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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  • Trevion 2022-03-24 09:01:44

    2.4 It's okay to twist the bar, but it's an epic twist to shock people. I was quite shocked, annoyed by those dazzling and meaningless big scarlet letters. This kind of time and space travel gradually dispels the truth, and in the end, the method of leaving a heavy blow with people has always been very useful. Not good for photography and editing... too Shiraz, don't compare this level with Kielovsky.

  • Raegan 2021-11-28 08:01:20

    The inability to explain the mother's motives for doing this makes the final theme expression of the whole movie seem absurd. The whole process of searching is actually a process of continuously digging out hatred. Where is the so-called love? There was almost no explanation to the mother's first lover. The film chased the peculiarities of the plot too much, but it greatly weakened the intensity of criticism. The mother was nothing more than passing on the hatred in her heart to the twins.

Incendies quotes

  • Notary Jean Lebel: Will of Mrs. Nawal Marwan... To Notary Jean Lebel: Bury me with no casket, no prayers, naked, face down, away from the world. Stone and epitaph. I want no gravestone, nor my name engraved anywhere. No epitaph for those who don't keep their promises. To Jeanne and Simon: Childhood is a knife stuck in your throat. It can't be easily removed. Jeanne, Mr Lebel will give you an envelope. The envelope is for your father. Find him, and give it to him. Simon, the notary will give you an envelope... The envelope is for your brother. Find him, and give him the envelope. When the envelopes have been delivered you will be given a letter. The silence will be broken, a promise kept, and you can place a stone on my grave and on it engrave my name in the sun.

  • Notary Jean Lebel: Death is never the end of the story. It always leaves tracks.