There is a kind of movie that people are easily confused by its superficial or main features, but ignore its core content and original meaning, and "The Lady of Sand" belongs to this kind of movie. The strong realistic style in the film, the twisting plot design, and the grotesque photography and music styles make it easy for the viewers to stay in the story itself, rather than get out of it and realize the original meaning of the whole film. , and the allegorical approach to the relationship between man and society. Watching the whole movie in turn is like a philosophical reflection, reflecting the absurdity and helplessness of the entire human being in social life from the predicament of one or two people's lives.
Feng Youlan once said: "Philosophy is a systematic reflection on life." If this sentence is correct, then this film can be called a philosophical film.
The transition from microscopic sand grains to macroscopic sand dunes at the beginning is undoubtedly a depiction of the relationship between individuals and social groups. The state and trajectory of a grain of sand is not determined by itself but by the entire dune and its surroundings. The fate of the protagonist Sand Girl is also determined by the collective will of the villagers, and even the values she recognizes are those that are needed because of the desert itself. And the scientist who seems to have stumbled into the trap by accident has not encountered a real dilemma in his life in the city. It is not so much that he is here for scientific investigation, but rather an escape. That monologue on various documents in social life was just a reflection, and it also laid the groundwork for him to go from resistance to compromise later on. Because he has realized that even if he escapes from the bunker, he cannot escape the cage of life.
In the movie, the interaction between men and women, which was previously thought to be "cultivating desire in a confinement room", does not seem to be true now, because the pleasure of intercourse between men and women is far less intense than the pain and helplessness of being imprisoned and coerced. And the purpose of men from the beginning was not for sex, and the reason for staying was not because of sex. Desire here seems to be just a natural reaction, not so strong and not so flat.
And the bigger feeling I got from this movie is an allegory of marriage or the relationship between men and women, a relationship that has to exist, just like some people in the society have to get married, why not another escape Out of the bunker.
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