Peace is the exception

Sandra 2022-04-21 09:03:04

The story consists of three parts: Words, Faces and Pictures. It's circular, but the logic isn't perfect. From this roughness, we can see the original war and suffering. Outside of civilization, human beings still survive in a savage and cruel way. English is not the mainstream in this film, just like the theme of the film, it is a world outside the peace that we are familiar with, like the Macedonian and Albanian languages ​​that fill our ears as well as our cognition. Jerky alienated.
In a piece like this, we don't even need to know the reason for the bleeding, it just shows us such a state. It's so commonplace in a zone like that, there's nothing special about it. Reminds me of a sentence I saw many years ago: We don't have enough religious beliefs to love each other, but enough to kill each other. I really can't remember the original words, I've read them for too long, but obviously this sentence is an objective description in the long history - it may never expire.
"Peace is an exception." A simple sentence, but it is so heavy that you dare not face it. We are in a peaceful place, and we take it for granted that peace is a normal state, just as those who live in the fire of war are also used to suffering in endless suffering. Maybe I'm a bit of a misnomer when I say "habit", who doesn't want to live comfortably? But no matter how bad things are, there is a day when they get used to it. When the bare-ass children start to play with guns, can you still say that this is not a habit? Even if they suffer from it, no one wants to give in first. The seeds of hatred have been sown all over the land. Except for more bloodthirsty, there is no other way to quell the anger. Time never dies. The circle is never round.
Even the entire history of mankind is the history of war. We change and develop in war... Peace is always just living in the gaps of history.
There is always a haze, thunder and lightning, and wind and rain are about to come. I love the poem at the beginning of the film.
With a shriek birds flee across the black sky, people are silent, my blood aches from waiting.

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  • Gage 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    Xin has been envious for a long time, and it is really extraordinary to watch today. Tomorrow and the bottomless darkness under the bright moon, the mountains and the rain are about to come and the wind fills the building.

  • Elsa 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Macedonia's first film is not bad. It is not bad among the films showing the Kosovo war after the split of the former Yugoslavia. In terms of the depth of thought and artistic expression, I personally think it is second only to "No Master" A film of "The Land". Friends who are interested in that history can take a look.

Before the Rain quotes

  • Father Marko: I wanted to take a vow of silence, like you. But this heavenly beauty merits words.

  • Aleksander: With a shriek, birds flee across the black sky, people are silent, my blood aches from waiting.