lucid dream

Long Day's Journey Into Night

dark green night

finale

The finale has been sung at the beginning

At the beginning, in the dark room, one hand took down the microphone. It was a pair of women's hands, painted with mulberry red nail polish and wearing a watch. The light balls on the ceiling are beautifully intertwined.

This scene is not here, it is located in another scene, in the middle of the movie, in the division between the summer solstice and the winter solstice. The karaoke hall was demolished overnight, and female singers would come to sing in an hour. Luo Hongwu first went to the cinema to watch a movie, waiting for Wan Qiwen's last song.

That song should be アザミ嬢のララバイ (The Lullaby of the Thistle Girl). Because it sounds at the end of "Last Night on Earth", making the film round up like a sweet song through a tunnel at the end of the world. Because it also appeared many times in movies, for example, when Luo Hongwu and Wan Qiwen were watching movies, they came from the screen as narrative music. Because Luo Hongwu asked the female boss of the karaoke hall, 'Was Wan Qiwen singing Japanese songs? '. Because the hotel owner also said, 'After she left, sometimes I would go to the karaoke hall to listen to her singing. That song is sung over and over again'. Because Wan Qiwen is Luo Hongwu's dream maker, the siren of the last night, the lullaby makes the lost person intoxicated and won't wake up again.

In a dream, I know myself as a guest

'As long as I see her, I know that I must be in a dream again. Once a person realizes that he is dreaming, he will be like a wandering soul. Sometimes it even floats. ' At the beginning, Luo Hongwu's voiceover said so.

In the second half of the dream, Luo Hongwu floated up, crossed the rooftops and the square of the singing party, and used the dream to cross the ravines of the world. He knew that he was meeting his old friend in a dream, and this awakening was a bit cruel, but the dreamer didn't know that he was in his dream, so naturally he didn't know the meaning of his words, and they didn't even recognize him. People who are not understood, people who are not remembered, are thinner than a feather, and more lonely than a wandering soul.

Paradox Modification

'In dreams, I always wonder if my body is made of hydrogen. If so, then my memory must be made of stone. '' the voiceover continued.

Lonely people, the memory will be as solid as a rock, unchangeable, standing as the boundary stone of the field of time, standing as time itself. Those who are immersed in memories, the weight of the flesh and reality, are eroded by the strong winds of memories, and the sun and the moon are cut, and they tend to be nothing. So that on the night of the return of the soul, it floats gently, from the center of the memory, flying into the fantasy night, flying mysteriously on the wings of the night, reaching the edge of the cliff on the other side, picking a bunch of sweet saxifrage. Give your time back to your sweetheart.

The body will not be made of hydrogen gas, so the memory will not be made of stone. Moreover, private memories, like art films with heavy filters and wanton editing, use exclusive lens language as their tentacles, and are far from faithful and credible documentaries.

The summer solstice is lonely, the winter solstice is burning, the years are lonely, and the dream is burning.

This poem-like film cannot and should not be rationally analyzed. If it were to be analyzed in detail, there would be infinite proofs and directions. Every direction has traces to follow but cannot be justified. So we only talk about properties without defining them. I would like to understand that this movie is a memory and a dream.

From when Luo Hongwu woke up in the hotel to when he was watching a movie in the cinema, this summer solstice story is a memory; from when he entered a cave and met a 'childish ghost', to the spinning house, this winter solstice story is a dream. Dreams are rather fantasy, because the dreamer knows that he is in a dream, which is similar to a lucid dream.

/Summer Solstice Water/

I saw you on a day when the sun was at its highest at noon.

shadow of water

When Luo Hongwu returned home, he removed the circular clock that did not go, and replaced it with a rectangular photo of his father. A clock that does not go is a time that stands still, and everyone lives in his own time. Usually the sky is a circle, day after day, without Feng Shui, the glazed surface is slippery, and it is easy to pass away; the ups and downs of life are square boundary monuments, valley bottoms, thousands of miles deep, spanning the past and the future time. In the middle of the month, people in the middle of the moon are confused. The square grinding can't go away, and the sharp tingling like yesterday still comes after a few years. The water-like time is divided by the unequivocal facts, half of it flows away, and the other half swirls.

drowning house

The house that falls into the water, the house is the memory, the memory is leaking. 'The memory can't tell the truth from the fake, it always appears in front of the eyes'. In a leaky house, on the beach where Sasuke kisses. Water is unfallen tears. Here, Luo Hongwu opened the bell and found a photo, from which he went to find Wan Qiwen. Luo Hongwu turned the knob of the hour hand, and the clock reflected in the Jishuitan was reversing, implying that Luo Hongwu was swimming up the river of time to break the cocoon.

green paper

Wan Qiwen is a suspicious shadow of the summer solstice sunshine, a dark green deep pool that cannot be illuminated, just like a suspenseful plot of love. She always wears dark green, which is also the color of the Green Book. And green paper is the color of love, like the deep forest where the sun can't shine through at noon on the summer solstice.

' That's when we decided to pick up the most valuable thing in the room and run outside, and the last thing she took out was a book. It's a love story, although only half of it, but we all like it very much. She also told us that she was going to keep the book for her favorite people. ' Tai Zhaomei said.

Wan Qiwen believes that love stories are the most precious. She loves to tell stories, and when she lives in a hotel, she tells a story every day to replace the room fee; she also loves to act stories, her things are like a mystery, and her identity and even her name are hard to tell. She lives in the story, bridging the divide between fantasy and reality. Her love story also came to an abrupt end, only halfway through. A love story that may have no end is better than the unfinished ending in reality. The incomplete Dream of Red Mansions, Venus with a broken arm, and the beautiful sound are only half of the antelope's horns. 'But we all especially like it'.

In the hotel, Luo Hongwu said that dreaming of a missing person is considered a lover, but he doesn't even know her real name, age, or past events. The woman said, 'Why is it so like a story in a green book? ' The woman flipped through the book in his bag. Wan Qiwen inadvertently turned her favorite story into her own. Favorite stories often reveal her subconscious complex, and outline her stories in a false way. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Wan Qiwen has been wearing a dark green dress all the time, as if she doesn't need to eat, drink, and walk, not like a person but like a wandering soul-floating out of someone's dream. The long dress and the green book are dark green that shines brightly at night. Could the story of the green book be the story of Wan Qiwen? The story in the book is only half of that in Luo Hongwu's memory in the movie, and the lost second half is reflected in his dream in the second half of the movie.

'Do you believe the love story in the book? Just chant the spell on the title page and the lover's house will spin. '' Wan Qiwen said.

'Go into the water with the tip of a knife and look at the snow with a microscope. Even if you do this repeatedly, you can't help but ask, have you ever counted the stars in the sky? They, like birds, are always parachuting on my chest. '

The incantation on the title page is this poem, which is Bi Gan's answer to the question of 'how to evaluate a roadside picnic' on Zhihu. The creator's heart is the incantation of turning stone into gold, making the ruins of reality a revolving house, and letting the people of the world fly in the night sky. Water is inseparable, snow is fleeting, and reasoning is futile. It is better to be a person who simply looks at the stars in the cinema.

doomsday

' Others say 1999 was the end of the world, it's 2000 now, don't we still fucking survive the same? ' Luo Hongwu said.

The last night on the earth turned out to be the night of December 31, 1999. I wish that time would stop on this day, because once this day passes, there will be no you in the new century. In the last night on earth, people know that they are in a dream. As the opening narration said, 'As long as I see her, I know it must be in a dream again. 'On the night when death is approaching, people go to find their sweetheart. Or maybe it's a phantom in the mind after death.

pool

In the leaking house, Wan Qiwen stood barefoot by the water, Luo Hongwu surfaced from the pool, swam towards Wan Qiwen, sat on the shore, lowered her head and gasped.

Wan Qiwen sat down on her knees, stroked his head and asked him, 'Have you figured it out? '

He said, 'The water is too cold'

She turned her upper body over and hugged him, comforting him.

'I'm afraid I'll miss. 'He said.

She kissed his forehead, stood up, walked into the pool, and said, 'It's so dark in the movie theater, as long as you shoot with the killer in the movie theater, the audience will think it's the voice from the movie theater. '

Water can carry a boat or capsize it. Water is life and death. Human beings live by water and grass, and they are also afraid of the ruthless torrent. Surrounded by amniotic fluid is a warm and safe hometown memory deep in memory, the only fulfilling time of a tragic life to death, a feeling of intimacy closely connected to the mother. Luo Hongwu dived into the water because he felt that Wan Qiwen used him to kill with a knife. Love seemed to be illusory, lonely and sad enough to want to return to the embrace of the water; also because he was afraid of murder and death, he obtained the imaginary in a symbolic mother's womb. shelter.

Luo Hongwu didn't find the baby's selfless stability in the water. After he had to go ashore, he said 'the water is too cold'. Wan Qiwen made him feel the cold. He lowered his head for a long time, and Wan Qiwen stood, symbolizing that he bowed his head to her. When Wan Qiwen is kneeling, she is also half a head taller than him, symbolizing that she is the ruler, so he will not understand her.

debris flow

Some people say that this movie is Luo Hongwu's posthumous fantasy from a certain stage, I think it is 'jumping into the water with the tip of a knife', which is futile and unlawful. The film doesn't have a Mulholland Drive-style movement, it's just poetry. If you think it's bizarre and seamless, it's because it conforms to the logic of the mind. If you think it's plausible, it's hard to justify it, it's the plausibility of dreams. It should not be deconstructed from the perspective of brain-burning films, but feel it with your heart.

Some people said that everyone in the long-distance bus except Luo Hongwu slept, implying that there was a mudslide in the tunnel, and the passengers died. In fact, look carefully at several passengers awake.

The warning of heavy rainfall and mudslides appeared when Luo Hongwu was driving, the white cat was eating apples in tears, and chatting with the white cat's mother. The former is a voice-over; the broadcast sound of the white cat eating an apple seems to be separated from the scene, like a voice-over; the broadcast sound is connected to the scene of chatting with the white cat's mother, which is distant and faint, and seems to come from the brain. So another possible tendency is that Luo Hongwu stayed in the hotel and had a dream of Nanke, and the beginning is the end (the beginning is waking up in the hotel). Then the scenes such as going to the barber shop to meet the white cat mother are all dreams.

The glass filled with half a glass of water slowly slid towards the edge of the table. Some people say that this shot implies a mudslide in reality, but the shot is closed at a slanted moment, and it will not fall, just like the last night when a dream is not a dream.

weeping

Luo Hongwu and Wan Qiwen watched a movie once. Wan Qiwen sat in the row in front of Luo Hongwu, eating wild grapefruit and crying. What should be shown on the screen is "Last Night on Earth". Because it is - the melody of the ending song of "The Last Night on Earth" sounded softly. Wan may have understood Luo's memories and dreams, because she ate wild grapefruit, which represents happiness, and burst into tears under the light and shadow of the screen. And Luo was lying on the back of his chair looking at the screen, calmly as if facing his heart.

/solstice fire/

The exposure of the dark room, the shadow of reunion. Small dreams.

アザミ嬢のララバイ

'When my light is on you, the reunion is a dark room. 'A dream of a lifetime. A little dream is more than half a movie. An hour-long shot is so gentle that it won't sever long dreams. 3D brings us closer to him because the winter solstice is so cold.

Luo Hongwu fell asleep while watching a movie. When he woke up, everyone was finished.

torches and honey

Flickering and flickering, roaring fiercely, automatically without wind, the soul within the soul.

'When I was a child, a bee farmer moved in near my house. My mother sneaks in every time and takes out a lot for me to eat. My mom said just light a smoking torch and the bees will disperse. ' In the first half of the summer solstice, Luo Hongwu said.

In the dream of reunion, his mother held a torch to elope with the beekeeper, Luo Hongwu asked her why, and she said 'I have suffered too much, at least honey is sweet with him'. The mother in the dream is the appearance of the white cat's mother. People who have been separated for too long, even if they don't know each other when they meet, and even their faces are annihilated by time, they have deep misses.

Honey is a bit of sweetness in a bitter life. It leads the way with the fire of the heart, scare away the harassment of the camp, and a bit of sweetness that can only be exchanged with the courage to extract chestnuts from the fire, just like love. Beekeepers are people who sell sweetness, chase after the flowering period, and bring love with them. They live in no fixed place. They are the prodigal sons of the world. Comes like a spring dream for a short time, and goes like a cloud of nowhere to be found.

The torch is her escaped heart, the soul that lives elsewhere, and can be a guiding light no matter how dark the night is. An uneasy heart, in the quiet night-like life, is like a flowing firefly. However, there will eventually be a night of escape from the fire.

'The house has been burned by you, do you think there is anything else you can threaten me here? ' said the beekeeper.

'What's the use of that house, what you said is false anyway. ' said the woman.

Perhaps the beekeeper once said that he would take her away, and her love for him also included her share of the Huahua world. However, he broke his promise after all, and her love turned to hate, and it also destroyed her share of the hope of escaping. The instinct of life is transformed into the instinct of death, hatred is like adding fuel to the fire, so that the tinder of love turns into a prairie fire, destroying the sky and destroying the earth. Turn the house they loved into ruins.

'It turns out that there is a very beautiful crystal chandelier above it, very beautiful. '

'As soon as the light was turned on, it was very dazzling. '

'This location turned out to be a dining table and every time I came there was a lot of fresh fruit on it. ' Wan Qiwen said.

The house where you have lived with someone you have loved, in a woman's heart, is love itself. Anyway, what he said is false, then the lover's house and sweet memories are meaningless, it is better to burn it down and clean it up, she wants to forget. The house that has been loved and decorated with love is the sweetest house in the world: a dining table full of sweet fruits, a wardrobe full of clothes for men and women, and beautiful crystal chandeliers that are so bright and dazzling.

'The flashlight was in Wan Qiwen's hand, and she took pictures everywhere. She also told us that she found that the house could be rotated. ' In the summer solstice chapter, Tai Zhaomei said.

It should be in the dark night, the light of the flashlight swayingly shines on the beautiful crystal chandelier. The whole room was full of stars, the sky was spinning, and the room seemed to be flying into space with the wings of the night.

flower universe

Take advantage of the fire and have the courage to pursue it.

flower universe

Kaizhen went up the stairs and walked to the venue of the singing party, "Huahua Universe" was playing. When she was buying fireworks, the white cat mother went to the fire bucket and lit a torch, holding the torch and walking outside, it was also in this song. . This song is their footnote, like the red clothes they wear.

'What's your business if he doesn't come back? He's in Carey, he's taking loan sharks with his big brother.

'He said if he made enough money, he would come back and take me to Carey to do a plane flight,' Kay-Jin said.

'There is no airport in Carey,' Luo Hongwu said.

'I knew he was lying to me, and the fireworks seller below told me that he saw him with a woman. And he's prettier than me and speaks Carey. 'she says.

Even if you know that the love words are deceptive, those love words are still regarded as the proof of love, and they are collected one by one to comfort the loneliness, as the warmth of life, because the winter solstice is too cold.

'Did you see the fruit machine I played today, wild grapefruit is the hardest. I told myself that if I could hit it today, I would leave this place. As a result, when you left just now, you were really hit. ' said Kayjin.

In the summer solstice chapter, Wan Qiwen said, 'Then let's make a bet, if I can find wild grapefruit, you will help me realize a wish. '

Wild grapefruit is a rare fruit in the mountains and forests, sour and bitter, only a little sweet. The sweetness is contrasted by the bitterness, which is particularly strong and refreshing. Like all heroic dreams.

The wild grapefruit is the most difficult, and the wish is difficult to achieve; if you hit the wild grapefruit, you will act according to your own wishes, that is, if you leave this place, he will not come back, then take yourself away and see the flower universe outside.

'I think if I can, I want to be a singer, I'm going to perform in many places in Guizhou, and then make a lot of money. I take myself on a plane. ' said Kayjin.

Wanting to be a singer, this also confirms that Kaizhen is the mirror image of Wan Qiwen. No matter what, you have to go to Huahua Universe. If there is no one to accompany you, then bring yourself with you. You can compare with the stars in the sky and travel around the world like a dream. Hearing Wan Qiwen's accent, Luo Hongwu doesn't seem to be from Kaili, and she always disappears for a while and comes back. Her identity and name are also fake, it's the name of a singer, and she is the one who sings. She likes to lie and can tell stories. , is the kind of person who treats fantasy as reality. She is also as free as a dream, and Kaizhen is her mirror.

'I have eaten too much bitterness, at least honey is sweet with him. ' said the white cat mother.

The mother of the white cat is Luo Hongwu's projection of his mother in his dreams. Mom held a torch to find the beekeeper, chasing a little sweetness in life, and also escaped from ordinary life for the flowery world.

Apple

Like paper, in addition to being astringent, I also feel an embarrassing melancholy.

The apple is the forbidden fruit of the tree of good and evil. The serpent tempted Eve and Adam to eat it. They knew the shame of being ashamed and had the sense of discernment, and were expelled from the Garden of Eden. With discernment, there will be regrets and endless desires. In Grimm's fairy tales, the red apple is also the witch's poison, which makes Snow White fall asleep. The red apple, which is as red as fire, is love, desire, sweet and fragrant, but the apple core is poisonous. Desperately chewing off a whole apple with the core, is the bitterness of love that is unwilling to turn around.

Luo Hongwu faced the white cat mother and recalled that her mother ate apples and eloped with the beekeeper. At this time, there was a scene of the white cat eating apples with tears. The white cat's mother and Luo Hongwu's mother were confused in Luo Hongwu's impression and fantasy. Therefore, as his friend, the white cat was also his mirror image.

'If she didn't come back stealing the honey, she'd be very disappointed and eat an apple. I remember she told me that when people are the saddest, they eat a whole apple with its core attached. ' Luo Hongwu said.

After saying goodbye to the white cat mother, Luo Hongwu walked and ate apples while weeping. He walked to the backstage, sat next to Kaizhen, and ate the remaining apple cores until he was finished. The bitterness in my heart is unspeakable, like the taste of an apple core.

fireworks with table

short and eternal kiss

Luo 'for you'

Kaizhen 'how can anyone give a watch casually? '

Ro' why not? '

Kaizhen 'The watch means forever, or a broken watch'

Kay-Jin 'for you'

Luo' how can you just send fireworks? '

Kaizhen' why not? '

Luo' fireworks means short-lived. '

Kevin' Aren't we just short-lived? '

The eternity in Luo Hongwu's heart is the shortness in Wan Qiwen's heart. Love is eternal and ephemeral. And in the dream realm there will be a miracle, they go to the sweet house of their lover, chant the lover's incantation, and the house spins. The camera went out, followed the way they came, and returned to the makeup mirror in the backstage. The fireworks in front of the mirror were blooming quietly and gorgeously, as if eternity.

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The water and fire have not healed, it is the last hexagram of the Book of Changes, and the unfinished unfinished end is the end of the end. It indicates that life has no end, no conclusion, and the outcome is hard to tell. Vientiane reincarnation, there is no real beginning and end, there are thousands of changes, ending and unending. So the last night on earth is the most tender night. With the attitude of the lovers flying in the night sky in Chagall's paintings, they are free from the gravitational pull of the whirling world, and the dream is still in the dark.

I hope this night will never pass and the dream will never wake up. I sat by the window at six o'clock, and the sound of insects was like rain.

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