"The Rhythm My Heart Forgot" - The Struggle Between Soul and Flesh

Charlie 2022-03-26 09:01:14

It took almost a month to finish watching this film, but for one reason or another, it couldn't go on. Finally, I finished watching this film a few days ago, but suddenly the voice immersed in my heart disappeared without a trace. I couldn't find any traces, it just became a silent space in my heart, but it also made me finally understand that the space in the rhythm formed the music.

The male protagonist in some shaky shots is sitting on the sofa, like the calm and silent godfather in "The Godfather", the dim streetlights receding in the black screen, like entering a tunnel for a while, the electronic music is strong and turbulent, that The tension of this emotion is surging, but it fails to suffocate you until Tom encounters his mother's agent before her death, and suddenly another voice appears in the life of an illegal real estate developer that seems to be normal. Tom's soul poured out, and he began to wander between two different voices, wandering in a line, stepping forward.

The soul of wisdom begins to call from the depths, it needs a wit, simplicity, simplicity, insight and sensitive heart, but the social system is telling Tom to know how to obey and follow the tradition, it needs you, but a heart. Rough and obedient heart.

At this point, Tom begins to wander between the life of a violent jerk and a chaotic love life and a pianist who needs serenity, a dilemma that he can't bear to give up, and a journey of self-doubt and self-liberation. Tom also had to help his father, also an unscrupulous real estate businessman, with those problems when he started stroking the piano again. One side is spent in compromise, the other side is suffering in arousing the soul.

In a world full of chaos, competition, restlessness and entertainment, just like most people's lives today, we are always trying to innovate in this prison to change some of the status quo of life we ​​don't like, but also with At the same time, you have to bear the strange eyes of those who have already obeyed life. They think that your pursuit of the so-called life of freedom and wisdom is a kind of naive and stupid life. As a good friend of mine said, like a person who pays more attention to his spiritual life, he will never become a rich man, the rich man he identifies with in real life, but at least we are happy in this way.

When Tom started learning to play the piano again, the chaotic anxiety was hidden in his body, and the desire to fall into the flesh and the purity of the soul also fought fiercely again, making him play the piano again and again, silence. Always full of violent catharsis. Until the end, when he was finally able to gain inner peace, he was interrupted by the chaotic rhythm of reality. Later, his father also lost his life due to speculative business. Like most of those people, the security life they longed for was the biggest source of chaos.

Starring Roman Darius portrays Tom, who roams in violence and sexy serenity, with a resemblance, even the main emotional theme of the entire film. When Tom watched his companions drive those homeless people, people The figure fleeing in a panic under the flickering spotlights, Tom's equally frightened face in the middle of the screen, reflected by a bunch of dim lights, and when he was sitting in the car, the same shady fingers formed a pulsating finger. sharp contrast. The same shooting technique, the same black and white processing, in the electronic music and the low-pitched humming, one is a devil and the other is an angel, they stare at our body, and let us struggle with desire and tranquility.

God said: You must be born again. When we renew our minds, you will find that our hearts are not limited by our own thoughts, then our hearts can remain fresh and not engulfed in darkness. At that time, goodness is found in that silence.

At the last moment, the beauty in Tom woke him up from the blood, and again in the dark with his scarred hands, beat the rhythm of the music, the rhythm that had broken out of the cocoon and forgotten.

2009-11-29

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  • Sami: Playing piano is making you flip. Stop it now!

    Thomas Seyr: Nothing's making me flip. I'm not flipping. I'm having a ball. I feel fantastic, dont' you see? It's important, I'm serious about it.

    Sami: You gonna make dough from pianos?

    Thomas Seyr: Not pianos, the piano! It's not about making money, it's about art.

    Sami: What's in it for us? You coming to meetings all, 'Hi guys, I've been playing piano.' Shit, I'll take up the banjo.

    Thomas Seyr: It's over your head