mountain road movie lol

Hermina 2022-04-20 09:02:35

This is a very strange movie, the whole story is a non-stop conversation between several people sitting in the car. It's the same thing as a road movie on "On the Road." Abbas Kiarostami seems to be telling us a story on the road to death. The film inherited his usual style: flat, slow, improvised. It may feel a little boring at first, this "intellectual" who wants to commit suicide, in order to find someone to bury him, he is bored with kindness, Mu Na's performance is ambiguous between birth and death.
The discussion about life and death is becoming more and more intense and in-depth:
1. Facing a young soldier who commits suicide, he doesn't want to discuss the meaning of life and death at all, he just wants to tell the soldier: I give you money, you dig soil Bury me, 10,000 yuan per shovel.
2. Faced with the question from the Bachelor of Theology that suicide is a sin, he became firm and fierce: "If suicide is a sin, why is it not that I am unhappy? An unhappy person hurts others, isn't that a sin? You may understand and sympathize with my pain, but you cannot "empathize".
3. The presence of the teacher at the Natural History Museum brings the conversation to a climax, and his spy talk will give hope to anyone who is depressed about life/life. He Just to say: life is a choice, not a responsibility. We cannot choose birth, gender, nationality, time. The only choice we have is when and how to commit suicide.
It is said that a Frenchman said: how not to choose suicide Possibility, I have long since committed suicide.
Here we have to make an assumption: if life is a choice, then I hope you survive
, but also the experience of Abbas is highly abstract: the gospel of religion must be tested.
PS : The whole movie basically doesn't have any soundtrack, but the Jazz in the final credits is very, very good.
Also, who knows what cherry means for Iran or Islam?

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  • Ashley 2022-03-14 14:12:30

    When the movie is only used as a tool to tell the truth, it loses its taste~~

  • Coralie 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    Three brushes and five stars. Open valve mark, four stars for the second time in 191019, ten years. Abbas-style gripping, I have watched two films in which the protagonist wants to commit suicide in a short period of time, hahaha. The film designed winding mountain roads related to life and death, passers-by of all ages, dirt dumped by trucks, rain at the end, trees by the suicide hole and lonely trees in the mountains, airplanes, birds, taxidermy, and soldiers. A young child and a stable old man, the whole piece looks natural and smooth, but in fact it often "interrupts advertisements", quite experimental and alternative films, undercurrents are surging, but also make people miss and think. In the short comment, some people said that the dialogue is very preaching, so the movie has to say "Have you eaten" and "I love you" to not preach, hehe.

Taste of Cherry quotes

  • Mr. Bagheri: Some things are easier to do than to say.

  • Mr. Badii: I've decided to free myself from this life.

    The seminarian: What for?

    Mr. Badii: It wouldn't help you to know and I can't talk about it and you wouldn't understand. It's not because you don't understand but you can't feel what I feel. You can sympathize, understand, show compassion. But feel my pain? No. You suffer and so do I. I understand you. You comprehend my pain, but you can't feel it