"Meeting Love at the Corner of the World" is a Bulgarian film, with all the elements of Eastern European films, but with some fresh topics. A car accident in Germany brings out the joys and sorrows of a Bulgarian family. Alexander's trip back home also linked the two periods before and after the Bulgarian Iron Curtain. Alexander's parents struggled to survive under the Iron Curtain, so they had to flee across the border with young Alexander. But they walked out of the Iron Curtain and entered the refugee camp. Spent a few years in an Italian refugee camp, made some money playing backgammon, and got out of here to West Germany. Misfortune seemed to follow them, and as soon as they arrived in West Germany, Alexander's parents divorced. Years after the divorce, when the Iron Curtain was torn apart and the family was reunited, when they wanted to go back to their hometown to visit relatives, they encountered a car accident, both parents died, and Alexander lost his memory briefly. Life is full of sweetness and love, but also suffering and sadness. Is this what the film is trying to tell us?
In my opinion, while the film is warmly described, it also uses a lot of shots to strengthen the concept of joy and sorrow. Alexander returned to the former refugee camp and recovered his memory, but he was greeted in the refugee camp by a young man who had also escaped from Bulgaria at the time. He had repeatedly declared that his brother was in the United States and would take him with him. Go to America. After waiting for countless years, I can only be a gatekeeper in a refugee camp and live in a foreign country. Is there love in the world? Without his confidence in his brother, he could not support so many years; but in pursuit of a better life, he was left in a strange place by fate and spent a meaningless life in hopeless waiting. Alexander's grandfather was a wise and loving old man who was a backgammon king. He can see the game of chess clearly, as well as politics and life, but he can't see through fate, let alone reverse the tragic fate of his family. With love and wisdom, he guides his amnesiac grandson to find the way home, but he cannot pull himself out of the complicated chess game that has entangled him for a lifetime. When I see decades later, there are still those people, still sitting in the same place, still playing the same chess, only their hair and faces have changed, I just feel a sadness coming out of my heart, this is life ? Although, you can think that this kind of ordinary and unchanging life is the true taste of life and a kind of happiness; but after all, this kind of unchangeable life also makes life lose its meaning. You walk out of this door and turn around the street corner in front of you, and you can meet love, which will warm you but cannot change the sadness of your life.
The final scene is a chess fight between grandparents and grandchildren. The cracked dice allowed Alexander to take over the mantle of his grandfather's chess king, and a new chess king was born. But on second thought, wouldn't he also repeat his life? Still sitting there for decades, facing the terrible fate of my family, I can't do anything, and my life is still sad. Isn't that broken dice the grin of fate?
However, "Meeting Love at the Corner of the World" is really a good film. I will watch it again when I have time. Maybe I will see a different meaning? Indeed, a good movie can bring a lot of feelings to people.
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