One of my sisters thought it was the tree of life in the Garden of Eden, and I tend to think of it as the tree of wisdom, because Adam and Eve's expulsion from Paradise was not the result of their stealing the fruit of wisdom, but the beginning of Adam and Eve's wisdom. Only human beings need wisdom to live a life worth living with wisdom. What wisdom does God need? God does not think, and God does not laugh.
So why the father tree? Because Vera and Alexander left home to find a father they had never met. Father left home before them. This has actually been a careful revision of the biblical book of Genesis - Adam and Eve, the two intimate first people, were revised into equally intimate siblings, and God's exile of Adam and Eve became God's self-exile , so that the theme of the whole story is also changed from the exile of God to the search for God - otherwise, it is not enough to re-tell the Bible, and it is not enough to convert the huge narrative of the Bible into a context that Angel can experience and feel. Therefore, the tree of wisdom is the tree of the father, and when the father is recognized, it is the time when wisdom is found. vice versa.
The tree in the fog is definitely not the tree of life - didn't the old horse die in the ice and snow? Although this death was accompanied by the wedding of the couple, a ceremony that was about to give birth to a new life. It is the tree of wisdom. Along the way, Ulla and Alexander went through hardships - being driven from trains, being raped - and when they passed through and pierced through these hardships, they saw the fog, and when the fog was removed, they saw the tree. The ladder in Jacob's dream in Genesis 28: "The head of the ladder was to the sky, and the angels of God went up and down the ladder." By this Jacob recognized it as a blessing and a promise of God's presence with him. Whether it is a ladder in a dream, or a tree in the fog, they are all images of the relationship between man and god. Ulla and Alexander's wandering search is also a spiritual journey to know themselves, a journey to learn wisdom and seek faith from suffering. It turns out that father (representing growth and a life worth living) is a tree, standing there silently without speaking, just a reference, a hint. The suffering of Ullah and Alexander and their difficult climb to it made it possible for them to recognize their father and find wisdom. They recognize that tree, that father, and they grow. They will leave their father, but the gaze of the father will follow them for a long time, so that they neither overstep at will nor fall into nothingness.
It is said that the original ending of "Landscape in the Fog" is that Vera and Alexander disappear into the fog, they do not find their father, they are the last scenery in nothingness. Anzhe modified this ending for his young daughter—to show her hope, to keep her from crying—and this is the ending we see. He said to his youngest daughter, "Son, if you want, you can recreate the world." Just like that, with a flick of your hand, the fog will dissipate. This is probably the most successful revision in film history! Such modifications are not for everyone's sake, but more like our lives themselves.
She waved away the fog in front of her eyes, but don't forget, the huge severed finger with complex cultural implications that was hoisted high by the helicopter, that Vera who was raped and unconsciously painted on the car window with her own blood Fingers, where are they pointing?
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