The end of life is music

Sydney 2022-04-05 09:01:07

The opening and closing credits of the film are the sound of the waves, and I thought it was a very poetic and romantic movie. But there is no romance here, with the real estate agent's giant hand looming over the later life of a Brazilian female intellectual who wants a poetic inhabitation in a seaside apartment. A missing breast, the drain pipe on the beach, the termites upstairs, the white eyes of my daughter, the deceased person in the thick old photos. There is no love that transcends everything, no strong family affection, only the persistence of a widowed old woman, this is her life position, battle.
At the beginning of the aunt's 70-year-old dinner, when people talk about what an amazing woman she is, they forget that all this is just perseverance every inch. It is this persistence that Clara has inherited.
The structure and ramifications of the film are a little disjointed, but some parts are thought-provoking.
For example, the grandson of the real estate agent has always been very friendly and calm talking to Clara. One of his sharpest words was this: "I know people like you, you grew up in a dark-skinned family, and everything you get is hard work." The first is a sense of superiority, and the second is contempt for poverty.
In another paragraph, Clara accused the grandson: people are talking about the ignorance of the poor without education, but there is another kind of ignorance, that is, the ignorance of the educated without a conscience, which is even more terrible. This reminds me of the two construction company workers who told Clara the truth about termites, who are representatives of good Brazilian laborers.
I didn't realize until the third paragraph that the film takes place in this seaside house from beginning to end. This is a historic house. That night, the night we all worried about Clara sleeping alone in this house, a black slave girl walked through the house, opened a closet, took out pearls and sparkling diamonds and kissed, and she sat on Clara's bed head. Clara woke up suddenly from her dream. This is my favorite part. In this house, history and old people are so far away from us.
This is something that we modern Chinese cannot understand. Not only have our hometown fallen, but there will be no old houses in the process of demolition. More concerned about the price, rather than history, old people and feelings.
We are willing to talk about houses, talk about rising house prices, but not about home, ancestral home, memory, history.
Clara came out of the sea. Not beautiful or sexy.
We know how beautiful and sexy she is when we judge a person by the highest values ​​of strength, independence and bravery.
In fact, making ghost movies can make more money. This realistic, laid-back style can pay homage to life even more.

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Extended Reading
  • Karlie 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    brazilian nail house

  • Tressa 2022-04-04 08:01:01

    Most captivating is the combination of sound and space, the lens with a will to guide life itself out of a surreal ghostly line. The unease that pervades the whole body is like a hidden lead, waiting to be detonated at any time. Don't be in a hurry to criticize, this uneasiness is enough.

Aquarius quotes

  • Clara: So when you like it, it's vintage; when you don't like it, it's old. Is that right? You guys don't know what it's like to feel crazy without being crazy and that the madness is out there, don't you? Another thing that's really crazy around here is that we're talking about money.

  • Clara: I survived cancer. More than 30 years ago, you know? And these days I've been thinking about something. I'd rather give you cancer than having it myself.