Pali Road is a thought-provoking and well-executed film that tells an undistracted story of love, identity, and the ever-present (for NJ Kpopper) theme of dreams meshing with reality, structured with mystery and thriller overtones.
One of the highlight lines is shown in the trailer above --- "Is this life so awful that you had to go and make up some fairy tale world?" An essential question entwined with many decisions.
Pali Road is a kind of obverse face of the pure idealism and lyricism of Алые паруса (aka Scarlet Sails). Алые паруса portrays the pure power of love and dreams in such a beautiful way that it deserves to be an eternal classic. But there is a kind of darkness present in all such dreams, because it is the contrasts between darkness and light that gives the dream stories their sometimes blinding intensity. Whereas the ordinary world lacks that reductive contrast unless someone refracts it through their own personal lens. That is why black and white photography can deliver more power than color in the right hands. It is just that kind of juxtaposition teetering on the edge of darkness that this bear is chasing after, hoping to capture.
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