The game of freedom and time

Scarlett 2022-03-22 09:02:59

Personally, I always think that just like in "The Shawshank Redemption", "After all, some birds can't be locked up", men never give up the idea of ​​leaving here, but this idea is strong for a certain period of time and weak for a certain period of time. And the reason why the man chose to go back to the bunker at the end of the film, I think maybe because he was obsessed with his own research. At that time, the desire for theoretical research on the reservoir far outweighed his desire to leave here. desire. Moreover, if I run away again, will I end up the same as last time?
In the film, a man successfully escaped from the sandpit, but accidentally fell into quicksand during the escape. This scene reminds me of "Kekexili". The more you struggle, the more you fall into; the more you resist, the more helpless you become. And when the man stopped struggling and started calling for help, he also stopped sinking. Why the villagers accidentally forget the rope ladder when they take away the sick woman, I think maybe it is because of the submission that the man has shown for so long - "stop struggling". It is conceivable that when the villagers found that even if there was a ladder, the man would not escape, so there may be more opportunities when the man wants to leave in the future.
But at the end of the film, the newspaper seems to say that the man has been missing for more than 7 years. I think, maybe his research has not been completed? Ha ha……

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Extended Reading
  • Jalyn 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    9.0/10. ①The male entomologist was tricked into the sand pit and forced to be the husband of the female protagonist as labor. ②The male protagonist wants to escape from the environment, and the female protagonist wants to adapt to the environment. ③The photography is very beautiful and has a strong impact, which is not easy, and it is very difficult to shoot sand and gravel; the close-up/close-up of the body (and the corresponding wiping/stroking) attached to the sand is full of "primitive and vigorous vitality" (in some cases, strong erotic tension); the will to survive and the environment of the visual characters, such as digging sand, climbing sandpits, sand dunes dissolution and collapse (and the resulting crumbling houses), etc. human oppression. ④The male protagonist catches insects and makes them into specimens—a textual metaphor for villagers trapping the male protagonist to make labor. ⑤As a traditional melodrama, the narrative rhythm is relatively slow, many parts are repetitive and have little use for character development; the psychological motivation of the male protagonist to go to Stockholm in the end is not clear enough, and it can even be said that the images of the male and female protagonists have not stood up at all, more like A combination of a bunch of characters.

  • Jamir 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    Shocked. The protagonist repeatedly said that pigs and dogs are not as good as dogs, and being chained like a dog reminds me of Dog Town. Although I haven't read the original book, I don't know how deep the analysis of human nature is, but as a movie, the close-up of the skin covered with fine sand is a plus, and the soundtrack is almost divine. The final ending of the story has been predicted in the process. Compared with the secular world, who knows which truly represents freedom?

Woman in the Dunes quotes

  • Entomologist Niki Jumpei: A rope ladder?

    Male Villager: That's what we use out here in the boonies.

    Entomologist Niki Jumpei: This is quite an adventure.

  • Male Villager: Don't look up. You'll get sand in your face.