Elegy

Leopold 2022-01-20 08:02:27

I admire this director so sharply, calmly and emotionally. The previous April was as fast and cruel as the Romania film, an event triggered thinking, but each other stopped abruptly. The film is always sharp, but people's emotional expression or people's psychological state are more expressed.
1. Twin flowers. The last time the film director still used the close connection between the two girls to unfold the story. This time the relationship between the two girls is more clear, from friendship to close connection in life. Is this a kind of female destiny or female in a patriarchal society? The way of survival is open to discussion. Still a tough as iron, a weak and uneasy, this combination is like the two extremes in personality.
2. Yarina's tragic song. A girl who is more man than a man, a girl who grew up in an orphanage, and a girl who has not been surrounded by family, naturally suffers a lot of hardships. I believe there must be a lot of male bullying, just like the girl in "Rosetta". However, she met someone who could comfort him and protect her at the same time. In this girl, Yalina found her presence and spiritual comfort. With her moody appearance, she can lie in the girl's tender embrace. What a beautiful picture. But change can come at any time, just as our hearts change at every moment of our lives, which is uncontrollable. The girl Yarina needed found another thing that she could enjoy and satisfy, but the paranoid Yarina wanted to change the girl back to the previous one. In fact, we all face this problem as we grow up. For example, friends, lovers, and relatives, we must all face their possible changes, and obedience may be the best way.
3. Still deserted colors, dead branches, and broken houses.
4. Regarding the suspicion of religious beliefs mentioned in the film, I haven't figured out how to say it.

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Extended Reading
  • Alysson 2022-03-30 09:01:09

    The calm footage, the stable narrative, and the right adaptation make people think calmly after the accidental ending. Until the end, it is difficult for me to say that the tragedy happened because of religious ignorance. Religion is the superstition of a group of people, but it is a spiritual product that must appear in a certain era. Its good news is definitely greater than disaster, but now its survival in the scientific world is already difficult, and the first thing that can break the balance between the two, I am afraid Only the arrogance, stubbornness and fear of ordinary people

  • Bertha 2022-03-21 09:03:09

    There is sin everywhere, and God is no exception. The scenes in the monastery blur the sense of the times. Even if it is put into a hundred years ago, it does not violate the harmony, but when you walk out of the monastery, you can see the shadow of modernization everywhere. The director deliberately creates this contrast to express the alienation and ignorance of the world shrouded in religion. I really like this kind of calm and restrained movie, 150 minutes whizzed by. The photography of this film is very beautiful, the lens is very know how to choose, the composition is very elegant.

Beyond the Hills quotes

  • Priest: The man who leaves and the man who comes back are not the same.