life's journey

Destini 2022-01-28 08:32:39

3 stars, Nordic landscape film, the picture is cold and harsh, seemingly boring, but there is no lack of careful design, all the fun and details are left to the audience to discover and experience, the film is composed of more than N short stories. There is no preaching, no great truth, all emotions are comprehended by oneself. Just like the little story at the end: life is like a car, there is always a moment when it breaks and stops. After so many stories, there are physical and psychological problems that need to be repaired. This is the journey of life.

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  • Fabiola 2022-04-21 09:03:44

    Restraining his usual sharp irony, Roy Anderson's "About Endless" finds the power of pietà. No longer describing life as pure futility, this gentle female voice in his film is full of pity for all the joys and sorrows of the world. The past tense she uses suggests that it is an eternal soul on the other side looking back to the world to tell the memories she had witnessed. All the energies in the world are connected with each other, in this way, human beings truly create endless suffering and joy in limited time and space, just as Anderson used his 80-minute film to describe eternity. He crafts a compassionately moving work by forgoing grandiose scheduling and cynical one-liners. But it's always hard to describe endlessness. Anderson's previous work has always stabbed a knife in seemingly banal and ordinary scenes, winning the film a momentary certainty, so that the film does not become cynical when it is satirical. This unmistakably old work ended up being a little more general.

  • Zion 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    Emotional, dull, all emotions, including pain and happiness, are suppressed to a minimum by the straight and rigid composition, the color without brightness, and the alienated performance. But the film stops at the expression of emotion, but there is no source of emotion. Even though there are many scenes of war interspersed in the front, middle and back, but because the depiction of the war is completely landscape, it is impossible to attribute this kind of sadness and boredom to the war. Just like the priest who runs through the front, middle and back, he questioned why God abandoned him after he lost his faith, but he didn't ask himself why he abandoned God - he has the same question as the whole film, which is to avoid the important.