reincarnation

Hans 2022-03-21 09:03:01

I remember being in Shanghai at that time, in the mid-to-late 90s, when VCDs were just popularized, and I liked to watch them, but most of them were popular ones. At that time, I didn’t know much about humanism or humanity, but only about fashion and violence. .

I rented this film by accident and left an impact after watching it, because in this film I saw what the Chinese call reincarnation: the
beginning and end of the film completely form a circle, and people and stories are always in this circle, and they can’t get out. .

I have been collecting this movie since then, but I have never been able to collect it. It turns out that the Macedonian government has not released DVDs in order to protect this film!

Thanks eDonkey, I can watch it again, long live communism!

Okay, no kidding, let's talk about this movie.

There is a 10-year gap between the me at this time and the me who watched this movie at the time.

Now that you read it again, what did you read?

The first thing that popped into my mind was a sentence I heard in "The Passion of the Christ" when I saw it halfway through: Whoever uses the knife will die by the knife. All who take the sword will perish by the sword

is a three-part film, each with a killing: either to take revenge by killing, or to punish by killing, or to kill by killing, or to make a living by reporting on the killing. Moreover, in the first and third parts of the film, the protagonist did not die at the hands of the enemy, but at the hands of his own people, and the absurdity of this world was nakedly displayed in front of the world, which was humiliating, embarrassing and helpless: Who was the murderer and who killed them? Who is the enemy?

The director of the film is a Macedonian, located in the Balkan Peninsula, known as the European powder keg. I think the reason why he made this film is because of his real feelings in real life, otherwise, he would not have made such a profound film.

When I was watching it this time, I noticed the words Time never dies. The circle is never round sprayed on the London wall. Time never dies, the circle is not round. It is a Chinese saying, the finishing touch.

Once you understand this sentence, the whole movie is very simple, and the rest is just to arrange the plot. Zhang San, Li, Wang and Er Mazi can do it, because no matter who enters this movie, it is destined to be out of the director's hands.

In order to emphasize the connotation of the film, the director has carefully arranged many details: from the rock music playing in the Macedonian village and the London radio, from the language communication on the phone, from the interlacing of photos and movies, telling us that time can pass through regions , just as hatred and killing can continue regardless of race, place, language, or creed. Also, although he didn't kill anyone, others killed him for his photos. . . . . There are also some lines of dialogue "We are all in a lunatic asylum." "The United Nations is only here to collect bodies." "War is the norm, peace is the exception." They remind us from time to time that this is the reality. Ethnic beliefs are different and hostile to each other.

When I saw that man was going to kill the photographer, someone else said, are you a coward?
So, the most ridiculous scene came out:
he proved his bravery by killing his relatives! Haha, what an ironic thing, and this kind of thing happens every day, in order to prove our greatness and bravery, we use others to kill/injure others. Can such a world be at peace?

The protagonist in the film can't get out, how many of us viewers can get out of the hurt under various names?
Think again, more than 10 years have passed since the birth of this movie. How many people who have watched this movie have not lived in such a circle?
In the past 10 years, there have been constant wars and slaughter in this world. Each of them lives on their own principles and will never die.

Time never dies. The circle is never round.








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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.