The Dream Butterfly of a Professor of Oriental Studies

Ludwig 2022-03-26 09:01:15

On the first day of the 2010 New Year, I watched the rented Blu-Ray "The Third Rose/Youth Without Youth" and was pleasantly surprised.
The movie tells a terrifying story. In Bucharest on the eve of World War II, Dominic, a linguistics professor who was in his seventies, was struck by lightning at Easter when he tried to commit suicide, and was almost roasted in the hospital, but miraculously regained his youth through rebirth, and obtained Superhuman intelligence and supernatural abilities.
Through the guidance of the second personality and the protection of the beautiful spy, Dominic began to use his own mysterious language to write about the fate of mankind in the process of escaping overseas from the Nazis, and kept it properly until 2010 (rare!) decipher.
Dominica, who has always been addicted to her memories of her first love, met Veronica, a young woman who looked like her first love reincarnated after the war. Fate made Veronica also struck by lightning (stun!) and was killed by a thousand-year-old Indian female saint Soul possession of Rupini (Posheng Dakini?).
Dominic, who is proficient in oriental languages, talked with him in Sanskrit, and was sent to India to find the cave and the remains of the female saint. After Veronica finally returned to normal, she fell in love with Dominica, who was in her 80s and only in her 20s and 30s.
It's a pity that the good times don't last long. Whenever Dominica tells Veronica about love in the world, the beauty will be possessed by the gods (Dominica uses her super power to detect that Shiva is living in her body, sweat!), He speaks like hysteria, and speaks languages ​​ranging from ancient Egyptian to Babylonian, the more he speaks, the closer he is to the source of the history of human civilization.
Under the guidance of the second personality, Dominic understands that all this is to help him complete the wonderful book of human language history. I only sigh that Veronica has aged tens of years in a few days. In order to save the life of her lover, Dominic had to give up writing strange books and leave her beloved woman.
A few years later, after learning that Veronica was healthy and had a daughter, Dominic destroyed his second personality in a quarrel and returned to Bucharest alone. In a coffee shop where things go wrong, Dominic unexpectedly reunites with his old white-haired friend. Suddenly, everything is like the "Zhuang Zhou Meng Butterfly" in Chinese allusions (the last butterfly is the most shocking!), so he stumbles away. Go, he was found frozen in the snow, and he was found frozen in the snow, holding the third rose in his hand that he had asked the second personality about.

The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by the Romanian theologian Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), who is also a Pisces Iliad. No wonder the strange things in the story written also make me feel a sense of affinity. .
Dreaming of "approaching scientific problems in literary form", he also studied Indian Yoga and Upanishads in India, and even studied Sanskrit. After World War II, he worked in France and the United States successively. His literary and academic writings were very rich, and he gradually became a giant in the theological circles.

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Extended Reading
  • Filomena 2022-03-29 09:01:09

    None of what I want to say is in-depth and not obvious enough. The origin of language and the origin of time are wonderful - where is the starting point for human civilization and the universe? Do they have anything in common? Or put it in to show that the movie is "macro"? There are many philosophical fragments in it, but they are also very rigidly connected, so they are not deep and deep enough; it is romantic to meet a lover again; some people want to go back indefinitely, some people want to predict infinitely - I hope that human beings are more curious about the essence, and less The vanity of the phenomenon; not relevantly reminded of the old tower's movie "everything has a language at the beginning, but you are silent like a fish"; the circle and the ball are closed and closed, with no end and no beginning. If the fourth dimension is a sphere in the projection of the three dimensions, then the four-dimensional body is also closed, with no end and no beginning. If the fourth dimension is time, then it's like the end of the movie - time is closed~

  • Demarco 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    The more you look, the more you can't understand

Youth Without Youth quotes

  • Dominic: I am afraid, I must remain neutral in all of this...

  • Dominic: [voice over] If someone were to tell me that there exist among us authentic magicians, saints... or anyone endowed with miraculous powers, I would believe them.