Looking at the poster and then the name, I had a hard time not believing that it wasn't a horror movie when it was recommended. The first time I watched "Ghosts and Ghosts" was on the small screen on the back of the plane seat. The moving light spots are all black screens that reflect the light to me, and those melodies and murmurs are completely inaudible.
Later, I re-watched it once or twice by myself at home, but even though I watched it three times, I couldn’t be confident that I understood and read it all, but I was deeply attracted by the gradually increasing vagueness and powerlessness inside. A story of reincarnation in which time passes quickly between stars.
An old house on the outskirts of the city far away from the city, young couples who are about to move out are entangled with the old piano, and after the first ten minutes, the speed of light is separated by yin and yang. Before moving out in time, the male lead died in a car accident, but the white sheet covering the body slowly sat up and turned into a "white sheet ghost".
Backlight walked out of the hospital and walked slowly in the deserted suburbs. The bed sheet ghost returned to the old house where he and his girlfriend were about to move out and stood silently. Wearing a sheet with two holes cut at the eyes, it looks really harmless to humans and animals. I am holding on to see when my girlfriend or other characters can find the ghost in the sheet. The spoof expectation has not been realized, and it is isolated from In the world, I can only quietly watch my girlfriend slept alone in grief over the empty room. At the beginning of a typical thriller horror film, there is a cold art film atmosphere under the frigid editing lens, and even in the first half hour, I once wanted to complain about what kind of "ghost" this is.
After 30 minutes of seemingly dull and dull, the rhythm of the entire movie finally entered the topic at this time. The audience experienced the male protagonist as a ghost watching his beloved from crying for him, to how to slowly get out of grief day by day. , re-embracing life and letting go of social interaction, the most it can do is to tap the piano that has not been removed after all and knock down the book on the shelf to vent its helplessness, no "people" know its existence, and no "Human" cares about its despair, time passes slowly in the world but has nothing to do with ghosts. Flickering lightbulbs, strange noises, turning doorknobs—the horror elements of these thrillers here become an obsession between life and death
Finally one day, it saw through the window that there was also a sheet ghost standing in the house next door, dressed in an ancient and fancy flower bed sheet. Two ghosts in sheets were talking silently through the window in an empty room, which also helped me, who was a little sleepy to watch, to lift my spirits. Ordinarily, the scene that was supposed to be quite scary was a bit cute and silent. humour and, of course, a growing sense of loneliness.
The girlfriend finally moved out and stuffed a small note into the crack of the wall, corresponding to the conversation between the two at the beginning. She mentioned that she often moved when she was a child. Before each move, she would write a small note and hide it. If she had the opportunity to revisit the old place later, she could find the note by herself and secretly remember it.
It's just that she almost never returns to the place where she used to hide the note.
In line with the female protagonist's farther and farther camera and the tears she held back, the background music gradually changed from a slow tempo to a fast one. quarrel. Two old houses, two bed linen ghosts trapped in time, persistently and silently waiting for someone, there are occasional silent dialogues between them, silent and desperate. The white-sheet ghost tried to dig out the small note stuffed into the wall by the lover before leaving. Just as he was about to get the note, the dilapidated house was overturned by a bulldozer.
Two ghosts stand on the ruins and stare at each other silently
"I don't think they're coming back"
The flower bed sheet, who had been waiting in the house for many years, suddenly fell to the ground after saying this. It is difficult for me to describe the blankness and shock in my mind at that moment.
The deep affection and loneliness in minimalism + nihilism are accompanied by the relief and disappearance after the last sheet ghost finally dug out the note. The last twenty minutes reminded me of many other movies, and the so-called movie charm of reincarnation and historical retrospect makes us unable to not be shocked by the surreal God's perspective at the end of "Super Body", although the previous plot is full of unscientific slots ; Can't help but be attracted by the concepts of "The Time Traveler's Wife", "The Time Traveler", "This Man From Earth", "Interstellar", "Roadside Picnic"; In Manchester, the propositions of time and love cut across cultures and genres.
The old house eventually turned into a high-rise building, all familiar things are a thing of the past, and the white-sheet ghost finally chose to fall from the high-rise building to commit suicide, ah, can this ghost also commit suicide? Inexplicably, the film ushered in the final climax, which is also a wonderful stroke of the director: we followed the ghost and went backward in time, returning to the time when the house was not built more than 100 years ago, and we saw the pioneers. I died trying to build a house in this place, I saw the establishment of the city, I saw the modern civilization, and I saw the once sweet couple snuggled up to this house and looked forward to the future.
It saw its former self, and at that moment, as an audience, it instantly realized that the male protagonist was not active in moving, and the deja vu and inspiration for this house-the soul in the sheets silently looked at the once happy self, it turned out that this was reincarnation.
My girlfriend's memory was triggered by the book page that fell to the ground for "no reason" before she moved out. As she put on headphones and listened to "I Get Overwhelmed" written by the male protagonist before his death, I was fascinated by the strange and sad lyrics of this song, but it was full of wonderful attraction The music is instantly pressed into the mood of the film, and I am even convinced that this song is the soul of the film. The accompaniment and drum beats broke the 40-minute quiet narrative rhythm, but another kind of sadness, like a stream converging on a river, came to my face.
The final episode is all in the music: Are you late again? Are you overslept? All the nightmares are so real Is your lover there? Is she awake? Did she die in a dream? Leaving you alone? Mirror, reflecting your twisted nose, boring hair, countless wrinkles No kids, just emptiness, no home, that's okay, isn't everyone like that? They'll be first I've gone far away, but I'll definitely come home again. I'm the one who's been at home.
After reading it, I listened to the sound of my footsteps walking in the room, the keyboard tapping when writing a book review, the flushing sound when washing dishes, and the noise downstairs. Calm flowing water in black and white.
Perhaps this is the charm of the movie, and perhaps it is rare for you to see such a poetic and tragic film about the soul's perspective on the widow and the world.
Author of this article: Yuyue
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