This is a Coppola dream, a vague dream of Zhuang Zhou and Butterfly, and the incantation that life is like a dream but only Tao.
In fact, the movie can be divided into two parts, Dominic and Odley Gul, we can use any name as the code name of Tim Ross's role in the movie, starting from normal logic, then open the door of his room in Dominic, Mumbling to himself: Maybe somewhere far away, maybe in Bucharest.
From this moment, this is a grand dream, and in it, the story of Odley Gur begins, time travels, decades pass, Christmas to Easter, the dead can go directly to heaven, Nazis, science, language, revolution , atomic bomb, Switzerland, India, Chinese characters, Baosheng Dakini, thunder and lightning, love, idealism, reincarnation, new flow, smile, cruelty, time.
He is the unfinished business of his life, he said he was a loser, but the ending was his choice, and the truth he finally understood was: the moment I disappear from your life, your youth and beauty will be lost return. It's just that when the memory became clear, he kept asking himself questions, of course, to no avail. The other him in the mirror was not real, but it became more and more cold. Then when he returned to Bucharest, Romania, the lobby attendant smiled and said, welcome back.
Is it possible to assume that this fact is the case, Dominic had a dream, and when he woke up, he was suddenly lost. But, as he said, what was that history that he knew? He could predict the Hiroshima atomic bomb, he saw the downfall of the Nazis, he used that far-fetched superpower to beautify the world of Odrigul, he was omnipotent, almost roaming, but in the end, he was a loser.
When his teacher was teaching him, he gave him those twenty Chinese characters, but what he wrote on the blackboard was not what he wrote on paper. What the Chinese will bring him, the most thorough anarchist idealist, breathing with all his might, is the lucky Zhuang Zhou, or the unfortunate butterfly.
Three roses is a hint, but the real meaning, this is Coppola's meditation, even if you guessed it, it's just a coincidence. The clock is ticking, and he's just doing his best to perform, an idealized Coppola. According to one critic, the director's greatest work must be what he wanted to make, and perhaps we can understand why Coppola didn't admit that The Godfather was his best film, even though it might have been his best job. This world is full of magic, just as we can say that Latin America is a continent full of real magic, so we can understand the concept of time in "Love in the Time of Cholera", the river of dead bodies.
The final subtitle of Kim Ki-duk's "Empty Room": It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream.
If it is true, then we can guess that this old man lived in Romania during the Cold War. He was indeed 70 years old. He had a dream.
The dream told in David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" is a restoration of the real world, a suspense film with a story. People speculate and reason in the obscure, which even affects Jiang Wen's "The Sun", so Repeated reading, careful scrutiny, to get an answer that has not been confirmed. And Coppola, on the other hand, didn't tell stories, his dreams, although not so obscure, actually had nothing in them, not even a story, just kept failing and losing until death.
When a friend commented on "The Sun", he said that human language is actually composed of a lot of codes. Jiang Wen used the way he used codes to transmit messages. Although he was not used to it, it was very interesting. Perhaps Coppola's use of the identity of a linguist as a narrative in the film also has such a meaning. Godard borrowed the words of a philosopher in "Laying to Live" and said that only by temporarily giving up life can one learn to talk.
This is Coppola's code, it doesn't matter what the ultimate language is, all he needs to do is dream.
In the dream, he whispered, Laura, Veronica, I am Dominic.
I am doomed to lose everything I love so much.
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