a few points

Virginia 2022-04-20 09:02:25

1. For me, it is like a "Memoir of the Cultural Revolution",

What is the most appropriate way to present suffering? Authentic reproduction vs poetic compression?

2. The disorder of time serves the narrative and emotional order of "searching":

There are two very awesome long shots, 1, New Year's celebration / house raiding, 2, in the end, everyone was shot and killed in the fog

In the long shot, through the transition of light (light and shade, atmosphere), fog, performance, music, etc. as sub-shots (in the long shot), the possibility of image expression is expanded in time and space;

3, I want to cry when I see the last scene,

Art, including film, is worth pursuing.

Poem at the end:

When I return, it will be with another man's clothes, another man's name.

My coming will be unexpected.

If you look at me and unbelieve me and say,

you are not here.

I will show you signs. And you will believe me.

I will tell you about the lemon tree in your garden.

The cooling window lets in the moonlight.

And then signs of the body, signs of love...

And that's we climb trembling to our own room between one and the brace and the next, between love's calls.

I will tell you about the journey all the night long,

and then all the nights to come...

between one and the brace and the next...

between love's calls...

the whole human adventure...

the story that never ends...

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Extended Reading
  • Haylie 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    8.5 This film can also be regarded as a strong style of An Zhe. There are many scenes similar to previous works, and sorrow and despair are shrouded in the film. "Did you know that the Greeks are a dying nation." The head of Lenin's statue moved slowly in the air, the cracked Lenin statue was lying on it, and the broken arm pointed to the front, but he didn't know what was in front of him. The protagonist travels throughout the Balkans, but is devastated, and the traces of war are all over the peninsula. This time, An Zhe combined several timelines to narrate. The past and the present are integrated into one, and history seems to be staged again. The dense fog that spreads ruined the old man's family and made the protagonist completely collapse. An Zhe's long stream of consciousness runs through the entire timeline, and the reality and the past timeline are seamlessly interspersed, and the entire story can be displayed smoothly. The experience of the dance is very shocking in one mirror, no less than the final massacre in the fog, the people suffered too much

  • Chesley 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    Except for a few magnificent long shots of time, [Ulysses's gaze] went to a dangerous extreme. It tried to trace the "innocent eyes" with the motive of traveling in the Odyssey, and then asked what the disputes in the Balkans were like. This is really painful, because this is not a question at all and there will be no answer. This unnatural state of creation brings the male protagonist's weird English and a meaningless grand narrative.

Ulysses' Gaze quotes

  • A: Good night, good night... Parting is such sweet sorrow... that I shall say good night, till it be tomorrow... sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breasts... would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest... Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell... his help to crave, and my dear hap to tell!

  • A: [final lines] When I return, It will be with another man's clothes. Another man's name. My coming will be unexpected. If you look at me unbelieving, and say "You are not He", I will show you signs and you will believe me. I will tell you about the lemon tree in your garden. The corner window that lets in the moonlight. And then signs of the body, signs of love. And as we climb, trembling, to our old room, between one embrace and the next , etween lovers' calls, I will tell you about the journey all the night long. And in all the nights to come. Between one embrace and the next. Between lovers' calls. A whole human adventure. The story that never ends...