The story of the film is very simple, no more words. I am more interested in the metaphors of a large number of scenes where all things in nature multiply and thrive. Only when I relate to the characters in the play, the setting and development of the plot, the theme of the film emerges. In the beginning, the so-called three brothers and sisters came to the farm by train in order to survive. Survival and the train were the key to the theme of the film. Later, the actor asked the heroine to marry the farmer to deceive the family property. Survival, or the pursuit of material happiness; in the end, he was chased by the police and fled in a panic for survival. After talking about the implementation of the concept of survival in the film, let's look at the impact of modern civilization on people, which is slowly approaching like a train. The industrial revolution has completely changed the lives of human beings, and the natural attributes of human beings as animals have been increasingly diluted. Industrial civilization has made people forget the cognition of human attributes. Many farmers in the film (workers) of finished living
as indigenous peoples as joyful dance after, after leaving to find new living environment, and that "three siblings' three in pursuit of material wealth and stay, which in itself is doomed For their future destiny, and with the development of industry, the new original additional industrial civilization impacted the life that should have been free and easy, and airplanes and motorcycles followed! The plane carried by the circus that shouldn’t have appeared on the farm exposed the affair of the brother and sister, and the motorcycle made Bill come to the farm where he should have left again, and what was taken away was the life of the farmer, not the murder weapon. A violent tool pistol, but an ordinary screwdriver, has a profound meaning. I interpret it as the development of industrial civilization devouring people's life and existence as "humans" in nature. Just as the swarms of locusts came to the farm purely to survive, the workers killed them to protect modern agriculture (in fact, money assets).
Etc.), but what was sacrificed was the power of other species to survive. Then Bill was eager to survive like a locust, and shot him with his innocent police. The moment he was poured into the water, The photographer used the rare underwater shots and close-ups to emphasize the moment Bill's face hits the water, which strongly implies that people will eventually return to nature and cannot escape the destiny of natural survival. And the last part of the piano that automatically plays like a ghost implies that humans are still facing natural development, even so cold that music no longer plays, and the children sent to the orphanage are humans who separate themselves from nature. Sending myself to the orphanage, and then connected to the empty shots of the natural and all things that the film has been running through, forming a sharp contrast, beauty and ugliness, plain and flashy, all ruthlessly mocking modern civilization.
The rich metaphors and the exploration of the original meaning of nature and development for human survival reminds me of two Japanese animation directors, Hayao Miyazaki and Katsuhiro Otomo. The former constantly explores the relationship between man and nature, and the latter tends to be the relationship between the development of mechanical industrial civilization and mankind. The film director Terence Malik has an interesting connection between the three. The cousin writes Bill, Abby, and the farm. The main triangle relationship, the identity of the three people, I think the director has a metaphor. Bill symbolizes the natural attributes of pure survival. Abby is a human being who enjoys industrial civilization but has an impure heart. The farmer is the industrial civilization that humans pursue. The development of the relationship also hints at the possible future directions of these three meanings. Naturally returning to nature, human beings are still living, and industrial civilization is going to be destroyed. At that time, more people may consider whether our survival requires additional products. Support.
In addition, the farmer’s house appeared in the scene many times from the beginning of the movie, and the proportion in the scene became larger and larger. It was not until after marriage that Abby, who hinted at humanity, was able to enter the life of industrial change.
I have to say that Terrence Malik’s queen photographer Almandro is one of the greatest contributors to the film. A large number of beautiful empty shots like oil paintings give the film a rich rural scenery, and several of the shots The application also left a deep impression on me. For example, in the early part of the film, during a work break on the farm, the long shots used the transition from the little girl to the fighting Bill very well. A large number of fade in and fade out, let people feel that the old film image style has completed a return from the movement of being used to the fast editing of modern movies.
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