Compared with "The Taste of Cherry", I prefer this one. The similar three-stage transformation in the understanding of life, the sense of preaching is reduced, and the transition between transformations is more natural and reasonable. Like most people, the protagonist is afraid and uneasy about death, always waiting and thinking about it, but he never dares to watch from a distance, and he learns the relevant words and phrases, daring to show his concern, and he is restless.
In the three-stage style, it is customary for the child to appear first. The child is naive and frank towards death, and fearlessly describes everything he knows, although all this is far away from him, all the information comes from his mother and his aunt. Understand what death means to adults, so when the protagonist gets angry at him, he is confused and angry, although he is frank but also ignorant.
The second appearance is a young teacher, who already understands what death is, but is indifferent to the relationship between life and death, and cynically criticizes the redundancy and hypocrisy of funeral ceremonies, just like the theology in the taste of cherries. A college student, he still doesn't know what life is, but only knows that in the knowledge he has learned, suicide is always a sin.
Finally, there is an old doctor. Before the appearance of this old man, people who have watched Abbas' movies should have predicted his appearance, and like me, were secretly looking forward to when he would make his debut. He expresses a sudden understanding of death, but this is not a contempt for life. On the contrary, he cherishes life. Who is coming back from the future? The present world is already beautiful in front of us, look at the beauty of nature in front of us, and taste the strawberries. The sweetness of the juice, people will naturally die when they get old, accept it all, young man. The old doctor took the protagonist to the door of the dying old woman. The protagonist escaped for two weeks, and this time he really walked to the blue window and saw the shadow of death. He threw the bones into the passing river. In the night after that, except for the little boy's perspective, the protagonist carefully observed the window for the first time, and there was a painful moan, but the protagonist woke up in the morning. The first time I cleaned the car, the first time I sensed the scenery around me and raised my camera, the first time I laughed from the inside, and I also felt happy from the heart in the theater.
A very different point from "The Taste of Cherry" is the transition between the three transitions. In my opinion, it is [environment], [love] and [friendship]. Perhaps the latter two should be classified as love.
[Environment]: Every time the protagonist receives a phone call in the village and drives to the highlands to receive a call from the leader and his family, I think these continuous voices that cannot see the subject's face are the influence of the environment on people. It makes people's attitude towards death more anxious and fearful, and continues to give people stress and anxiety. After a phone call, the protagonist even overturns the turtle with his feet, which is the culmination of boredom. The difference is that after experiencing love and friendship, he began to reflect and think about the meaning of life. After another phone call, he watched the dung beetle walking step by step with the dung ball. He didn't bother. The last call was in the old doctor's car. The old doctor was teaching him about the suddenness of death and the beauty of life. The call was not connected, and the harassment of the protagonist by the external environment finally stopped.
[Love/Friendship] This is also very different from the taste of cherries. There are love poems that grow in the dark under kerosene lamps, and there are well workers who have no face but always communicate with him, and there are even men with men. The friendships between the children, these are what prompted his last phase of transformation.
Of course, there are also eternal things - loneliness, the protagonist is lonely, he is always alone, his colleagues who come with him have never been seen, and there are even quarrels. He has completed the transformation of his life by himself, which runs through Abbas's views on life. attitude, optimistic and pessimistic, life belongs to you alone, passing by in a hurry, love and emotion are only a small part of it, and life itself is always the sweetest.
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