"Gone With the Wind", like all the previous works of director Abbas, narrates the true meaning of life through concise and plain language under the beautiful picture. The film tells the story of an engineer who follows his team to a small remote mountain village. He is interested in everything in the village: talking to children, chatting with villagers, caring for the elderly... But everything backfires. The pit dug by the villagers collapsed and the villagers were buried alive. The doctor went to rescue the villagers. At the same time, the old man was also terminally ill.
Just like what he used in "The Taste of Cherry" before, the director still uses the hero to express his sigh and melancholy about the impermanence of life, and at the same time, he once again threw this doubt to the audience by leaving blank at the end.
It is worth noting that Abbas, who has always been good at detail description, also paved the way for the subsequent development of the plot through two dialogues between the engineer and the little boy in this film, and also provided the audience with a solution to the above confusion:
Child: I still have one question to answer. Fourth question.
Engineer: You don't know the answer?
Child: I don't know, because I can't.
Engineer: What is it?
Child: "On Judgment Day, how will good and evil be judged?"
Engineer: That's pretty obvious, good people go to hell and bad people go to heaven. Is it right?
child: yes
Engineer: No... Good people go to heaven, bad people go to hell.
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(Second conversation)
Engineer: I want to apologize for what happened this morning. Do you remember the first day you asked why the car didn't work? I replied "it's dead" do you remember?
Engineer: We drove up the mountain that day and the car died.
Child: Yes.
Engineer: He worked too hard and died.
Child: Yes.
Engineer: What did I say, cars are like people, they die. Now I want to say again.... People are like machines, they die.
At the end of the film, as the engineer threw the symbolic bone into the river, he seemed to have found the answer at that moment. Sitting in front of the computer at the moment, I am still faced with this confusion of "the dead are so stubborn, who will not give up day and night", and the answer may be in the wind, and what I can do is to wait for the wind to rise again. Wind chase.
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