What's tomorrow? May eternity begin tomorrow.
When I first saw the name of this movie, what came to my mind was a science fiction film. However, this is a complete literary masterpiece. In today's tense science fiction blockbusters and unique comedy films to seize the attention of film fans, a literary film can touch people's hearts with a unique perspective and a simple story, and it has to be said that this is also the success of this Greek film "Eternity and One Day".
The day before the poet Alexander, who was terminally ill with cancer, tried to entrust his own daughter with the dog he had been accompanying him to the day before he went to the hospital to die, but the other party refused. The daughter's ignorance of her situation and the son-in-law's plans to sell her ancestral house left Alexander in disgrace. As Alexander faced the last day of his life alone, many fragments of his life during the lifetime of His wife Anna, the visit to his elderly and frail mother living alone in a sanatorium, and the memories of the 19th-century poet Solomos, who spent most of his life studying, met him in real or dreamy form to help him dispel his confusion about "how long tomorrow will last".
The plot of the film is simple, and the story is not eye-catching, but the theme makes people have unlimited reverie. It's a theme of time, how long a day is, how short eternity is. When Alexander paced along the shore, the seemingly leisurely and quiet background, the waves layer by layer, but slapped the anxious heart of an old man. Is the cross of stones on the shore a metaphor for prayer or redemption? The parting of the poet's eyes is both real and illusory, and we can clearly feel it in front of the camera. In his youth, he lived a life of self-exile and became a famous poet. Now, Alexander has only one last day left. Like all people, we may not be able to appreciate what a poet sees in his eyes when he faces the last day of his life, but the film shows us everything. How many regrets, or regrets, in this life, how long the last day of life is.
What tomorrow is, one more day than eternity. I love the footage of young couples dancing by the sea, and not just because it's beautiful. Indeed, this is the most beautiful clip in the movie, not only the visual feast brought to people by the long shot, but also a release of the soul, when you shake the body with the dance steps of two people, with the waves swinging, perhaps you will understand that love is the beacon of life, illuminating the lost people, is the way back. The old streets are carried out with ancient and elegant rituals, as if time has made history stop here, so quiet, so unfazed, no one will realize the hurried pace of time, their faces appear kind and serene, the most innocent expression of human beings.
A coach, an hour journey. Went around in a circle and got back to the starting point, which is the end of a cycle, isn't it? No matter how many rounds and turns, how beautiful the scenery is on the way. Carrying a red flag, trying to open his tired eyes, the young man who silently stepped onto the bus from the crowd of the parade, the poet looked at him, was there a shadow of his own youth in the middle? With a heart of blood, maintaining their firm beliefs, fiercely resisting the reality of making them dissatisfied? Are the few musicians who get on the bus halfway through play the most familiar pieces of the poet's life as he turned to the exploration of art itself after exhaustion? The pair of lovers who had made a fuss, the woman threw away the beautiful flowers, and was gently picked up by him, was it that he was lamenting that he could no longer redeem his lost love? Turning to a few yellow-shirted cyclists outside the window, are they illustrating the repetitive lives of the world?
Perhaps we should be thankful that we do not have the poet's unique vision, the poet's way of seeing the world, so that there is less sorrow. Yet life is like this, no matter which trajectory we walk, death is so long, life is so short. No matter what tomorrow looks like, it is just a continuation of today, the eternal next day. If time is not within my control, I hope that tomorrow is the beginning of eternity.
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