Grandfather said: Time is a child playing on the beach,...are you coming? ! "
In the soft piano music, in the morning with birdsong, please follow the master lens to approach the slightly opened window, to awaken the years of childhood, to wake up the sleeping childhood, when you crept out of the room and walked down. Stairs, you will go to the beach to find yourself in history. The stare of the master, the traces of the years, every thinking person cannot forget the purity of childhood as boundless as the blue sea. This is the beginning of "Eternal Day", this It is the beginning of the search...
"Eternal Day" won the Best Picture Award at the 51st Cannes Film Festival. The content describes an elderly poet who exiles himself and seeks eternal meaning and takes an Albanian boy across the border to find loss The world: the harmonious coexistence of people and the kindness between people. The film is set in the winter and rainy Tissaloniki. The nostalgic theme runs through the whole film. Angelopoulos’s movies always have humanity, Humanism and the ultimate thinking of life, the master always likes to set up a little boy role, like the sincere and innocent look of human childhood.
Tonight, please come with me to listen to the sound of the waves in the Greek seaside town of Tissaloniki and look for the dimness A lamp in the rain of night, that lamp that quietly occupies the humid midnight of the Mediterranean.
A returning old man, a homeless wanderer and a night car, a starting point and a destined end, these you What can be built?! The young people on the night train, the lovers who discuss love, the middle-aged people who pick up flowers, where are they going tonight, what kind of life will they experience tomorrow?! The camera turns to the window three from time to time A cyclist in a yellow raincoat, slowly driving to the distance, for this planet, everything is just a cycle, you and him, right and wrong. At this moment, we are with the master, we are in the night car of history , Waiting for hope to ignite the sunrise.......
The Tower of Babylon, the translation of text, and the deep study of semantics can fix every phrase, but you can never translate the human heart in another language. The heart cannot be translated. The heart is a kind of sentiment and resonance. It is a kind of blending. At this moment, please come with me and listen to the child's utterance together. This is the longing for the old man, this is the call of the human soul! Listen, the voice of the soul far away from the dust:
"Hé! Séllm, unfortunately, I can't be with us tonight
Hé! Séllm, I am afraid, the sea is so wide
Hé! Séllm, what are you waiting for? Where are
we going, where will we go, how will our tomorrow be?!
Mountains, rivers, police, soldiers, have never blocked our way
, I saw the endless sea at
night, I saw my mother standing in front of the door in tears
Christmas The festival is coming, the bell is ringing, and the snow is covering the top of the mountain. In winter night, I hope you can talk to us again
about all the free ports and the infinite world
Hé! Séllm, please talk to us
Hé! Séllm, you speak"
Although I can't understand a single sentence in the original text, I can feel the child's call for peace and kindness. Communication, the communication of the soul has already surpassed language itself.
So! Tonight, please don't fall asleep, please follow me on the night car, to understand the heart of the master, and to witness every traveler who
is hurrying in the night. What is tomorrow? ! What is eternity? !
Sometimes, as long as a kind smile is enough, life lies in self-transcendence and comprehension. Just as no matter how scared we are, we must face death, just as we must face the call of God alone in the end.
In all the days of thinking and no longer thinking, because smiling, the heart feels kindness and care, so that we understand love and tolerance. The
old man takes away his poems and times, although we don’t have chants, although we can no longer go deep into philosophy. , But we at least understand the responsibilities and obligations of people. At least tonight we have witnessed the farewell of an old man and the departure of a philosopher. Eternity becomes reality at the moment of disappearance of life. We come from the sea and one day we will return there. Quiet as ever!
The poet said: The beginning of the creation of angels is to separate the spirit from the body, so that the soul can overcome the temptations and boringness of the world.
The pure land remains in the poem, in the harmony of the soul.
Those who live in material desires, they will never be able to see the true face of the world.
At that moment I remembered the "Tao", I am no longer sad, I know that there are differences in life, and the difference in Dao determines the future and this life of a person.
The story continues. The old man passes the torch of his heart to his children, and to every life that hasn't given up who is searching for the meaning of life in the dark night.
To live, for whatever reason, I will ask the self in the mirror in the quiet of the night. At this moment, Angelopoulos answered us that eternity is the other side of the soul, a certain place of self-understanding in the journey of life.
A trio of homeland clearance and immortality, the film’s soothing rhythm shows human suffering and hope.
We are often driven by the times to be others in the daytime. Therefore, he indulges himself in petty gains and doesn't even have the courage to be a moth, so he can only be a doll or pet in a concrete body. We have forgotten our ideals and flying.
We can trace Van Gogh's starry sky thousands of times, and we also shed tears in the master's film, but do we really understand the meaning of life and existence?
In the era of globalization, metaphysical philosophy has long been surrendered to metaphysical life, and the shrinking and depravity of intellectuals has festered the entire world in material desires. Not many people in this era pay attention to remote suffering (war in Iraq, turbulent situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, displaced children, famine in Africa). On what basis is our comfort built, do we deprive others of their rights in order to survive?
Angelopoulos has taught us to love and how to communicate. We have the same future, and we have the same return journey. There are many days to go, and the future is dwindling. Let us reach out and give comfort to the souls of people in the dark. , To give all lonely lives a sincere correspondence.
This is the only way we can surpass ourselves, and this is also the way to redeem ourselves.
Did you hear me? The call of the master, in this heavy night, this is the heart of the poet, this is the last confession of an old man:
"The falling morning dew is the last star of dawn, proclaiming that the sun is shining."
The sun of life lies in the direction of the soul. Come with me, on such a night, follow the master's thoughts, till the sunshine, till the other shore.
OSAMA KAVKALU at Pudong Jackdaw Abode in Spring on Friday, February 21, 2003
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