with his youthful feelings:) The film is my father's favorite, and I have repeatedly missed the night to accompany him to watch it. The original sound is what I have loved for many years. I found it today, and I am very happy :)
"Kilimanjaro is a mountain with an altitude of 19,710 feet and is covered with snow all year round. It is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. The peak is called "Oaqi-Oai" of the Masai people, that is, the temple of God. Near the west peak, there is the body of a leopard that has been dried and frozen. The leopard is looking for something in such a high and cold place, there is no People have explained it."
"What is the leopard looking for in such a high and cold place?" This is like a joint code, which seems to be an accident of the situation, but it is more like the inevitability of life, and it has long hinted to me.
I dreamed several times that the equator crossed, Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, and I always felt that I was the frozen leopard on the mountain. I didn’t know what I was looking for? What did I find? Are you looking for the top of the highest peak? ? Maybe it has already arrived but I don't know it!
In the gloomy tent, looking at Kilimanjaro in the distance, pouring out the glass of red whiskey gently ~ Harry began a journey of memories: Connie, Cindy, Ritz and Helen. His life is divided into four faults, one segment after another, repeated reality, tossing and turning memories. Thoughts at the end of the day, the wanderings of youth, really nothing but the melancholy of life like a dream...
Once, Yi Xiangliying and beautiful women like a rainbow walked past him, and the legendary beautiful true love seemed to have also had. At that time, he pursued the dream of wandering around the world, looking for the "Palace in the Heart". And his woman asked for a stable home, and her husband would love her forever. When he frantically shot at the running rhino to capture the joy of happiness, she was unable to drive away the growing fear. It seems that people who can only stand here always yearn for a life elsewhere. In fact, the palace in the dream has already arrived - Kilimanjaro, white clouds floating in the mountains, sparse trees, long grass, a few black servants, hippos, lions, rhinos, giraffes... That's it, Going back or staying for a good life, living in peace, like flowers and beautiful family members, like water, is not a waste of life. When women are used to this place, they think they have found the peace they yearn for. However, he was tired of stability and thought that he would love the prosperity of Paris more, with the feasting, the money, and the water from the perfume shop flowing into the street~~ So he gave up the grassland that covered the sky and returned to the streets filled with gray dance. He left the hall and missed Xin Xi. Everything is just a choice... When I was
young, the tragedy about Harry would simply attribute the conflict to Kilimanjaro and Cynthia. It was a pair with it and without her, and the irreconcilable one or the other. I have never seen it before. Some people have wind in their blood and are destined to wander for life~ They will not understand the paradox of choice, the difference between tourists and travelers...
Do you have to wait for the answer to be revealed before you understand? ~The most important person in Harry's life, didn't really feel it until after Cindy left. The last encounter was on the Spanish battlefield. In the blink of an eye, no matter how much repentance, it just paints a parting of life and death, as if it were a lifetime away. And when he missed Kilimanjaro in the unknown and unconscious, and turned back again, he was dying, exhausted, and no longer ambitious, but just came to find a past.
Still in the shade of the African grasslands, looking up at Kilimanjaro. There, Harry's life has a beginning and an end...
The stream of consciousness in the original work is chaotic, and it is the essence of the dying: its contradictions about emotions and careers, and flashbacks with a few women. Throughout his life, a theme of death was explored - Harry's body went to the grave, but his soul was saved. His end is a complete drop, the end of the whole life, the end of life.
The film, however, organizes and reorganizes Harry's rough and bumpy mental journey throughout the whole film: it extends a story, contains four feelings, just four fragments of life, four experiences in life, and gives the film a complete satisfaction in the Hollywood way. ending. Its true meaning is just to tell a person's mental journey, about the pain, struggle, depression, hesitation, and the struggle with others and oneself in the search for goals and self. In the film, Harry leaped into the "Palace of God" and returned to the real world. A death and resurrection at the end of his death, like a summary, draws an ellipsis on his past, thereby starting the next life.
If Harry in the book did not arrange for him to die in confusion, that would be a tolerance for him! If Harry in the movie doesn't let him wake up in shock, it would be cruel to Hemingway~
If we say that self-improvement and perfection are the process and ideal of everyone's hard work, even if it takes physical pain and sacrifice of feelings , and even the cost of psychological trauma. In the process of experience, it is necessary to carry out a continuous cycle of "doubt-denial-affirmation" of self and goals, subverting in stability and instability. Strive to seek self-dynamic balance in a relatively unbalanced environment.
In the book, Harry seems to be a contradiction. Wandering between negativity and positivity; radical thinking, decadent behavior; brave and upward, but constantly looking back in confusion. Always "dazed - ask yourself - find - answer - be at a loss" again and again. He only has "the negation of the negation", so he is tired, desperate, and dead. Just like a leopard frozen to death on the Kilimanjaro Snow Mountain, going forward bravely, but not knowing what he is looking for, maybe he has found the peak, but he does not know it.
Harry in the film got rid of Schopenhauer's negativity and decadence, and possessed a "Sisyphus spirit" with mashed, "affirmation after negation". Man, that's how it should be. Since the apex will never be reached, it must be pursued. However, perhaps it is not a peak to be climbed, but a peak of oneself to be reached. In the process of chasing the peak, you are also looking for yourself. However, many times, we only focus on the goal, but ignore the ego. Faintly, perhaps we have reached the peak, but we do not know it, because we have not yet found ourselves.
"Going too fast, the soul can't keep up."
PS: It is extremely difficult to convert the fragments of thoughts in the original book into film montages, and often there will be stagnation of thinking and picture faults. So I have to mention that the OST of this film! The transition between thoughts and pictures is all done by music. Bernard Herman tasted the film's Pastorale in 1952. The composition is far and boundless, as if floating from the top of the snow-capped mountains, telling the past stories like smoke, the beauty is lonely and awe-inspiring; it travels through time and space, transcends time, and leads thoughts. This deep violin piece was later re-interpreted for "Mysterious Garden", and even Yang Liping's dance "Spirit of the Sparrow" is often quoted ~ People on the
Sill at 17:02 on October 1, 2003.
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