Two people, walking in the desert Gobi until despair. In the process of watching the film, especially the first half, I thought of Reichardt's "Happy Yesterday". It is also two men who leave the city and go to the nature far away from modern civilization to find life elements outside the established life. In "Yesterday's Pleasure", they went to the depths of the jungle, while this film went to the endless vast next door and desert, the vision is more magnificent, and the people are even smaller. American independent films often place stories in the Wild West, and a search and escape theme about travel, hiking, outdoors, highways, and freedom has become the label of American road movies. From gold rushes and cowboys in the West to today's road trips and wilderness survival, it's a picture that must come to mind when thinking about America and the American Dream. There is no clear storyline in the film, it's all about walking and finding. A large number of magnificent western landscapes continue to appear in the shot, especially in the second half of the film, the backs of the two people staggeringly walk towards the ground level, the dim sky slowly changes color and brightens, the sun begins to shine on the earth, but the vitality gradually gradually changes. diminished. Another impressive scene is that the two are walking head-to-head and walking in the same pace. The entire scene is only a close-up of the faces of the two, one behind the other, with their eyes looking towards the ground. The rubbing sound of their feet stepping on the sand is the only background sound. Hopeless again. Whenever there are two tiny figures staggering in the breathtaking western wasteland in the picture, the howling wind seems to devour them and the audience, with a strong sense of substitution. A lot of empty shots show the environment and inner desperation, and the disorientation and diminished vitality remind me of "The Horse of Turin" at certain moments. Gary, who climbed the huge rock, was unable to get down to the ground (the video doesn't explain how he climbed up... Down on the sand and unscathed, this unreal bridge makes one wonder if this lost journey was nothing more than a dream. Even if Gary, played by Matt Damon at the end, gets into a passing car, it's impossible to tell if it's an illusion created by a dying desire to live.
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