A vision on the edge of humanity

This movie has no background music, it feels quiet, and occasionally someone talks, what would be the effect if the dialogue was removed - or, anyway, the movie is in French, if you don't consider the meaning of the dialogue at all, what is shown in front of you? scene? There is a group of strangers by the lake. They are on the fringes of the city. They are naked. Suddenly civilization disappeared from here. Since not wearing clothes is such a natural thing, the shame disappears. Are you back in the Garden of Eden? Wouldn't it be very immersive to think of these people as some chimpanzees or giraffes by the lake? Suddenly I felt a kind of primal purity - go to the people you like, tell the people you don't like to go away, and go for a swim in the lake. However, when night falls, we have to go home, and detectives will come when a murder occurs. Civilization can never get rid of it. If it is more primitive, for example, one chimpanzee kills another chimpanzee, what kind of detective is needed? Aren't the rest of the chimpanzees indifferent and not in their natural state?

The film has the feel of a prolonged drought. A long-term drought is also different from a drought. During a drought, you always want to quench your thirst, and the feeling of thirst is stronger. In a long-term drought, when you know that there is not enough water, the desire to quench your thirst will weaken. After all, not suppressing desire is asking for hardship. . And this kind of drought cannot be solved by water, nor can it be solved by sex. It is a kind of drought in which the soul has no destination. The whole soul is completely floating, and life is like a wisp of green smoke, scattered at any time, and strangers appear by the lake, Is it not the fate of the cloud to disappear without the solidity of the people in the society? If human beings are a glass of water, then this lake is like the surface of water, where it is in contact with the vacuum, and water molecules vaporize at any time and leave forever. Comrades have never been embraced by society, and leaving alone is so harmonious with their life course.

Plus, the film buries fear. This fear is buried deep. As a comrade, it is impossible to look directly at the state of my existence. The group of "Thinking and Fearing" has long been abandoned. They are humanoid beings outside civilization, they are outside the discourse system of society. They live the same life as otters in the city. People don't see them often, know their existence, wonder if they still exist, bump into them, be surprised, then dissipate, goodbye may be years, or even decades later, thinking they're dead long ago, didn't expect them to still be there. Alive, how could they be alive, never knew they had space, and then they disappeared again. Their lives appear in society in fragments. This lake is not the Garden of Eden, nor is it human society, but the edge of human beings, who seem to live in a vacuum. The meaning of killing someone here is different from the meaning of killing someone in society.

It should be said that this film outlines some basic elements and builds an empty thinking space. People can use this film to think about the ecology of comrades.

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