between us and hell or heaven

Kamron 2022-04-21 09:03:02

There is a boy in Yang Dechang's "One One" who said that movies can triple people's lives, because in movies we can experience all kinds of lives that are impossible in reality. I used to experience life in books, but now I read less books and rely mainly on movies to stimulate the increasingly dull feeling.
"Yi Yi" is a great movie. Some people say Yang Dechang's style is grim, but I don't agree. Hu Wenying of the Qing Dynasty said in "Zhuangzi's Unique View": "Zhuangzi's eyes are extremely cold, and his heart is extremely hot. His eyes are cold, so he doesn't care about right and wrong; his heart is hot, so he is full of sadness. It’s the warm-hearted hang on; although you can’t forget your feelings, you can’t do it in the end, you can see through it with a cold eye.” I think this sentence is also the most suitable for evaluating Yang Dechang, the enthusiasm in the cold eyes makes him never forget the world and life. . In "One One", whether husband Jian Nanjun, wife Minmin, eldest daughter Tingting and 10-year-old son Yang Yang, or her mother-in-law who is facing death, all face and walk through life in their own way. The helplessness and loneliness of a person facing the world is vividly interpreted in the film. As Yang Yang said, you can't see what I see, and I can't see what you see. Each person represents a different stage of life and encounters different problems at different stages. In "Yi Yi", Yang Dechang reflects a person's process from innocence to doubt to wisdom with a kind of speculative power, as he said: "This film is about life, describing the various stages that life spans. , as the author, I think that all complex plots are, in the end, simple."
Pascal said: "Between us and hell or heaven, only life is between these two, it is the whole world. The most fragile thing in the world." With such a fragile life, why should we live anywhere else all day? When I write this, my heart is suddenly enlightened. From now on, I will no longer complain about the unsatisfactory winter in the south. Instead, I will open my mind and enjoy what I have not experienced in my previous life, and I will not care about those things that have not been experienced in my previous life. Known experience to deny those unknown life course.

View more about Yi Yi: A One and a Two... reviews

Extended Reading
  • Ryley 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    "Since the invention of the movie, human life has been prolonged at least three times." "I thought that if I live again, there might be something different. The result is still the same, no different. I just suddenly felt that if I live again, it seems like , It’s really unnecessary." "You can’t see it yourself, so I’ll show it to you." "Without a cloud, without a tree, it’s not beautiful." "I think I'm old too..."

  • Dominique 2022-03-20 09:02:27

    From the beginning of a wedding to the end of a funeral.

Yi Yi: A One and a Two... quotes

  • Yang-Yang: I'm sorry, Grandma. It wasn't that I didn't want to talk to you. I think all the stuff I could tell you... You must already know. Otherwise, you wouldn't always tell me to 'Listen!' They all say you've gone away. But you didn't tell me where you went. I guess it's someplace you think I should know. But, Grandma, I know so little. Do you know what I want to do when I grow up? I want to tell people things they don't know. Show them stuff they haven't seen. It'll be so much fun. Perhaps one day... I'll find out where you've gone. If I do, can I tell everyone, and bring them to visit you? Grandma, I miss you. Especially when I see my newborn cousin who still doesn't have a name. He reminds me that you always said you felt old. I want to tell him that I feel I am old, too.

  • Yang-Yang: Daddy, you can't see what I see and I can't see what you see. So how can I know what you see?

    N.J.: Good question. I never thought of that. That's why we need a camera. Do you want one to play with?

    Yang-Yang: Daddy, can we only know half of the truth?

    N.J.: What? I don't get it

    Yang-Yang: I can only see what's in front, not what's behind. So I can only know half of the truth, right?