A miraculous tenderer emotion awaits in the dark

Shaun 2022-04-10 09:01:09

I don't know why, when I'm in a bad mood, I often think of this movie. The first time I saw this movie, I was moved to tears as a young man in the dark on a lonely afternoon in that lovely city in southern China.
Later, I read this film review: "In that sun and land, at the moment when the scarecrow holding a branch diagonally was blown away by the wind, God's tender mercy has quietly descended." In the darkest In moments of loss, true emotion, such as tender pity, is brought back to life and strength.

Later, I also watched a lot of similar movies Talk to Her, In July... and indulged in those real lovely but pathetic emotions.

When we reach out and want to love the world, we often encounter cruelty and games. So we wandered alone in our respective worlds, met occasionally, broke up in disappointment, and forgot each other in the rivers and lakes.
Maybe one day, we will walk into the same theater and be moved by the same movie. We still love the world, it's only because we've had so much cruelty and heartbreak that we start to love ourselves more, waiting in the dark for miraculously tenderer emotions.

I began to think that maybe all this was an inner fantasy. If my heart was like a quiet flowing river, or the gentle sun on a winter afternoon, then I could forget all of this.

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Extended Reading
  • Dandre 2022-04-15 09:01:07

    The film is gentle, delicate and touching, like a stream of clear spring flowing into the hearts of the audience. The just-right blank space and simple narrative are fundamentally different from those sensational and cliche big bad films. The film does not show how the protagonist quit drinking and regained his career. The success of these things that the audience is interested in, but to express his daily life, ordinary, sincere and touching, such a script is really excellent and touching.

  • Christiana 2022-04-22 07:01:58

    7.9 Sweet country music, small town life as calm as running water. Although the male protagonist is the center of the film's characterization, perhaps what the film really wants to show is the gentle and compassionate female protagonist that comes from religion, a return to traditional values.

Tender Mercies quotes

  • Sue Anne: There was a song you used to sing to me when I was little, I think. It was somethin' about a dove. Mama said she never heard you sing it to me, but - I think it went somethin' about a "on the wings of a snow-white dove, he sends his somethin'-somethin' love."

    Mac Sledge: I don't remember that. I don't.

  • Mac Sledge: [singing] When Jesus went down, To the waters that day, He was baptized, In the usual way, When it was done, God blessed his soul, He sent him his love, On the wings of a dove, On the wings of a snow-white dove, He sends his pure sweet love, A sign from above, On the wings of a dove...