What do you see from here? A film about life...
About complexity, impermanence, the search for harmony and depth, in conditions when the world limits you - very often our mind tears up a complex thought form, leaving for us in our mind a superficial thought, emasculated, empty - just a "film about life." It's heavy, it's very hard. We were all children, and before we could talk, we saw worlds of immense beauty and complexity, but we didn't know how to record them or even record them. After 40 years, we become stiff and clumsy, many of us do not remember this very childhood, do not see episodes of their birth, do not keep in mind dreams 20 years ago, do not see the prospects of life as an endless existence.
Now more specifically about the phenomena shown in the film:
Transformation: childhood into adolescence, escape from problems (for example, Louise's father) into the wider world, attempts to cope with grief, fear of death and loss and search for salvation from death with the help of an imperfect human mind that invents all sorts of rituals to predict the future - the hand is numb, means ischemia of the heart, but which hand should go numb - right or left, and if both hands are numb, then what is it. This film is filled with neurotics, each character faced his dark side and each copes differently, someone even marvels at life itself - so he is mired in the illusions of the ego.
Multifaceted – the film begins with a flow of information, and then as quickly as the thought itself, then slowing down, lowering the pace, shows us how we rush into trying to grab the tail of time, to make God out of the fog.
Consolidation. All of us in infinity of forms and manifestations seek permanence and deliverance from suffering.
Are you always that calm?
I'm calm because you're mad.
I don’t want to condense personalities, but for the sake of reference, I will say that the construction of the frame, its filling reminded me of Wes Anderson’s films. Everything is so deep, sweet, but a little caricatured. The real world is much more cruel and uncompromising. Imagine falling from a height, hanging things, and hitting the incisors of the upper jaw on the bathtub — saturating the burning flame of pain, you feel the edges of broken teeth — pointed, curved, twisted. Torn tissues throbbing and trying to cope with the disaster, terror filled and immobilized you, what brought you here? "What You See From Here" doesn't answer those questions - how unusual it looks to our everyday minds, this film is warmer. But if you have seen the worlds I have told you, you will remember them. Is it the Creator’s fault who focuses on the “advanced”? Is it the fault of the enlightened that he lives among samsaric beings who are ready to insatiably play with their narrow-minded ego, compete and conquer those who are simply different?
- I don't want to wake up, Louise.
- I don't know, but we'll wait for you and we'll be very happy when you wake up.
- Yes, let go.
- Still here? - Louise.
- No, everything is here, the whole world is here, except one except him.
In the end of the review, I would like to note the thought: “Joy is the food of our souls.” In an unstable, changing world, in the face of difficulties and trials, one must remember that one must remain calm and positive in these moments; you will be much more effective than giving in to identification with despair and disbelief in one’s own strength just by doing this. Hold on, in this complicated world! See you in unity! Until now, “I didn’t know you loved me” – and I love you for no reason.
7 out of 10