This is what the movie does not say. At the beginning of the movie, it is to seek the burial and seek the ritual of death for himself.
A sense of ritual makes death an impersonal act. Even the simplest, no prayers, no relatives, silent, like evaporating death, only hope that the corpse can't be picked up by the crow, even this kind of death must be a witness, and the person who buries him as a witness Man witnesses his conquest of death. Shy soldiers, conscientious Afghan refugees, seminary students bathed in divine grace refused to participate in the burial, refused the ceremony of death, and even mountain workers and scavengers refused to even listen to what the mission was. These simple rejections as human instincts make death strange and difficult, and embarrassing the right to self-declare death. Religion is useless, social morality is useless, reason is useless, they are vulnerable in front of him, and they all retreat.
The middle-aged man has been searching, choosing people with restrained patience. On the mountain road, the car circles like a maze. The cherry tree is the exit and the deepest place. The solitary burial place is not used as a place to put corpses in the future, but only as a place for burial. final direction of events. Death becomes an event, meaning there are causes, effects, processes, and mixed desires, expectations, that is, meaning, so his effort to die becomes an effort to make sense of the moment, which is to continue to live basis. The sense of ritual makes living a matter of course, and death a game, a risky gamble.
The old man who finally promised to bury him can be considered a representative of non-Allah, non-morality, and non-law, remove hypocrisy and show naked humanity to middle-aged men: life and death are not dogmas, all respect, but "I" will give you My experience. The taste of cherries is the taste of the beauty of the world. An elderly person makes a choice, but it does not mean that he agrees with this choice. Similarly, a middle-aged man makes a choice to die, it does not mean that he agrees with this choice. He is a bald one. Man, a completely independent individual, has filtered out all the flavors of the world and is meaningless, and the old man once again gave him a chance to choose. Death now becomes concrete, it is the loss of the sense of the world, the real death, the death of a "person". When he returned to the museum at the speed of survival to show his fears, he was a complete failure.
The opening line of Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus": "There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide." The middle-aged man tried to practice this problem, and at the same time needed witnesses. Once this need was shown, Then suicide is not pure, it is a ritual performance. Liu Xiaofeng's "Salvation and Happiness" said: "The paradox of survival has emerged: the present world has no meaning at all, and those who have to live in this world demand it to be meaningful." The middle-aged man will die and become the only one in the world Meaning, this is the last life. Do you have to be at the edge of the blade to feel the sharpness? On the night of thunderstorms, the middle-aged man lying in the "grave", watching the dark clouds cover the full moon, the wind and rain are about to come, the lightning keeps flashing the world, glance at it, fall asleep, or be reborn?
Abbas didn't answer. Most people think that the taste of cherries is good, so there is no need to answer. Abbas at the end, and the actor he chose to die, the photographer who witnessed the death, the soldiers, the extras, the place to die, and the mud, grass, sky, arabic, clothes, smoke, shy laugh, pose The ritual of death makes death a designed scene, a game. Cunning Abbas, sincere Abbas.
The film circles the mountain road for a long time, and keeps going back and forth on the way to the tomb. The long shot makes this empty search more lonely and futile, and it also makes the death ceremony more solemn and helpless. The sense of ritual made Abbas dare to laugh at his own works, and it also made the god of death laugh in the air.
The birth of a person is destined not to belong to oneself, and death is the last chance to return to oneself, but the sense of ritual makes Abbas and the middle-aged man who died in his place become conflicted. .
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