Things are like clouds, life is like a play.

Dariana 2022-03-22 09:02:37

Assayas once said: "The film revolves around a central idea, which is time. Not as vague as philosophy, it revolves around the world in a perceptible way, such as how the face changes with time, How has the mood changed, and how have the people around you changed?”

The middle-aged man was once again asked to play the young and fearless Sigrid, but now he was told to play the older Helenna. Time flies, crawling through the skin, switching roles, and changing moods. Actors and roles overlap, scripts overlap with the current destiny, and real conversations and script exercises seem to be mixed together for a while and become indistinguishable.

The world is like a Maloya snake cloud floating in the mountains, and life is like a fantasy play through half a lifetime. Suddenly, it seems that I have gone to another world, and there will be new people living here again. Suddenly, it seems that all confusion, anger, and fear will be swallowed up by the silent and turbulent river of clouds.

Maria says that a lot of the time she's waiting for casual inspiration. Seems like Sontag once mentioned "We have to learn to see more, hear more, feel more. Our task is not to discover a great deal in a work of art, nor from what is already clear to extract more content from the work. Our task is to weaken the content so that we can see the work itself” coincides. I prefer to understand the works here as a feeling, or a certain tendency.

The tendency here may be as the screenwriter who finally found Maria said, people can't choose their own era, and they can't choose their own age. Time cannot be chosen, but the heart can choose. She has a power that transcends time that she may not even be aware of. The inner spirit and inner freedom of man are so unpredictable yet so persistent that even the passage of time cannot destroy them.

Assayas once said: "The film revolves around a central idea, which is time. Not as vague as philosophy, it revolves around the world in a perceptible way, such as how the face changes with time, How has the mood changed, and how have the people around you changed?”

The middle-aged man was once again asked to play the young and fearless Sigrid, but now he was told to play the older Helenna. Time flies, crawling through the skin, switching roles, and changing moods. Actors and roles overlap, scripts overlap with the current destiny, and real conversations and script exercises seem to be mixed together for a while and become indistinguishable.

The world is like a Maloya snake cloud floating in the mountains, and life is like a fantasy play through half a lifetime. Suddenly, it seems that I have gone to another world, and there will be new people living here again. Suddenly, it seems that all confusion, anger, and fear will be swallowed up by the silent and turbulent river of clouds.

Maria says that a lot of the time she's waiting for casual inspiration. Seems like Sontag once mentioned "We have to learn to see more, hear more, feel more. Our task is not to discover a great deal in a work of art, nor from what is already clear to extract more content from the work. Our task is to weaken the content so that we can see the work itself” coincides. I prefer to understand the works here as a feeling, or a certain tendency.

The tendency here may be as the screenwriter who finally found Maria said, people can't choose their own era, and they can't choose their own age. Time cannot be chosen, but the heart can choose. She has a power that transcends time that she may not even be aware of. The inner spirit and inner freedom of man are so unpredictable yet so persistent that even the passage of time cannot destroy them.

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Clouds of Sils Maria quotes

  • Maria Enders: Jo-Ann?

    Jo-Ann Ellis: What's up?

    Maria Enders: I wanted to ask you. You know the scene at the beginning of Act 3 when you tell me you want to leave and I get on my knees and I beg you to stay? You're on the phone ordering pepperoncini pizza for your coworkers in accounting. You leave without looking at me. As if I didn't exist. If you could pause for a second. Helena's distress would last longer when she's left alone in her office. Well, the way you're playing it, the audience follows you out but instantly forgets about her. So...

    Jo-Ann Ellis: So? So what?

    Maria Enders: When, when I played Sigrid I held it longer. I thought it was more powerful. Erotically. I mean, it really played well.

    Jo-Ann Ellis: No one gives a fuck about Helena at that point, do they? I'm sorry, it's pretty clear to me that this woman is all washed up. I mean, your character, Maria, not you. And when Sigrid leaves Helena's office, Helena's a wreck, and we get it. You know, it's time to move on. I think they want what comes next.

    Maria Enders: If you just held it a few seconds longer.

    Jo-Ann Ellis: It doesn't really feel right for me, Maria.

    Maria Enders: You're right. Yeah. I - I - I think I'm - I'm lost in my memories. You think you've forgotten your old habits, but their all - they all come back. Have to break them.

    Jo-Ann Ellis: I guess you do!

  • Piers Roaldson: [Piers proposes new movie mutant role for Maria] I'm trying to consider genetics from a more human point of view.

    Maria Enders: When I was reading it, I imagined someone much younger. Maybe me younger, actually, but you were seeing me in movies that were made years ago. I - I've changed.

    Piers Roaldson: She has no age. Or else, she's every age at once. Like all of us.

    Maria Enders: Can I be frank? Maybe it's because I'm working with her, but as I was reading it, I - I kept thinking about Jo-Ann.

    Piers Roaldson: Yeah, well personally, I never think about Jo-Ann Ellis.

    Maria Enders: You're wrong. She's smart. And talented. She's modern, just like your character.

    Piers Roaldson: My character isn't modern. Not in that way, anyway. She's, outside of time.

    Maria Enders: Outside of time. I don't understand. It's too abstract for me. It's all right.

    Piers Roaldson: I - I don't like this era.

    Maria Enders: You're wrong. It's yours!

    Piers Roaldson: Amen! I didn't choose it.

    Maria Enders: [laughs]

    Piers Roaldson: And if my era is Jo-Ann Ellis and viral Internet scandals I think I'm entitled to feel unrelated, aren't I. I mean, it's nothing against her, I guess I just assumed you'd understand.