The abyss of sin

Amani 2022-03-21 09:01:48

This film has another translation titled "Greek Tragedy in the Middle East". When it comes to Greek tragedy, the first thing that comes to my mind is Oedipus's murder of his father and his marriage to his mother. In addition, the ancient and desolate Middle East has always been the focus of the world's attention. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict, religious hatred, war and death, etc., have caused countless family tragedies caused by the turbulent situation. Those of us who learned about the bloodshed through the news media would not have been able to easily experience their despairing grief if we were not there.

So the combination of the two is the concept of destiny that the director wants to present, and I think this film uses the tragic fate of individuals to accuse the inhumanity of the war and the brutality of the entire era.
At the beginning of the film, Radiohead's tune "You and whose army" is played, and Thom's lazy voice, as always, outlines the sadness of the picture.

The boy with three moles on his heels was full of ill-will, the camera slowly zoomed in, and the boy's eyes had the coldness of a prosperous hero, which made people shudder. The three moles that are close-up are foreshadowing, the origin of suffering and sin.

"Death is not the end of the story. Life will always leave clues. If you want to find your father and brother, you must go back to your mother's past."

That strange will hides hard-to-understand suffering, and it has become a Viewers are drawn to a suspenseful bond of mystery and tremors. If the suffering of this one person is a collective disaster, then the irony lurking in the depths of the material has been slowly revealed.

In the film, the mother's past life and Jenny's current search are narrated by two story lines, and the constant transformation of time and space is only highlighted by the big red letters in front of the screen, but there is no sense of confusion.

My mother's past was peeled off layer by layer, and what appeared in front of everyone was a truth that no one could accept, and this just confirmed my conjecture about the translation of the film at the beginning.

Love and death in a remote mountain village, blood-stained sheets and babies sent away in the dark night.
The mountain road that the mother traveled by car when she was looking for her son continued with the ruts of the wheels, as if prolonging the loneliness of the lonely.
Generational vendettas between Christians and Muslims, and the horrific fears brought about by massacres and burning cities, have added to the darkness of this brutal and warlike age.
The woman who sings is resolute, persevering and unyielding, but she always dawdled at the origin of pain, and collapsed together with history.

Thousands of miles of desert, the land is silent, the branches are overgrown, the fog is dark, and the eyes of sin are shrinking here. I was still listening to "You and whose army" when I wrote this self-imagined review. In fact, the tomb is not a place where she can rest. Just like the Jews who have experienced the Nazi massacre, they cannot have a sense of security in their lifetimes.

"The best thing in the world is being together." The
film begins on a gloomy winter day when they receive their mother's will, and ends when they have done what their mother said in her will and read her mother's letter It was a warm spring day.

I found some kind of priceless greatness in the secret confrontation between this deep despair and the most beautiful maternal love in the world.

Wen ‖ Mu Sangyi

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  • [subtitled version]

    Notary Jean Lebel: [after making a promise] To a notary, Mr. Marwan, a promise is a sacred thing.

  • Simon Marwan: One plus one, does it make one?