Life is a gamble, and it is the cruelest one. We put our life on the line and don't know what we can get in return. That bullet, we don't know when it will go through our brain.
Chess appears repeatedly in the film, it is also a kind of trick, we feel that we are in control of everything, winning one by one, taking the opponent's pieces one by one, we actually lost a long time ago, lost at the beginning everything. Because our self-righteous identity does not exist at all. The foundation of everything we know is given to us by that invisible adversary. He made us feel who we were supposed to be, and that was the biggest joke. It's like a game with a wise man, we can't guess what kind of pieces he will give us in the next second, and when he will checkmate (general).
wake up. This sentence appears twice in the whole film, both from the mouth of the master of deception, but the protagonist is not sober, he still does not realize that he has already fallen into the trap. It's not that the liar is so clever, but that we are willing to believe, no matter how absurd things are, we are willing to believe that our self-righteous victory is in our hands. When life hits us with the fatal blow, we discover that we have been kept in the dark. We hate ourselves as much as we hate ourselves who can't see the opponent, and the winner says to us: I'm you, I'm the one you thought won everything. The bullet from the revolver pierced through our brains in this second.
Since this is the end, why should we take part in this gamble? Even before we're ready, we've put our lives on the line.
- Only by playing against the wise can you increase your wisdom
Chess and trickery are things that are very far away from us, and the unfamiliar sense of distance always attracts us inexplicably. Like an unpredictable fate, betting on everything desperately. Everyone has the experience of having a dialogue with their own inner self. The timid self, the crazy self, and the calm self will always appear suddenly at a certain moment. At that time, he is us. Great trick, he makes us believe that we are who we are, that we are the one we can't control.
Do we really know ourselves, or do we only know ourselves in the eyes of others? Taking people as the mirror is now an irony. People who live in the mirror can never see themselves clearly, and build their own knowledge on lies. I am afraid there is nothing more absurd than this.
Where did you come from and where are you going, these empty questions mean nothing. If we live in the mirror forever, we will never find the answer in all the future moments when we look at ourselves.
-The great enemy is often hidden in the most inconspicuous place
to watch the whole movie, it feels like being punched, something is held in the chest, and it is not unpleasant to spit. Maybe because of the anger that has nowhere to vent, maybe because of the youth that has nowhere to put it. It doesn't matter what kind of story the director tells, what matters is what we feel from the story. It could be a sentence, it could be a shot. What the director wants to say may be at the moment you notice it, he translates all his meticulous ideas and strict script into visual language. This visual language is already there, and it will be reflected by anyone who sees it. Whether they agree with it or not, it is a private personal experience. Why should we push it back into words and thoughts in the director's mind? ? Existence is reasonable. It doesn’t matter what the director wants to say, what matters is what we want to say, so that the artwork is complete. Movies are not preaching after all, and there are millions of ways to tell a story. The devil is in the details.
Text/Li Jinghang
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