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: All women have a built-in grain of indestructibility. And men's task has always been to make them realize it as late as possible. African men are just as good at this task as others. But after a close look at African women I wouldn't necessarily bet on the men.

  • Narrator: Off Okinawa kamikaze dived on the American fleet; they would become a legend. They were likelier material for it obviously than the special units who exposed their prisoners to the bitter frost of Manchuria and then to hot water so as to see how fast flesh separates from the bone.

    Narrator: One would have to read their last letters to learn that the kamikaze weren't all volunteers, nor were they all swashbuckling samurai. Before drinking his last cup of saké Ryoji Uebara had written: "I have always thought that Japan must live free in order to live eternally. It may seem idiotic to say that today, under a totalitarian regime. We kamikaze pilots are machines, we have nothing to say, except to beg our compatriots to make Japan the great country of our dreams. In the plane I am a machine, a bit of magnetized metal that will plaster itself against an aircraft carrier. But once on the ground I am a human being with feelings and passions. Please excuse these disorganized thoughts. I'm leaving you a rather melancholy picture, but in the depths of my heart I am happy. I have spoken frankly, forgive me."