I've always felt that "Heavy Rain" is an intriguing movie. The interlacing of the three parts, the superposition of the three wavelength divisions, and the integration of the three parts make the film bear a heavy burden. This heavy wandering and repressed wandering expresses too many things in it. The mix of things makes the audience tremble as the film progresses.
Three separate stories, three separate emotions, about a popular theme: violence and love. The violence here kills love and stabs emotion, and the love here is full of irrational violence. In fact, these three seemingly independent stories are intertwined with bad and bad. Each story has added the appearance of the main characters in their respective stories, and each of them is acquainted with each other. When breaking down the order of the story, I found that there is no sequence at all, and this is also the answer to the sentence: "Time does not pass, and the circle is not round." In these three stories, there is violence and love is strange, and the conflict in each love and violence is so obvious. These kinds of shocks make the audience feel ups and downs in the calm and depressed tone of the film. make bigger waves. The vivid theme and the special form make the film more cohesive as a whole. It tells an intriguing event and a thought-provoking emotion with a dull look and feel.
In the process of watching the movie, I always have a very big question, that is: why do they kill people so rashly and easily? Is it better to kill an ant even to kill a person? Especially when my brother raised the gun and pulled the trigger to shoot his own younger brother, I was really indescribable that kind of sadness, it was simply inhuman? If our world is full of such unreasonableness and recklessness, wouldn't the tragedy of the surname be staged every day? But, that's what The Heavy Rain is about to tell us. Perhaps in peaceful countries we have never experienced such violence and thought it was peaceful on the surface, but in Macedonia it was not. For decades, vendettas and conflicts have not stopped here, and it has long since become the powder keg of the world. The display of irrational violence here is stark and ironic. When this kind of vendetta becomes commonplace and a simple act, how can the disorder and irrationality of the world allow people to live safely? I remember at the beginning of the film, a few children abused the tortoise and set the fire ring on fire. The picture that appeared at the same time was the crucifixion statue. In the first WORDS in the film, the church was a holy place far away from war. Violently violated and forced to withdraw from peace. The cultivation of this kind of violence started from the childhood of a child. I remember that there was a young man in the film, who was kind and did not dare to hold a gun, but brutally killed a cat at a window. This kind of cultivation is very fast. In such a day, in such a crowd, one can be cultivated into a brutal abuser. Imagine how horrible and shameless human beings are.
In the second part of FACES and the third part of PICTURES, the play of a few children running around with guns is really startling, and there are a lot of photos showing such bloody and brutal pictures. How can the existence of violence not make people terrified? Violence in a small town in Macedonia can be said to be an uncontrollable violent environment, which produces disorder. But what about those mixed in the city? How to explain it? The unpredictable moments of violence are staged, and people's sense of security is completely lost. Annie and Nick, who were having dinner, didn't know that a shootout was about to take place here, and Annie didn't expect her husband to lose his life because of it. This unpredictable sense of fate, this unprepared violence is interspersed abruptly in the film, and it is everywhere. Isn't this the appearance of the world? Isn't it just the beginning of a war that happens every day and which we think is far from us? Isn't the Balkan Peninsula, to which Macedonia belongs, a huge world war triggered by an assassination incident in Sarajevo? When we feel like we are far from violence, when we don't really see it, it happens all around us. Every day, repeat.
Violence is a major theme in the film, and the film renders this disordered state everywhere, and an unpredictable violence occurs. He is not like the extreme exaggeration in Takashi Miike's "Killer Aichi", full of bloody pictures, showing all kinds of violence for the sake of violence. But through a kind of forbearance processing, sadly showing a strong feeling of violence everywhere. And to get to the bottom of the reason, why does this violence exist? Is the hatred caused by the strong feelings, or unprovoked venting. I think probably both. This world has brought people too many grievances, a kind of grievances that the world has given to humans, and grievances that humans have given to humans. Violence itself is the infinite pain that human beings bring to themselves.
In the first part of WORDS, a group of people are chasing and killing a weak little girl Sanmila. The hatred here is that she killed the shepherd, and the reason is that the shepherd wants to rape the little girl Sanmila. So many people chased and killed him. Human knights have been hurting themselves and their comrades all the time. The endless hatred of mankind has caused its own great pain, and it is this kind of pain that has blocked the friendship between human beings. This theme is actually partially revealed in many movies. But no film like "Heavy Rain" is as naked and thorough. This is inseparable from the historical background of this place in Macedonia. The countries of the Federation of Yugoslavia always carry a kind of inner sensitivity and deep introspection of the characters themselves after division. They reveal more of a kind of trauma to the country, the abhorrence of human war. Such a country's environment also forces them to delve deeper into human beings and reflect on the hatred between countries. Of course, the hatred of human beings here also seems to be endless, and it also responds to the sentence: "Time does not pass, and the circle is not round." The tragic nature of human beings is displayed nakedly, and what we see is more of our own pain.
But there is another beautiful image in the film that makes the violence even more hateful and abhorrent, and that is love. There is nothing more beautiful than love. Almost every movie talks about the theme of love more or less, but how many movies like "Heavy Rain Will Come" show love so naked and desperate, so miserable. The love in the three parts gives me the feeling that it ends with not being able to get it, and what is not getting is not the human heart, but the violent killing and the intrusion of the outside world.
In the first part, Kirill and Sanmila, like a fairy tale, confused their genders at first. Lille. The two people who don't understand each other's language just stay under the same roof for two nights to develop a feeling of dependence. Their love made that chase become like a game, and when Sanmila was shot and fell to the ground, the words "I love you" uttered by their lips in the dialogue, in fact, each of us can understand. This impossible love makes love simple and complicated by violence. Our spearhead points to the violence itself, why the beautiful love was also destroyed by the gunshot. In the second part of FACES, when Annie faced the dilemma of middle-aged love, when Annie and Nick were discussing their relationship, there were several shots in the dark, which made Annie even more difficult to choose. When the protagonist Alexander in the third part was trying to save the girl Sanmila, it also ended with a gunshot. And what can Alexander's death bring to Anne, as well as that beautiful first love. What is the derivative of violence? It's human pain, and the people who create that pain are human beings. Humans fell in love with love, but ended it with violence. The blow of good things can best show a kind of heart-piercing pain, so when the gunshots rang, we felt that it was a kind of strangulation, a kind of cruelty. In addition to the emotions of the characters themselves, what affects the existence of love in any movie is more of the obstacles brought by the outside world. For example, the love film "Atonement", which was also killed by the war, has the same performance, and that performance is not as strong as that of "Heavy Rain". And just a miss because of the chaos of humanity as a whole.
Unlike love, the obstacle brought by "Heavy Rain is Coming" is a kind of sudden and intermittent obstacle, which makes love naked and appear thinner and more shocking in the face of violence.
In the film, the derivation of violence is the coming of a torrential rain, which is used to express the cry of human hearts. A denunciation of violence. It all starts with violence and ends with violence. Violence seems to restore all contradictions to calm, but people have thought that such violence will produce new violence, and human beings will die round by round in this kind of fighting, resulting in a new round of fighting? Is this the world?
The director expresses such a theme in a very clever way. In a time-space disordered way, a subversion of the sequence, the whole story has no beginning and no end, making reincarnation seem real, and fate appearing elusive. It is also more conducive to the display of the theme. In fact, this is also a kind of "time does not pass, the circle is not round." The director made a joke with time, and does the violence that exists just want to make a big joke on this beautiful world?
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