The day before the college entrance examination

Salvador 2022-03-24 09:03:26

Both a day and an eternity. I prefer this translation.

This is a story about betrayal and return. The poet's passionate and desperate question to the dying mother awakens the viewer. What can bring us eternal is the game of pain and desire, the long and difficult return journey of the exile, and the fate of fate. Words destined to be lost are love puzzles that cannot be sorted out.

Eternity is reincarnation, and only its last day, full of tender and warm memories, is the only day the world will understand the cause and effect of love. If it is said that cherishing the present has become an admonition passed down through the ages, then each of us is an urchin with no consciousness and a rebellious nature. If there is no such thing as passing, how can we cherish it, if time is played with applause by us, how can we talk about eternity?

The poet loves Anna so much, and Anna loves the poet so much. But the blue sea and white houses are not romantic at all. At that time, the inner self is better than everything. To finish writing the poems of the "aphasic" poets and to use their own lives to rescue the "trapped free people", remorse starts from here. The poet is not the first person to fall into the quagmire of ideals. He is a member of the cycle of reincarnation. He also ignores the thinking and warnings of his predecessors. This is the insignificance of individual consciousness in the torrent of history. It can be said that the exile of the poet was forced. It seems like a paradox, exile yourself in pain.

So what will happen tomorrow? Still so anxious and sad?
do not know. Even on the last day, we know how to cherish, know how to let go of a part of ourselves into the arms of love, what is the gain? It is the last day, the reincarnation is about to begin, some people will start wandering again, some people will strive to break the cage of freedom that they built... Maybe we have already experienced tomorrow!

However, this is how humans have been reproduced from generation to generation. There is no suffering or hope. More often than not, we rely on memories rather than the present. Tomorrow will follow the memories of yesterday, "Everything will pass away, and everything that has passed is beautiful". Under the unbearable weight of life, memories give us reflection on love, forgiveness for others, and redemption for ourselves. Don't laugh at the people who look at the photos and giggle, it's the moment when time disappears, the irreversible old times in reality flow in their minds, maybe they have "don't know the age is coming"... only There are open-minded and courageous memories that give us a chance for eternity.

The last day is the ending that we have been waiting for all our lives. Let’s reminisce, recall the past, and recall tomorrow. "Life is sweet, and, so sweet," this day, like the stars of dawn, heralds the arrival of the rising sun.

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Extended Reading
  • Thaddeus 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Long takes often begin or end with a zoom, and the scheduling, soundtracks, and sound effects are brilliant; however Angelopoulos' films have always made a focus on form over an empathic investment, with a style that lends itself to an essentially unadorned emotional subject matter. It is too calm and difficult and unnecessary, but for a larger topic, it shows a lack of abstract form; it also involves death, private memories, feelings of family and country and loneliness. Compared with "Nostalgia", this film is a high judgment. ——So An Shi actually just "changed a style (usually not used for sensationalism) to continue sensationalizing" and failed to rise to the level of intuition or subconsciousness. In this sense, he and Wim Wenders can be described as Shaw Like; they may be essayists, but not poets.

  • Melisa 2022-03-29 09:01:07

    I don't understand, I don't understand what the movie is going to express, I don't understand the behavioral logic of the characters, I don't understand what story this is about, and I don't understand the meaning of this kind of film. In the end, I don't understand Theo Angelopoulos, not only his movies, but also his profound thoughts and poetic feelings like the sea. . ~

Eternity and a Day quotes

  • Alexandre: All passed by so quickly. This suspect pain... my stubbornness to want to learn,to want to know... then the darkness... the silence around me... the silence. All made me believe that before the end of winter with the ethereal silhouettes of the boats,and their sudden breakthroughs in the sky, with the lovers along the promenade,in the declining sun, and the hypocritical promise of the spring, all made me believe that before the end of winter... My only regret, Anna... but is it only one?... is not to have finished anything. I left it all as a draft, shattered words here and there.

  • Alexandre: I once asked you "how long will tomorrow last?" and you answered me: Eternity and a day.