The mountains and rivers are still the same, the old people are gone

Jeff 2022-03-08 08:01:24

It is still a typical Jia Zhangke film: life is entangled by the times, the story is diluted by the denominator of time, and the scattered symbols constitute the road signs of time and space. The most tense scene appeared at the end of the film. Zhao Tao danced "Go West" alone, which not only echoed the beginning, but also shook the experience of more than 20 years into the mountains and rivers. This scene is only two minutes, but it is enough to use the story of the first two hours as a foreshadowing.
The mountain in winter could not contain the fiery feelings of the three, but no matter what the choice was, it was unfortunate. In middle age, she gave up her selfish husband and chose celibacy for her children, but her father died suddenly. Growing old alone, she became the most untouchable memory in the child's heart. No one can accompany her for the rest of her life, but she lives in the waves in her heart and never grows old~
Jia Zhangke deliberately "pleased" the audience and the judges. The elements of the film are obviously stacked, but the head and tail use go west to complement each other, especially It was Zhao Tao who danced alone, and it felt like he had returned to the original point. His life was wasted. No matter how cold he was, the relationship he had built up began to collapse, and tears were forced out. The emotional stories of little people under the changes of the big times will never be outdated, and the mountains and rivers can learn from them.

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Mountains May Depart quotes

  • Mia: The hardest thing about love is caring.

  • Mia: Time doesn't change all things, that is what it has taught me.