murmur of confusion

Nyasia 2022-03-22 09:02:44

Finally, finally, eventually, watched "Eternal and One Day". The Greeks are so good... I've always been afraid to read Anzhe because I know his images are going to blow me away, so I want to be prepared and better. But I found that I was always unprepared. Instead, I suddenly decided to open him today and watched it. I’m really grateful for the video. If it were a book, I might have “collapsed” halfway through the book, but because it’s a video, the time is limited, so I read it with sincerity. After reading it for a long time, I read it over and over again to focus on a few paragraphs, and I will definitely look back after it. It is so shocking that I don't know where to start. Because it's completely in my mind. Sensitive, delicate, coexistence of personal and historical, ambiguous, rich space for interpretation, poetry, narrative techniques (very mature technicality), memory, time, self-talk, responding to history as well as to the future (“how long will tomorrow last”, saving A rescue, it really resonates here. The past is the future, and the future is the past. The time concept), emotion (can I really feel guilty about women in men's films, can I see it, it really is) European TT), family history, poets (poets are useless, who knows, I'm going to cry. So I understand his lingering, there is no more accurate word than this, lingering. If I can say that, the only thing I really would produce The masculine figure of sympathy is Hamlet...the man who is totally receptive and shows a certain vulnerability...the poet in short. So Anna's letter, I understand every word of it, that kind of heartfelt love I mean, that kind of coincidence between the image of the mother and the image of the wife. The last "Alexander" was shouted by the mother, the wife, and the nanny. The poet is the child of all women. Too close to my heart, but I don't know how to tell it coherently and clearly.

Let's start with the characters. Undoubtedly, the little boy is the avatar of Alexander's inner self, and the dialogue and actions between him and the little boy actually point to the inner dialogue and action. This is in the semiotic sense, and it is also a common literary style. Lila and Lennon, Qiyue and Ansheng are also written in avatars. But the meaning here is richer, because it contains a temporal structure. Alexander is not only talking to the childlike, traumatic, lonely self, but also the "past self." When I talk to my past self, there must be a sense of reconciliation. And Alexander was a poet, so it also foreshadowed a future outcome that would produce a poem. There are other rich aspects to the relationship between the two people. Alexander is the rescuer of the little boy, and the little boy is the source of inspiration (word buyer) of Alexander; the two people are the two people in the dialogue in the history of Greek exile, which also implies the possibility of some kind of reconciliation. Sex (the direction of history); they also have the most immediate companionship. I feel that my sensory system appreciates this richness better than my words. It will take time to clarify before it can be recorded more clearly in words.

And then the nested structure of the movie is also very delicate. Eternity and a day. Story Time: The whole story takes place in one day - why the Greeks are so good at telling stories, and can produce such a rich mobilization in one day, is undoubtedly the nourishment of drama. Really good at it. The best film directors are still born out of theater and ocean. One of the stories in it is that in the process of helping the escaped little boy, the poet constantly reconciles with the guilt of his wife and the failure of the unfinished poem in his memory. This is not a success story. It is a story of reconciliation with failure. Then, there is a Greek story outside of this private story. When the little boy sang a requiem to his friends, he said, "Where are we going?" This is obviously a national confusion. And the skills are really mature, and "Father Trapped in Time" also uses this kind of editing. So there is the so-called "breathing feeling". I understand that only a poet can create "breathing" on the basis of high technical sophistication.

There's a lot more to say, and it should be a long time coming back to this text for reflection. The first week of November, I was so disorganized and insane, get yourself back together. All because of this damn winter! !

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Eternity and a Day quotes

  • Alexandre: All passed by so quickly. This suspect pain... my stubbornness to want to learn,to want to know... then the darkness... the silence around me... the silence. All made me believe that before the end of winter with the ethereal silhouettes of the boats,and their sudden breakthroughs in the sky, with the lovers along the promenade,in the declining sun, and the hypocritical promise of the spring, all made me believe that before the end of winter... My only regret, Anna... but is it only one?... is not to have finished anything. I left it all as a draft, shattered words here and there.

  • Alexandre: I once asked you "how long will tomorrow last?" and you answered me: Eternity and a day.