The price is the pursuit of a fairy tale sacrifice

Camila 2022-10-22 11:47:53

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I admire An Zhe's long shots, every frame is like a pale poem. These themes of wandering and escape, coupled with the ancient Greek complex that the teachers in foreign literature classes have always emphasized, I can't help but think that this may be a tribute to the "Odyssey" in the ancient Greek epic of Homer. Oona and her younger brother fled their mother to find their father in Germany. They escaped the ticket, but were thrown off the bus halfway. The police took them to their uncle, and they fled again when they learned that their father was just a lie made by their mother. In the middle of the night, Bai Ma died on the icy street, Oona and her younger brother were crying, but on the other side of the street, adults were celebrating their wedding, and the laughter and laughter were not harsh. I think they were lucky enough to at least meet the good Orestes, who is the only one who leans over and listens to Oona. As Ao drove, his younger brother stood behind him with a smile on his face. I love the scene where my brother is sitting in the small restaurant quietly listening to the violin playing.

Standing endlessly in the snow

Suddenly, they thought of the police station heading to the falling snow, and everyone put down what they were doing desperately and ran out, standing still in the snow. How these adults living in the industrial age long for those dream worlds escaped from stress and anxiety. This snow may be a fairy tale sacrifice carefully designed by An Zhe. There are no fairy tales in the adult world. In the short and fleeting world of children, there is the boldness and determination to give up everything and go. In every path to pursue Spring Mountain, this is the most poetic and romantic. . Ao picked up a discarded film in the garbage heap, he held it with his fingers and put it in the light, he said, he saw the fog, and saw a tree that stood in the fog for a long time. The truck driver's unsuccessful quest for beauty in the service station destroys Oona's virginity, Oona wipes the blood of her body on the dusty truck bed, and they impulsive break into the filthy industrial society, may have to There is a price to pay for it, and in industrial society, everything but profit is horrific and indifferent. Oona hid the fact that she was abused and fled to the police station with her younger brother. A white chicken suddenly flew in and was grabbed mercilessly by a person, but bystanders were still drinking and chatting casually. Just like these two children who broke into the adult world, they were arbitrarily arrested, taken away, and violated. The siblings meet O again. Oona dances with Ao on the beach, and she falls in love with Ao. Early in the morning, Ao was sitting on a rock, still mourning the tragedy that the troupe had finally been able to sell their costumes. The troupe has nowhere to perform, and the disappearance of the stage implies that ancient Hebrew and ancient Greek culture, as the two major sources of European civilization, were endlessly swallowed up by the scene of industrialization after the gradual changes in history. With the advent of the spectacle society, all the scenery is being materialized. The ubiquitous factories in the film and the reclaimed autumn-yellow construction sites, it seems that the world is suddenly in a lonely and sad tone.

Sculpture with missing index finger being salvaged

Three people were looking at the sea, and the "right hand" of a sculpture was salvaged. The index finger was broken, and the direction it pointed was gone, as if everyone was destined to lose the front in the fog. Perhaps, the broken hand, interpreted in the Bible, could be the hand of God. God stretched out his right index finger and touched Adam's left index finger, giving strength. But when the index finger is broken, the source of power is gone, implying that the child is desperate and powerless to break into the adult world. Ao is gay, Oona saw him flirting with him in a bar, and she walked out of breath. The road is the most suitable place to escape. It seems that you can see the end and go straight, but there are passing vehicles and people who have nowhere to hide. The industrial cement terrain often gives people a cold and lonely feeling. Orestes hugged Ulla tightly, telling her that some emotional pain needed to be forgotten. These ordeals helped Ulla sacrifice her childhood, and she held her bar mitzvah religiously. Ulla walked to a man, "Can you give me 395 yuan?" Such a resolutely indifferent but quite sophisticated rhetoric, the implication was understood by everyone, and the man threw the money and ran away in a hurry. Those original aspirations that have been lost are just glimpses of childhood fragments. On the border of Germany, the sister and brother rowed and sailed into the distance. They ran wildly. In the fog, the tree stood quietly, which was their father. It is said that An Zhe wanted his two children to disappear into the fog, but his daughter cried and said, "Where is my father, and where is my home?" So that tree appeared. An Zhe said to his daughter, "If you want, you can recreate this world. With a wave of your hand, the fog will disappear."

tree in fog

Ulla once said to his brother, God said that there is light, and there is light in the world.

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Landscape in the Mist quotes

  • Orestis: Who am I? I'm a snail slithering away into nothingness... I don't know where I'm going. Once I thought I knew.

  • Orestis: If I were to shout, who would hear me out of the armies of angels?