Where is the road to wonderland?

Robbie 2022-03-24 09:03:42

I haven't seen the previous masterpiece directed by Malik, so when I saw this film, it can be said that I was amazed. Beautiful shooting pictures, murmured narration, and coherent and integrated music, the whole film surprised me and felt like I was reading a long love poem. Especially at the beginning and end, I didn't expect a feature film to be as full of romantic and beautiful rhythm as a music MV.

what is love? Love is the impact of sensual desires, the whistling of mountains and valleys, the tenderness of caressing the hairline, the freedom of dancing in the forest, the passion of a bulging heart, and the deep peace of the soul.
We yearn for freedom and always want to depend on it, we search hard but we are afraid of bondage, sweet and anxious because of too rich love, harsh and confused because of too deep love, happy and careless because of too simple love.
In the beautiful music and poetry, I see the love between the hero and heroine jumping with the picture, intoxicated, agitated, contradictory, lost, entangled and isolated. Matter and soul, ties and freedom, possession and tolerance, love has too many ways to begin and express, and too many conflicts and contradictions. We often have and fall deeply like them in an instant, then flee for reasons we can't even articulate. Maybe it's not us that can't tell, but love itself.
But what is the most beautiful feeling in the world that can stop us from pursuing it all the time?

Without a professional judge's vision, some people may think it is too vain for such a particularly egoistic and emotional film, but I personally think it is particularly suitable for expressing the complex and changeable beauty of love.

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Extended Reading
  • Emmalee 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    When we are unknowingly spoiled by the narrative and structure of Hollywood's three-act drama, our ability to accept it will become worse and less, and we will forget that film is originally an art. When the seventy-year-old Malik used his method to shoot "Towards Wonderland", it was not an old man's postmodernity, but what he presented was a perspective of observing the world, a way of expressing art, pure and beautiful. Olga is the kind of fairy who is a girl when she loves and a woman when she doesn't.

  • Maeve 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    A director who was born in professional philosophy, made a conceptual film that allows consciousness to be dominated by emotions. I admit that the cinematography is quite good, the transitions between the air and the various emotions, but it is still a director's stylized film where form is greater than content. Olga Kurylenko is a very attractive woman...and nothing else~

To the Wonder quotes

  • Father Quintana: You have to struggle with yourself. You have to struggle with your own strength.

  • Father Quintana: [voice over] Where are you leading me? Teach us where to seek you. Christ, be with me. Christ before me. Christ behind me. Christ in me. Christ above me. Christ on my right. Christ on my left. Christ in the heart. Flood our souls with your spirit and life... so completely... that our lives may only be a reflection of yours. Shine through us. Show us how to seek you. We were made to seek you.