"Life and Cherries"

Kurt 2022-01-26 08:48:12

How can there be such a sad movie, Abbas' "The Taste of Cherry" recommends it to you. "Film starts with Griffith and ends with Abbas." This is the French New Wave director Godard's praise for Abbas's film aesthetics. As for Abbas's other works are the pinnacle of Iranian film art, we may appreciate Godard's point of view, but we will agree with the audience's comments, Abbas is undoubtedly one of the best directors in the history of Asia. Similar to the minimalist French director Bresson, in the minimalist style, Abbas is in every frame as if expressing his story, childhood, silence, humanities, "Who is he?" A director? Our answer is always small. In addition to the Iranian film master Abbas, there are also painter Abbas, photographer Abbas, designer Abbas, poet Abbas and so on. Compared with Akira Kurosawa, the Japanese New Wave director who worships Abbas, Abbas has very little reading. He proves to the audience that a person who likes movies does not necessarily have to watch a lot of movies. A good movie can make you unable to move. "The Taste of Cherry" is such a movie. Abbas discusses life and death, belief and doubt, philosophy and religion, human nature and society in film language. The film begins with Mr. Barty In the search for death and a way to escape from life, this film does not introduce the reason why Barty committed suicide. Perhaps it is because suicide is a natural thought. In human society, we cannot be moved by people. Pain or a tragic fate. Barty is looking for someone who will not bury him for money, he is searching, his car drives one after another, a young soldier gets into his car, when Barty explains his reason to him, the soldier is barbaric. Terrified, Tee ran away. Soldiers kill to protect the country. This time, he is for an innocent person. From a different perspective, Batty is powerless to resist society, not a forced crime.

Barty is still looking for the person who can help him complete his death. In the film, Barty and his car have been moving forward, which is in contrast to Barty's thinking, but this forward thinking is anti-human . Barty looked at the seminary. They cherished their lives one by one, but one could imagine that this approach was useless.

Barty is like a short-lived taxi driver who is constantly working, and he may meet the most meaningful people in his life. The taxidermy teacher is trying to influence Barty with philosophical theories, but he also gives money to his granddaughter. The idea of ​​healing, but there is also a kindness that wants Barty not to commit self-crime.

Barty called a rental car and headed to the grave that leads to the happy paradise - the sand pile. Sudden lightning and thunder, dark clouds

The cherry fell on Barty's mentally dead body, and then he showed a wavering smile in his heart. At that moment, I felt that he had given up the idea of ​​suicide.

This film does not tell whether Barty died at the end. The last easter egg of the film is that Abbas and the camera crew appeared. Abbas is telling us that all this is false and fictional, and this is a fake documentary. Among the hundreds of millions of people, there are also people like Barty. They are helpless, they only need a person who can comfort them, their tears need someone to dry, and they need a lovely person to tell them about the world And me, you're not alone.

Maybe between death and living, I will choose death, just because love is the pinnacle of the spirit, we were abandoned by someone, misunderstood by people's hearts, innocent eyes fell like a cliff, from now on you are still you, but there are more eyes A strong, I cried five times a night when I was most desperate, but after that night, I was no longer me, just a 15-year-old boy wrapped in the empty shell of the past, without the slightest emotion in his eyes, and felt endless loneliness.

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  • Coralie 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    Three brushes and five stars. Open valve mark, four stars for the second time in 191019, ten years. Abbas-style gripping, I have watched two films in which the protagonist wants to commit suicide in a short period of time, hahaha. The film designed winding mountain roads related to life and death, passers-by of all ages, dirt dumped by trucks, rain at the end, trees by the suicide hole and lonely trees in the mountains, airplanes, birds, taxidermy, and soldiers. A young child and a stable old man, the whole piece looks natural and smooth, but in fact it often "interrupts advertisements", quite experimental and alternative films, undercurrents are surging, but also make people miss and think. In the short comment, some people said that the dialogue is very preaching, so the movie has to say "Have you eaten" and "I love you" to not preach, hehe.

  • Shanna 2022-03-22 09:02:51

    Godly movie. The picture and mirror movement are so smooth and natural. The narration is not redundant at all, conveys the simple meaning of life, and has touching poetry. Coming out of the movie theater and feeling like seeing it on the big screen is such a blessing, such a blessing.

Taste of Cherry quotes

  • Mr. Bagheri: When you want to help someone, you have to do it properly, with all your heart. It's better... more just and more reasonable.

  • Mr. Bagheri: Some things are easier to do than to say.