Sisyphus in the Tropical Center

Israel 2022-02-13 08:01:44

For a work like this, you can easily classify it as a bad film. However, with the different viewing angles, the feeling presented by the movie will also change. In the film, being in Spain is like being in the center of the tropics, and people’s mental state is pushed to extremes. After deviating from the norm, in this intriguing heat, it unnaturally exudes another unique charm. Even if this style has a taste of failure, it still has a high degree of hallucination. It is suitable for use with a lot of irritating food and cheap cigarettes after a lot of exercise.

It is indeed different from those popular crime movies. It gathers in the first half, and the implementation of theft is not the focus. Instead, it puts the visual in the paragraph of "convincing the old partner to commit the crime again". Ordinary theft crime movies just put this process at the beginning of the film, and it takes no more than 20 minutes. However, this screenwriter is unique, turning regular partial fragments into all his expressions. Therefore, unlike the past, the audience sees the other side of the "crime movie genre" here, which is a long see-saw, mutual abrasion, irresistible anxiety, and a drop of sweat in a wide range of heat.

After the whole film was over, I suddenly remembered the beginning of the film: a boulder on the mountain slipped and just flew over his head and hit his swimming pool. Only then did I discover the perfect symbol that was injected at the beginning of the story: Sisyphus's boulder fell on his head, and he naturally assumed the fate of Sisyphus. I want to quit, but I refuse, but he is constantly being threatened by the nightmare incarnation of the character "Tang" (that is, he wants to convince "I" to participate in the next crime). He tells "I": You can't escape the criminal life you want to escape now . Staying away is not so easy. It cannot be your hiding place yet. Unless you die, Spain is not the paradise you think.

After this symbol, it is the just talked about seeing each other, the mental state of "I" is gradually being driven to extremes, the body has become a tropical body, a heat is brewing in the local area, and the fluctuations seem to be meaningless. The conversation spreads out, and the bad emotions keep gathering. Outside of the play, I have already experienced the burning sensation.

According to this expression, it seems to me that after "Tang" was shot to death, the film should end. The director does not have to present to the audience the final position of a person who cannot be selected. Such a position should not exist. Even if there is, it should be an illusion in vain, otherwise the director will personally break the myth that he planted at the beginning of the film. .

Since cognition of fate is the theme of the film, the deeper ending should be "I" and finally know that "I" is Sisyphus. In other words, after seeing the nightmare for a few days, since "I" knows that I am Sisyphus in the center of the tropics, I shouldn't force "you" to write a new ending for "me".

Various experiences tell us that cognition is a prerequisite for change. Firstly, cognition is needed, and then there will be change. This is not wrong, but we often overlook this point. In fact, the initial self-recognition is often more difficult than the self-change in the future.

It was possible for this movie to achieve this level: after deleting all kinds of adjectives, look in the mirror and face yourself, what we will see. Unfortunately, the director failed to complete such an expression in the end. In the latter part of the film, it still embarked on another popular road, and after that, the tropics that the audience saw were nothing more than ordinary tropical landscapes.

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  • Mina 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    What a weird movie, it's all a bunch of hormonal lunatics

  • Clark 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    It was really cool that the director of the MV used to score music! The sound and picture combination part is great! Especially the opening and climax! Of course advantages are sometimes disadvantages! The disadvantage is still obvious

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