared rent", a life's observation and witness of other beings in nature, and their perspectives may be more equal, frank and even affectionate than that of human beings and invested in the natural world. In the night when the lamb looked at the stars in the eyes of the camera, and in the picture of the wind blowing the pine trees rustling on the hillside, I directly understood this kind of natural and equal gaze. The serenity of life is true to the feeling of being together.
Every moment of the existence of undifferentiated life is a truthful response to "What is the meaning of life?", even if it is the same day for many years to get up early to get dressed, drive the sheep up the mountain, sit on the same hillside to herd the sheep and cough, and drive the sheep home for dinner in the evening Take the "medicine/dust" to sleep, or stand on the same hillside all year round to face the sunny breeze and the rain, snow and frost.
Death can be an accidental event, but life is not a random and unmanageable accident. Open up the growth force and receptors of each cell with your own life form, and experience this journey of experience in the presence of your own subject. Don't take it lightly and miss every moment of your presence. This is a "good day" to live.
There is one scene that I find difficult to pass. The old man should know that the "cough medicine powder" he asks from the church to take every day is actually just dust from the church. He still takes it every day, and he lost the medicine bag overnight. He rushed to the church to ask for it, but no one responded, and the next day he was found dead in his bed... This expression felt the author's complicated attitude towards religion, and his handling of it with aftertaste.
The result is that the whole film is watched quietly and silently, which provides a special symptomatic mental calm and combing and touching for those with low energy.
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