No matter what age you are, you will be afraid of tomorrow and the distance

Felicia 2022-04-21 09:03:11

As soon as I heard Anna's lines, I wanted to cry, "Did I get too close to you and threatened you?" "I want to kidnap you from two books"... These lines are the deepest pain for every creator and people around them.

In the ward, the poet asks the delirious mother "why will we not love again".

The imagery in this film is very flavorful, such as the white in the wife and friends and relatives and the black isolated from the poet, the black in the wedding of the caregiver's son and the isolated white in the bride, the bouquet and the bus being accused of "should not be with Writers Together" girl association, indicating future endings and pessimism about art (there's also a live performance on the bus that only young and old listen to). The whole film is dominated by black and white, but the little boy and the yellow raincoat riding a bicycle are not much bright. The "corpse" is highlighted by the blurred net on the frontier, the poet buys words from the crowd in solitude, and the cremated "O Serin". He stalled at the green light and set off suddenly at the red light at dawn. No matter what age you are, you will be afraid of tomorrow and the distance. Although the ending looks tender, there is actually a pessimism looming over it, the man who hears his mother's call and never looks back.

"What's the time? A boy playing with sandbags by the beach."

"Give apples to rot, send roses to wither, send white grapes to crush, I send my tears."

"How long will tomorrow last?" "One more day than eternity."

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Extended Reading
  • Daryl 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    Someone once told me that poetry is the nakedest march of language. And Angelopoulos composed a poem in long-shot language. The difference between them is not the presence or absence, but the depth and atmosphere of the thinker.

  • Tyrese 2022-03-15 09:01:07

    4.5 I have always been impressed by Lin Yihan’s comments: “After watching Angelopoulos’ "One Day Forever" for five minutes, before the plot was advanced, I cried and walked around grandma’s house with the computer. My mother asked in astonishment. Why did you cry like this? I said it was a great shot.” ​​I finally understood why I was moved. This movie also proved that “movies make the passage of time sweet.”-Angelopoulos

Eternity and a Day quotes

  • Alexandre: All passed by so quickly. This suspect pain... my stubbornness to want to learn,to want to know... then the darkness... the silence around me... the silence. All made me believe that before the end of winter with the ethereal silhouettes of the boats,and their sudden breakthroughs in the sky, with the lovers along the promenade,in the declining sun, and the hypocritical promise of the spring, all made me believe that before the end of winter... My only regret, Anna... but is it only one?... is not to have finished anything. I left it all as a draft, shattered words here and there.

  • Alexandre: I once asked you "how long will tomorrow last?" and you answered me: Eternity and a day.