"The sun and the moon have no light" meaning: even the sun and the moon have lost their luster.
"The first image he told me was three children on a road in Iceland in 1965. He said it was a happy image for him. He tried many times to connect it with other images. Together, but never. He wrote: "I'll put it alone at the beginning of the film, along with a long black screen, if they don't see happiness in the film, at least they can see the darkness." "
"I'm wondering how do people who don't film, don't take pictures, and don't record videos remember?" People and memory? How to remember?
"Memory is not the opposite of forgetting, but the inner link of forgetting."
"We don't remember things, we rewrite memory, just like we rewrite history, how can people remember 'thirst'?"
"Under each face, the memory will be replaced by those forged collective memories. Hundreds of memories made up of individual traumas will become the pain of the entire history."
"Fear has its own face and its name." - Apocalypse Now (Fear, face and name, what can replace signs and symbols of pain? The relationship between fear and memory?)
Samurai Koichi: "Who said time heals all wounds? It should be said 'time heals everything except wounds'."
Impermanence, animism? What are the similarities and differences between Japan and Africa?
"Why should a country become small and poor for the benefit of the world."
Sahel, the end of the world, desert, sea; Hong Kong street scene.
Late-night adult TV, pointing out what religion obscures (locking and decoding). A commodity that the Pope has transformed, a cheap sacredness?
Churches and sex toy stores, phallic beliefs in Jozankei, Japan, and animal sex museums, the gap between different fields is so small? (Are religion and pornography opposites and barriers?)
"It also shows a certain candor of theirs that makes you wonder about the cover-ups on TV."
"Honestly, don't you think it's stupid to tell these people not to look at the camera, like the film school taught you?"
"Images are bigger than people, peeping at those voyeurs."
"The more you watch Japanese TV, the more you will feel that TV is watching you." (TV face close-up bokeh)
People falling asleep on the tram, collective dreams (memory)? Ghost films, sword and halberd films, pornographic films, advertising peeps.
"The pictures are not so fake... Compared to those TV pictures you see, at least they show who they are by themselves - images, not a form that contains inaccessible reality and is simple and portable ." (60s Conflict Fragment Synth)
The transformed picture is called the "Restricted Area" (a tribute to Tarkovsky's "Stalker", what is the core meaning of the restricted area?)
"Understanding can only be won through struggle."
Image, memory, poetry; what is the nature and difference of the three? What is the "media" that carries the "consciousness" formed by the three elements? How to define it? The uniqueness of the film? tolerance?
Following the above question, after copying many quotations, I can't help but wonder, is language the main body of the film? However, what is left of depriving language? Conversely, after deprivation of images?
What is the relationship between image and language? Master-slave status? Apposition? Montage? "Faith" and literature? Narration? poetry? The continuity of images and literature? symbolic? suggestive? Fragmentation? Create space to fill memory and understanding. (The film is the author's prompt, plus the audience's understanding and recollection.)
At the end, back to the "exclusion zone", the three children in Iceland, the volcano; how to shoot the woman in Guinea-Bissau? (Eternal and One Frame) Dodging from the camera, as long as you look at the camera for one frame, this look is eternity; the synthesizer is pulled up, FIN (the end of the play).
"Because I know time is always just time. Space is always just space." - T.S. Eliot
"Only electronic materials can process emotions, memories and imagination."
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