The title of this Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is literally translated as "Send (People)", which is a bit more mysterious. Of course, if the stranger has a slight initial fear, it probably comes from this.
The orchestra where Kobayashi worked was disbanded. He sold the cello he bought with a lot of money, and moved to his home in the country with his gentle and pleasant wife. By mistake, he became a novice enchanter.
So, how can you love the work of enshrining people like you love the cello?
The cello has a slightly low and thick sound. It is naturally not flexible due to its large volume, let alone a "classical spice". When sitting on the 1\3 area of the performance chair with beautiful patterns, be sure to take a gentle posture, nod slightly, embrace it like a lover's intimate and gentle curve, caress the strings, and the sound slowly changes The hollow wood permeates, flows, diffuses, and lingers, just like a whisper.
Yes, it is like whispering, just as there is no difference between playing a violin and being engulfed.
Perhaps you need to know the true temperament of a person or a nation, and you can inquire about it from the look at death.
The ritualistic steps of enshrining are filled with the skin of the dead and the living. Press the eye area, close the lips, smooth the chin, wipe the body, change the funeral clothes, and adjust the makeup. "Let the already cold person rejuvenate, and give her eternal beauty, which must be calm, accurate, and tender. When we are parting, we must say goodbye to the deceased, quiet, all actions are so beautiful" in the film The voice-over said, it also means Kobayashi's immersion in the new job. Most of the enlightenment masters clean up the last appearance for strangers in his life, and use simple and serious operation of the fingers to express respect for death and protect the dignity of the deceased. Just like a song of whispers, whispering for those who leave.
I was shocked by the power of music very early. In CLAMP's "Holy Biography", the king of Cang is distraught for his sister who died unjustly. He is close to a walking dead. The musician King Ganda has pity for her, and plays her sister's last song-"The little princess who died unjustly that day," Sing only for one person,'I only sing for my sister alone'", the harp of King Ganda led the soul of Cang King to his place. In the end, King Cang woke up from despair: "I want to be like my sister expected Like that, fly freely for yourself.” At that time, the King Ganda was firmly stroking the strings in the flowers, and the salvation in the meditation was conveyed through the yellowish paper, which penetrated the back of the paper.
Chinese folk funerals usually have to keep the spirit for three days, and those who pay attention to it will invite priests or monks to supersede their relatives. The neat and uniform Taoist robe and the sound of wooden fish that rise and fall match each other, rising with the smoky smoke and chanting. The tearful eyes of relatives mourning in this kind of edification is not the same as the ritual for the dead is actually the heart of the living.
All leavers. One left the Yang Realm, and some left their close relatives. Looking at his familiar face, there is no shadow of death, bruises of death, and some only the calmness of sleeping, thinking about it, how soothing. When a person leaves, his dearest relatives will desperately want to do more for him. If this is one thing, it has nothing to do with almost all worldviews.
Who will lead the gap between life and death? Disintegration, death, death, death, such complicated rules, finally condensed into the same death and life created by the enlightenment teacher. Therefore, the old women in the film will leave a complete lip mark on the face of the dead old man, regardless of whether the funeral refuses to be gorgeous or not.
After all, the gorgeous common people stiffly ended. Western-style funerals with very different cultures in my mind also dropped the coffin in the chanting of the pastor Xu Xu. Those who hear the sound are all walkers, who are walking toward the heretical world, and toward them who are in a world without him.
No matter how different the heretical world is, please leave the source of this life temporarily. Kobayashi has wiped beautiful men with transvestite, mothers who died young, and the proprietress of bathhouses... also wiped every passage of life that sang three sighs or sighed and frustrated. Every window lattice describes a story, and every inch of skin is engraved with the breath of the past. The little bit of life is finally no longer gushing, but filtered, extracted, and crystallized into rhinestones. No one can change the purity of it anymore.
These are not yet fully understood and accepted by the world. If a new life requires a baptism of a lifetime, does it require a dignity of death to bid farewell to the earthly people? After all, less than a hundred years old, but death is eternal. But the label of the enchanter itself is not as sacred as the ritual. In the film, the enchanter will be asked: "You are eating dead people's food, right?" Xiaolin's friends will alienate him, and his wife could not accept him at first, saying, "Dirty!" and then leave him. Just like every profession and person in this world who has been given stereotypes.
So, how do you love the work of death than the cello?
When Kobayashi sold the cello, "it was incredible. I suddenly felt very relaxed. I felt that the restraints I had been freed all the time. My unswerving dream before may not be a dream at all." But for the work of the enchanter, even if there is a cello. With greater resistance, he did not give up.
The audience will probably have presuppositions about all aspects of the film before and when they watch the film. The break of "The Enchanter" is that it not only changes the presupposition of the fate of the characters in the film, but also changes some of the audience's secular perceptions. Changed, changed.
The sanctity of the whole ceremony is that it is unique. The sanctity of the enchanter is that he is attentive. Focus on transforming every unrepeatable, irreplaceable, and irreplaceable individual in the world into the same peaceful nostalgia, and transforming the hardships of family members as a face-to-face farewell.
To die as alive also means that a better life is a remembrance.
The so-called life to death is probably what it means.
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