first off, the visuals of this film is the most gorgeous cinematography I've ever seen. I miss seeing films as vibrant and as warm toned as this film. I'm personally not the best at understanding experimental films but from my understanding, it follows a perspective of a poet and how he perceived his suffering from childhood to death. he tries to find someone who can give him selfless love and searches for that during his time at church and becomes a priest. i don't think he ever found that selfless love and eventually dies in the end in this sort of peaceful yet suffering environment. color is also a huge implement to this film from red being tied to black and white being its contrast to black. there's someone always saying:
"you are fire. you are dressed in black."
he seems to tie black and red as his suffering. i'm not sure where pomegranates ties to this, maybe its the bleeding wound this reddish color that ties to his suffering. white being purity, the lead to death and piece. he wears write as if he's released from his suffering. over all i wasn't fond of the story mainly because he emphasizes how much he suffered but i see no reason for him to be. he feels like he's being performatively suffering to sound like a true poet.
first off, the visuals of this film is the most gorgeous cinematography I've ever seen. I miss seeing films as vibrant and as warm toned as this film. I'm personally not the best at understanding experimental films but from my understanding, it follows a perspective of a poet and how he perceived his suffering from childhood to death. he tries to find someone who can give him selfless love and searches for that during his time at church and becomes a priest. i don't think he ever found that selfless love and eventually dies in the end in this sort of peaceful yet suffering environment. color is also a huge implement to this film from red being tied to black and white being its contrast to black. there's someone always saying:
"you are fire. you are dressed in black."
he seems to tie black and red as his suffering. i'm not sure where pomegranates ties to this, maybe its the bleeding wound this reddish color that ties to his suffering. white being purity, the lead to death and piece. he wears write as if he's released from his suffering. over all i wasn't fond of the story mainly because he emphasizes how much he suffered but i see no reason for him to be. he feels like he's being performatively suffering to sound like a true poet.