Alina and Vikoyaki grew up in an orphanage, helped each other, and developed feelings beyond friendship. Later, Alina went to work in Germany alone, leaving Vikoyaki to live in a monastery alone. Because of this parting, the two straight lines that once intersected, then drifted apart.
At the beginning of the movie, Vikoyaki went to the train station to pick up Alina. At the moment of goodbye, Alina left her luggage and hugged Vikoyaki and cried with joy, while Vikoyaki was calm and reminded Alina. Everyone else is looking at them. The two people who met again after parting were silent on the way back to the monastery, slowly flowing with a sense of strangeness and alienation...
Gregory David Roberts said in Shantaran: "Sometimes your heart needs to be broken in the right way. When you break your heart, one realizes something, or You can feel something new, something that can only be understood or felt that way. That brokenness and realization is a life experience that I am deeply grateful for and moved by today.”
Alina's departure caused the two to experience loneliness and pain as well, but the spiritual growth and understanding gained from them were different. The estrangement brought about by this difference is like a mountain between the two sides, which is difficult to overcome overnight.
Vikoyaki went to the town to finish the official documents and came back. Alina was packing her luggage and eager to take her away to Germany. The conversation between the two obviously exposed the differences and contradictions in consciousness. Alina said that being alone is driving her crazy, and now she needs Vikoyaki to accompany her and help her, because she had helped Vikoyaki in the orphanage. Yes, Alina came back "in the name of love" to ask for something in return, and she was lonely because she didn't have the right person to accompany her. Vikoyaki said she would like to stay with her for a while, but still needs to go back to the monastery. She mentioned that when Alina left her, she was also very uncomfortable. It was really painful. Fortunately, God helped her and found solace in the monastery. She also hopes that Alina can also find faith. People come and go in a hurry, and only God will always accompany you; if there is no God in your heart, even if you have everything around you, you will still be alone. When Alina asked Vikoyaki if she still loves her, Vikoyaki said I love you, but not like before, deep down in my soul I have "someone else".
Alina obviously didn't think about the nature of her pain, not only she didn't understand herself, but she couldn't understand the changes of Vikoyaki, like an abandoned lover being ravaged by primitive jealousy and possessiveness. She was jealous, thinking that this "other" was a priest, a specific person. He ignited a very arrogant hostility and hatred for the priest, and he refused to forgive him; he also threatened Antonia not to be alone with Vikoyaki and needed Vikoyaki to accompany her at all times.
The conversation between the two reached a deadlock, and Vikoyaki said helplessly, I pity you, Alina, you don't understand at all, and I don't know how to help you...
Later, Alina decided to donate money to be able to return to the monastery with Vikoyaki, and Alina was not allowed to leave her sight. She also likened the monastery to a "cellar". After returning to the monastery, she again persuaded Vikoyaki to leave. But Vike Yaqi made it clear that she did not want to leave, she said this was her home. And Alina's toughness has reached the paranoia of "going crazy". In her eyes, God was not only useless, but also made Vikoyaki abnormal and said some "crazy words". The desire to possess grew stronger and stronger, Alina said: "Vikoyaki, I have faith. Every day and every night I pray to God to bring you back to me. But why he doesn't want to, I don't understand." Vikoyaki replied: "God gives us what we need, not what we think." The conversation broke up, but what followed was Alina's more direct and fierce provocation and confrontation with the priest, which triggered The last act of so-called "exorcism".
Zhou Guoping said in "Love and Loneliness": "A person who only wants to be loved but does not have the heart to love, actually does not know what love is at all. What he really cares about is not being loved, but possessing. Love is possessing Desire for the opposite." Alina's "love" is possessiveness "in the name of love", she just wants to bring Vikoyaki by her side to resist the loneliness and pain caused by working outside
Director Christian Mungi said that the questions to be explored in this film are not limited. Every audience will ask their own questions during the movie, and before watching the movie, everyone needs to clear their minds. Ideas, for himself, the film is about love and abandonment and the actions and human choices people make in the name of love.
Like Hirokazu-eda's "The Thief's Family", the film tone of "Beyond the Mountain" is restrained and calm. There is no moral high ground, and there is no desire to deliberately criticize or judge anyone. Instead, it takes 150 minutes to use a group of team leader shots to unfold the character ecology of Alina and Vike Yaqi in a natural and three-dimensional manner. Vikoyaki said that people who leave and come back will never be the same person again. To be precise, the old Vico Yaqi is gone forever. After her heart was broken, she was guided and enlightened by wisdom, which made her understand the true meaning of life. Having "love" in her heart makes her both soft and strong, capable of helping others. And Alina is still the former Alina. The martial arts she learned in the orphanage made her rampage around the monastery like an angry bull; she ignored her brother Yanu who was close at hand, but Vikoyaki took her to the ground. The wandering Yanu was brought to the monastery to live; he was dissatisfied with his adoptive parents, and the adoptive mother told the details of Alina's past foster care. Vikoyaki gently eased the relationship, and took out the candle light that Alina gave him and said This is a gift that Alina bought for them...
The so-called "comprehension" is to experience first and then comprehend, and whether or not to comprehend may depend on the right time and place, and cannot be forced by manpower. No amount of chicken soup for the soul, no religious exorcism will help. As the saying goes, "If you don't understand, thousands of miles will be in vain. If you understand, you will be at the foot of Lingshan." Just like the parable shared by the priest in the movie: a man travels around the world to experience life, while the other just opens the door to see God, immediately obtained the comfort of the soul...
In the movie, the two actresses play against each other like a spear and a shield, one is aggressive and the other supports defense, just like a master's trick, and when it is strong, it is strong. Because of their outstanding performances in the film, the two won the Best Actress Award at the 65th Cannes Film Festival in 2012, a double yolk egg! ! ! Romania, a small country in Eastern Europe, has a population less than that of Shanghai, but the quality of their films is so excellent...
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