dream, Isaac took an early morning walk to a place of ruins, where the clocks lost their hands. He looked at all this in confusion, and a man in black on the side of the road slowly turned towards him, then fell down and died instantly. A funeral carriage came from the corner, but the wheel was stuck on the post of the street lamp. The carriage was still trying to drive forward, and finally the wheel couldn't stand the torture and rolled down. At the moment of breaking free, the carriage also lost one side. The coffin fell to the ground from the carriage. The carriage did not care about this at all, and drove straight away.
Isaac slowly walked towards the half-opened coffin, and the person inside suddenly grabbed Isaac's hand, and that person was Isaac himself.
The place in this dream has a strong smell of death, and the clock that has lost its hands more or less shows that time has little meaning for Isaac now, and he is already dying. There are great ideals, and everything around him is set, like dead, greasy hair set with a lot of hairspray. The sudden death of the man in black means that death will come to Isaac at any time, and Isaac lying in the coffin is Isaac's fear of his inevitable death.
It's like hell here, empty and meaningless, like the eyes of a dead person.
The second dream
Isaac sat in front of his former lover Sarah, she asked him, Isaac, have you ever looked in the mirror? I let you see what you look like now. Isaac shivered, his eyes full of sadness, he didn't look at the mirror but stared at her. She said, you are dying, but my life has just begun. After all, your relationship has been frustrated.
Isaac shook his head and said, "I'm not frustrated."
Sarah said, "You're frustrated because you can't accept the reality that you're so thoughtful about everything that you're indifferent."
"I see. "Isaac replied.
"No, you don't understand at all, we do not agree with each other." She held up the mirror. "Look at you in the mirror again, don't run away."
Isaac barely glanced at the glasses and muttered, "I see it."
"I'm going to marry your brother, and our love is almost a game. Look at your own face and smile!"
Isaac forced a smile from the reflection of the mirror on his old face.
"That's right! What a small smile," Sarah said, putting down the mirror in her hand.
Isaac closed her eyes in pain and said, "But my heart is aching."
She shook her head gently: "As a professor, you should know the reason for the pain, but you don't."
She said she was leaving , to take care of Skybrett's baby. Isaac, who was sitting on the side and wanted to keep her, walked away.
Sarah ran to a baby blue placed next to a big tree, picked up the baby gently and said, "Poor little guy, shh, go to sleep. Don't be afraid of strong winds, birds, and tides. I will accompany you. You, hold you. The morning is coming, no one can hurt you, and I will hold you with you."
Sarah carried the child into the house, and her husband was waiting for her at the door.
The old Isaac hobbled slowly to the window of the house and watched the beautiful young Sarah play at a piano while her handsome husband stood admiring her, who couldn't help kissing Kissing Sarah's neck...
In this scene, Sarah tells Isaac not to escape from reality. I think the "reality" here obviously has multiple meanings. One refers to the reality that Sarah no longer belongs to him, and the other refers to , he is old. The third is to face imminent death.
Sarah asked Isaac to look at himself in the mirror and smile, wanting him to be optimistic and face all this calmly, although Isaac forced a smile and said that he felt a pain in his heart. This is a really good point of human complexity and sadness - we know that everything must be gone forever, but we keep going back to the past and can never let go of it.
And that sentence, as a professor, you should know the cause of the pain, but you don't. It means that the confused and terrified Isaac, as a medical professor, can understand the cause of old age and death, but he does not understand the meaning of all this.
How many people can understand? This is a mystery that can never be solved, we cannot reveal it to us through the mouths of the dead, we can only imagine possible states of this ultimate meaning.
Sarah held the baby as if she was holding the newborn Isaac, as if she was comforting Isaac not to be afraid of all this, she would accompany him, don't be afraid, accept it all in peace. Death is not terrible, after death everything will be quiet. (This may also be what the director wanted to say to himself.)
When the lonely Isaac watched what Sarah and her husband were doing from the window, he finally understood the importance of Sarah and his youth represented by Sarah. Everything has passed away irretrievably. He stood at this end of the watershed and looked at the other end, as if it was close to his eyes, but he could never touch it...
The director had always kept Isaac in the dream at the beginning of this dream. Made an understanding of youth and feelings around.
Isaac knocked on the door, but no one responded for a long time. He mistook a nail beside the door for the doorbell, and scratched a hole in his palm. When he looked at the wound, a man with glasses appeared, right He said, welcome, professor, please come with me.
He was led by the man with glasses down a long and narrow corridor and entered a room at the end of the corridor.
There were two chairs in a row in the room, and five rows along the ascending steps. A few people sat on the chairs and watched Professor Isaac walk in with a blank expression.
like a small court.
Opposite these tables, there is a large table with a microscope and other objects of unknown use in the most conspicuous place on the table. Beyond the table, on the wall behind is a blackboard with a string of words written in chalk.
The man with glasses sat behind the desk, pulled out a stack of documents and asked him, did you bring your exam books?
The professor took out a book from his jacket pocket and handed it to the man with glasses. He took the book and browsed it slightly, and asked the professor to observe the bacterial specimen with a microscope.
Isaac looked into the microscope but couldn't see anything, he said, something must be wrong. The man with glasses took a look at the microscope and said, it's not the microscope's fault. Isaac said almost aggrieved, I couldn't see anything.
Then the man with glasses asked the professor to read the words on the blackboard and asked what he meant. The professor doesn't know. The glasses man reminded that this is the primary responsibility of a doctor. The professor thought about it, but remembered nothing. The glasses man said that the doctor's first responsibility is to ask for forgiveness from others. The professor laughed, trying to hide his guilty conscience. He said, yes, yes, I remember. He smiled and turned to the people sitting in the chairs, but they didn't mean to laugh, so the professor had to stop the laughter and looked at the man with glasses almost in fear.
The man with glasses said, "You're charged with a crime." The
professor couldn't believe his ears. He defended himself, because he is old and has a bad heart, so he can't be more tolerant?
"You didn't reflect your thoughts on the test paper." The man with glasses came to a conclusion.
The last test is to examine the patient.
The professor raised the face of the woman he met along the way and said that she was dead.
But the woman opened her eyes and laughed.
The professor was convicted, and his dead wife sued him...
This room is like a religious apocalypse, where the dead are convicted or innocent. If there is an apocalyptic trial, I doubt anyone will ever be acquitted. Religion has taken us to such a far point that it is almost unavoidable that there are subtle evils in every human being.
All of us are guilty, more or less.
Isaac watched from a distance as his wife copulated with a man. When it was over, the wife said, "I told Isaac all this, and he'd say, 'My poor girl, it's like she's a god. And then I cried and asked him, are you really sorry? And he'd say,' Yeah, I'm so sorry'. I cried even harder and asked for his forgiveness and he would say, 'You don't ask for my forgiveness, there's nothing to forgive.' But he was divided because he was as ruthless as cold The
wife twisted her hair and said, "Occasionally he gets tender and I shout to him, 'You've gone crazy! Your hypocrisy makes me sick!' Then he sedates me and he knows what to do with it. I say I'm in the situation today thanks to him. He admits with a sad face that he was wrong. But he doesn't really care because he's so callous."
"Gone." Isaac looked out to the woods, never seeing his wife again.
"Everything is empty," said the man with glasses. "She died in surgery, without pain, without trembling."
"What is my trial?" Isaac asked.
"Follow the usual rules."
"The usual rules?"
"Lonely," said the man with glasses.
Through the trial of the "court" and the final judgment, Isaac's sins were completely eliminated, but he has always been lonely, and he has already accepted this punishment invisibly to offset his sins.
The second dream eliminated both his love and hatred, first of all his thoughts, and then his own sins, and he had nothing to worry about in this world, so Isaac became at this very moment. The real Isaac - an independent existence, he is neither a father, nor a husband, nor a lover. He's just Isaac. All this can only be completely erased by the final death.
So when Isaac woke up he said to his daughter-in-law who was sitting in the car, I had a dream that I was dead and now I am alive.
The third dream
The third dream is not exactly a dream, but a memory (or imagination.) of Isaac lying in bed. is the shortest. The picture is full of joy. At the end of the camera, Isaac looked at his parents in the distance under the leadership of Sarah, his mother waved to him, and Isaac seemed to smile slightly with tears in his eyes.
Although his relationship with everything around him may not be completely transformed because of this day's experience, he has already wanted to change, and he has obtained spiritual liberation. Everything, but a sincere smile.
The first dream is the suggestion and panic before death comes, the second dream is the situation after death, and the third dream is the peace that death gives generously. From these three dreams, the director tried every means to eliminate the fear of death and let people face it calmly. On the other hand, it inadvertently revealed a constant fear of death. It is because of fear that I have come up with all kinds of ways to beautify the process so that I can feel relieved.
Maybe dying while you're alive is a nightmare you can never get rid of.
Each of us is a land of wild strawberries, which we will never forget. How should we manage and treat this land of wild strawberries in our life? We sighed and saw with tears that this beautiful place would eventually leave us, what should we do? What should be done? That's another theme of the film, and of course it's not what I'm discussing in this article.
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