Sometimes you pour tea, sometimes I pour water

Jeffery 2022-04-20 09:02:25

The first Abbas, only then did I know the origin of "The Case of Qiu Ju" and "No One Can Be Missed". Simple and clean film language, great sorrow and joy are scattered in the olive grove, the clouds are light and the wind is light. Feelings are stubbornness and persistence after 50 years of being together ... ding ding... bang bang, Hussein carried a water bottle across the fields to chase the girl he liked, those well-matched traps, the hustle and bustle of the highway, all lost their color, and the whole world was quiet.
It was the first time I heard the words Hussein said in the car, and I heard that with both feet on the ground, steadfast, daring to look around, daring to move forward: "It is best that a scholar marry an illiterate, a rich man. People marry poor people, people who have no homes, marry landlords, so that everyone can help each other, I think it is better, if two people get married, and when they die, they have two rooms, then they can't have their heads in one and their feet in the other. Time.” (The dewdrop that wrote Abbas’s film language is so good, all his favorite lines are there) It has nothing to do with the four words of communism, and before these four words appeared, human beings were already living.
Sometimes you pour tea, sometimes I pour water. This is probably life.

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  • Felipe 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    Making a movie is like building a house—built and demolished, demolished and built—Abbas is a master of post-structuralism. Few people, like him, can make movies as real as life. After watching "Lover under the Olive Tree", I actually cried like a child. When the heroine got up and picked up the pot of flowers that survived the earthquake, I couldn't help but remind me of my mother: when she was a child, the house at home collapsed suddenly. There is no road in the world-the survivors probably have an amazing optimism about life: whenever I go to a place with her, she can always find a shortcut among many roads. She always does not force me to take that path, and sometimes I choose to follow her, and sometimes I choose to stay where I am-watching her while walking my own way. Movies are the art of "24 frames per second", just like life-living to death. Abbas’s lens is our eyes, and our eyes are our way out. This kind of consistency can be felt in his unpretentious, concise and precise film art-watching a movie with your heart, you will be more tolerant than watching a movie with your brain.

  • Lura 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    The trilogy is nested in layers, it is best to read it together. Although these films seem to be realistic, but in the film the director has already analyzed his own film very clearly, the film is a film after all, even if it looks real, it cannot be real. Using fiction to interpret reality, and using the perspective of bystanders (two fictional directors) to create an alienation effect, this director is calm enough, but no matter how calm he is, he is still the movie "Magician".

Through the Olive Trees quotes

  • Hossein: Mam, I'm really sorry. I want to do everything you ask me, but I won't do masonry. I don't work in construction anymore. I came to act in your film. I will work as an actor, but not as a mason.