Over the past few months, every time I played this piece of music, the neighbors responded with the same song. The other party may be a hermit like me, or a little girl who pranks her before she goes to school. This line constitutes the premise of the intertextuality of Eternal and One Day.
In addition to Anzhe's iconic time setting of "eternity and one day", the film is also arranged in space and characters. Alexander and the smuggling boy, the 19th century poet, the young man holding flowers on the bus, the man holding the flag... The seaside mansion and the border transfer station, the hospital, the dilapidated factory, the wharf... all show a divergent and convergent relationship. So, what makes a person unique, and what makes us one?
Thinking of what Ha Jin said before, the general idea is that when we get to a certain age, people's memories become heavier and heavier, and they press down on our lives. This is also the resonance of "Eternal and One Day" for me. I think the relationship between people and time is not that we pass/spend time, but time passes through us. "Cinema sweetens the passage of time." (Angelopoulos)
There is another detail. At the beginning, Alexander woke up from a dream and said to the female nurse: I have a salty taste in my mouth, the taste of the sea.
Before his death, Gide said that he was desperate for the world, but a young man sent a letter from Africa saying that the world is beautiful and there is hope. Gide said: This young man's words are the salty taste of the earth, and I can die because of this salty taste.
"Anyway, my youth was dark. I have never tasted the salt of the earth or the sea. I thought I was the salt of the earth, and I was always afraid of losing my salty taste." Gide wrote in "Food for the World" .
In Philip Roth's "Mortals," the aged protagonist recalls his youth "running home with his bare feet, wet with the salty taste of the sea, and remembering the boundless sea that was still boiling in his ears as he ran. Great, licking his forearm and tasting his skin freshly soaked in sea water and baked in the sun." "The smell made him so intoxicated that he almost took a bite out of a piece of meat and tasted his own flesh and blood."
The salty taste of salt was interpreted by Mu Xin as the conscience of human beings. I prefer to understand it as "human taste". Only animals have a sense of taste, and only humans can describe it. The so-called "literature is humanism, and most art is actually about human art.
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