This is worth it. This is all nonsense that is endless in life, and it really dares to use such a seemingly boring way of evangelism. Maybe for the sake of the young and old, or simply out of the need to weave a trick, it gives itself the most splendid form. But it is still a trick, and even a nightmare for some people.
The structure of the story is like Borges' famous short story "Circular Ruins". Borges wrote that an escaped magician came to the ring ruins of a temple. The purpose of his existence is to dream. In order to create a "person" in the real world in the dream, one will experience the same fate as him. Of the phantom. The only person who knows that this shape is actually a phantom is the fire in the world. One day, the ruins of the ring were burned again. When the magician walked towards the fire, the flame did not consume his flesh, but comforted him, so, "He comforted, ashamed, and afraid to know that he is also a phantom, the phantom of another person's dream."
"A half- dream and half-awake life "This movie is about a confused young man, in endless dreams that contain each other like a box, and develop philosophy, biology, politics, and semiotics about life with such and other people. Such discussions, occasionally mixed with the fierce curse of a certain prisoner in prison, the self-immolation of a certain suicide in the street, the strange incidents of a few men at the gas station, and the sudden passing of some childhood impressions, so for a full 100 minutes. The man realized that he couldn't get out of this nightmare anyway. He desperately wants to wake up, but every time he is the one who can’t control the switch of the light—a character encountered in his dream once told him that if you want to know if you are in a dream, just see if you can Just adjust the light source in the room. Our poor dream shuttler could not find the source of the dream at all-that is, the so-called him in reality, so we had to listen to all kinds of people waiting in his dreams, and endlessly talk with him about the principles of life like dreams. .
It's really black humor. This movie is a witty conspiracy. If you remember "Love at dawn" and "Love at sunset", you will understand that this is the usual way of the same director (RICHARD LINKLATER). In the two parts that were jokingly called "the best of Kan Dashan movies", RICHARD LINKLATER asked a pair of handsome men and women to walk around the streets and river banks of Vienna and Paris, telling each other about each other's humanity, politics, literature, and self. Feeling, in a kind of melancholy and sad way to explain the dream of youth and the hesitation of middle-aged. Now, the director himself has broken his own record. He reached the highest level of Kan Dashan movie in a cartoon that uses real-life performances as the watercolor creation material. That is: all the characters in it are speaking endlessly, and even a taxi driver can talk to the camera. Special talk about the meaning of freedom.
Obviously, in 100 minutes, in addition to being shocked by unprecedented visual effects, you must also experience a brainstorm. Throughout the process, don't try to grasp the meaning of each eloquent character's words, because you will eventually find that it is impossible for you to generalize and summarize the topics involved. They seemed to have said a lot, deep enough and sincere enough, but they didn’t say anything—the dream shuttler left in every profound speech and found that he was still stuck in another dream; overuse of the brain In the end, the audience can only remember the unlucky person who can't stop in his dream.
"A Half-Dream and Half-Awake Life" shows the inexhaustibility of explanations about people and life with a slight pessimistic color. Too much meaning is given to the tracing of a dream, but in the end it is used to prove the illusion of the dream. Watching such a movie is a process of turning your heart up and enjoying the joy of thinking. I hope it will not cause you pain.
PS. The unsettled case of "Love at Sunset" is finally answered in "A Half-Dream and Half-Awake Life". Have Jesse and Céline been in bed? Got it, and they continued their witty discussion on the bed. For fans of "Love at Sunset", this is great news, ha ha.
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