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: As for the students, some massacred each other in the mountains in the name of revolutionary purity, while others had studied capitalism so thoroughly to fight it that they now provide it with its best executives.

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland in 1965. He said that for him that it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images. But, it never worked. He wrote me, "One day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black leader. If they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black."