The whole film of "Cold Mountain" is filled with the heavy atmosphere of history. It is white and cold, but it is gorgeous and hot. Director Anthony Minghella uses his unique epic romantic shooting technique to describe the North and South America. The works of war are poignant, delicate and soul-stirring. The entire tone of the film is gray, but the beginning and the end are full of green eyes and full of vitality, which seems to indicate that life is originally beautiful, and the wounds of war will eventually be replaced by the continuation of life. Everything happens in the land around Lengshan. , Lengshan is ruthless, witness everything that happens here, and the people in this land are strong, green is a symbol of life, and two new lives sitting under the green tree are an inspiration for the future.
Black crows flew out in groups from the snow-covered canyon, and in the illusion of flapping wings, a man in a black coat slowly got closer and closer... Ada saw Yingmeng approaching him in the well , The illusion of the real world is firmly adsorbed by the vines of belief and the vines of the reality to the high wall of reality. From this moment on, the truth is irrelevant to belief, and in Ada's romantic personality, hallucinations can still be real. And when Ada really stood on the snow in the canyon and really saw Yingmeng walking towards her, this long transition to reality had an illusion of misalignment at the zero boundary point, it seems that all this happened a long time ago. existed. When Ada, who was facing the gun, recognized Ying Meng, everything that was real or unreal was like being sucked into a black hole and then vanishing into a single point. Whether it is the beginning or the end, I think it should be understood in this way. If life has a beginning and reincarnation, then we do not need to consider whether it starts from the real or the illusion, and whether it ends with the illusion or the real. But life only has a beginning and no reincarnation. Yingmeng's return to the Cold Mountain after untold hardships is an illusory beginning or a real beginning for Ada. We have no way to tell. When the black crow reappeared, it flew over the icy as always. In the valley, Yingmeng fell in that familiar scene, this is the final result, Ada will end the illusion in reality after all. Sometimes, we can't control the rhythm of the beginning and everything has already started. Ada can't help but fall into an illusory wait with her thoughts of Yingmeng, but she supports the weight of reality with her real emotions. Under the pressure of the real environment, Ada It is to support a difficult life with thoughts that others see as nothingness. Sometimes, we can try to choose to end in one way and start another life. The film shows Ada's calmness at the end. After fantasizing again and again, she finally buried her lover in her imagination, and the new life also That's it. Just as what she saw in the well was no longer her lover, but the blue sky, white clouds and sunshine. "There are only clouds, clouds..." The film expresses the price that must be paid for human growth in soothing and graceful ways.
It was only at this time that we discovered that this pampered aristocratic lady has gradually become a mature woman who dares to fight against life, and can't help but sigh at the annihilation and remodeling brought about by the war. The good and evil of human beings can become nothing at the moment of death. If you want to talk about the purity that remains after the beginning and the end, it is like the torment of conscience that Ying Meng suffered when he doubted the necessity of his existence. , we cannot understand the accidental fit and accidental conflict between this spiritual thinking and the actual war environment. Once the war is gone, it becomes a tragedy, and we stop trying to figure out why human beings are so tyrannical. Life returns to peace. In every beginning and end, even in wars, the kindness of human beings has not disappeared, but has been submerged in the ever-increasing hatred. In the film, we have seen the brutality of murder and the hero and heroine. Beautiful touching love. Only in extreme circumstances will the most tested feelings arise. The folded sky is smoothed out, and the white patch covers the blood red of the slaughter all the way from the depths of the distant soul, just like the love between Yingmeng and Ada to cool down the irritability brought about by the war, the contrast between hot and cold has always been in the film to balance extremes. .
What touched me most about the film "Cold Mountain" was not the persistence of love, but the undeniable kindness of human nature in the context of war. This is the only sustenance left to the spiritual realm after the brutal destruction of the material world. When Ying Meng doubted and could not stand his existence, the blood and rain on the battlefield squeezed the living space of his soul. Seeing Lengshan, the hot soil covered by ice and snow, hides Ada's love. This is the only motivation for him to return to Lengshan alive, and this motivation is an irreplaceable source of spirituality.
The mental destruction caused the need to fill in some details. The film also handles this aspect very delicately. What impressed me deeply was the young woman who lost her husband. Her loneliness, fear, and helplessness When Ying Meng was released, she was not so much seeking spiritual comfort, but rather a sense of security suppressed by the war. She was strong and vulnerable at the same time. From this point, you can also interpret this film, from the whole film The film seems to have been showing the strong side and the vulnerable side of people all the time. In the special period of the war, it is even more special and more prominent.
As a result, Anthony Minghella completed his allegory of human nature exploration. Apparently, this elitist revelation is cleverly hidden beneath a popular story. This structure can not only cater to the general consumption of images by the public in the era of mass culture, but also does not exclude authors and readers from unique thinking on essential issues.
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