Talk about the sixth story "The passage to death"

Durward 2021-12-02 08:01:26

Thanks for the fat bird movie


The passage to death

-A hard interpretation. . .

This story is an allegory of the process of life leading to death . Two bounty hunters: Reaper and his assistants, they carried the corpses: the real corpse on the top of the carriage, and the three upcoming corpses on the opposite side of the carriage, heading for a common end: death.

Look at the lines in the story:

A group of people on the road【passage】【we, any of us, are all in the same car at the moment】

(Dialogue between the passenger and the god of death)

Sorry, I woke you up. You didn't fall asleep, and if you quarreled others, I'm sorry. [This passage is not only to the three people opposite, but also to any audience. It can even be seen as a kind of self-deprecation of the director / People never tire of the story, you are the person in the story.]

How far is it? ——It's not far, it's not far, we will be there on time. [The so-called, Hades asked you to die for the third watch and dare not keep you until the fifth watch]

I don't think you have been to Fort Morgan. [Who has been there?]

I haven't been, how about you? ——I have been there many times, many times, shipping goods. [Aren’t you just transporting you this time? 】

(Corpse) Is he yours? ——I think he belongs to anyone. [Everyone is just walking on the broad road of death]

Don't you know him? ——We didn't know him until the end. [Reaper will recognize him when he is dead]

The old man began to recall his story. . . . . . .

Men and women are barely called partners. They speak different languages ​​(man’s language and woman’s language). Everyone talks to themselves. They talk a lot. They don’t know what the other person is saying. There is someone around them. It's a kind of comfort, in this deserted island-like life

The passengers began to argue, everyone is living his own life, and everything that is firmly believed in may be just an imagination

Some people believe that everyone is just the same animal

Some people believe in faith, believe in the evolution of the soul, believe. . .

Some people only believe in themselves. Everyone only knows his own way of playing cards, and it is not possible for people to truly understand each other.

Your husband is not with you? ——We have been apart for a while, and he fell ill. [He has been dead for three years, now I can see him]

Coachman, we must stop.

(The coachman waved his long whip in the middle of the night, indifferent)

He never stops, this is the rule. [Time, how can it stop for anyone]

The assistant of the god of death began to sing, six beautiful girls, carrying my coffin. They continue to move forward. . .

#诗Content see: "Poems and Songs Appearing" Dutingyi Fu Baolang

What are you doing? ——I think we can say that we are "reapers", the reapers of souls [Sitoshi Reaper]

We help the man who has been sentenced to death [Damn it, we all give him a ride]

This is an honest calling, calling

What did he (the corpse on the roof of the car) do? ——He didn’t do anything, I don’t know, is it important [People don’t always die, no reason is needed]

In our opinion, there are two kinds of people, the living and the dead.

Did you capture them alive? ——I would not say that. [Which dead person is not alive? But if we catch him, he is no longer alive, so did we catch him alive? 】

I told him a story about the knocker at midnight. "What living thing could be outside in such a strom?"

People never tire of hearing this story. People like to imagine themselves in it. People like this story, as long as the person in the story is us, but not us. It is not us who are best faced with the result. The knocker at midnight only takes others away, not us, we live forever.

Those people are always bargaining, in this passage. They want to figure out what is going on there. [People are worried about the world after death]

What are you trying to figure out? --all of these!

Has anyone figured it out? ——How do I know, I just watched.

Fort Morgan is here.

Three people, standing in front of the gate, hesitated. [What about the luggage? No one has luggage. They themselves are luggage]

The lady is holding the Bible.

(I don't know when the coachman entered and came out again?)

Does anyone open the door for the lady? Dr. Bergman is still waiting.

The statue on the door has an angel on one side and Satan on the other side [ram, a symbol of Satan, a symbol of hell. After entering this door, some people enter heaven and some people enter hell]

Grim Reaper carried the corpse and walked to the lighted steps. Passage. stairway to heaven.

The French looked back at the world and hesitated for a long time.

The carriage went back again, ready to carry the next batch of cargo "cargo"

The Frenchman walked into the hotel and closed the door.

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  • Shayne 2022-03-26 09:01:05

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  • Shayne 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Life is impermanent, walk and sing. Death is like the wind, always with me. I like the sadness and helplessness of the third story, the abrupt end of love in the fifth story, and the lonely gold digger who loves life.

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