"Gone with the Wind" is a film shot in France in 1999 by the well-known Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (hereinafter referred to as Abbas), the biggest feature of the film is that the picture is very poetic, the long shots, the loose plot and the nature of the documentary, let people watch like reading poetry.
In addition, the film is also very delicate, in every scene of the film, you can find some very interesting plots and details, such as turtles crawling slowly on the ground, chickens and chickens everywhere in mountain villages, scarabs rolling dry dung balls... Whether abbas deliberately did it, or accidentally met and photographed it, it can be called a stroke of God.
However, when it comes to "Gone with the Wind", we have to say the director Abbas. Among all of Abbas's films, "Gone with the Wind" can also be regarded as his proud work.
I haven't been with Abbas for a long time, but Abbas's films have fascinated me. Unlike other movies that are popular, his films are calm and beautiful, and people can't help but close their eyes to feel this peace and beauty.
In the use of the lens, Abbas's lens is more soothing, more long, the characters and backgrounds in the picture are natural, some film shots, seem to have no connection with the film, but I think all this is in Abbas's eyes, just like many painters do the same, at first glance do not understand, but read a few times to appreciate the meaning of the painting.
The film "Passing Away with the Wind" was born in such a mood. Just looking at the poster of the movie, you will be enchanted by the golden wheat field, and in the middle of the golden wheat field, there is a field road that has been somewhat white, and the back of a motorcycle is driving on this hillside, which is like a French oil painting, which is pleasant to watch.
Speaking of the movie itself, "Gone with the Wind" can be said to be Abbas's most plotless movie, after watching it for the first time, he has no idea what the film is talking about, mainly because Abbas's films have never been narrative-based, and he, like many directors who are good at using long shots, prefer to use their own lenses to record which original life, with the inconspicuous details of life, to interpret the profound meaning.
And Abbas's "Gone with the Wind" also abandons the complex plot structure and the causes and consequences of the story, directly reducing the film narrative to the minimum, leaving a lot of metaphors and narration in the film, which will leave the audience with space for thinking and blind thinking.
It is Abbas's "profound" shooting method that will allow the audience to watch the film, the focus will be shifted by the camera, follow the characters in the picture, and understand the changes in their state of mind.
What kind of mood changes? From the film, we can clearly understand that it is the change of mood of the engineer in the face of death.
The story of the film is actually very simple, that is, to describe the engineer who heard that an elderly man was about to die in a small town, so the engineer came to the town with a group of people and prepared to wait for the old man to die and shoot a custom funeral. In the face of the time before the death of the old man, the engineer's heart has a variety of contradictions involving each other, on the one hand, people's hearts are good, although the old man is old, but also do not want to look forward to the old man's death every day; but on the other hand, if the old man does not die, there is no funeral to shoot, there is no way to make a difference to the boss.
However, after the engineer stayed in the town for a few days, his mood changed again. Unlike his entourage, who were still immersed in the anxiety of the filming delay, the engineer communicated with the villagers in the town and realized how ridiculous it was to "expect someone else to die".
As the elderly doctor at the end of the film says: Yes, death is the worst, when you can't see the world, this beauty, the wonders of nature and the grace of God, it means that you are gone forever...
And the whole process, as we mentioned earlier, director Abbas did not pay special attention to the human background and plot structure during the filming process, but through the conversation between the engineer and the small town villagers, it echoed the change in the engineer's state of mind, that is, the death dilemma that people will face in their lives. And in such a dilemma, everything people do is in vain, the world collapses into the void, because in the face of death, everything will be meaningless.
And for people's state of mind to change, they need a mirror, and in "Gone with the Wind", the little boy in the town with clear eyes is the mirror of the engineer. In the film, the engineer reprimands the little boy for a moment of anger, but soon feels guilty and sorry for it, hoping to reconcile with the little boy. At this time, the conscience that had been sleeping in the engineer's heart for a long time was awakened, and the hypocrisy of man was revealed.
The main core point of this film is that the engineer and his party go to the town to shoot the funeral ceremony.
But looking back, we think again, after death, is there such a need for such a tedious funeral? In fact, not only in foreign countries, but in many parts of our country, there are still inheritors of past cumbersome funerals.
In fact, for death, each of us has no experience, and if we insist on saying that there is, we can also imagine it from the death of others, but that is a substitute and cannot be equivalent. So, when it comes to death, we know nothing. But why do we have to "design" such a tedious funeral? Is it fear? Is it obsession? Or do you want to give it a special meaning?
But as Kamo said, whether you are a high-ranking official or a poor person, you are only a drop in the ocean in the face of death. People design all kinds of tedious funeral rituals, but they want to infuse certain ideas, hoping to transcend life, sublimate life, and give meaning to life. But to speak of the Head is the Tao, but in fact it is nothing more than a betrayal of life.
At the end of the film, the engineer throws the dead bone into the river, and at this time the tragic music sounds, the dry bone also meanders down the stream, and we don't know where it will drift, which may be the true meaning of "Passing with the Wind".
As a director, Abbas used an unbelievable way to shoot this gangster movie, which is vaguely more, as if Abbas wants to use the role to make the world sober, sometimes giving people an uncomfortable and uncomfortable feeling, but I have to admit that the film has far-reaching significance for the audience!