First statement: This is the first film review I wrote. The reason is because the last assignment for a course "Movie Appreciation" selected this semester is to appreciate one of the several movies selected by the teacher. After a general browsing, I chose this one , the first time I wrote badly~
At the beginning of the film, a middle-aged man driving a car crosses the land filled with yellow sand. I don't know what he is looking for. Is it a person? Or is it an item? However, when he met the first soldier and saw the Land Rover he drove, I thought he might be hiring these poor people to do things that the protagonist's class couldn't do. Thus, the classic question arises - to be or not to be.
Although the protagonist only wants people to help him complete his suicide, life is full of things that cannot be completely controlled by people. The person in the passenger seat is getting "smarter" every time. From the soldier who was scared and fled, to the seminary student who fought hard according to what I had learned, and finally to the teacher whose words and deeds made the protagonist speechless, no one directly answered whether he was willing to do something. In his opinion, only The simple matter of "burying a corpse - taking money", these three, including some other characters on the road, are discussing life or all kinds of life with him. Perhaps in their minds, they silently opposed the protagonist's sentence - being unhappy is a sin, and hurting others is a sin. But does sin deserve death?
A good movie is like a mirror that allows people to reflect on themselves. Sometimes we are like the protagonist, we don't know why we are so unhappy and so desperate, we have thought about crying and giving up. The seminary told him you would find a solution. The teacher told him that every problem has a solution. Sometimes I also fall into this "feigned death" state, unhappy and desperate, but I can't tell the real reason, so I don't take any action and let myself be immersed in the ocean of sadness. But in fact, if there is someone at the moment who listens by my side and helps me find the reasons for my unhappiness and despair, it will make me a lot easier, and it will give me the motivation to face the disappointments in life.
However, this film never told us the specific reason why he wanted to commit suicide. The director wanted the audience to think about it, why are we unhappy and unable to think about it?
In the end, the teacher used his empathy to share his story. He told the protagonist that he did not commit suicide because he ate cherries, but because he changed his opinion. The Turkish joke he told was thought-provoking: a patient told the doctor that he had a headache when he touched his hand, a pain in his feet and feet, a pain in his stomach and stomach, and a pain in his whole body. The doctor told him that it was because his hand was broken. This explains why we sometimes despair: because there is something wrong with how we feel, with our perspective and attitude towards things. From a pessimist's perspective, the world is gray. In order to save the protagonist who was so sad and desperate that he didn't want to see the brilliance of life, the teacher made a big move-minimizing people's needs: you don't want to see the rising sun? The falling sun of gold and red?
Audio-visual language:
In the car, the protagonist is shot from the perspective of the co-pilot and the second person. There is no monologue from the first perspective in the whole film. Perhaps this is also a thinking angle specially arranged by the director for the audience: if there is such a person who is about to commit suicide by your side Man, what would you do? This arrangement of perspectives, combined with a few long non-dialogue segments in the car, gives the audience enough time to think about how I think about death and how I look at my life.
When the teacher said, "Choose the right road!" The car turned from the main road to a fork, suggesting that the protagonist has changed his mind from committing suicide.
When the protagonist is lying in the pit, his perspective is not the dark yellow sand on the ground, but a scene full of city lights that appears in front of him. During this time, there is a long view where we can only see a black piece, but it is this treatment that allows us to quietly appreciate the thunder, the rain, and then the lightning illuminates his face again, after that, the soldier The sound of the training entered, came to the day. Finally, the director directly into the camera! The picture-in-picture shooting reminds me of The Truman World. Is life a movie? Are we living under someone else's lens? ?
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