Others are hell

Darian 2021-12-26 08:01:33

Looking forward to Ceylon for a long time, as eagerly as Nolan's fans. Ask why I like Ceylon? This is related to my understanding of movies. What kind of movie is a good movie? No matter whether Nolan or Cameron, what is presented to the audience is a kind of brilliant movie of intellectual game, or superior imagination, or unlimited visual enjoyment. This kind of movie is essentially a roller coaster in an amusement park, pursuing exciting sensory experience and IQ wrestling. "Source Code", "Rivals", "Super Body", "The Night Comet" and "Pre-Destination". Due to the success of "Inception" and "Interstellar", Hollywood has recently tended to lean in this direction. But is the movie only for people whose IQ exceeds 120 and whose knowledge reserve is equivalent to that of a search engine? Should intelligence be the standard for good movies? Not dare to assert. I just hope it is not the only standard. So I prefer Ceylon. He pays attention to the impact of weather on people, the impact of geography on people, and the impact of history on people. More importantly, he cares about the present and the gap between people. The gap between the poor and the rich, the gap between knowledge and identity, the gap between status and class, the gap between urban and rural areas. In fact, these are very, very complicated in the contemporary context, and it is difficult to grasp without sufficient mental energy. Generally, directors are aphasia when facing the present, or like a thief, they take fragments of life carefully to make various metaphors of overhead history. You seem to be more tiring to make such a movie than him.

It is a pity that I cannot buy a movie ticket and enjoy the dim lights and raging snowstorm of Ceylon in the large and dark theater. But it is not my fault. When the online "Hibernation" came out, it was like a carnival in a small circle. Fans can't wait to sit in front of the computer and quietly enjoy the three-hour world of Ceylon. Unlike domestic directors, Ceylon has never let its fans down.

"Hibernation" turned into chattering instead of the silence of the past. Some places even feel verbose, but when you think about it, this verbose is exactly what Ceylon wants us to feel, the emptiness of human existence and the impossibility of communication. For a moment I was in a trance watching a Woody Allen movie. The same lengthy dialogue, the same mockery of the middle class. But Ceylon is more stubborn and serious. Woody Allen will not quarrel, will not blush with anyone, and his IQ will not allow him to be angry. And Ceylon is not humorous, you will understand the driver's low-level Laurel Hatai-like junior. But in terms of form or content, in general, Ceylon continued and even deepened himself. Cousins ​​in "Uzak", couples in "A Season Suitable for Breaking Up" and "Three Monkeys", the reality and history of "Once Upon a Time in Asia Minor", Ceylon often pays attention to a kind of character relationship, or takes a character relationship as the main line. In-depth discussion. "Hibernation" is superimposed on this basis. This is not a physical superposition. When countrymen and urbanites, poor and rich, adults and children, people with different knowledge structures, people with different ideals, different personalities and even different ages When people are superimposed on each other, the state they present is far greater than the simple addition of these relationships. The stories and characters are fuller and more real.

Ceylon is not exacting about the drama of the story, this is what I want to say the most. In fact, it's not that I don't care about the story, but that the requirements for the story are different. Go deliberately. The drama between the elder sister and the younger sister-in-law, the husband and the young wife, the husband and the male teacher, the drama tension is not weak, but not deliberately. The same demand and the same relationship between characters, if the Chinese director is to lead, it is hard to say that it is not bloody. This is not to blame for the Chinese director, our lives and our people are like this.

It's hard for us to imagine how we look in the eyes of others, and the collection of those in the eyes of others, together into a shadow of "me". The gap between this shadow and our true consciousness is the entrance to hell. For this gap, we have to constantly explain to others and talk to others. It is impossible to try to eliminate this distance, but we exist and have to do so. How many people dare to make more self-selected choices? At the end of Sartre’s famous play "Confinement", Garson said: "Come on, let's continue." It is both human helplessness and human courage. In this sense, Sartre and Camus are the same, and Garson is also Severus. At the end of "Hibernation", the protagonist returns to his home. It seems that the train is late, the weather is bad, and the friend is staying. In fact, it is also the result of self-selection.



2014.12.17

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  • 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.