When the bard doctor rode a motorcycle with the protagonist through the heavenly wheat fields, he said lightly that life is beautiful, and death is the biggest disease. The protagonist talks about maybe a more beautiful world after death. The doctor said "prefer the present to these fine promises." This line pretty much sums up Abbas' film philosophy, and the present always happens so naturally. It transcends the purified drama, but flows on its own like a river. It will not stop because of your plot, and life flows in the river like the last human bone at the end. Or that's what the title says: Gone with the wind.
"Gone With the Wind" is full of such flows. The protagonist picks up a group of children while calling for help. During the process of looking for colleagues, he leisurely eats blueberries for a while, watches newborns for a while, and is in the black hole where the neighbor is milking the cow. , read a poem, drink tea on the hill looking for a signal, kick over a turtle, roll down an apple. There is no so-called plot here, some just flow, meet and happen.
The setting of this story is quite interesting. A group of journalists are going to report a funeral ceremony in a remote mountain area. They know that an old woman in the village is about to die, but they can't reveal their purpose in coming to this village, because it's kind of looking forward to death. embarrassing situation. So they could only wait in the village for death to come. Among the group of people who came together, only the protagonist is interested in this remote world. The others sleep in the house all day without showing their faces. They have to eat or drink every day. Milk two things. But the little boy brought him bread, and the gravedigger gave him milk, telling him that he could get it by knocking on any door.
One day, the owner drove a lame teacher on the way to town. The teacher told him his thoughts on the funeral. He said that her mother had two scratches on her face, both at the funeral. In order to express their more profound condolences than others. The first was because of his aunt, whose mother stayed to show her love for her husband. The second is to stay at the funeral of a relative of the husband's factory owner, so that the husband can gain the boss's trust and keep his job. He also said that even if everyone in this country has to work, they are all working hard for it.
However, the fact that a stranger also has easy access to bread and milk is a reference in the film to the men repeatedly mentioned going to work. The proprietress of the teahouse got into a quarrel with a car owner to take care of the guests, because his car got dirt and dust into her tea. However, an uncle who was drinking tea in the shop accused him of taking care of his work. The lady boss complained that she had been taking care of you all the time, busy with the work of making tea and pouring water, who would take care of my feelings. You were accused by the tea drinker again that this job is a piece of shit. When did pouring tea for your man become a job? He also complained that the work of a man like himself was called work.
In this remote mountainous area that is as beautiful as heaven, it seems that only the bard doctor is the one who enjoys the scenery. He gossips that he can do anything, regardless of specialties, and he can see the whole body, otherwise there will always be limitations. , the protagonist asked him if there were many patients in this case, and he said that there were almost none. His job was to circumcise, vaccinate, and pierce people everywhere on a motorcycle. But he said he didn't care about practicing medicine at all, he only cared about the scenery on the road.
On this earth, life is so sparse and ordinary. The landlord who had a big belly yesterday is already drying clothes with his baby on his back. The protagonist, who has never seen the world, thinks it was her sister yesterday. Death is also a long tail in life. That old woman and her son are almost eighty years old. She can't die without eating or drinking soup for three days. If there is no disease, she is old. The doctor said after reading it.
Life and death are an eternal theme in Abbas's films, but his perspective never stops at individual sorrow, gratitude for life or sadness for death. Rather, it just blows through like the wind, as natural as spring, summer, autumn and winter. What he cares about is the flow, the flow of life, or the flow of life, which is kept by itself, passing through life, passing through death.
The most poetic and wonderful bridge design in the film is to go to the cemetery on the top of the mountain to find the signal. Every time the protagonist receives a call, he has to drive to the cemetery on the top of the mountain to answer, where he reports to the boss on the other end of the death information that has not yet arrived. There is a gravedigger on the invisible back slope on the top of the mountain. What are you digging here? I am digging a well. Never heard of digging wells in the mountains. Oh, I'm digging a gully, a telecommunication gully. Then he dug up a human thigh bone and threw it up to the protagonist.
Tombs on the top of the mountain, looking for signals, news of death, grave diggers, digging ditches for telecommunication and communication, bones of dead people, wind and dead trees. Let’s not ruin the poem constructed by this image with interpretation.
It is also worth mentioning that Abbas's photography method is as simple as a glass of water, without pretense. Just as the highest state of drinking tea is to drink boiled water and taste the taste of tea. Just look straight, don't look into the inner emotions of the characters, just look at it sparsely and normally, looking at the whole person, the whole scenery, the wind is light and cloudless. Of course, in fact, it is more of omission, that is, not even looking at it, no counterattack, so that those who are originally outside the painting stay outside the painting.
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