It's fine to write a novel, but not necessarily a movie

It's supposed to be based on a stream-of-consciousness novel, which is obviously not a chore to please. There is almost only one character in the whole film, and her ramble narration runs through it. There is only one incident in the whole film. The heroine is suddenly trapped in a "hidden wall" in the mountains. Well, as the name suggests, it is an invisible wall. On the other side of the transparent wall is the frozen time and space. Without explaining the reason, I don't know whether she went to a different dimension or Noah's Ark after the world was destroyed; and there was no explanation for the result, she has lived on her own in the hidden wall since then. These are not the focus of the film. What the film wants to explore is what would it be like to survive in such an imaginary state of being trapped in a hidden wall and being alone? Especially the transformation of the heart and the relationship with nature after being separated from society.

First, she has to adjust to the loneliness of being the only human. She then became friends with animals (specifically a dog, a cow and two cats). At the same time, because there is no social division of labor, she must support herself through heavy and inefficient manual labor. This included hunting and struggling with the first shot of a deer. Eventually she got used to being part of the natural world, hunting other life to survive. So when another human appeared in a malicious figure, she did not hesitate to kill each other as a competitor. Then, the lonely life went on like this. After she ran out of paper, she had no choice but to stop keeping a diary and move on with her life. And in this split time and space, it is likely that no one will ever be able to see her diary.

In fact, this should be an insinuation of modern society. Everyone lives within a hidden wall, and the estrangement between people is getting deeper and deeper, and this film only describes an extreme situation. This idea is suitable for writing a novel, but not necessarily suitable for making a movie. Many inner monologues cannot be visualized and can only be read out through narration, which loses the greatest advantage of the film. On the contrary, the movie is not like a novel that can grasp a little extension. It must fill the whole picture every moment. Under such a theme, it must be boring, not to mention the scenery of Deo and I have long been tired of watching it. The only advantage of the film version is probably the visual representation of the invisible wall - you can shoot with a very clean glass.

I watched an Austrian boring film last year, and I don’t want to be recruited again this year.

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