Time never dies, the circle is not round

Franz 2022-01-16 08:02:38

Time never dies, because different events will return to the starting point after the cycle; the circle is not round, this is not a simple circle, time cannot go back, so the tragedies that have occurred cannot be restored.

From Kieslowski’s Since "Blind Punch", directors have begun to experiment with new narrative structures to shoot movies. In "A Rainstorm Is Coming", Manchevsky divides a question into three parts, which is unknowingly blurred. After the sequence of time, the stories are cleverly connected into a circle, and they are expressed in the movie as a proverb: time never dies, the circle is not round.

In fact, no matter how the director expresses it, his aim should and can only be set out more clearly the idea. so here it is necessary to examine what the problem is, and the question whether the director would say in so-called "circular structure" in whether it has been fully explained.

the first In one paragraph, in the second paragraph of the story, there is a line at the beginning of the paragraph: "It's going to rain". That is the title of the movie: Before the Rain. In the third paragraph, the male protagonist, also known as the reporter, After the gun fell to the ground, he said to the person who shot him, "It's going to rain", and then it was a heavy rain. Let's talk about the first and second paragraphs. At the end of the two paragraphs, massacres occurred, so it is not difficult to think of the heavy rain as A hint of tragedy, but the people who said this sentence in the movie were unintentional, but in the end they all inevitably pointed to tragedy. I think the director is also thinking about whether the conflict between ethnic groups is like fate. It is inevitable. .

The music of the film serves the film very well, and the Balkan style is undoubtedly revealed. From the beginning to the end, I have seen all kinds of irrational and extreme behaviors of Albanians and Macedonians catalyzed by ethnic contradictions. The national problem is the "Rainbow General" The main topic of ``To'', the director should also express his views through the mouth of the photographer, but to explore what Manchevsky's attitude is, I am afraid that it is like an unround circle that reveals helpless pessimism. Several deaths, the dead include conflicting Albanians and Macedonians, innocent British citizens, and rational people beyond national sentiments-photographers, the death of one person leads to the death of another person, hatred, revenge, These emotions dominate people who are irrational, national feelings restrain love, bring death and poverty, and madness. There is nothing more crazy than the carnage between the same race. The director does not know what to do in such a crazy world. What kind of attitude, participation in conflict will die, neutrality will die, mediation will die, even in a monastery that is incompetent, its peaceful life is also broken. "It has rained there, and it is fast here. "

If you use a straight line What kind of effect will the style of narrative have? It seems to say that there may be no tragedy before the story, and the story may end, and there may be no tragedy in the future. But after connecting an event into a circle, although There is a calm beginning and end, but before the beginning, after the end, and between the two, there is a desperate tragedy everywhere. Manchevsky is as worried about the country as Kusturica or Angelopoulos. Worry for the people, under his lens, expresses the grief, helplessness and pain for the conflict, and he forms a circle of pain, and he is inside, which makes it even more desperate.

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Extended Reading
  • Mae 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    1. Alexander returned to his hometown alone after being rejected by Annie 2. Alexander was killed 3. Annie received news of Alexander's death and filed for divorce from her ex-husband. 4. Samira meets the little monk...5. Samira was killed 6. Annie attended the funeral and took pictures. 7. Annie organizes photos, goes out, meets her mother, and then encounters Alexander’s proposal.

  • Zita 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    Indeed, this movie is too "heavy". Let me just say one thing: when every perpetrator has reasons that seem impossible to refute, how can the blood of reality impregnate hope? When even hope is so suffocating, action, silence, everything seems powerless. As the film begins with a verse: "As the birds fly over the hazy sky, the people are silent. My blood ache for waiting."

Before the Rain quotes

  • Father Marko: Time never dies. The circle is never round.

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