The story is set against such a background, and it is not surprising that all the characters and plots have insinuations and symbolic meanings. The moment when the somber black tones meet the warm golden tones is the end of this cruel and unbearable world.
I had to pause many times when I watched it, because I was so sad that I couldn't watch it any longer. They are bound to fall, Ophelia's mother, doctor, partisan. The captain carried his father's proud pocket watch, and thought that his own death was also a kind of greatness. How long is the darkness before dawn?
Whether Ophelia was fantasizing or actually entering the Underworld was no longer important. If it is really just some illusory images, it is already the greatest consolation in that place where it is always cold and raining heavily. Mother sighed that her feet were cold, only a little tenderness in her mother's arms against the heavy air like a mountain, what was insulted and damaged was just smoke and dust compared to death.
There is also an Ophelia in Shakespeare's pen, who finally lies quietly in the water, like a blooming lotus flower, as another bet of revenge and death. Ophelia in "Pan" finally collapsed at the entrance of the underground kingdom, dressed in white, even though her body was covered in blood, she did not hide her magnolia-like face. When the peach blossoms are broken and the willow silk is green, she also blooms again. The worst will always pass, but when you are in it, there are not so many fairy tales that you can look forward to.
The last few movies I watched happened to be about World War II. There are no warriors who are overwhelming, and they are not battlefields full of flames. It is just a small person who happened to be born there at that time, and has to make a choice when fate hits and when he is still hesitant. Some people changed history, some people changed themselves, and some people were silent.
When I look at Ophelia, I can't help but think of Anne hiding in some hidden attic in Amsterdam. It is these most mundane figures that make us more and more understand the true severity of war, rather than simple connections to data and locations. History is not borne by great men alone, everyone, everyone is continuing its trajectory.
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