The information of this film is by no means understood in one viewing, but there is no need to shy away from not fully understanding it. You might as well jot down the experience of watching the movie for the first time, so as to compare the taste after brushing more. Even if it is all one-sided, it can be regarded as two or three jokes after many years.
Or titled "The Death of Two Idealists"
"Sometimes the things I see in you, me, and even grandpa remind me of wild pear trees."
"We are all misfits, lonely and deformed"
Aside from the many long dialogues that the director inserted himself, I think the main narrative line of the film can be attributed to the struggle and confrontation between the two wild pear trees between their dreams and their lives. The wild pear trees here are naturally symbolic, ugly, shriveled, with sharp, twisted edges, growing solitary in the wilderness of a Turkish country town . The male protagonist Sinan and his father Idris are such two grotesque trees.
Sinan contracted the epidemic among young people - Wen Qing disease. Essentially he was an obsessive romantic, a sour and sentimental idealist. He has a decadent temperament throughout the film, criticizing and attacking all kinds of life with the attitude of "artists against everything". He mocked everything in front of him with a cold eye, from the bustling cars and horses in the city to the backwardness rooted in the countryside, from the arty bureaucratic businessman to the famous writer, he looked at it with a playful and disdainful eye. He blames himself, he blames others. There is a resentment between hatred and contempt for the hometown that witnessed his growth from childhood to adulthood.
But he is weak by nature. He doesn't like a numb and lifeless family, but he has nothing to do at home; he is saddened by his old admirer, but he can only see each other from a distance on the day of his marriage; he hates "Mr. The road to publishing a book has also repeatedly hit a wall, and the publication obtained by betraying his father's black money to sell dogs ultimately has a bleak ending. He hated the numbness and injustice of the environment, and he hated his own incompetence. I don't want to be a teacher like my father to spend a mediocre life, and I can't rely on writing to make a living. This tangled dilemma made him unable to move forward, neither preparing for the exam to become a teacher, nor fulfilling his dream of becoming a writer. He is too weak to accept the mediocre self and life .
If the description of the tree of the son was achieved through the process of publishing books, then the description of Idris is hidden in the dark thread of digging a well. Addicted to gambling, he lost all his family business and fame, and as an old man, he held the ideal of turning the desertified loess into an oasis, and planned to dig a well in this homeland. No one understood why he was trying to dig a well in the dry land. Pity, confusion and more ridicule surround him, even his family. The young and vigorous Xinan is the one who dislikes his father the most.
Therefore, when the son finally became disheartened and found that the father who had accomplished nothing was actually the only reader and resonator of his book, the two finally reached a spiritual reconciliation. Ironically, both of them gave up their ideals at this time—the father couldn't dig water, and the son couldn't sell books. The ideals cherished by the two people are all silent.
Regarding the ending part of the film, there can be many interpretations. Here I think that Xinan finally chose to hang himself in his father's well, expressing his defense of ideals and his rejection of mediocre life in the form of death. As for the father finally seeing his son continue digging down the well, I understand that this is a supernatural way of reflecting Sinan's endless pursuit of ideals in the form of death . This view is undoubtedly pessimistic and slightly artificial, but the son in the film is such an idealist, and the author outside the film is also a slightly idealistic young man.
When I found that my disdainful father was once a young man who walked alone with his hands in his pockets and his head down, and found that he used to talk about the smell of soil and the color of fields when others were digging for money, the hard-working and ambitious young man eventually became into what it is today. How can we continue to survive? Even if the body is walking on the oasis of the homeland, the soul is still wandering in another desert . For Sinan who lives in this cursed land, for a person who pays more attention to the center of literature than the center of life, I think the eternity on the other side of life may be a better destination for him.
ps: father hiehiehie's laughter is impressive
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