"Los Amantes del Círculo Polar" (Los Amantes del Círculo Polar 1998) is a film about love, fate and reincarnation by Spanish director Julio Mittan. The structure of the film is quite complex, using a lot of brush and ink to describe the fantasy, and the details are full of various hints. The presentation of these characteristics is the result of multiple reasons.
one. At first glance, the intertwined structure of triple perspectives and dual time and space , the
protagonists Otto and Ana seem to be wandering between personal imagination and reality at will, and the story also presents a temporal disorder - childhood, adolescence, and adulthood appear randomly . So the subjective feeling that this creates for the audience is that the structure of the story is quite complicated. In fact, this complexity stems from the interweaving of triple perspectives and dual time and space in the narrative of "Arctic Circle Lovers".
The so-called triple perspective means that, according to the subtitles, the whole story can be divided into eleven major paragraphs, four of which belong to Otto's perspective, and four belong to Ana's perspective. There are three more paragraphs that tell the story of Otto and Ana from an objective point of view. List to watch:
Chapter Subtitles Perspective
1 (opening flashback implies Ana was hit by a car) Objective
2 Otto Otto
3 Ana Yana
4 Otto Otto
5 Ana Yana6
Otto Otto7
Ana Yana8
Otto/ Ana Objective9
El Círulo Polar Arctic Circle Objective10
Los ojos de Ana Yana's eyes Yana11
Otto en los ojos de Ana Yana 's eyes Otto The so-called double space-time in the picture
refers to the space-time in reality, and the fantasy scene of Otto/Ana, we will call it fantasy for the time being. Throughout the film, Otto/Ana's visions appear as many as eleven times.
There are two situations in which these illusions appear. The first, usually accompanied by the protagonist's narration. That is, when the protagonist speaks, the picture shows the content of the story. For example, shortly after the opening of the film, little Otto was playing football in the school. After the ball was kicked out, little Otto ran into the woods to pick up the ball and met little Yana. At this time, the voice-over of the adult Otto said, "If she hadn't been staring at me, I would have run away and picked up the ball." pick up. Then the voice-over continues, "Or a little earlier, the kid in the boots kicked that ball so well that it wouldn't go out. I might have pounced on that ball, and maybe everyone would have come to congratulate me, but that's not the case. It happened." The picture is that one foot kicks the ball, little Otto pounces on the ball, and the children around come to touch Otto's head. It's like something that didn't actually happen, but it was told through the protagonist's mouth, and the picture played out the imagination.
The second is a fantasy inserted according to the emotions of the protagonist, or something that happened in the past relative to the time and space that is happening now. For example, Otto's father came to pick up Otto, and the father and son chatted in the car. The father said "...life is like that, it's not peaceful. Happiness and sadness, everything happens on time, even love." Otto shook his head. . Dad went on to say, "It's like gas, if you forget that you're running low on gas, you'll break down later." In the previous chat, there are some differences between father and Otto, such as father likes cold weather, Otto does not like. My father felt that everything was a cycle of life and death, but Otto felt that love would never change. Little Otto had a hunch in his heart, and it seemed that something was going to happen. In this passage, his father mentioned "gasoline" and "break down", and the film immediately inserted a fantasy. Under the blue sky and white clouds, the Otto family parked their car on the side of the road. The car broke down and they were waiting for someone to help. At this time, a big red (the big red is the same color as the car that nearly hit Otto and Dad, and the car that killed Ana later) came a single-row car, and Mom and Dad were very happy. Dad got into the car and turned around to tell Mom and Otto that he would be back soon. A cloud suddenly appeared on Mom's happy face, and the camera cut to the red car seen from Mom's point of view, a young woman smiling affectionately at Dad. As the car drove away, Dad stuck his hand out the window and waved to Mom without looking back. Immediately after cutting back to reality, a red bus pulled up, and Dad slammed on the brakes. Otto and Dad survived. Otto was terrified and slapped his father, who put Otto in his arms, "Forgive me, it's not my fault" and paused, "I and your mother are going to separate." (After listening to the latter sentence, the audience knew, "Forgive me." I'm a pun intended, forgive Dad for driving carelessly, forgive Dad for leaving Mom.)
This fantasy passage may be a scene imagined by little Otto following his father's words, or it may have actually happened in the past, because the father's words mentioned "break down" and Otto suddenly remembered. But none of that matters, what matters is that this passage is inserted according to Otto's mental activity. At that time, Little Otto may have had a hunch, "Will Dad leave us?" That's why in the fantasy, after Dad got into the red car, the back of the little Otto and his mother waved without looking back. Clear and impressive. That is to say, although the film is in the present tense, and the tense is in the past tense or subjunctive, it is not inserted randomly, but is inserted based on the psychological activities of the protagonist. This was better reflected later in the film. When the adult Otto saw that his dead mother was lined with flies, he took advantage of the action of the adult Otto raising the camera to pick up a little Otto by the lake that looked like a painting. The scene of taking a picture of my mother. By the lake, little Otto told his mother that he thought it was his father's fault that he left his mother. Then jumping to the crematorium, the adult Otto tells Dad that he wants Dad to die.
In short, the structure between the fantasy and the real situation in "Arctic Circle Lovers" is characteristic, either inserted according to the narration, or settled according to the psychological activities and emotions of the protagonist.
Going back to the whole big structure, the following are the plot points arranged in the existing order of the film:
Flashback at the beginning (Illusion 1 Adult Yana ran into the small building with a newspaper to meet Otto.)
Otto
1 Otto because of picking the ball Meet Xiao Yana.
(Insert fantasy 2 Little Otto did not meet Yana.)
2 Dad came to school to pick up Otto and told Otto that he was going to separate from his mother.
(Insert Otto's mother washing lettuce. Later, when her mother died, she was also washing lettuce)
(Insert Fantasy 3 Little Otto's family's car broke down, and his father walked away with the woman driving the red car.)
3 At night, the mother cried and ran Coming in to hold his son, Little Otto said he wanted to live with his mother.
4 Adult Otto's Air Courier plane flies over.
5 The teacher in the classroom asked Little Otto to ask questions, and Little Otto went to the toilet. He wrote the questions about love on paper, folded them into paper airplanes, and threw them in the school yard.
6 The adult Otto drove the plane and wrote ANA on the map
7 On a rainy day, the little Otto stood at the gate of the boys' school and looked at the gate of the girls' school and waited to see Yana come out (for boys and girls) But when he opened the car door, Yana Sitting with her mother in Otto's father's car.
8 Otto's father and Yana's mother are married. Otto and Yana enter their teenage years.
9 The boy Otto went to his father's house.
10 Adult Otto drives a plane.
11 Young Yana tells Otto about the Arctic Circle.
(Insert a bear and deer in Mirage 6.)
12 Teenager Otto and Yana begin to kiss.
13 Teenage Otto moves to his father's house to live with Yana.
14 When taking pictures, Yana handed the Otto paper slip and asked Otto to come to her room at night.
15 Teenager Otto came to Yana's room, saw Yana naked, and the two had sex.
16 Adult Otto returns to her mother's house and finds that her mother has been dead for a long time.
(Insert fantasy 7 Otto took a picture of his mother, and decided that it was his father's fault that his father left his mother.)
17 Otto, an adult in the crematorium, was extremely sad and said things that hurt his father.
18 Adult Otto skied down a cliff, trying to fall to his death.
(Insert fantasy 8 adult Otto was rescued and skied upwards.)
19 Adult Otto came to town to find Yana, and saw Yana was killed by a big red bus.
Ana
⑴ Little Yana ran desperately after learning that her father died. When she met Little Otto who was picking the ball, Yana took Little Otto as a gift from her dead father, and believed that her father was in Otto's body.
(Insert Fantasy 4 Dad's car collided head-on with the big red truck coming from the opposite side.)
⑵ Xiao Yana picked up Xiao Otto's plane on the school ground. Yana's mom greets Otto's dad.
(3) On a rainy day, Otto's father picked up Xiao Yana and her mother by the way. Little Yana tells Little Otto that their name is a palindrome.
⑷ One day, the boy Otto told Yana that his name came from the German paratrooper rescued by his grandfather.
(Insert fantasy 5 Grandpa Otto rescued German pilot Otto.)
⑸ Teenager Yana and Teenager Otto kiss.
Teenage Otto moves in with Yana.
⑺ Two teenagers peeked at their parents having sex at night. In the morning, Yana's mother found out that the teenager Otto was not in her bed. The adult Yana hid it from her mother, and the adult Otto sneaked back to her room.
⑻ Adult Yana, Otto and Yana's mother go shopping together. A TV station made Yana's mother a news anchor.
⑼ One day when Yana and Otto were shopping as adults, they met Yana's mother who was very close with the people from that TV station.
⑽ Adult Otto cried to death in the crematorium.
⑾ In the snow, the adult Yana wanted to die with Otto, but was pulled down by Otto's father. Yana finds Otto who fell under a cliff, but Yana is almost killed by a sleigh car hanging from a tree.
⑿ When I woke up in the morning, I found that the adult Otto had run away from home.
⒀ The adult Yana came to town thinking that the adult Otto had died in an air crash, and was overly sad and was hit by a red bus.
(Insert fantasy 11 Adult Yana ran into the small building and met adult Otto.)
Objective perspective (narrated in sequence)
● Adult Otto missed the square with Yana after running away from home
● Adult Otto flew a plane at night.
Adult Otto comes home to see Dad for the first time.
● Adult Yana teaches at school.
● Adult Otto sleeps with different women.
● Yana goes home to see her father and learns that Otto has become a pilot.
● Yana goes to her mother's and her mother's boyfriend's house and offers to go to the Arctic Circle.
● Yana's passenger plane and the adult Otto's air messenger plane missed in the air.
● Adult Otto goes home to see Dad's letter from Yana.
(Insert the story of Old German Otto and Kristina in Fantasyland 9. Old German Otto was rescued by Otto's grandfather during World War II. Old German Otto's son was Yana's mother's boyfriend.)
● Yana found Germany Old Otto.
● Yana came to Germany's old Otto's small house in the Arctic Circle. The postman brings what Yana's mother sent to Yana. Yana learns from it that the adult Otto has become a pilot.
● Adult Otto flies to where Yana lives.
● Yana is swimming, and the shadow of the plane is reflected in the water.
● An adult Otto hangs on a tree after skydiving.
● Yana's makeup.
● Adult Otto can't come down.
● Yana moved a chair and sat outside waiting for Otto.
(Insert Phantasm 10 Bucks struggling.)
● The adult Otto hangs on a tree and misses the mail train that Yana is sitting on.
● The man who gave Yana something saved the adult Otto.
According to the current sequence of the films: 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 ⑴ ⑵ ⑶ 8 9 ⑷ 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ⑸ ⑺ ⑻ ⑼ ⑽ ⑾ ⑿ Objective perspective⒀
Then you can get the following set of data:
1 ⑴ 2 3 5 ⑵ 7 ⑶ 8 9 ⑷ 9 11 12 13 ⑸ 14 15 16 ⑺ ⑻ ⑼ 17 18 ⑽ ⑾ ⑿ Objective perspective (insert 4 6 10 in the middle) ⒀ 19
Comparing the above two sets of sequences, it can be seen that the sequence numbers are not reversed and disordered in the paragraphs of the film. That is, when looking at the second set of data alone, the serial numbers of Otto's line (1 2 3...) are arranged from small to large, and the serial numbers of Yana's line (1 2 3...) are also arranged from small to large. That said, the film is basically told sequentially. However, since the film has two perspectives of Otto and Ana, when a story is told from Otto's perspective, it will go back and re-tell it from Yana's perspective. And speaking again from Yana's perspective, it is not a repetition of Otto's narration, but a supplement and emphasis on Otto's perspective. Some details are not mentioned in Otto's perspective, but when it comes to Yana's perspective, it will be fully presented to the audience. This is the first reason for the complex structure of the film.
The second point is to compare the positions of "4 6 10" (the segment where the adult Otto flew to the Arctic Circle) in the two sequences, and found that the director actually moved the segment where the adult Otto flew the airplane ahead of time and distributed it to childhood. , told in childhood.
Third, as mentioned earlier, the film will insert fantasy paragraphs with the protagonist's emotions or descriptive words.
From these three points, the structure of "Arctic Circle Lovers" can be clearly identified.
Incidentally, this structural complexity, and the use of fantasy, are in fact common features of modern European cinema. Influenced by the irrationalism in the epistemology of modern western philosophy, the general films of European modern films show emphasis on expressing the inner characteristics of characters, expressing strange associations, absurd ideas, inexplicable emotions, and nightmarish hallucinations. In the way of narration, it breaks the boundaries of time and space, and cross-connects reality, imagination, memory, dreams, and subconscious activities. Filmed in 1998, "Arctic Circle Lovers" was also more or less influenced by this trend of thought.
two. About the fantasy in the film
This practice of inserting fantasy in the film seems to be traced back to the surrealist literary and artistic thought in the early twentieth century. Surrealists emphasized the authenticity and importance of physical sexuality, and they were keen to represent dreams. Because they believe that "people's instinct, dream, and subconsciousness are the source of literary and artistic creation". For example, in the film's Mirage, Mirage 6 and Mirage 10 (see note above) are both shot of a stag barking in the jungle. In fact, the bucks may not represent a very deep meaning in the film. It is a display of the director's fantasy, an emotional expression. At the same time, its appearance is like a sign, strengthening and creating a sense of the film's reincarnation of destiny. (It may be related to the director's early years of studying medicine and biology. Several Julio Mittan films have an animal as a visual element that appears many times. The cow in "Cow", the "Red Squirrel Murder" in The squirrel, the stag in "Arctic Circle Lovers".)
There are as many as eleven times in this film, and the number of times can still show that there is a shadow of surrealism in "Arctic Circle Lovers". Although these fantasy worlds are not deliberately separated from the real environment with obvious skills in editing, they tend to organically combine these fantasy worlds with real scenes, which are common in modern European movies, but these fantasy worlds are in shooting techniques. There are still some differences in paragraphs. We will analyze them one by one.
The first appearance of the illusion is in the flashback of the title, which is roughly the same as the content of the eleventh illusion. Yana had been knocked to the ground by the red bus, but Yana's heart flew to the small building, and she saw Otto, who was haunting her. When Otto came over to hug Yana, the close-up made it clear to the audience that Yana's face wasn't showing much expression. She didn't cry, just stared blankly ahead. This way of acting here is actually giving the audience a small hint that Yana is dead at the moment. Yana, who was held by Otto, stared blankly at the camera ahead, very similar to the close-up shot of Yana's face sliding more than ten meters on the ground after being hit by a car. This paragraph is to use the similarity in the scene and the performance to inform the audience that this is Yana's beautiful wish and an illusion.
Mirage 2 3 7 8 is shot in a very similar way and belongs to the same genre. In Illusion 2, little Otto was running to chase after little Yana. Otto saw that Yana's subjective shot was hand-held, which was very shaky, and the ground was slightly overexposed. The scenes in Illusion 3 are high and cloudless, and Illusion 7 is even more obvious, just like a peaceful paradise, isolated from the world, and in sharp contrast to the hustle and bustle of the world. The director uses this unusual scene to distinguish fantasy from reality, and at the same time reflects the beautiful heart of Little Otto.
Mirage 8 is the most interesting of all Mirages. After falling off the cliff, the adult Otto fantasized about being rescued. The man slid up the hill with Otto on his back, all the way to Otto's mother. In the fantasy, the adult Otto suddenly turned into a little Otto, and what the little Otto saw was not his mother, but the adult Yana. Little Otto wants Yana to be his mother, but Yana tells him it's impossible. In this fantasy, at least two hints were given to the audience. One is that Otto has always had a little Oedipus complex for his mother (Otto hated his father since he was a child, and it can be confirmed that Otto ran away from home because he could not accept the death of his mother. ), one is to imply the death of Yana in the future (Otto sees Yana after swiping up, that is, Yana and her mother are in the same place).
Mirage 5 and Mirage 9 both tell the story of the old German Otto. Mirage 9, in particular, has some expressionist-influenced features in its shooting. In this section, because it is the imagination of the adult Otto after reading Jana's heart, the German paratrooper Otto is played by the actor who plays the adult Otto, and the Spanish woman Cristina he meets is played by the actor. Adult Yana actress. The entire Illusion 9 has a bluish hue. The light and dark contrast in the cabin is very strong. Through the dilapidated roof, wisps of light stream in. Christina was running in the woods, Otto chasing after. The forest is filled with thick smoke, the shaking lens, and the dizzying light all together create a mysterious atmosphere. From the way Christina runs and the way she falls, this scene is naturally reminiscent of Otto chasing Yana as a child. It also naturally arouses the audience's sigh of reincarnation about the reincarnation of the film.
The fantasy of the film is full of strong surrealism and expressionism.
three. Some small details about the film
1 Arctic Circle Palindrome and Reincarnation
The film "Arctic Circle Lovers" is a romantic and unfortunate love story to illustrate the director's view of life and reincarnation.
A circle is a closed circle. The beginning is the end, and the cycle starts over and over again.
The Arctic Circle is given a double meaning in the film. First, it refers to the geographic Arctic Circle. In the Arctic Circle, the summer sun does not set, only during the day, only the midnight sun. The sun only moves sideways in the Arctic Circle, unlike ordinary geographical locations where day and night alternate, and the cycle begins again and again. The Arctic Circle is an end point. Yana finally reached the hut in the Arctic Circle, and then died in a small town not far from the North Pole, where Yana's life ended. For Yana, the North Pole is also a spiritual end. Yana came to the Arctic Circle because she wanted to escape her current boyfriend and wait for Otto. The Arctic Circle is her spiritual sanctuary. So Yana said, "(There is a knock on the door outside the picture) I have an omen, one of many omen, I once again feel that a coincidence will appear..." Yana originally expected, originally thought that the omen was Otto will appear, but The omen was her own death. I thought that like the old German Otto and the Spanish woman Christina, Otto and Jana would live happily together. However, a painting of a weeping stag on the wall seems to herald Yana's death, just as Otto sees Yana in a fantasy after falling off a cliff. Seeing the painting, Yana's joyful mood was quietly wiped away, and she couldn't help but say: "I feel that some known things have become unknown things, and I have reached the end of somewhere."
"Otto" & The "Ana"
palindrome is actually a circle in disguise. Upside down and downside down are the same. Xiao Yana felt that the palindrome name would bring them luck, but it backfired, Yana could only see her lover in her fantasy before her death.
Despite what the film suggests to us from beginning to end, this is a story about reincarnation. For example, Otto even chose the same way as the old German Otto - skydiving, to the Arctic Circle, to find a lover. For example, the little Otto is named after the old German Otto. Another example is when my father drove to pick up Little Otto when I was a child, and my father said, "Life is a cycle." However, reincarnation is broken at the Arctic Circle, where it stops. The circle will not be round, only the mutilated arc will remain. Just like Dad said later, "Life is a cycle, but everything has life and death."
Details 2 paper airplanes
The film is very delicate in the design of some small details. The story that takes place in the second half of the film can be found in the first half of the story.
When little Otto asked about love, he didn't throw the notebook paper in question directly on the school playground, but folded them into paper airplanes. Because the pilot was the occupation of the old German Otto, and later became the occupation of the little Otto. The scene where Little Otto threw paper from the toilet and flew from the toilet only took up a minute in the whole film, but it took 21 shots and 10 cameras to shoot the paper plane flying from different angles to the ground. . Some paper planes landed, while others hit the iron gate of the school and fell directly. It seems that at that time, two planes crashed (one was the German old Otto's plane was shot down, and the other was Otto's own parachuting). The most amazing thing is that the director shot a paper airplane that fell to the ground through a circular hoop on the iron gate. The circle is the shape of the Arctic Circle, as if it is also intentionally telling the audience that Little Otto will eventually fly to the end of the cycle - the Arctic Circle.
Detail 3 The content of watching TV
In the whole film, the scene of the family watching TV together appears four times. The content of the TV I watched four times was carefully arranged by the director. The first time was when the boy Otto came to his father's house, everyone was watching TV, and the scene of paratroopers skydiving was being played on the TV. Seeing the TV, the teenager Otto told everyone that his name was based on the name of an old German paratrooper Otto. The content of the first TV is the trigger point of a topic. Because watching TV is a natural, normal thing in family life. The origin of Otto's name is derived from watching TV, which is very clever.
The second time they watched TV was when Yana and Otto saw Yana's mother broadcast news on TV, mainly for the narrative role. The third time was also Yana's mother broadcasting the news, but this time it was after Otto left home for a long time. Yana's mother took Yana away from Otto's father, leaving only her father sitting alone. In front of the TV, looking at Yana's mother on the screen. When Otto returned home to visit his father, he was still outside the window, and at first glance he saw that his father was watching the news broadcast by Yana's mother. Through this detail, he confessed that his father was still in love with his old man. So later Otto would ask, "You still love Ona (Yana's mother), right?" Dad wanted to cry without tears, but the audience didn't feel it suddenly, but felt that Otto asked the audience's heart. At this time, the father saw his son and gave him a slap in the face (Otto gave his father a slap in the face when he was a child because his father was driving carelessly). But the little Otto slapped his father with hatred, and the old father slapped Otto with love. After Otto's slap, his father's resentment (Otto's departure ruined his father's life) It was relieved, only the love for his son remained.
The fourth time I watched TV was when Otto came home to see his father again, and watched the plane crash film with his father. Otto saw the plane crash and said, "I hate these plane crash movies." Dad said, "But you loved aerial combat movies when you were a kid. Fighters, bombers, remember?" Otto said, "I've changed a lot." Watching TV this time The content is an allusion to the later Otto skydive. After he parachuted, Yana thought he was in a plane crash, she was in grief and panic and was killed by a car. At the same time, through the dialogue with his father, he also explained why Otto chose the profession of pilot alone - because he liked airplanes since he was a child.
Details 4 Death
Throughout the film, a total of three people died. Otto's mother, Jana's father, and Jana.
Otto's mother died while washing lettuce. This actually explains why when Dad was driving to pick up Little Otto, there was a sudden shot of Mom washing lettuce.
The death book of Yana's father can be explained completely through words, and it does not have to be photographed. Because the image of Yana's father did not appear in the film at all. Even filming him to death was accomplished by filming his car's brake failure, the oncoming red car, and the audio styling. That is to say, the image of Yana's father was deliberately avoided by the director, and what the director wanted to emphasize was only the way Yana's father died - the same as Yana's death - in a car accident. And both were killed by a red vehicle. Therefore, the director took great pains to film the death method of Yana's father, just to create a sense of reincarnation in the film through the same death method of father and daughter.
On the verge of death, Otto's shadow finally reflected in Yana's eyes. Yana's eyes dipped a little bit of tears, as if letting people see why the deer was crying in the painting on the wall of the hut in the Arctic Circle. The camera moved closer, and Otto in Yana's eyes finally surpassed reality and became the appearance of a pilot during World War II. The mysterious music sounded, the wind, faint clouds and smoke drifted by, and the wreckage of the plane appeared. The film returns to the opening scene (the opening scene is the wreckage of the plane) and returns to its original starting point.
Detail 5: Blinking black field
A very unique and interesting little detail in "Arctic Circle Lovers" is that when Otto blinks, the film black field. Once, Little Otto stood at the school gate in the heavy rain after school. He looked at the gate of the girls' school, hoping to see Xiao Yana's figure. A few girls came out of the girls' school gate, but no Yana. Little Otto closed his eyes when he was praying, and the screen went dark again. There was still no sign of Little Yana at the gate of the girls' school, and there was no one there. Little Otto's prayer failed. And when the adult Otto saw that Yana Beida was hit by a red car, he ran over and stared at Yana, and suddenly closed his eyes hard, praying that it was all fake and that Yana was fine. The screen went dark again and again, Yana was still lying on the ground, but Otto's shadow was reflected in her eyes. Two blinks, two prayers, but both failed wishes, reality is cruel. Therefore, although there is a line of expressionism and surrealism in this film, in the final analysis, the story of the director award is still realistic, not an imaginary story.
Four. The director's realistic view of love and life
Julio Mitan used so many techniques to express illusions and create reincarnation, but in the final analysis, this is a fairly realistic story. The director first pushed the sense of reincarnation to the extreme, making the audience mistakenly think that Otto and Yana would repeat the trajectory of the old German Otto and Christina and live happily, and then suddenly break the reincarnation, let Yana die and enter another. Kind of reincarnation - dying like Yana's father.
Dad had told little Otto that things would change. Little Otto, on the other hand, believes that love can change. But little Otto didn't know that life is full of coincidences, and many uncertain factors control our lives. Love can stay the same, but love can be disrupted and forced to end. This may be related to the director's own outlook on life. Since adding such a romantic love story with a flawed but not too tragic ending must be the director's intention. So basically it can be said that Mi Tan's view of love is realistic, and Mi Tan's attitude towards life is realistic. The performance in the film is a kind of realism style on the whole. And the whole film is full of bizarre fantasy, full of surrealism, so this film is a mixture of various styles.
There is a faint and indelible feeling of despair in the whole film, I don't know if it has something to do with the character of the Spanish nation. By the time Jana is hit by a car, the background music is a cheerful Spanish song. Although I can't understand the lyrics, I can feel something from the melody. A mockery of the cycle of life? We don't know. Perhaps as Yana said, "We run out of coincidences in our lives prematurely." Perhaps passing by Otto is a coincidence in Yana's life.
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