Two or three sentences in the dream

Dessie 2022-03-23 09:03:06

Amazing opening.

Dreams revisited every night, in the ruins of time, the surprisingly large moon hangs in the amazingly blue sky, the guests are sitting and waiting for your ceremony, and the faces are smiling like old photos.
(The close-up pictures of several smiling faces are indeed outdated. After looking at the whole film, this should be a real memory fragment from Bernini's wedding.)

Tom Waits curled up like an old vine tree and played and sang on the piano.
(How come the atmosphere is distorted as soon as he appears, he is clearly vivid, but it is a kind of creepy temperament of the silent film era)


Very beautiful love words and oaths.
(The line is really a highlight)

War and love are really inexhaustible themes.
(Also added nationality and belief)

In the imagery in the dream, why would the sweetheart be replaced by a kangaroo? Penguins appear in fight clubs. Perhaps because these two creatures have never appeared in the ancient civilization continent, they will not carry too many symbolic connotations and extensions. The artificially added symbols are removed, and they are purely what they grow up to be. It is as straightforward and inexplicable as our inner desires.


Near the end of the film, the tigers from Feixuli and the circus stare peacefully through the car window, which is wonderful.

And the song You can never hold back spring, which I changed into a little poem last year—

why stop the return of spring?
The fleeting years can stop, the
moss wall climbs the roses.
Unwilling to move,
two Fangfei before and after.
The cold dream was at the same time, and the
lost way was still in full swing.
The streamer does not need to be seen,
and it opens its heart.
Send a message to the person in your dreams,
don't forget and don't go against each other.

You can never hold back spring—Tom Waits

You can never hold back spring
You can be sure that I will never
Stop believing
The blushing rose will climb
Spring ahead or fall behind
Winter dreams the same dream
Every time
You can never hold back spring
Even though you've lost your way
The world keeps dreaming of spring
So close your eyes
Open you heart
To one who's dreaming of you
You can never hold back spring
Baby
Remember everything that spring
Can bring
You can never hold back spring

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Extended Reading

The Tiger and the Snow quotes

  • Attilio de Giovanni: I told myself: "There must be people whose job it is to use the right words, put things in a way... who when their heart beats, can get other people's hearts to beat."

    Attilio de Giovanni: That day I decided to become a poet.

  • Fuad: He was a real poet. He was young, fell in love with a woman and married her. A few years later, while he was fighting in some war, he heard his wife had contracted smallpox and had been disfigured. So Al-Giumeili said, "My eyes hurt." And then: "I've gone blind." When his wife died, 12 years later, he opened his eyes again.

    Attilio de Giovanni: So as not to upset his wife, he pretended to be blind for 12 years?

    Fuad: Every person is a chasm. It makes you dizzy to look down.