——Tianxuan Dihuang—— Yi said, “Hu Xuanhuang” is Dihuang for Tianxuan. Simply put, the sky is dark and the ground is yellow. Although I don't know the essential connection between the name and the documentary, why did they think of such a translation? But it is difficult to describe this film in simple words. The film begins with the Himalayas, and then begins to be a part of nature, and then slowly cuts to the human beings. The human beings here are mainly religious groups, including Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and even the mysterious beliefs of primitive clans. Then there is the beauty of nature, until the Brazilian rainforest cuts a saw and begins to talk about modern industry, rainforest destruction, oil field fires, cities, workers, assembly lines. Then talk about historical monuments and human culture, and enter human beliefs again. It ends in the starry sky at Keystone Park. I am a person who is not good at expressing my opinions, especially after watching such a work, I feel very depressed, and it seems that I have a lot to say, but it is difficult to find a starting point to start. Let’s talk about faith first. I don’t know whether I have faith or not. If it’s religion, then I should not. But I will also ask the Buddha to bless me when I am helpless, and God will save me. I also occasionally go to the temple to burn incense. I think most Chinese people are like me, so it's hard to understand people's madness, tears, and unity in the film. When I saw a tribe in Brazil dancing a funeral dance, I suddenly thought of my own nation. We used to have a similar dance hundreds of years ago, Magus. No one is qualified to judge the high or low level of a culture. Even if I still cannot accept the primitive religious activities of primitive tribes, I will still respect it. Among them, the one that depresses me the most is the segment that entered the modern industry. With the continuous increase of the speed, the only people left on the screen are the people in a hurry, the people on the road and the assembly line. The chickens on it seem to be indistinguishable, waiting for the castration of the years. Therefore, people have no sense of pride to show off, and there is no need to feel inferior. Of course, the gap between the rich and the poor will never be closed. Maybe poverty is really a sin. The crowd picking up garbage, the homeless sleeping in the city, these are also around me, just in the underground passage of Linjiangmen, there are many. Where is the happiness for them? But are the people crowded on the assembly line subway also very comfortable? Not necessarily, maybe it is because people are born with pain, so they have religion. I'm starting to understand advanced animals.

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Virginia 2022-03-25 09:01:14

Top-notch video art. This is the most real appearance of the world, and she affects every nerve in the viewer's soul. They, they, in the world, staring at you in front of the screen through the camera. The devout monks in Kathmandu, the pilgrims in Jerusalem, the indigenous people who dance mysteriously in South American tribes, the endless social animals in Pike Street and Shibuya, the female workers in the Polish glass factory and the Indonesian tobacco factory... all live on the same land, time and space. Broken remains of human civilization, magnificent nature and stars, this world is so absurd, yet so beautiful.
Eliane 2022-03-25 09:01:14

The fickleness of the world and the insignificance of the earth are brought to light through the nature/society clips captured through slow music and slow motion. Editing the daily life of countries and ethnic groups with different skin colors/cultures/development levels around the world, and depicting various religious ceremonies that seem to be completely different or even tit-for-tat. It seems to be a simple description of the customs, but in fact it conveys a kind of sentient beings. All suffering, the meaning of the Great Harmony of the world, can not help but remind people of the Gnostic trend of thought in the late classical era. Considering that the film was made in the year after the end of the Cold War, the expectation of "the end of history" is even more obvious. In the 1990s, Europe and the United States, which believed that they had achieved the ultimate victory, were very popular with this concept of Datong and fraternity, which to a large extent constituted the origin of the later behavior of the Virgin. The world, it can be said that it is an ironic backlash against this kind of death.