In April, ACC and Wu Weicai experienced the shock of "Reincarnation of Yiye" together. This is a documentary with no dialogue, just images and music. Through the strong contrast, the interspersed nature and human society, the film opens a journey of contemplation of eternal reincarnation. Due to its depth, the film, which took five years to shoot and traveled to 25 countries on five continents, won the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival Film Critics' Best Documentary Award. Also because of its depth, Mr. Wu even said that this was the most tense film sharing session he hosted. Although he has seen it no less than five times, he wrote the movie notes overnight, discreetly sharing the journey with the audience.
The film begins by focusing on three Balinese Hindu teenage dancers. Smart notes and dance steps set off a pair of bright eyes. His huge eyes were embedded in the gorgeous makeup, as if to break free from all restraints, jump out, see everything in front of him clearly, and see the reincarnation of all things. Suddenly, the volcanic eruption in front of you, the turbulent volcanic rocks splashed freely, showing the irresistible power of nature. In front of nature, human beings are so young and insignificant. It was a contest between 4.6 billion years and 20 million years. If it were an individual, it would only be a drop in the ocean. So, the director takes the camera quietly into three kinds of death: the fetus, the old man and the pharaoh. One has never been born, one is weather-beaten, and the other enjoys the wealth and honor of the world and claims to be immortal three thousand years after his death. However, this is just a drop of water in the sea and a grain of sand in the desert in front of nature.
More shocks are presented one by one in the next two hours of film. The picture shuttles between nature and human society. In fast shots, nature remains unmoved, poised, slow and graceful. The human society is extremely busy and ridiculous, but it is just passing by. As long as there is water, sunlight and temperature, nature cycles in an orderly manner. Human beings, relying on desire, energy and thought, are busy in the division of various ideologies, the formulation of standards and the manufacture of materials. Because of desire, humans keep eating, eating, eating. And because of the definition of health and beauty, it keeps reducing, reducing, reducing; because of desire, human beings keep making, making, making. And because of the definition of innovation and breakthrough, it keeps abandoning, abandoning, abandoning. Of course, there are many more unfortunate people who can't play the game and are left in garbage dumps and slums. But no matter what kind of living method, they are blindly struggling in this whirling world.
As if to illustrate all this, the director filmed a small clip of a lama making a sand painting of a mandala in the opening. However, this sand painting that lasted for several months was not to show off the great world, but at the end of the film, it was swept away without hesitation and vanished in an instant... Fine sand was put into a bottle and it became A gust of wind in the great desert. The world is prosperous, but a handful of sand. Everything is impermanent, illusion, and non-attachment.
At the end of the movie, focus again on the eyes. That is the thousand eyes of the Thousand Hands Avalokitesvara. Perhaps, to stay away from all upside-down dreams, only Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, "seeing that the five aggregates are empty, saves all suffering".
View more about Samsara reviews
