( Note: Although this is a film review, the author will not mention the specific plot of the story. Because this is not a recommended draft, but an afterthought. And what I want to say next is only read Movie people can understand it more deeply. Here, I will be a little bit naughty, I hope you can watch the movie first or understand the plot independently before watching) This is a story about bravery, about family, and about self-salvation. It took place in Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban, which is doomed to the oppressive atmosphere and heavy theme of the film itself. However, under the heavy pressure, I still saw the light and the beauty.
The film narrates the intertwining of light and dark. The open line tells how Pawana, a little girl whose father was imprisoned by the Taliban, takes care of the family's livelihood and how to find her father. The dark line is an ancient legend of an Afghan nation, telling a little boy. The story of going through hardships to retrieve the lost seeds. The whole film adopts the frame story technique, making the two lines parallel and mapping each other. This is a unique feature of this film.
Tell me about the scenes that touched me the most. The little girl Pawana disguised herself as a man and went out to maintain her family. She met another little girl, Xiao Xia, who also pretended to be a man. They sat on a high slope and looked at the sun slowly setting in the distance. The afterglow of the setting sun gently embraced the two little girls. Xiao Xia held up a picture of the sea and told Pawana her dreams. "Have you seen the sea? I heard that the moon will pull the sea to the shore. Then the sea will recede. I want to go and see. I want to put my feet on the warm sand and feel the water hitting when it rises. The coolness." I want to see if the world is full of peaceful beauty. I want to see if there are seashells dotted on the beach in that world.
I want to see if I can be happy in that world... At the end of the film, Pawana had to go to find her father separately from Xiao Xia, and the two made a promise in the alley. "Xiao Xia! Today, 20 years later, on the sandy beach where the moon drags the sea you mentioned earlier, I am waiting to meet you again." At this moment, as a movie viewer, I laughed for the first time, but I don't know why the tears are in my eyes, and he is reluctant to fall. I am waiting for you, you must come. This is the promise of the two girls to each other in troubled times. Can they do it? The answer is self-evident. However, I think, with this promise, even if the two encounter many difficulties in the future, they will have the belief to live, right? You see, someone is waiting for me, I am not alone, you see, there are people waiting for me. The author of the film
considers it to be the finishing touch to the whole film. Pawana took her weak father through the boundless desert of Afghanistan, and on the other side, the mother, who plucked up the courage to resist in order to find Pawana, finally got out of her sister and younger brother, and the three of them also struggled. Advance in the desert. The film stopped abruptly, with just the right amount of white space. We don’t know if their family will meet in the end, we don’t know if Pawana’s father can withstand the cold of the desert at night, we don’t know if Pawana can grow up safely...We don’t know anything, It seemed that I could foresee something, but stopped myself from thinking deeply. This is the brilliance of the film. It does not completely break, but gives you space and hope.
's narrative about the dark line actually has a hidden meaning. The little boy in the story finally touched the forces of darkness with his love and courage, and took back the seeds that the villagers depend on for survival. His ending is so perfect, but it reflects the cruelty and darkness of reality even more. In reality, the innocent Afghan people, especially women, are suffering, being plundered and hurt by their compatriots. War, bloodshed, killing, robbery, indifference, discrimination, this is reality, this is the real life. There was an intriguing scene. At the end of the story, the little boy impressed the evil elephant king with his own story. The elephant king’s posture impressed me very much. It knelt in front of the little boy, bowed its head, as if atonement. I think the film actually conveys such a value that those perpetrators who destroy human nature will one day confess their sins to the suffering people. Since ancient times, evil does not suppress righteousness. This is the great way of the world, and this is the principle of justice. The little boy in
is actually the incarnation of Pawana's dead brother. The film uses a little boy in a fairy tale to restore a tragic fact "My name is Brightman, my father is a teacher, and my mother is a writer.I was walking down the street and saw a toy that exploded. This is the ending, my ending. "Brightman means "peace" in Arabic. Peace in the world means that there is no war, and the peace of the human heart is kindness, trueness, and beautiful wishes, mutual trust, mutual respect, and hand in hand-- This, I think, is also a kind of hope that the film wants to convey. In this world, where there is good, there must be evil. What we can do is not to forget the existence of hope and not to lose life under any circumstances. And the kindness of being a person. Don’t forget, “people” are our most precious treasure. Remember, you can be sonorous and powerful, but don’t bully others.
