He is far away in a mysterious land outside the earth.
One day, one day,
I will come back there
. I have heard of a land without tears,
no pain, no desire, no war
, disease, desire, and pain are rare there.
See I'll get there one day someday...
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Swedish folk songs
in Roy Anderson's films are all small people. Like us, they live in every corner of this big world. They have little hobbies that they love and don't want to give up, but they are lived by life. , politics, nature, and the dogma of others are ruthlessly at the mercy of them. The question he raises is an existential problem.
"Be pleased then, you the living one, in your delightfully warmed bed, before lethe's ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot." Goethe.
This sentence is a direct look at the whole film and Dasein. You are now, you are dead, and in between, you may exist. Before you existed, the world already had so-called "meaning"
At the end of the film, the melodious woman dipped in the bathtub sings this folk song in the white bubble room. The bathroom door is an extension of the viewer's perspective, the destination is another dim room and the man in his underwear and tie. He curled up to the woman: One day, one day, I'll be back there. Pain, desire, war, disease, are rare there.
This song was played at a funeral for the first time. The man ran desperately on the treadmill without hearing his son's cry to him. "Be content, living man, in your warm and fit bed. The icy wind of the lethe will whip your fleeing feet." In ancient Greek mythology, Lethe is the river of oblivion. In Homer's epic, Ovid mentions that Lethe passes through the Cave of Hypnos, where god sleeps, where its murmuring would induce drowsiness. Stand back on life, live. Plato talked about the soul Myth of Er in the last chapter of the Utopia. In returning to time, he has to go through a long journey of firm belief to re-choose the carrier of life. Orpheus chose to do one out of his hatred of women. A swan, Tamirez chose to be a nightingale. Every choice contains a layer of forgetting, a silent and bleak memory that exists in another space.
The movie starts from forgetting, and running is for memory. In the picture, there is always a corner in the shadow of the eyes, and there is always a voice left in the past. The space is created with brutal tenderness when cutting.
"if we believe in it, and we shall cross the river of forgetfulness in good shape, with our souls undefiled.
The still camera sets his eyes on a sofa in a room, the tranquility is slow loneliness, and the sometimes undulating curtains of the man's breathing and changing body The birds outside the window are also chirping quietly. When the train broke the tranquility of the dream, the bald man also woke up from his sleep. His eyes shifted from the window to the camera, "I had a nightmare" "I dreamed that the bomb fell"... The movie starts from this dim and sad fragment, which wears out life from beginning to end And dream clues... The wanderer is always on the lookout for the last drink to warm his stomach. The smoking girl in the park is complaining to her boyfriend and dog, forgetting the flowers caught in the crack of the door, someone is crying alone for you. Go away, go away, you go, take him away, go away, go away, leave my life to memory, to de ja vu.
Roy Anderson is helping us remember how everything in the world is dependent on and at the mercy of each other, sometimes in quiet footage. In the half-dream and half-awake life of self-inflicted death, we listen to ourselves by the pillow. "You have something on your mind" "Um! I forgot" "Are you thinking about me?" "It doesn't seem to be." What is life, "Aren't you going to sleep? Tomorrow will be a new day." As Kleist said: The gates of heaven are locked "We are not Socrates who can choose first, we must go on a trip around the world and see if there is an open door somewhere behind". Anna, who loves Miko, has never wavered in her determination. She can't fly, and she can let the house travel far. There are too many details in the movie to be commended, the angle of the lens is sideways, the sudden thunderstorm. Small town life is broken and people's heads are turned to the outside world. The world of youth, the world of memory. Deep in the character's monologue, the picture is straightforward and bold, poetic and intimate, everything is like a strange and familiar fairy tale in fragments. The language of the characters and the monologue is so unfamiliar, so frightening, watching each other, trying to remember.
The house is moving, the crowd outside the window is crowded, swarming, chasing after the memory in the dream, drinking everything before the lethe, all here, like a shooting star in the flowing river of life.
"... When it had passed through, and the others had done the same, all of them journeyed to the plain of forgetfulness through terrible suffocating heat, for the place was empty of trees and ll the things the earth gives rise to; and they camped, as evening came on, beside the River Careless, whose water no vessel can hold. All of them were required to drink a measure of the water, but those who had no wisdom to save drunk more than the measure, each as he drank forgot everything. When they had gone to sleep and it was the middle of the night, there was thunder, the earth shook, and they were suddenly carried up and away to be born, each to his own destination, with the speed of shooting stars." The Republic 621a-621b
It turned out that what we saw was not the corner of the hillside, the clouds and fog outside had been relieved, and the plane was flying into the distance with our memories.
Life is a fragile egg, but it didn't collapse, let's experience the true meaning for yourself. There's still veal in the oven, he'll come back, and you're still alive. So please forgive us ignorant people. God
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