absurd

Wendy 2022-02-22 08:02:36

At the beginning of the movie, my eyes drifted away from the heroine's exquisite hijab.

Long yellow sand, skeletons, stumped legs, masked women...Hunger, famine, disease, refugees, children, weapons...
All the content in the lens is revealed in the heroine's seemingly clear but illusory journey.

Aren’t we longing for exoticism? At the beginning of the film, I seemed to be struck by this freshness, but as the plot progressed, my heart only grew deeper and deeper with fear, depression, confusion, helplessness or even despair...

Don’t Trying to discover a richer and more compelling plot, the journey itself has already said everything.
This is an endless journey. Not just like Afghanistan today?

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Extended Reading
  • Brittany 2022-02-22 08:02:36

    This is the third open ending movie I watched today, I'm going crazy! I personally like the director's shooting method and angle very much. I always thought it was a documentary, but later I discovered it was a feature film. This kind of documentary method to make feature films is my favorite, not a pseudo-documentary, but the former. I have been haunted by the Arab culture of West Asia and North Africa since I was a child. But I don't agree with their doctrines, and I know that reality is far worse than fairy tale books. The hostess has handed her fate to strangers one after another. This impact is the biggest impact in documentaries about this place in recent years. This film has an indescribable sense of myth, but the reality is so jaw-dropping.

  • Selina 2022-02-22 08:02:36

    Their lives are full of spectacles, but the director keeps ordering, calmly and restrained. And the more you treat it as a normal life display, the more deeply rooted in people's hearts. You will gradually realize that that is reality. The people there are cunning and indifferent to fight against the ubiquitous suffering. This way of living is so distorted that we don't want to admit that there is such a hell on earth. And it is this attitude of facing the abyss that makes this film even like a horror film. The biggest feeling after reading this is that it is great not to be born in Afghanistan. In addition, there are too many problems with built-in subtitles, I made a better external subtitles, please see the discussion area