At the beginning of the film, Mr. Barty drives the Pahlavi-era Pahlavi-era Land Rover around the street, making people think that his wife sent him to the supermarket to buy salt. I turned around and found a boy who was going back to the barracks, pulled him into the car and said to send him back to the barracks, and then started chatting about family affairs, knowing that the soldier was Kurdish and under 20 years old this year, so he went to the suburbs while talking. On the mountain, I asked Xiao Bing if he would like to earn extra money. He had dug a hole under the tree on the top of the mountain. "Take sleeping pills tonight. Come and bury me tomorrow morning. The 200,000 in the car will be yours." Xiao Bing was so frightened. Run down the mountain in a flash. Mr. Bhatti had to continue looking for someone, and then he met an Afghan who was a security guard at the mine, but the security guard was reluctant to leave without permission to accompany him to "refresh his mind". He recommended a fellow from the seminary, and he took the seminary students with him. When he reached the top of the mountain, the students refused to accept the task of burying him after telling him about the verses in the Koran about not committing suicide. Finally, he met an old Turkish man. The old man said that he also thought about suicide when he was young and planned to hang himself on the cherry tree, but when he was tying the rope on the cherry tree, he picked a few cherries to eat, and found that it was so delicious. I changed my mind and went home to continue living.
The three main characters who talk to Mr. Bhatti in the film are, of course, representative: Kurdish soldiers, Afghan seminary students and old Turkish people. But politics and ethnicity are not important here. This movie is a typical dialogue movie, and the dialogue can be divided into three aspects: 1) it is the dialogue between Mr. Barty and his passengers as presented in the movie itself; 2) it is the dialogue between Mr. Barty and the audience , has always made the audience very anxious to think about why they should live; 3) It is the dialogue between Mr. Barty and himself. And I think 3) is the most important, and the camera also explained it: in many cases of two-person dialogue, the camera is only facing Mr. Barty alone, instead of the usual movie. When the other party is speaking, the camera will cut to the past, which creates the feeling that Mr. Barty has been talking to a wall and a mirror, and the other party's words are actually just his own echo.
Although the film never introduced why Mr. Barty wanted to commit suicide, the reason is actually very clear, that is, as Kierkegaard said, "Despair is the disease that kills." And death itself is not lethal, there is a more deadly fear than death, that is despair, so Mr. Barty has been very calm before committing suicide. Kierkegaard has a good analogy: the relationship between the common man and the Christian is like the relationship between the child and the adult. What makes the child tremble and cringe, the adult does not care. Children don't know what scary things are, but adults know and fear it. Christians are not afraid of death, because according to Christianity, there is more hope in death than in life. From this, it can be seen that Mr. Barty himself is a "Christian", but a desperate and skeptical Christian, as in Somerset Maugham's novel "Blade", the priest said to Larry: "you are a very religious man who doesn't believe in God."
The three passengers in the movie actually correspond to this relationship: the Kurdish soldier is an ordinary person, he is a child, he is afraid when he hears suicide, he is afraid of what adults are not afraid of; the Afghan god College students are "Christians" with firm beliefs; the old Turkish man is a "Christian" who believes in despair. The mission of Christians with firm beliefs can turn children into human beings, but cannot turn despair into faith. Mr. Bhatti said, "You can understand me, but you can't understand me", so only the old Turkish man can save him. The process of carrying passengers this way actually shows the trajectory of Mr. Barty's own psychological growth and self-help.
Interestingly, the opportunity for the old Turkish man to return to his faith was the taste of cherries, which happened to be exactly the same as the reason he was expelled from the Garden of Eden. The old man's last propaganda--think about everything from the optimistic side--is just like Aunt Yu Dan is talking about the Analects, Apple gives wisdom but makes people fall, Cherry Maruko is mentally retarded but makes people happy, maybe that's how it is Something's going on.
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