There is no "memory" in life. There is no north and south. The hero Alexander of "Meeting Love at the Corner of the World" encountered the same problem as Gao Jin. Of course, don't expect him to be like Gao Jin, who uses endless pursuits and sudden car accidents to regain sobriety. The tricks of "everything goes too far, everything is crazy" in Hong Kong movies can't be made with great fanfare when it comes to Bulgarian movies. .
There are always thousands of ways, and Alexander's memory restoration chose travel, which makes the movie a bit like a road movie. The director interspersed Alexander's past deeds back and forth, on the one hand participating in the narrative of the story, on the other hand, it was also an intermittent resurgence of Alexander's old memories. Therefore, this kind of travel has the dual meanings of body and mind, that is, the process of viewing the boundless scenery, but also the process of removing the haze in the mind, embracing happiness and self-confidence, and gaining a new life. The film has a lively tone and calmness. It dissolves Alexander's historically imprinted encounters and his feelings with his grandfather into the beautiful mountains and rivers of Eastern Europe and spreads it on the endless road, just like the scenery on the roadside. Naturally, the secret grows.
In the narrow vision of the individual before, the dice with six faces is not without derogatory color, it is more than speculation, fraud and other words linked. "Meeting Love at the Corner of the World" undoubtedly has the effect of being honest, and has largely reversed his prejudice. The key character in the film, Alexander's grandfather, is always cheerful and solemn whether he mentions or plays the game of chess and chess, which is determined by rolling dice, and he is full of game spirit when dealing with life. The film is different from the usual philosophical essays. It has no attempt to preach. If you deliberately explain the truth, you can insist that life is like a chess game. However, this should also set off the movie's title that has the meaning of another village.
Likewise, Alexander is treated in a highly advanced mode, with amnesia but no loss of skill. Although the director made great efforts to create a "last-minute rescue"-style stretch at the moment when he remembered the flashback, the brain that was used to obeying the ideas of movies such as "God of Gamblers" still felt a bit abrupt and rash, and the preparation was insufficient. . The worst thing is that Alexander's final memory salvage relies on the magical change of the dice in the chess game.
Just like the opening chess game, there is often a selfish desire to defeat the opponent. The inner bottom of this film is also wrapped in strong patriotic and nostalgic thoughts. Alexander's journey back to his homeland is not only a return of his body in terms of geographical space, but more of an identification with the long-lost relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, and a conversion to a country that has been separated for many years. The sign "Welcome to the new Bulgaria" stands on the side of the road in the film, declaring that Alexander's turbulent years are over, and also expressing the best wishes of the creators to their homeland. Usually, the hometown is associated with childhood, and it is closely related to childhood. It is no wonder that the painter Dongshan Kaiyi said: "Looking back on your own growth, like the rings of a tree, always revolves around the center of childhood." It was a spiritual search for Alexander to return to his childhood. "Meeting Love at the Corner of the World" has the nostalgia of Dongshan Kaiyi's fallen leaves returning to the roots. It is submerged under various scenes of the film, and is embodied in a small chess game with dice beating through the support of grandparents and grandchildren. The game of chess is far away from the secular loss, winning and losing, and has an extraordinary meaning, becoming a common code for communication between ancestors and grandchildren and inheritance of family and country. Such a way of embodying big feelings in a small thing makes the movie look light and fantastic, which can be called unique.
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