slow down, slow down

Andy 2022-04-23 07:04:05

When I heard my grandmother say that the middle-aged man was desecrating a poem, I had a feeling that I was desecrating this movie. I felt that director Li Cangdong's work was as sacred and inviolable as this poem. It is difficult for many people to calm down. Come and watch it, but his films are easy for others to calm down, and no one will stop to watch the light and shadow of the trees and listen to the sound of running water. Especially the first half was a bit depressing, but when I heard the members of the Poetry Society smiling happily or crying and laughing one by one, telling the best moments in their lives, I also laughed out inexplicably, from the bottom of my heart. kind of. Especially the last middle-aged man. First of all, he apologized to everyone. He said sorry. He felt that there was no best moment. Maybe after he changed to a new house, he was lying on the ground, the sun was shining on him, and he felt the whole world. It's all his, I'm completely immersed in this, isn't human happiness just that simple? In the end, the poem by Miss Yang Meizi made me go back and listen to it again. I am a person who has a hard time slowing down, but the film directed by Li Cangdong made me feel that I did not understand, but was shocked. . Finally, the sound of running water was just right, making people immersed in it, and quietly finished reading the subtitles.

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  • Alisha 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    Life is a deconstructed poem. Poetry is an unspeakable life, a blood-colored flower blooming on the decadent earth of the world.

  • Marcus 2022-03-27 09:01:20

    The title of the word "poetry" is written in Korean on the river in that scene. It is "poetic" in the text, but it must be parallel to the violence, and the running script writes the title vertically like the tip of a knife. Perhaps the best It interprets the intense emotion deep in the film's long serenity.