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Coppola-like thinking and struggle
Presley 2022-04-19 09:03:13
Each master chooses one of the most characteristic films as a summary of his filmmaking career, such as Bunuel's The Obscure Purpose of Desire; Kublik's Eyes Wide Shut; Tarkovsky's "Sacrifice" etc. When I was watching this film, I thought more about Kieslowski's work "Two Lives of Flowers" completed in 1991. Ma Tai's dual personality represents the conscious and the subconscious. He wanted to use his excess youth to fulfill his dream of life and explore the origin of language, but he gave up at the last moment, because he didn't want to see that woman grow old because of him. In this case, then the excess youth no longer has any meaning. Maybe the director wants to tell us that if you give you another youth, will you live a more meaningful life? Can you grasp the essence of the soul? The director may be thinking about the relationship between existence and nothingness at the same time. Youth once existed, and once it fades away, it becomes nothingness; youth without youth is an existence full of nothingness. Sartre said that existence precedes essence. Existence is the greatest nothingness. In perhaps the last film of his life, Coppola wanted not to summarize, but to examine and deny. Youth is gone, roses remain. Let's think more about it after the video is over!
Extended Reading
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Bobbie 2022-03-22 09:03:04
Awaken from a dream, Zhuang Sheng dreams of a butterfly
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Anderson 2022-03-22 09:03:04
The middle section was full of tears - yawning. But when I think about it at the end of the final scene, I still really like it. Coppola's comeback in his twilight years as a sole proprietorship, without the pressure of investors and producers, was almost as much stuffed as possible by him, including the completely misunderstood oriental culture and the linguistics that completely served his personal intentions. All kinds of elements inside, all rubbed and scattered into the stream of consciousness like dream babbling into Zhuang Sheng's dream butterfly, chaotic, mysterious, but refreshing
Top cast
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Professor Stanciulescu: The eye seems intact. But I don't know if he's blind or not. I don't even know if he's conscious. If he hears or if he understands what he hears.
[louder]
Professor Stanciulescu: If you understand what I say, squeeze my finger !
[Dominic squeezes the finger]
Professor Stanciulescu: I'm Dr. Roman Stanciulescu. I'm here to help you.
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Josef Rudolf: Mr. Matei? What do we do with... time? That question 'What do we do with time' expresses the supreme ambiguity of the human condition.
Dominic: I have no idea what you're talking about.
Josef Rudolf: An opportunity has been given to us. We... the human race!