Even if you don't speak, the motif of family love is always so inexhaustible, just like the deep earth remembers the birthday of every gravel.
{Spring}
[00:05]
After a gust of wind, the accordion sounded. For people in the 1980s and 1990s, the accordion and harmonica were more nostalgic than other musical instruments. In the last years when old Soviet songs and square dance became popular, they acted as suona and huqin in the hands of young people.
[00:16]
A close-up of a few clouds, in which the protagonist's father and daughter appear. My eyesight is limited, but the road has no end, and I suddenly think of Dali's painting "Dream Station" (the ending picture).
[00:27]
Husband and daughter rode two bicycles, one large and one small, with overlapping wheels. The spinning wheel is a main image of the film, she carries the change of time and the tossing and turning of life. The little daughter is excited to surpass her father, and appears very strong when going up a big slope (and will appear many times later), while her father is obviously much more difficult.
[00:52]
On the riverbank, the father and the little daughter hugged and said goodbye, and rowed away to the sunset alone. It can be noticed that the daughter turned around in surprise when the father stopped, and then rode to the father's side. It can be inferred that his father's departure came unexpectedly. The father walked down the river bank, saw the boat, suddenly ran back and picked up his daughter, slowly put it down, and walked back to the boat - this time without looking back. The camera zooms out, and the daughter looks at her father and draws farther and farther. - She still doesn't understand what death is and what loss is.
[01:29]
The daughter went back alone, and the father's bicycle was alone against the tree by the roadside.
{Summer}
[01:40]
The accordion becomes a piano, a little more active. The daughter is a teenager, and she often comes to look at the place where her father left. Every time she goes through the big slope, it takes some effort. Every time she comes back, her father's bicycle always leans against the tree, which may mean that she gradually understands death, but she does not want to. Admit loss.
[02:39]
The third time I came back, it was raining. My father's bicycle disappeared, as if the phrase "life goes on" that people warmed to each other in the misery, time has smoothed the rough memory.
[03:00]
Daughter was riding by with her friends. She stopped to take a look, and then continued on at the urging of her friends.
[03:30]
The wheels appear again.
[03:34]
The daughter is married as a wife, saving the hard work of riding a bicycle. When her lover drove her past the old place, she still glanced at the direction in which her father was leaving. The director cut into the first-person perspective for a second to emphasize this look. It is worth mentioning that there is an extra light on the car.
[03:59] The
only time in the film to walk at night, there is only a searchlight of a headlight across the screen.
{Autumn}
[04:04]
Autumn is here, and her daughter has become a mother of two children. They brought their children back to the beach together. The children just played with the water on the bank, but the husband sat on the bank and looked into the distance. The daughter stood on the top of the river bank and did not join them, maybe she wanted to be alone.
{Winter}
[04:50]
The daughter has also reached the age of her father, and she faintly feels that the pace of fate has slowed down. She revisited the old places.
[05:03]
This time, the sea dried up.
【05:19】
The scene of "Dream Station" reappears, and the daughter rides home alone.
[05:31]
Emphasize the wheel again, the slow rotation of the wheel becomes the transition. My daughter is approaching her twilight years. She pushes the car to stop and go, and a child gallops past her face. In fact, every passerby may be a contrast: when I grow up, I will become you/I have been like that too. of the past. A person has his own clock, which starts from birth and does not stop until the end of life. In the river of time, we form an archipelago.
[05:45]
The daughter returned to the river bank for the last time. She propped up her bicycle and tried to walk down the river bank, but the car fell weakly behind her. She came back and helped her up once or twice. The third time she didn't help, but only turned her head and walked down cautiously. ——If holding a bicycle is a metaphor for not letting go of the world, she finally had to reconcile with life.
[06:03]
The camera is zoomed out, and shoulder-length deep grass has grown on the bottom of the sea. Following the sunset, she found the boat that her father had been on. She reached out and touched the side of the boat, and then she shrank back. After a moment of thought, she accepted the invitation of the setting sun and the sand, fell asleep in the boat, and went to find the traces of her father.
[06:58]
She suddenly woke up, walked into the distance, and ran up as she walked, leaving the old man behind. When she returned to her youth, the age at which she understood death and loss for the first time, she met her father and was the same as when she left. She stared at her father as her father stared at herself. Approaching step by step, until embraced together, quietly.
[08:00]
The whole film has no dialogue, no expression, and the wheel at the end keeps turning.
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