This is a movie that is not afraid of spoilers.
Most of the plot is narrated by a female voice in the form of narration, and the voice is calm and serene, making people want to listen to it all the time.
Here are all her exact words.
For convenience, all bring digital labels.
1) I saw a man who wanted to make a delicious dinner and surprise his wife.
2) I saw a man who was a little absent-minded.
3) I see a woman, a personnel supervisor, who can't feel ashamed.
4) I saw a man who didn't trust the bank and hid his savings in his mattress.
5, I saw a boy, has not yet found love.
6) I saw a man who had accidentally stepped on a landmine and lost both legs, which made him extremely sad.
7) I see a man who has lost faith.
8) I saw a pair of parents who lost their son in the war.
9 I saw a man and a woman, two lovers, floating over a city that had once been famous for its beauty and was now in ruins.
10) I saw a woman who thought there was no one and was waiting for her.
11, I saw a woman who liked champagne and liked it very much.
12, I saw a man who went the wrong way.
13, I saw a man, begging others to let him go.
14 I saw a woman who had a problem with her shoes.
15 I saw a man who wanted to save his family's reputation, but soon he regretted it.
16 I see a man who wants to conquer the world and then understands that he will eventually fail.
17 I saw a man and his daughter going to a birthday party, and then it rained, and it rained a lot.
18 I saw a routed army marching towards the enemy's prisoner-of-war camp far away in Siberia.
19 I saw a man who had something wrong with his car.
There are still a few scenes where she doesn't show up.
The first scene at the beginning of the film.
I try to narrate it in the way of a storytelling female voice.
20 I saw a man and a woman overlooking the city.
21 I saw a family taking pictures of newborn babies.
22 I saw three young girls dancing to the music of the restaurant.
23, I saw a man and a woman, troubled by love.
24 I saw a man and a woman discussing the first law of thermodynamics.
25 I saw a man crying in front of strangers.
26 I see a man who loses patience with his patients.
By this point, almost all the stories had been revealed.
There are a few exceptions, the priest of the 7th story, whose scenes are the most numerous, in addition to the one shown earlier, and four acts.
They are crushed by faith in nightmares, wake up in dreams, find a psychologist, and find a psychologist for the second time because the doctor wants to catch the bus and is rejected.
This pastor no longer believes in God, the pastor is just a job of making a living, but he wants to bring comfort and hope to the world with faith.
The man in Act 1 also has a follow-up.
He made good food for his wife.
But he was confused by the old classmate who greeted him and ignored him.
The old classmate who didn't excel in school seemed to be no worse than him, making him suspect that he was a failure.
The doctor in act 26, the next appears in the tavern, ignoring the view from the window and worrying.
At this point, all the scenes in the movie have been explained.
I don't know if you're still unsatisfied or bored.
The film is a Swedish film called About Infinity.
The director is Roy Anderson, born in 1943.
Roy didn't make many films, but he was actually nominated for the Berlin Golden Bear in 1970 for Swedish Love Story.
In 2000, he was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
In 2014, he won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, and his work that year was probably his most widely known one, "Cold Branches and Sparrows".
It's exactly the same style as this movie.
The difference is that the film seems to have a main line and a story, and by this one, it has been completely fragmented.
2000's "Songs from the Second Floor", 2007's "You're Still Alive", and 2014's "Cold Branches and Sparrows" have been called his "life trilogy".
During this period, his style became increasingly distinct.
Minimalist, cold, fixed-lens, absurd.
Parallel lines, corners, perspective views, chaotic space-time.
Some spaces can be extended infinitely, and some spaces are already corners that converge on a point.
This is true even in scenes that are very inconspicuous.
It may be visual fatigue, but even if you've seen a thousand movies, you'll still remember his movies at a glance and will never forget them.
In fact, the director revealed very early that this film will be more wild than the previous one, exploring charm, discussing respect and discourse, and exploring dialectical attitudes towards beauty.
Thus, we see the movie "About Infinity", without any protagonist and main line, completely composed of fragmented scenes.
There are many scenes of our daily lives, there are some important historical scenes, and even there are scenes of confusion and surreality.
There is sadness, there is joy, there is decadence, there is almost all the emotions of human beings and the difficulties they face.
The director's inspiration is more, mainly from the heroine of the story behind "One Thousand and One Nights", that is, the wise girl who tells the story to the king, named Sherkh Ratchad.
The film is told in a female voice, which is actually a parody of Sherkh ratchad's storytelling. You may be like a king, hoping that the story will go on endlessly.
The soundtrack of the film is also from the representative work of the Russian composer Rimsky Korsakov - the symphonic suite "Shehzrachad".
Another inspiration came from the paintings of Marc Chagall.
Mark Chagall's Baidu message is as follows: (1887-1985) was born in Russia, and the early Jewish customs were the source of his deep-rooted imagination. Mark Chagall was a great man in the history of modern painting, a pastoralist of all genres such as Impressionism, Cubism, And Abstract Expressionism.
The most obvious scene in the movie is a man and a woman flying in the sky.
The original work was called "Over the Town", which is widely translated as "Lovers in the Air" in China.
Chagall's paintings may mainly express the love with his wife, and the scene in the film, below it seems to be Cologne, Germany, destroyed by the war, the pair of lovers, perhaps died in this war, their souls continue to embrace each other in the air.
In fact, there are many scenes about war in Roy Anderson's films, and in his films, not only do the scenes have a lot of parallel lines, but also in time and space. Modern drama is interspersed with scenes from the war years, and even intersects.
For example, in "Cold Branches and Sparrows", there is the following scene, which is unforgettable.
In this film, there are 6 scenes directly or indirectly related to war, 6, 8, 9, 13, 16, 18, which account for a large proportion, perhaps, the director wants to say that human history is repeated in endless wars and endless peace.
In addition to the visual distinctive features, Roy's films generally have little dialogue, coupled with fixed long shots, often making people feel as if they want to communicate with the audience but cannot communicate, and the lonely barrier between people is about to emerge. The loneliness of the little people in the world can be felt without a story, but you are not sympathetic, but you are also unfortunate and happy, that is, you look at it coldly, and then quickly imagine his story in your head, your own story.
This time, the director added a warm female voice, just like the perspective of God, watching all kinds of small people and big people come and go in front of them, although the tone is calm and not mixed with emotions, but there seems to be a kind of compassion for all sentient beings.
The first law of thermodynamics says that energy is conserved and does not disappear.
Perhaps, human beings live endlessly, and the cycle repeats, and so on.
Presumably that's about endless stories.
In addition, as an architectural design practitioner, looking at these excellent colors and compositions, I really feel that the story is insignificant, and maybe a good architect can make an excellent movie.
The original text was published in Gong-No.-Zi Yue Film and Television.