In the beginning, I just liked to watch it, but later I started to feel bored, just for the purpose of accumulation, forcing myself to watch some good works. After a long time, now I and the movie seem to be lovers who have been in love for a long time. They have long since lost the so-called impulse, but they are unwilling to erase each other from their own lives anyway.
This is like when a person is always habitually sitting in his own position, opening a movie, then watching the screen go black, and then feeling that the whole person can be quiet. Long or short, moving or shocking, exciting or deep in thought, every good movie brings me a different impact, light or heavy.
So I thought, maybe I should write something. About movies, about life.
But where to start? There are too many unforgettable films in this world, and tens of thousands of people are appreciating and evaluating them every day. So how do I go about presenting them in my own perspective? I don't want to simply repeat, I think maybe it's time to try to express something deeper, not just about movies, but about the real world around us.
So, you have seen this text, maybe I will write a movie in the future, but inevitably this is the first one, so please forgive my long-windedness.
Let's start with the recent 81st Oscars.
I don't want to comment on whether Slumdog is worthy of taking the statue, and I don't want to rave about Milk, The Reader, Foster Talks Nixon, and Wall E here. , I don't even want to discuss whether the Spanish girl should take the best supporting actress. In fact, I just want to write such a movie - the winner of the 81st Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - "The Undertaker". Under the infinitely shining light of Oscar, "The Undertaker" did not receive much attention, and was not even favored for a time before the awards ceremony, but in the end, the increasingly kitsch Oscar chose this melodious movie full of humanity. In a year of many films, "The Undertaker" brought me an indescribable touch and surprise with its unique soothing and warmth. The number of tears I shed has undoubtedly set a new personal record. My extremely low film The crying point is even more horrific.
"The Undertaker" is a film co-produced by Japanese director Yojiro Takita and actors Masahiro Motoki and Ryoko Hirosue. Among the Japanese films I've seen before, I personally think that the rhythm most similar to this one should be the famous "Love Letter". Compared with "Love Letter", the theme of the funeral director is more profound. The story of the whole film is actually not complicated, but it does not have an extremely prominent main line. For such a film, people who are impatient are very reluctant to appreciate it, because it is easy to feel fatigued and unable to watch it. But "The Undertaker" avoids this problem very well. Exquisite pictures, perfect music, comfortable and forgettable editing, all these excellent characteristics of Japanese movies are revealed. Under the haunting of these characteristics, it was originally boring. The bridge section also became melodious, and the emotion came slowly in this melodious time.
"The Undertaker" actually presents us with many stories from the perspective of its protagonist. Following the protagonist, we experienced the last farewells of families and their relatives one after another. Each family said goodbye to their relatives in different ways at the last moment, but I think they all have the same feelings in their hearts. When the protagonist sends the deceased through the final journey with grace and sincerity, we are touched beyond words. We see those tearful faces, we see them being moved by the protagonist's every move, we see them thanking, they forgiving, and they wave goodbye. Yes, everyone has a life, long or short, everyone's life is different, some seem brilliant, some are so ordinary, but they all have the meaning of their existence, don't they?
At the end of the film, the protagonist carried out an burial for his father who had abandoned him, and at the last moment, he finally forgave the relative he had hated for so long. I heard the "Dad" he called, and I saw the father's face in his memory gradually clear, and I felt the kind of warmth that we always forget, it's called family affection.
No matter what you have done, at this moment I choose to forgive; no matter who you were, at this moment I only regard you as my relative; no matter what our life looks like, please let me send you away sincerely final journey.
"Death may be a door, passing away is not the end, but a transcendence, to the next step, just like a door. As a gatekeeper, I have sent many people away here, saying 'Be careful on the road, I will see you again.' "——"The Undertaker"
"There is no one in this world who knows you better than a brother who grew up with him, and there is no one who knows him better than you. I just want to be with him like I did back then, watching Manchu The stars of the sky, talk to each other until we fall asleep." - "
The Straight Story", the Chinese translation of "The Straight Story", is a film completed by the famous director David Lynch in 2001. For David Lynch, familiar friends may think of the word crazy. Indeed, most of David Lynch's works are more esoteric and intriguing, and some of them are even more insane. But this "The Straight Story" is a unique work in David Lynch's directorial career. It is no exaggeration to say that if you were not told, if you were given 100 director options after watching it, you would never have guessed that this would be a big deal. The work of David Lynch. But although "Mulholland Drive" is something I admire, "The Straight Story" is definitely my favorite David Lynch movie. It's the kind of movie that makes you feel comfortable to forget you're watching a movie. Its kind of warmth is slow or even stagnant.
It's a road movie with a lawnmower as a means of transportation, based on real news that happened in America years ago. The story follows an old, infirm, unlicensed and stubborn Mr. Street, who drives a vintage 1966 lawn mower from Iowa to Wisconsin to visit him for over a decade. See, the story of a seriously ill brother. Like many road films, Mr. Streeter has experienced a lot of people and events along the way. Mr. Streeter's own story and their stories are intertwined, and each moving moment comes slowly. A large number of landscape pictures in the film are presented in front of us along with these emotions. Sometimes the sunset is accompanied by golden rice, and sometimes it is full of endless green. The refreshing comfort is unforgettable, and it is in such a scene. Next, we saw a stubborn old man walking on the road.
As a dying old man, the difficulties encountered along the way can be imagined, the lawn mower is broken and broken. But all this did not dissuade him from visiting his brother, even though they fought each other ten years ago, and they didn't seem to know each other for ten years, even though it was such a long journey for a lawnmower.
What can stop us from seeing our loved ones? What is really something that cannot be relieved? When an old man is so old that he can even see his last day, who is the most worthy person to cherish?
Mr. Street told us in the film that he just wanted to be like his brother, watching the stars in the sky until he fell asleep. So, when he finally saw his brother, and he asked, "You just drove this to see me?", all the things that looked like hatred became so insignificant.
The final picture of the film is fixed on the starry sky, which is as beautiful as the golden rice and endless green, but if there is something you love to share with you, there will be a different kind of warmth in addition to the beauty. Bar?
"A River Runs Through It", also known as "River Love", is a film directed by Robert Redford with a very personal style. It is more intriguing and worth thinking about than the later "Horse Whisperer".
The overall tone of the whole film is still beautiful. At the beginning of the film, there is such a classic reading: "Norman, you like to write stories. Maybe one day, you will write the story of our family. At that time, you will I will understand many things that have happened in the past." In fact, for a person who loves writing writing, I can deeply understand the kind of things mentioned in the reading, simply speaking, it is a lot of things to look back at. to understand more clearly. And "Love in the Big River" is such a work that is worth looking back at, because the profound truth it expresses cannot be realized in a short period of time.
The film tells the story of three men, a father and two children. The father taught his two beloved sons with his unique educational method (fishing), but the two young men had very different personalities, and then embarked on completely different life paths.
Conformal or eclectic? When two different personalities meet, who should we love more? And when they are relatives to each other, how should they treat each other?
It is also about family love, but it is not just a simple matter of forgiveness and relief.
In fact, each of us has experienced incomprehensible encounters to varying degrees, and when this incomprehension comes from our relatives, we are often the most helpless and angry. Thinking about it carefully, in fact, in our lives, we are always the easiest to ignore family relationships, and a generation gap draws a clear line between ourselves and our loved ones. Have we never seen their deep love behind our complaints? If we have brothers and sisters who happen to have different outlooks on life and values from ours, how should we deal with them?
In "The Undertaker", the protagonist only forgives at the moment of farewell; in "Bend of the Road", Mr. Street chooses to let go after 10 years; and what about us? When we shouted angrily, when we thought we were doing our own way, did we think about how we would look at all this in 10 years? Have we ever imagined how we will look at all this 30 years from now? Have we ever imagined how we will look at all this 50 years from now?
The two young people who took different paths eventually had different endings. The younger brother eventually tragically died due to his indulgent attitude towards life, and the older brother, who had tried to help him but was powerless, fell into deep contemplation.
There is such a line in "Love in the Big River": "Why do people who need help the most always refuse to help?"
He was thinking, and I was thinking, is understanding more important or love more important?
When we live in the present moment and refuse the love of our loved ones for reasons we do not understand, is this kind of love not what we want? So we think further, we also don't understand our loved ones, so what should we do when the love we can give them is not what they need?
We can learn to forgive, we can learn to let go, but perhaps the most important thing we should learn is love.
In the film, the pastor's father said in his final announcement: "Everyone has a time in their life when they say the same thing to a loved one: 'Lord! We are willing to help.' But, help What is busy? Indeed, we cannot help our loved ones. We do not know what part of ourselves to give; often what we give is not what the other person needs. Therefore, among our loved ones who live with us, who should we know? will run away from us; but, we will still love them, love them completely, but do not need to understand them completely."
At the end of "Big River Love", the older brother, who is in his old age, stands alone as a child, often with his father and younger brother. Beside the big river for fishing, he threw the fishing line gracefully, recalling the past. When we are the only one left in this world, we begin to live in our memory and wander for a long time...
The flowing water represents the years, and "A River Runs Through It" is the best interpretation of this poetic time. No matter how long we can live, no matter how long our relatives can live, please cherish this relationship forever, please cherish this period of time forever, to forgive, to be relieved, and to love the person we should love the most. Because this running water will accompany us to leave, because the running water will also accompany them to leave, because this running water is so heart-warming.
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