However, when it was broadcast, I doubted whether the film could really reach the legendary height as an independent film. Although I was already familiar with the plot, I still could not accept the slow progress of its plot and the fact that the director repeated the clips intentionally or unintentionally. , When looking at the screen that played the same long shot over and over again, you would inadvertently think of yourself as a director, or stand on the set of the shooting, but it felt really wronged. Professional terms describe this as: the combination of virtual and real, criss-crossing, there are dramas in the play, and there are dramas outside the play. To put it simply, the story in "The Lover Under the Olive Tree" is that a film crew is making a movie called "Spring Breeze Blows Again", and the relationship between the actors and actresses in the movie is quite delicate. Since the earthquake in that place, the actor He Xin has fallen in love with the actress Deleland just because of one look, but the conservative and introverted Deleland has not said a single extra sentence to Hexin except for the repeated lines. . In the end, He Xin could only talk to the girl about his seemingly ordinary but touching heart-felt words when he was resting between films. The ending of the movie is a horizontal layout with no ending. Abbas only showed us the scene of two small white dots moving under the olive trees, from near to far, but only one small white dot came back from far to near. .
Although its abrupt end made the audience outside the film feel very muffled, it was in line with the director's purpose. Abbas once said, "I know I don't like a film where the audience walks out of the theater and repeats it in the same voice. The same story. Every audience sitting in the theater is a different individual from others. They have their own souls, their own thoughts, and their own personalities. If a film can be recognized by the audience, the director is a criminal All films should be open to ask questions, and each audience should be left with free imagination to form their own opinions. If you ignore this freedom, you will go back to the old way of teaching the audience." Because of this reason, I know that although the movie is over, the actors who really belong to them in life will not end there, and the story will never end, He Xin will not give up the chance to chase the girl's love, his The ideal and his vision for the future are so beautiful, and how can a girl let herself miss such a self-motivated boy?
The maze-like "Under the Olive Tree" creates such an atmosphere for us, just like the assumptions and operations under the multiple if nested structure, which makes people confused to understand the development of the play within the play, and also allows the audience to understand. Choose the ending of the story in your mind as you wish, so that the two of them can be together forever without ending with the end of the film.
The historical description of "movie begins with Griffith and ends with Abbas", I think, stems from Abbas's concept of seeing and making movies as a cube, especially his masterpieces "The Lover Under the Olive Tree" and "Cherry" taste".
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