I didn't watch this movie before, I thought it was too boring, but this time I got caught up in it and I couldn't stop watching it. I used to think that in terms of creation, films are divided into two layers, stories and ideas. Stories are the narrative on the surface, and ideas are the connotation at the deep level. However, the stories are almost the same, and almost all the stories produced in mass production today can find prototypes in myths. Moreover, there are still some movies that are hardly telling stories, and the ideological connotation cannot be interpreted without a certain knowledge background, so what is the attraction of the movie? The second time I watched this movie, I realized that it is the emotion, the emotion of a movie. This emotion is not expressed, but is possessed by a movie itself. To understand the emotion of a movie, we need to understand it on a metaphysical level. There are two reasons: first, it is not expressed from a specific place. What comes out is not the play, not the photography, nor the sound, but an emotion formed when the "parts" of these films are organically combined. Second, this emotion cannot be read, but only felt, which is somewhat similar to Plato's theory of the form of ideas, and this emotion is grasped through intuition. The emotion of this film is the deep loss and loneliness, as well as the inability to recover the things that have passed and the inability to grasp the things that can be expected. It is this emotion that grabs me, and only When the audience is in this kind of emotion, the emotion of the film and the emotion of the audience can be in harmony, so as to achieve healing and catharsis, which is what Aristotle called purification.
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