like a strict forest

Jeffry 2022-04-21 09:03:51

The amazing thing about Abbas is that he has let go of the narrative and the constraints of the possible drama stereotypes. He tells the audience that everything is as it is in the film. He wrote them as husband and wife and made them act as husband and wife. It was fake at first, then real. The audience gets confused in the seamless transition of relationships, and it’s audacious to create that confusion, this interval, and it’s amazing to savor the confusion and come to terms with it.

The audience's feelings are synchronized with the changes in the characters' situations in the film. The process of women unconsciously committing obsessions and being trapped in a relationship is a process in which the audience is also confused. Men repeatedly quarrel and resist due to being dragged into a virtual relationship. It's the audience's skepticism and attempts to rationalize.

As such, the film's on-screen and off-screen spaces surround a solid symbolic issue (a fake is as valuable as the real thing), surprisingly unified, very natural, and very precise. like a wonderful forest. This is the charm of old Abbas, from a rustic wheat field to a strict forest.

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  • Brady 2022-03-28 09:01:14

    The distinction between true and false is worth pondering, and the difference between false and true is admirable.

  • Jerod 2022-04-02 09:01:14

    Very interesting formal experiment, Binoche's divine acting skills, the three languages ​​are interchangeable. Abbas cosplayed a piece of Hou Hsiao-hsien's [Red Balloon] (long talk in the car, reflection on the glass), the role in the story is similar to [In the Mood for Love], and it is also a French talk movie. The problem is that the original Abbas is really gone (it turned back), and this time it was a "dungeon"? The characteristics of Abbas are preserved in the sound-picture relationship.

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