We should enjoy this poetic beauty comfortably

Serenity 2022-03-23 09:03:02

The first half of the film is a poetic pastoral life, with picturesque scenery, towering mountains, gurgling water, and rolling wheat waves; the love here is sweet, the couple from acquaintance to marriage, full of chance encounters, enjoying The sweetness of love; the life here is quiet, the small village is like a paradise, everyone helps and loves each other, and lives a simple life.

Sometimes, I think, this is the paradise of my dreams, or this is the rural childhood I have always missed. My hometown is also a hill in front of the village and a small river in the back of the village. The neighborhood is harmonious and everyone lives peacefully.

What makes us lose these beauty, sometimes not only war, but sometimes our minds, our desires, war is a predatory violence that brings endless disasters.

However, now that there is no war, we still give up this poetic beauty. Even if there is no war, we publicize and forget some things, and we still have desires, so we abandon the beauty of our hometown and come to a strange city to work hard.

Do you miss the feeling of waking up in the sun when you are busy and have no time to sleep? Do you think of the tranquility of the country road when you are in a traffic jam on your way to get off work?

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Extended Reading
  • Agustina 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    The reason for the host to stay or leave is to protect the "land", one is the visible homeland where people almost plunge into the soil under the wide-angle photography, and the other is the "homeland" that exists in the imagination of the mind and speech. At home, the hostess has a pair of mid-top leather shoes with stockings, which can be used to match the proper clothes when looking for a bishop, and can also be worn for walking on the Kusama intestines and dirt roads. But these shoes are not dirty, but very clean. Here I feel most definitely the love of the mistress for the world of her own life. It is also the love of this kind of love that becomes the main (or even the only) logic of the male host's stubborn resistance. The use of monologue is just right here - the inner monologue is used to resist the external inspiration, and it can also be used as a voice-over when thinking about the life world in the heart. At the end Elliott used it wonderfully: growing good of the world is also related to many hidden lives.

  • Shakira 2022-04-22 07:01:47

    I also think it can be regarded as a gospel movie; the topic of discussion is also in line with the current time (there are quite a few war movies this year, and they all talk about new angles), and Malik’s stream of consciousness montage has also been superb (at the beginning, only watching the couple reunion I would cry for a scene); it just feels like... the middle section is still too long, and the beautiful scenery has actually weakened the power of editing, and also, the subject is actually quite complicated. see through...

A Hidden Life quotes

  • Mayor Kraus: This is what happens when a world dies. Men survive. But their life is gone. Their life is gone! Their reason for living.

  • Franz Jägerstätter: [interal monologue] Once you never forgave anyone... judged people without mercy. Now you see your own weakness... so you can understand the weakness of others.