In the empty snow, a big tree stubbornly supporting the slightly bare branches rose from the ground. Two men, a ventriloquist imitating the sound of wind and water, and a smile that seems sincere and relieved after a long absence. Everything is like a hairball spit out from an owl's mouth - right and wrong, everything in the world, after chewing and digesting, turns into a ball. Those karma, those helplessness and efforts, those who were saved and saved, because of the passing, at this time, they can only hug each other and slip from their lips.
The fate of Usibal is predetermined. On the one hand, at the beginning of the film, he explained his mortal fate through the mouth of the doctor, and the next hundred minutes were nothing but a distressing struggle; on the other hand, Because the glamorous and prosperous Barcelona is unexpectedly cold and bone-chilling, all the efforts to turn the tide here are bamboo baskets. This predetermined fate is really distressing, but Usibal can't give up: children who are ignorant of the world, love and hate with his ex-wife, strangers who have nowhere to escape on the streets, Chinese who have traveled far and wide to work in the gaps...they Weakly leaning on the equally powerless Usibal, waiting to be rescued.
Usibal is somewhat arrogant, and he believes that his own dealings in this exploitative Barcelona can bring some good news to everyone. In fact, all his kindness, all his attempts to save, were swallowed up by this huge city.
He empathized with the confession of the deceased boy, and told the last confession of a soul, but he failed to save the most real impression of the living parents on the son; Every time he tried to save, he was disappointed again and again, but he still didn't let go; he looked at the Chinese laborers in the freezing cold night, and bought a stove to hope that they would have a better life, but this act of kindness and bad intentions directly killed twenty-five people. Human life, what about saving? He couldn't bear the miserable situation of the black people who were arrested and returned home. He arranged accommodation for the workers' wives and infants.
Feeling the increasingly painful body, he was helpless and forced. In the end, he can't even save himself, but who's to blame?
The director's camera avoids all the pictures of the colorful "Pearl of the Iberian Peninsula " in the traditional sense. The screen is tiled with tensionless chimneys, complicated wires between buildings, and dirty and failed streets under neon lights. . Perhaps in the director's eyes, this city is almost the same as the dizzy atmosphere in the supernatural world, so it is presented like this.
He also used the identity of Ucibal as a psychic to show those charming and questioning pictures in his mind. The character "psychologist" may be born from this class: the people of this class have too much to say in the long process of waiting for their salvation, but they can't say it. What's more sad is that they can't say it, so only Only after death can you speak. And in this selfish surroundings, Usibal is a little bit more kind than others, but in fact, he is just a little bit "forced" to become the person who receives this information. The identity of this "psychic" may also symbolize "savior".
After watching the whole movie, I was depressed by the atmosphere in it. You and I are all insignificant ants among all things in the world. Tragedy is coming but there is nowhere to escape. Like that owl, all that can be done is probably to feel carefully when chewing all the emotions that life has given us. Even when they turn into hairballs and ruthlessly slide down, we can still identify a happy one or two.
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