★The actor Reza-Naki won the Best Actor Award at the 58th Berlin Film Festival.
The Lonely Ostrich
is a story similar to that of a driver on a motorcycle in urban and rural areas in China, a story about being lost, searching for a mental journey and the plight of a small person. The ostrich represents a kind of innocence. At the beginning, the loss of the ostrich forced Karim to go to the city to make a living, and gradually lost this innocence. Once his car broke down and he was lost with the transport team, but he accidentally got a refrigerator. When he wanted to sell his ill-gotten wealth, he saw the ostrich being transported on the truck looking at him with innocent eyes. His conscience was awakened and he returned to the refrigerator. Finally, the recovery of the lost ostrich symbolizes the return of good quality. At the end, many ostriches are running on the field, like the turbulent inner emotions, and the passionate dance of an ostrich is a display of the pure heart as clear as ever.
Karim's loneliness is vividly displayed in the two searches. The first time was to find a lost ostrich, and the second time was to get back the blue wooden door that his wife gave to others. There are many things in common between the two times. They are both bowed and bent, and the things on their backs are squeezed below the screen; they are both aerial shots, the vast earth seems to engulf everything, but he can't get out of the predicament no matter how small he is. This person who was oppressed by heavy life and cravings was so lonely and helpless, but stubborn and unbreakable.
tender sparrow
"We will grow wings... If you live, you will understand. There is a feeling that will lift us up from the earth..." Turgenev's sentence describing love is also sufficient to describe the [Song of the Sparrow] in emotion. Sparrows are generally used to symbolize small people, and warmth is the song they sing. The naive son, who wants to raise fish to get out of trouble, cleans the water cellar and earns money to buy fish; the sensible eldest daughter, in order not to burden the family, hides the fact that the hearing aid is broken; gentle wife, considerate and caring, meticulous; kind neighbors , helping each other in times of need... These are the most important people in the world who love and accompany each other to comfort each other. Today, when compassion is abused and human concern becomes the mean word, this simple emotion makes it more real and powerful.
Although life is still rough, just like the goldfish whose sons are scattered all over the place. But there was the big fish that survived, swimming happily in the clean water cellar with the new-born sparrow nest. Looking at the sparrow hitting the glass, Karim, who had broken his leg, struggled to open the window and let it fly out. The man finally stopped fighting the beasts for survival. He discovered that there is still a free sky in the hard part of life, and that is love.
Originally published in "Watching Movies Midnight"
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