What impress you, my love?

Diego 2022-04-21 09:03:17

Closely connected with the previous "Life and Flow"

The actor who played the director in "Life and Flow" and the actor who played the director in "The Lover under the Olive Tree" appeared in the same frame

The director in reality off-camera looks at himself in-camera

An indescribable sense of magic

The story is really simple

It is about the actor who played the bridegroom who got married the day after the earthquake in "Life and Flow"

Knows the actor who plays his wife in the movie in real life

And there are some inexplicable feelings

The story of the male protagonist's chatty pursuit of the female protagonist

Some clips in "Life and Flow" are constantly NG when watching movies, which is hilarious

What seems quite natural is actually not necessarily smooth sailing when shooting, on the contrary, it may be stumbling.

That last shot is really cool

what's the result? Did the hostess agree or not?

The background music suddenly becomes cheerful

Is it a happy ending?

There is no answer, the result is left to our own imagination

Earthquake destroys homes, takes lives

but bridges the gap between the two young

Everyone becomes nothing, suddenly equal

What seemed impossible before becomes possible

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Extended Reading
  • Lura 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    The trilogy is nested in layers, it is best to read it together. Although these films seem to be realistic, but in the film the director has already analyzed his own film very clearly, the film is a film after all, even if it looks real, it cannot be real. Using fiction to interpret reality, and using the perspective of bystanders (two fictional directors) to create an alienation effect, this director is calm enough, but no matter how calm he is, he is still the movie "Magician".

  • Antonia 2022-03-15 09:01:09

    Abbas’s "Village Trilogy" should be the most relevant trilogy in my impressions of the Central African film series (such as the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy): The story of "Birth and Growth" in 1991 originated after the earthquake The director went to find the boy starring in the 1987 "Where is My Friend's House"; and the 1994 "Lover under Rugby" just used the play-in-the-play method to tell the two actors in "Birth and Growth". The relationship/proposal story.

Through the Olive Trees quotes

  • Hossein: Mam, I'm really sorry. I want to do everything you ask me, but I won't do masonry. I don't work in construction anymore. I came to act in your film. I will work as an actor, but not as a mason.