When I don't know how to interpret a movie, just--force it, because I didn't understand Abbas' "Gone With the Wind" from the beginning to the end, and I felt it was really shallow to express. What, what exactly? I don't know, it was the first time that I was so mad after watching a movie that I really wanted someone to explain it. That feeling is like reading an excerpt from "Waiting for Godot" in a middle school textbook, completely confused and completely incomprehensible to the utterly boring behavior of those people.
The plot of the film as I understand it is that the engineer who is an intruder in a small closed and backward village is impatiently waiting for the death of an old man who has nothing to do with him, just to complete the task, and Completely disregarding the importance of the dying centenarian to the people of the small village. People bring soup and food to the dying old man every day, thinking that she is lucky to have eaten someone's meal. The little boy feels that the old man has eaten, talked, and met people, which are all very happy and good things. To the engineer, but the engineer just impatiently waited for her to die with his colleagues, and the news of her death was good news for him. Perhaps the little boy realized this later, and stopped treating the engineer as a friend, shunning and alienating him.
In addition to waiting for others to die, the engineer with nothing to do is extremely bored driving to the high ground to answer the phone again and again, chatting with little boys, strolling in small villages and begging for goat milk. I had no choice but to follow the restless and uninteresting figure of this engineer throughout the entire film, which made me furious and wonder, what was he doing, what did he want to do, and what did the director mean?
The endless loess land, the cascading earthen houses, the dusty, the tired, the desolate, the rough, the place that makes "civilized people" feel lost and bored, but there is a person dying here. In my patience, I wanted to stay for one more second, another second. "Death and life are also great, isn't it painful"? No, it really doesn't hurt a lot of the time, because many people's deaths have nothing to do with them, just like a cloud passing by, a gust of wind passing by, unaware of them.
What is it like to wait for someone to die? If the dying person is a loved one, the pain of despair gathers more and more like a black cloud, the physical world fades away more and more quickly, and I am afraid that I will be left behind forever, but the little thing that works I can't do it, I hate it, I'm in pain, I'm desperate, and I don't know where to put these emotions... But if a person who has nothing to do with him is dying, who will pity him more? For his farewell in this world that will never return. The same is true for outsiders to me, and I to outsiders. The understanding of each other's lives is a vague unknown, so there will be no feelings, and they will not care about their life or death.
The truth is always cruel, so it is real enough, and death is also, at the same time, boring enough.
Presumably, the director did not intend to clearly preach about "living towards death" and "the beauty of life", he was just telling the facts, boring and cruel facts about death. That is the unbearable weight and lightness that life cannot bear. There is no need to criticize or feel sad. It is indeed something that everyone has to experience, heavy and neglected.
So, I'm also at a loss, after all, this is a question with no correct answer.
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