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Burning, looking forward, like a sacrifice, a suffering. [From Li Zongheng's film review]
Destin 2022-04-20 09:02:33
A friend once asked me why I couldn't understand some movies. I said, "understand" can be divided into many kinds. Many movies are not based on conventional narratives. This is like literature. A poem will be in the form of a narrative essay or manual to write? But you can still understand what the poem is about. I got this experience from Tarkovsky's film and book "Sculpting Time". Laota's last movie, the imagery and music are still wonderful, but it is indeed old and exhausted. The process of watching it is like watching a poorly translated DVD, and the words are always incomprehensible, exaggerated or excessive. The contribution of Bergman's team is really great, especially the performance and photography. Watching the documentary about "Sacrifice", you can see that Bergman's old actors and old photographers have always tried to understand the dying film master with sympathetic eyes. It takes a lot of courage and sacrifice to make a movie for this type of artist whose collaborators are the most lovable and respectable people. In the end, the old pagoda still did not put it down completely. Throughout his life, in Taoist terms, he was too promising. He always wanted to be the top of the mountain, but refused to be the valley. Burning, looking forward, like a sacrifice, a suffering. Sokolov and Bella Tarr are his wonderful legacy, where I saw a stream, a deep valley. 8.5 points/10
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Kellen 2022-03-25 09:01:21
Even though Laota did not die in his homeland, his posthumous works resonated deeply with the vast land. Its "apocalyptic consciousness" is extremely realistic.
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Kenton 2022-03-27 09:01:20
Even now, watching Tarkovsky's patience with me has been a major challenge. With a bunch of neurotic gossips in the occluded scene, Tarkovsky's ultimate theme is still preaching. Laota's last work, after thinking about it, I still can't guess the intention of the various settings and techniques used by a director who is terminally ill and knows that he will die soon.
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[first lines]
[sub-titled]
Alexander: Come here and give me a hand, my boy.
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[last lines]
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Gossen: In the beginning was the Word. Why is that, Papa?