?Content overview:
The film uses the method of stream of consciousness to show the thoughts and life of Alexander, a poet suffering from cancer, the day before he was admitted to the hospital.
?Classic scene:
In the last moments of company, Alexander boarded the bus with the homeless child he rescued.
A variety of characters such as ticket inspectors, drivers, men with red flags, young couples, conservatory students, and top hat-wearing poets appear in this particular enclosed space.
Everyone in the car has something to hide. They get on the bus at a certain time and get off at a certain place... There is a flowing night scene outside the car window, and strangers in the car are constantly encountering and parting...
?Thousand-word movie review:
Life is like a long journey. The beginning and end of the journey are fixed, but the way to complete the journey is different.
Each choice pushes us to the next situation. We don't know what will happen tomorrow, and this strangeness and mystery fills us with hope and anxiety.
From the moment of birth, we are all consciously or subtly pursuing beautiful things. We yearn for beauty, desire success, pursue money and fame, and value status and achievement. The world has too many "plans" written for successful people.
However, we also ignored some taboo, but inevitable problems. Such as aging, misunderstanding, parting, death...
We know how to live better, but we can't afford to go step by step to the end of life;
We also know how to make ourselves dazzling, but under the heavy burden of aging appearance and functional deterioration, we are physically and mentally emaciated.
These issues that have been avoided are savagely bred like weeds in everyone's empty heart.
So, even when we are successful, we are still plagued by anxiety and loneliness.
What "Eternity and One Day" is about to explore is such a "sense of loneliness in the last days".
Alexander was a poet. He indulged in poetry creation, pursued art, and longed for love and beauty. But with every choice comes loss. Therefore, he lacks communication with his relatives.
Or, to put it another way, we are inherently incapable of mutual understanding with another person, even the person closest to us.
Alexander clearly felt the loneliness of this "exile". Especially the day before he was seriously ill and was going to the hospital to die.
This day can be said to be the last day of his real social life.
A mother with dementia, a wife who died prematurely, a daughter who couldn't understand her... all troubled the poet's heart. Therefore, more terrible than the disease is Alexander's loneliness.
Fortunately, he met a homeless refugee child.
This little Albanian refugee wanders the border in Greece. He and a group of refugee children make a living by cleaning the windows of passing vehicles.
In the eyes of the Greek government, these children are homeless without any reason;
In the eyes of the upper class, they are "commodities" that are clearly priced.
The double "exile" of "body" and "spirit" is more clearly manifested in these refugee children.
A poet with a few days, a wanderer without a place to live...
In the 24 hours of their meeting and parting, time was cut into eternity every minute and second, but it was also fleeting in the moment of eternity.
The precociousness and sensitivity of the homeless boy deeply moved Alexander.
What kind of living environment makes these innocent children reveal sadness and helplessness in their eyes?
Countless bodies of unknown life and death hang from the barbed wire on the Albanian border. They look like performance art on a stage play set that makes people shudder.
And in Alexander's description of how to dodge the police and landmines, the homeless look, stiff demeanor, and calm voice are even more chilling.
In the face of so many speechless bitterness, when Alexander said goodbye to his mother in the ward, he said painfully:
He said, "Mom, why does the world always go bad? Why do we have to stink, hovering between pain and desire? Why have I been wandering all my life? Why don't we know how to love?"
Director Theo Angelopoulos, in the film "Eternity and One Day", runs through his thoughts on the meaning of existence, the dimension of life, the love and communication between people and many other issues.
In the film, it is not so much that Alexander rescues the homeless children, but the mutual redemption of the two of them.
The two lonely souls were riddled with holes, and they should have experienced some unforgettable tenderness as they embraced each other in the cold night. ✨
In An Zhe's shot, time passes slowly. We can even listen to our immersed heartbeat. And in this thought-provoking silence, we also came to know ourselves better.
In most cases these reflections are unanswered. Just as Alexander asked the poet "Tell me! How long will tomorrow last?" on the tram, and got "silent silence."
However, even if there is no answer, it does not prevent us from continuing: although we do not know the moment of the end, we still have "tomorrow" at this time. Even if it's a "terrible" future, "tomorrow" is one more day than "forever"...
Think about the meaning of life in sorrow, and look forward to an eternal tomorrow in pain. The tone of the film's "sad" is wrapped in persistent "seeking", and it is precisely because of this pursuit that our lives are so moving.
Theo Angelopoulos crumbles philosophical thinking into each long shot, bringing out the pain and sadness of life. However, we can experience the unyielding and longing of "life", and feel the struggle and thinking of the protagonist's "soul".
Like a ray of soft light ingested in a dim crevice. This faint hope is enough to dispel the confusion of darkness and ignorance. ✨
We are the wind and snow in the long river of life, and we are all looking for our own destination. We let the body bear the exhaustion of the journey, and put the soul in the eternal homeland. We create meaning for our lives, and in the process of chasing it, we have already achieved our purpose.
What could be more exciting than the desire to live in love and hope? ✨
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