"The distance is a painful instrument." This is the poem of the poet Lin Li. Play with this instrument and cry. Regarding the distance, there are too many unforgettable memories and too many heartbreaks. However, there are still too many people playing, one after the other, endlessly.
The Turkish movie "Distant", although the plot does not mention the far, but after watching it, the existence of the far can be felt everywhere. Mam and his wife are divorced and live alone in Istanbul, earning a decent income by helping people shoot merchandise posters for a living. Although he often felt lonely, he was also quiet. Suddenly one day, his unemployed cousin Yusov came to Istanbul to find a job and moved into his apartment, his peaceful life was shattered. Yusof was vulgar, poor, and even ashamed of being poor. As Maupassant said, the rich man in the city is always embarrassed by his poor relatives and their bad habits. Mam showed no enthusiasm for the sudden arrival of his cousin, but placed him in a small room and continued to live his life in isolation.
During the day, Yusof struggled to find a job for his livelihood and his family, running around and getting rejected. Mam and friends sat in the house sipping wine and talking about photography, art, and women; at night, Mam watched with gusto for unplotted TV footage, and Yusoff was already drowsy. Yusof, who had nothing to gain, sat in the shabby crew club, chatting with strangers around him; meanwhile, Mam was drinking alone in the brightly lit upscale bar. In the face of loneliness and helplessness, all places look the same, and it is impossible to tell who is more emptier.
There is a lot of snow in Istanbul, and Yusof lingered in the wind and snow. Seeing the beautiful women walking by, he couldn't help but want to follow them a few steps, but he was always out of tune with this city. Mam would hate the smell in Yusof's shoes, he would smoke in the room, he would suspect he stole his watch. Finally, when Yusof's dignity was completely torn up (because he found out that Mam had searched his bag), he chose to leave. This ending that Mam had been looking forward to, did not make him excited, but felt a moment of loss.
Yusov came to Istanbul with a dream, but reality hit him again and again. Yusof went to the docks to find work, but others told him that his career as a seafarer ended in nothing. Yusof wanted to send money to his mother so that she could be proud of her in the village, but the unresponsive application process left him frustrated and frustrated. Yusof wanted to meet beautiful girls, but the cold and evasive expression made him flinch and fear. Yusof wanted to regain the joy of the past with his cousin, but Mam's refusal to stay thousands of miles away made him bow his head and hide... For Yusof, although he was in Istanbul, it was like an unreachable distance.
Mam is more of a paradox. His long-divorced wife asked him to meet and tell him that he was immigrating to Canada with his current husband. The ex-wife is irritated by Mam's indifferent behavior, and brings up the fact that the two had a child they had shed and that they were infertile. Mam was overwhelmed, but quietly stood outside his ex-wife's house at night. Mam always went to the field alone to take pictures for the manufacturer, but made an exception to let Yusof, who could not help, serve as his assistant, and then paid Yusof a remuneration that made Yusof overjoyed. Mam rarely took the initiative to contact his family, but when he received the news that his mother was hospitalized for surgery, he silently stayed by her mother's bedside, and carefully served her mother to the toilet at night. While driving, Mam saw sheep and the sunset, and was excited to construct a beautiful photographic image. But when Yusoff proposed to get out of the car and set up the camera equipment, he firmly refused, not wanting the two to waste time on their unrealistic dreams. For Mam, those warm emotions are like a distant place.
I asked the stars, where is the distance? The stars said, the distance is far away, there are many brothers who are separated; I ask the wind, where is the distance? The wind said, the distance is very far, you become lighter, I will carry you to pursue; I ask the clouds, where is the distance? Cloud said, the distance is very far, but I can wipe it clean.
Fate only gave me a distance, but it didn't give me a horse, but it still wouldn't stop me from running towards it. So, in this sense, the distance is not far away. As long as you have love, the distance can also be close at hand. Like the end of "Far Away," Mam sits on a winter bench and lights a shoddy cigarette left by Yusoff, who once refused to smoke, even thought it was no different. This symbolic smoke seems to come from a distant past and go to a distant future; it is also like a painful musical instrument that cannot play happy notes.
But in the end, it is necessary to play, sadness is not terrible, what is terrible is numbness. When you can still shed tears, you should be glad that no matter how hard fate makes things difficult for you, it will also bury countless pearls in your eyes.
