In fact, this long and gloomy beginning has something to do with this movie, because after two hours and 20 minutes, I gently closed the notebook, and I no longer want to worry about my troubles, maybe it is the happiness produced by the contrast of the depth of sadness Delusion, for a life that is forced to survive, it is not necessary to prepare to say goodbye in a hurry, right?
The gray-blue tone runs through the entire film, so the two and a half hours of sadness never stops, and there is not a single space for respite in the film. It wasn't until the sunset slanted on Gaudí's Sagrada Familia that I realized that the city was Barcelona, and heaven seemed within reach, but he and his world were trapped in the abyss of corruption. He is a psychic, soothing souls who are reluctant to leave; he is a local snake, dealing with whites, blacks and Chinese; he is a benevolent father of two children, a dying cancer patient, and his wife is a crazy drinker. The ego cannot be trusted, and although he still loves, he can no longer believe it.
Drugs, homosexuality, cheap labor, carbon monoxide, basements, creaking attics, black moths on the ceiling, melting ice cream, dead owls in the snow, rough waves, fathers graves, vile cops, running peddlers, Ransoms, electric rods, diamond rings, amulets, crowded subways, distant churches.
He stumbled at the bottom of society and killed 25 lives in an unintentional accident. It turns out that death is the easiest thing and the best medicine to get rid of everything. After all, he doesn't want his children to forget his father. Standing face to face with his father who he has never met, lying with his little daughter, the daughter carefully wearing the ring on her hand, a preset repetition seems to imply the cycle of life, diamonds in the dark night, or not diamonds, who cares , shining with a charming light.
It can still be seen that this is Alessandro's film, although he no longer uses those intricate clue structures, he still feels that crash deserved it at the Oscars that year, racial conflict, marginal areas, heavy life, causal reincarnation. Hold your breath for two hours and thirty minutes, and you know that another world melts into it.
Javier did a great job and the soundtrack was amazing.
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