We live here, like hibernation

Drew 2021-12-26 08:01:33


People are tired of the silence and hope for a storm; tired of sitting solemnly and decently, they hope that something will happen. ——Chekhov


196 minutes.
First, I didn't really watch the duration before entering the field, and I was shocked when I came out to watch the watch. Second, I didn't even want to pee the whole time, and I didn't fall asleep for a second.
Looking at the interview later, Ceylon said that when the title was set, everyone opposed Winter Sleep for a simple reason: you were originally a boring film director, this film is already so long, and then add the title to sleep. , What are you going to do to make trouble!

Ceylon insisted on using the name "Hibernation", and he said he loved taking risks.
Do great or genius people go to extremes?
It's really hard to tell whether you prefer Ceylon, who was cherishing words like gold to death before speaking. Ceylon without stopping for a few minutes.
Of course, it is not true from beginning to end.
When the characters are silent, it is pure silence.
So of course I saw the Anatolian Plateau, which was familiar and as remote as the end of the world, as beautiful as a painting.

To be able to see Ceylon in a movie theater is also considered a dream come true and death experience.
Who can not fall in love with Ceylon?
But I am ashamed that I haven't watched them all, but "The Far Place" in 2002, "Three Monkeys" in 2008 and "Once Upon a Time in Asia Minor" in 2011 are enough to make me bow to the ground.
To put it bluntly, after 20 years in the industry, 8 films and 62 awards were added. The first short film was nominated by Palme d’Or. Starting from the third feature film, each work has been selected for major film festivals (especially Cannes). And never go empty.
This time, after entering the main competition unit for the fifth time, "Hibernation" won the long-lost Palme d'Or.

The richest man and the poor, the old man and the young wife, the stone house and the tourists, the horse and the hare, the snow and the coal stove.
What story can happen?
Dignity and barrenness, education and personality, wealth and charity, power and tolerance, beauty and freedom.
What kind of cause and effect should be achieved?
Also, conceit and doubt, love and hatred, loneliness and satisfaction, stubbornness and misunderstanding.

"Hibernation" is so full that it is impossible to hold a little bit, but it doesn't overflow.
It doesn't even make you feel so full.

Full, mostly expressed through dialogue.
There are so many conversations. The actor will speak as long as he has the opportunity, take the initiative to say, either with a few words of greeting, or talk endlessly. He chatted with his housekeepers, with guests in the family hotel, with his sister, with his wife, with tenants, and with his buddies.
Talk about philosophy, literature, movies, drama, humanity, Shakespeare, religion, morality, love, bills, politics, letters from readers, charity projects, Russian writers, and the masterpieces they are about to write.
And it’s not like what people say—I mean, it’s not like what people say every day in our age.
He chatted like he was playing a classical stage play, like reading Shakespeare's sentences or Dostoyevsky's novels.

It really fulfilled what Chekhov said, a book is a note, and a conversation is a song.

Yes, it is Chekhov.
Ceylon said that Chekhov's short stories are the inspiration and soul of this movie.
He wrote this script for six years with his wife, who is also an excellent playwright. The original edited version lasted four and a half hours.
I don't want to be spoiled, because I don't think it can be done, nor is it necessary.

This man of science and engineering who studied electronic engineering fell in love with photography when he was young.
He made a list of his favorite directors, Ozu Yasujiro (houhou, otherwise!) and Robert Bresson of France.

Winter Sleep, "Hibernation."
A line from my sister in the film: We live here, like hibernation.

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Extended Reading

Winter Sleep quotes

  • Aydin: Justice doesn't even exist in nature, why should it exist here?

  • Aydin: [Epilogue] Nihal, I didn't go away. I couldn't. Whether it's because I've grown old, or I've gone mad, or because I've become a different man, think what you like. I just don't know. But this new man inside me for a few days won't let me go away. Please, don't ask me to go either. I now understand nothing is calling me to Istanbul. Everything is alien to me there as it is everywhere else. I want you to know that I have no one but you. And I miss you every minute, every second that goes by. But my pride will never let me tell you this. I know very well how to terrible or impossible it would be to part from you. Just as I know that you do not love me anymore. I know we can't go back to the old days. And there is no need to. Take me with you like a servant, like a slave. And let us continue our life even if we do it your way. Forgive me.