Blood red circle.

Tracy 2022-03-21 09:03:01

They lived in the same alley, went to the same elementary school, and then scolded the same country until they stabbed the bayonet into each other's chest...Civil war, like a terrible cold joke, people don't know who to laugh for first, and then again Who to cry for. "Heavy Rain" is like a piece of ice created by director Manchevsky, and then thrown into the back of each viewer's underwear until it melts into a stinging cold.

In the face of war, civilization is always the first to fall. When two crossed AK45s took over the majesty of the cross in the monastery, the collapse of order left behind condemnation. I learned to pray at the foot of the wall, until the priest gave in helplessly, the holy monastery became a new housing for the floating population, the owner of the machine gun was like a city administrator, and the monastery stood tall in the mountains. Just passing by, as if to remind all the buildings of their new name - the trenches. In a darkness where God is powerless and love becomes a danger, the young priest escapes from this once safe trench with a mysterious woman, "to England." They become the first in this cloudy darkness The rebellious morning sun was wiped away, but the bumpy mountain road and the heavy suitcase turned their breathing into a countdown, making people wonder if it was the countdown from the destination or the silent countdown before death.

"Go to England, where my brother will be a photographer." His brother was Kilu's only hope. He dragged the mysterious woman and ran wildly. Everyone wanted to escape from Macedonia, including God.

"Peace is like an accident, and war is normal." No one would return to Macedonia, except for Alexander, who was a photographer in England.

Before the ice behind it melted completely, director Manchevsky gave us another amazing perspective, turning our bedroom into a space hatch, and a panoramic bird's-eye view of this incredible retrograde on this earth. WORD_FACE_PICTURE, the three chapters are like a conspiracy that colludes, allowing people to experience the subversive magic of the chapters in "Heavy Rain", from Macedonia to the United Kingdom, and then from the United Kingdom to Macedonia, a pair of brothers are running in opposite directions. On the parallel lines are written their own hopes and despair. Only the mysterious woman who was rescued by them one after another was fortunate to be the only person who passed between the two parallel lines, but her exhaustion made her forget to greet her. The names of the two benefactors.

In a sense, Alexander is the incarnation of director Manchevsky. When he returned to Macedonia and questioned the war as an outsider, the warnings he drew strongly reflected his helplessness about the war situation in his hometown, and the difference between religious and political positions. Let family love come to nothing, lived in an alley, studied in a middle school, met neighbors and classmates who scolded the same country, memories were replaced by hatred, tacit understanding was broken by borders, there were no peacemakers among the armed forces, Alexander, who showed himself, and the reckless and naive mysterious woman both fell under the guns of their own people accidentally for hope. When the uneasy expressions of the killers quietly returned to numbness, it seemed that people could vaguely see Manchevsky's deep feelings. of despair.

"Time does not pass, and the circle is not round."
When the mysterious woman fled away the blood and Alexander fled to the monastery that the heavy rain had not yet visited, we not only saw Kilu, who was still harvesting vegetables at the beginning of the film, but also saw a stunned person A circle, a blood-red reincarnation drawn by Manchevsky himself for the war.


"Heavy Rain is Coming" is a truly great masterpiece in terms of technique and meaning.

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Before the Rain quotes

  • Father Marko: I wanted to take a vow of silence, like you. But this heavenly beauty merits words.

  • Aleksander: With a shriek, birds flee across the black sky, people are silent, my blood aches from waiting.