There is only one word difference between mystery and magic stick
When a film uses unpredictable words such as occultism as a banner, my heart is often very frightened. I am afraid that the director's intense stream of consciousness cannot resonate with me, and it will only make me feel drowsy and cloudy. , and then I marked the sign of the god stick.
Apichatpong's "Tropical Diseases" is about wandering and probing on the edge of mystery and magic.
At the beginning of the scene, it was an endless tropical rainforest, a group of soldiers, playing with a corpse, by the way, molested the women over there through the radio, and their loneliness could not be hidden in their roaring hippie smiles. Loneliness can't be hidden in my heart, it's blown away by the wind, someone on the radio ordered a song to comfort loneliness, and I can hear the rain forest whispering softly. That naked body, like a gleam of light, left a mark inadvertently and without any intention. The remaining two words - mysterious.
Rather than "tropical disease", I prefer another translation, "Summer Fascination". If love is a plague, the equator is its pasture, summer is the season of harvesting, and lovers of love are the victories waiting to be harvested.
Since when did TONG's mother smell the plague beginning to come, when KENG's comrades swept her daughter's autumn waves recklessly, or in front of the piece of paper that the soldier wrote honey to her son. Or maybe, when KENG turned to leave while passing through the legendary underground cave leading directly to the mysterious lake, and TONG chased after and stuffed the piece of paper into the soldier? I'm afraid she doesn't even know it herself. Just like we, only see the plague of love at its most beautiful, but it is unpredictable to be violent, crueler than beasts.
I was misled a lot by the Chinese plot introduction. The legend told to the two of them was not TONG's mother, and the legend was not that the soul of the lover turned into a tiger. Everything after that originated from a mischievous monk.
Legend has it that there was a monk who was good at changing the essence of life. He was an excellent incarnation of sentient beings to trick the villagers. , In order to retaliate against the villagers, he often disturbed the villagers who were alone in the forest at night.
KENG is a soldier guarding the forest. This identity is doomed. He is a sad story.
The mysterious nude that swept across the sea of green grass at the beginning is exactly the ghost of a tiger monk wandering in the depths of the rain forest, and KENG is just his favorite prey. He borrowed the plague of love and caused KENG to suffer from a disease called lovesickness. The damp heat in the jungle is the best medicine to catalyze love. It is the tiger monk who is manipulating people's hearts, and it is he who is playing with emotions. The soldier's vigilance was disintegrated by his youthfulness; the spring heart was disturbed by his ignorance; and his sincerity was locked with innocence, and finally he appeared naked and ferocious. No tiger teeth, no sharp claws, the soldiers' hearts are already bloody.
That's why the monkeys appear and keep alert. The monkey is the ape of the heart, and it is also the remnant of reason. It is an instinctive desire for life, reminding myself to let KENG make a choice. He knew it. And he also made a choice: instead of piercing the lies of love, it is better to be swallowed by false feelings.
This tragedy, which was doomed from the beginning, has only come to an end at this moment.
I see. Loneliness is the plague of love, the seeds of which are blown down by the tropical south wind.
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