i was thinking about what symbolism could lay behind the pictures of the iceberg's melting during the film and then "unmelting" when the credits come up?
there were many nature shooting during the whole film but the one with the iceberg was especially long...any ideas?
I took the iceberg as a metaphor for his life. A mountain (=berg) is a structured entity, as someone's life. At some point, something broke it and it felt apart. Also, the reverse at his death could be a hint.
shareyeah this would probablu be the common belief...
it's just that the song all the world is green was playing in one part of this film and after having all this scenes where we see pure nature i thought that the iceberg's could represent something else.
something that has not necessarily anything to do with jean do.
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Say it loud: you thought it hints to global warming, right? Well, everything is open to interpretation, it's just that I don't see the place for ecological messages in this film. Remember, Jean Do wasn't even smoking. ;) Also, showing the reverse in the end is a pretty strong hint, isn't it?
shareyeah me neither, i found that the film was very good and the scenes with the iceberg's so powerful that i had to try and make something out of it...
listening to the world is green never made me pay to much attention to the word green i the title and here it just automatically happened.
so let me get this straight, the iceber's crashing down are just like his body and the reverse is...?
honestly this doesnt make much sense to me either, but the scenes were so beautiful that i don't really care if there is or what there is behind them...thanks for your repond though!
No, it's not his body, it's his life falling down into pieces. By 'life' I mean what a man is continuously building - that's what is falling apart, not the body. The body is just a tool for building that construction called human life. The tool has been removed from Jean Do, so that he is no longer able to continue building his life. Well, with the help of those women, he was able to write a book, but how tedious and frustrating that must have been to him. And, other than that, then what? No life, except for his inner world of imagination and memories.
So, his external life falling apart is represented by the melting iceberg. Now, in the moment a man dies, some believe that his life flashes in front of his eyes. If my interpretation is correct, then the filmmakers seem to suggest that it flashes backwards.
Here's my really simplistic interpretation: he's a man whose whole life has been creation, now that's all fallen apart, come crashing down, but by being able to dictate the book, he has found a way to create again, which put the pieces back together for him.
shareFor me it was quite simple: The melting icebergs were symbolic of his changing as a person during his 'locked-in' existence. The icebergs reformed as he died.
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