A fixed shot of 14 seconds, the son Posson is standing in the jungle with red eyes looking directly at you across the screen. In the first 5 seconds, he was very curious about this black-haired erect ape and the creature with red eyes looking at you, But after 5 seconds, this look does bring a feeling of restlessness and anxiety, I hope not to be stared at by these red eyes. Then the title was added, and the movie started. This translation of "Uncle Boomi's Past and Present" is not as good as the good
Apichatpong of "Can Recall Past Lives~~~", as Abbas's implied meaning to us. The driving scene at the beginning of the film is reminiscent of Abbas' "The Taste of a Cherry". His problems are life and death and love. This is about life and death and family affection, probably because Thailand is a Buddhist country that believes in reincarnation. The deeper the film, the simpler it is, simply lazy and slow. It doesn't care about the sequence and logic. The reason and result are not narrated. Follow the film to explore the essence, although the final result is likely to be no reason or reason. But it at least lets you see the mysterious corner.
He is also the representative of true cinema. Peeling off the appearance, in the gap where the eyes were smashed by the film lens, it was found that he had a simple long shot. The people in this movie spoke softly, even though it was in the sweltering rainforest, with the various sounds of birds and insects in summer. I heard that the lead actor was an actor found among migrant workers in Thailand. Before that, he had no acting experience, so he couldn't help but admire the director's manipulative power. Apichatpong's soft, warm and lightly depressing film begins with him
In Uncle Boonmee's house, in the summer evening, the wooden verandah and wooden table hang this yellow chandelier, and the outside is also full of prosperous green tropical plants, mixed with the humming of mosquitoes, when there is no wind blowing Appears very peaceful. First, Ah Hui gradually appeared, and then his son Bo Song turned into a red-eyed ghost ape and walked out of the stairs. Boonmi and Ah Zhen, like monks in practice, did not show any surprise or uneasiness, nor did they show strong enthusiasm and longing. It seemed that it was natural for the dead wife and the missing son to appear now. They welcomed them with calm language. family back. Greetings, Answers, Narratives. He spoke softly, and still could not hear the sound of breathing when he broke the sentence. Accept without any doubts. Posson is back, his voice is very low, he is a ghost ape, as if he has not spoken for a long time, his voice is long and slow, and when he tells about his experience of being attracted to a ghost ape and becoming this creature, the background music seems to be in Pressure from afar. Uncle Pommy knew that his time was short, and he saw various mysterious family members he had lost coming back to him for various reasons, his dead wife, and his missing son.
Ah Hui brought Uncle Boonmee, Ah Zhen, and Xiao Dong. Walking through the rainforest into the cave, a few ghost apes outside the cave are waiting in the dark bushes with red eyes. Outside the cave is not wet rocks and dripping water droplets, but dry earth and stone. The top of the cave can see the night and the starry sky. After a night in the cave, he woke up with dirt on his body, and saw Xiao Dong climbing up the dense rattan, as if he was climbing up from the patio. The cave is a metaphor for the womb. Uncle Boonmee returns in the cave, returning to the original state just as he first came to this world. The mysterious and unknown cave at this time symbolizes the dark and safe protection of the womb.
There was no special mourning hall for Uncle Boonmee's funeral, and a monk was invited to recite the scriptures. Xiao Dong also became a monk and knocked on the door of Ah Zhen's bedroom wearing a yellow monk robe. He couldn't stand the cleanliness in the temple, so he escaped and returned to the secular world. When he took a bath and was taken out to eat by A-Jen, he stood up and went out to see another A-Jen and himself still sitting on the bed watching TV news. Then they walked into the restaurant, and the movie started to have other sounds and neon colors than natural sounds, and it felt like leaving the village and entering the city. In the home furnishing restaurant, it is warm and comfortable, and the background also begins to release the voice of a light rock Thai male singer, and it ends.
The front part of the movie has always been the life in the village, the natural rainforest, the waterfalls and rivers, and the natural caves, which create a feeling of primitive return. The final scene goes back to the bar, music, lighting, and light rock are not the taste of this film, but it doesn't feel abrupt, because Xiao Dong's dress is not abrupt, very light, and breaks away from its chaotic, quiet, and confused meaning. It seems to send the audience from the mystery and the unknown back to reality, no longer dreaming.
Long-shot, slow-paced, watching this film feels deeply quiet, thinking about life and death, and reincarnation really needs to be so quiet, to get rid of the complex, simple and simplified daily life and dive deeper. Long shots can really make people drowsy. You don't have to control it when you have your eyes open but you have already started cruising. You can feel it slowly. You don't need to look for hints of lines in this movie, because there is no, don't ask why so? Not asking doesn't spoil the overall feel of it. In fact, sometimes I don't understand the meaning of the director's various hints and shots. Maybe the director has no intention at all. All he needs is a slow feeling, to feel the feeling that he has no intention to create a picture in his mind.
This is a story about death. Apichatpong told it without any rush, without explanation. All kinds of mysteries in the past and present are natural, it is a kind of return, returning to the original ape, seeing the past life is The catfish's own, the future generations is not the buffalo that escaped. Objects in life are real, but people feel unreal and unreliable. All kinds of problems are philosophical images.
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