immersed dream

Sophia 2022-11-21 16:50:43

Except for the two flashing Hong Kong street scenes and the three words "Journey to the West" that appeared on a TV screen in the Japanese unit, there is no sunlight and no Chinese elements, but in the strange exotic atmosphere and the slow behind-the-scenes sound It gave me a resonance that seems to be a strong life experience that can only be experienced in a dream. It seems to help me find a way to express the depression of life calmly in the humanistic vision of mixed good and bad. The emotional element makes me enjoy the sense of sublime and awe that I can experience even with my ignorance of the use of film technique.
I can't express it, I can only seem to repeat it, the fountain under the dark boulevard that appears when the voiceover mentions the origin of the sunless, and the frightening pastoral scenery of those coarse grains of darkness and coldness, and the countless sunless fascinates me The picture: the canopy of white birds perched, Rousseau's tombstone, the indifferent streetscape of Tokyo, the white waves swallowing black rocks under the rust-red bridge in San Francisco. I was thinking that the director mentioned the lack of rhetoric in Japanese literature at the beginning, and the words alone are enough to express the meaning. So I thought again, this movie is a grand and sophisticated rhetoric for me.

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  • Narrator: I went back to Narita for the birthday of one of the victims of the struggle. The demo was unreal. I had the impression of acting in "Brigadoon." Of waking up 10 years later in the midst of the same players, with the same blue lobsters of police, with the same helmeted adolescents, the same banners, and the same slogan, "Down with the Airport." Only one thing has been added: the airport, precisely.

  • Narrator: If the images of the present don't change, then change the images of the past.