The people were silent as the birds flew over the hazy sky
My blood was
aching from the wait - before the rain
After the 24hrs season 6 and supernatural bombardment, my high-strung nerves needed a break. So, I found this movie "before the rain" that was released very early and was highly recommended by countless people.
The film is Macedonian director Mikko Manchevsky's debut novel. As expected of a master, he is so extraordinary as soon as he shoots. However, I think most people will think in their hearts when they see Macedonia, ah, so familiar, where is it? Me too, so I searched the internet immediately after watching the movie.
Let's talk about movies first. This movie is made up of three short stories, words, faces, and pictures, that break the logic of time and space and are connected end to end. words happen before faces, faces happen before pictures, and pictures happen before words.
My favorite is still words. The story is called words, but it tells a love story between a missionary and a girl. One of them is Macedonian, one is Albanian, one is Orthodox, one is Muslim, one can only speak Macedonian, and one can only speak Albanian. They couldn't even speak the language, but they fell in love with each other overnight, breaking through ethnic and religious barriers. The missionary, who had sworn an oath of silence at first, didn't even speak until he was expelled from the church. The details inside, such as the girl gulps tomatoes, pretends to sleep and the missionary smiles quietly in the dark; when the missionary is expelled from the church, the missionary is very sad at first, but when he sees the girl, he can't help smiling; when the girl is dying Putting a finger on my lips to stop the missionary from saying the apology...has been on my mind since the movie ended.
Three stories, three fruitless loves, because of religion, because of the nation, because of betrayal, because of violence. Time does not pass, and the circle is not a circle. This phrase appears repeatedly in the film, which seems to confirm that in Macedonia, which is full of racial and violent conflicts and shrouded in the shadow of civil war, in Macedonia, where submachine guns are children's toys, time does not pass, and there is no peace. . There are very few scenes of violence in the movie, but in the story narrated by Youyou, people feel the blood and depression brought by racial and religious conflicts all the time. At the end of the third story, the rain finally started, The photographer was killed by her cousin, the girl fled to the mountain, and the missionary finished picking tomatoes and walked towards the church. And in the first story, they were destined to meet.
ps: The Republic of Macedonia (Macedonian: Република Македони?а) is a small landlocked country located in the southern Balkans in southeastern Europe, bordering Bulgaria to the east, Serbia and Montenegro to the north, Albania to the west, and Greece to the south. Due to Greece's opposition to the use of the name "Macedonia" by the Republic of Macedonia, the vast majority of countries in the world and international organizations such as the United Nations now temporarily refer to the country as "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" (FYROM). About 40 countries around the world currently recognize the name "Republic of Macedonia" itself uses.
The Republic of Macedonia was formerly part of Yugoslavia, and the current capital and main city is Skopje. Since independence, Macedonia has had a dispute with Greece over the name of the country, and the problem is still to be resolved.
Before the disintegration of the Yugoslavia, Macedonia was the poorest region in the country. After independence, due to socialist economic transformation, regional turmoil, the United Nations' economic sanctions on Serbia, Greece's economic sanctions on Macedonia in 1994-95, and the 2001 civil war, etc. Because of this, Macedonia's economy was stagnant and only started to recover gradually in 2002, and it is still one of the poorest countries in Europe.
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