People who realize the emptiness of life yearn for a real life more than anyone else.

Etha 2022-03-21 09:03:28

At the beginning it was the familiar Bertolucci feeling, slow but full of rhythm. As the story unfolds, I gradually see the characters' questions about the world, "No matter what we see in front of us or whoever is with us, we can't fill the emptiness in our hearts." Emotions that cannot be controlled can only be suppressed and relieved in struggle and presumptuousness, but involuntarily the sadness rendered by inexplicable emotions, especially in this barren place, when the two embrace each other and cry, cannot help but be directed by the director again. Impressed by the collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto. Nothing happened in between, except that despair came to a head when Kit had to blend in with another group, after Potter had left. The last hope makes people feel suddenly relieved, __ who realizes the emptiness of life is more eager to live truly than anyone else. (Because we don’t know when death is coming, we regard life as an endless resource that can be squandered. However, the vicissitudes of life are always limited in life, childhood, afternoon, people and things lingering in life, How many of these afternoons can I recall? Maybe four or five, maybe not so many. How many times have I seen the full moon rise in my life? Maybe twenty. Yet people still feel that life is endless.) Tribute to Paul Powers, Bertolucci, and my beloved Ryuichi Sakamoto.

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Extended Reading
  • Green 2022-03-18 09:01:10

    A trip to North Africa, an American couple, a male travel companion whom his wife does not trust at the beginning, a British mother and son who behave eccentrically... The story background and characters are initially set up, do they look like the new version of Catching a Murderer? But it's still Bertolucci, not Hitchcock. There is no suspense thriller and protecting the country and saving children, only strange love, exotic scenery, scale shots, and... love in the time of cholera.

  • Horacio 2022-03-24 09:03:49

    Only the theme melody left an impression on the whole scene.

The Sheltering Sky quotes

  • [last lines]

    Narrator: Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

  • Kit Moresby: I hate choices.