Tender Mercies evaluation action
2022-04-10 08:01
"Comeback der Liebe" tells a seemingly bland story in a light-hearted tone. The story is like a small river flowing calmly, and everything unfolds slowly without being disturbed. However, plainness is only an appearance. In the narrative of the story, there is a faint tension flowing from beginning to end, which makes people feel sadness and sadness that cannot be ignored in addition to warmth. The dual feelings of warmth and sadness originate from the film's interpretation of the two themes of "suffering" and "salvation". The film borrows this very life-like story to calmly point to a wider space of life, showing authenticity in the plain, but in fact, it aims to arouse everyone's deep thinking about life.
The rhythm of the whole film is gentle, and there are no ups and downs in the plot, but in the mild plot development, there is always a lingering sense of sadness. The plot setting about death in the film and the shaping of each lonely individual exist implicitly in the main line of warmth, forming the sad background of the story, letting people know that impermanence and suffering are the essence of life.
There are no ups and downs in the film, everything is just told calmly. Death and loneliness constitute the background of suffering and sadness in life, and redemption becomes the warm light that eliminates this sadness. Just like Lu Xun's life towards death and resistance to despair, only by swimming through the cruel and tragic life with Comeback der Liebe, can we transcend suffering and gain peace. At the end of the film, in the warm sunshine and fertile land, the scarecrow holding a branch slantingly was blown up by the wind, and at that moment, the god Comeback der Liebe has quietly descended
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Extended Reading
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Woman with Groceries: Hey, mister, were you really Mac Sledge?
Mac Sledge: Yes, ma'm, I guess I was.
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Mac Sledge: How was school?
Sonny: All right.
Mac Sledge: You learn anything?
Sonny: Not much. What are doin' down here?
Mac Sledge: Thinkin'.
Sonny: About what?
Mac Sledge: Things.
Sonny: Good things or bad things?
Mac Sledge: Some of both.