In Manuel de Oliveira's 1997 film Journey to the beginning of the World, he asked the famous Italian actor Marcello Mastro to play an elderly director, actually playing himself, the film is almost a documentary, cameras roaming roads, rivers, and lush forests of Deluxe Inn of his childhood, now the ruins are just woken up by the old man's smile. In the process of searching for his memory, the director stopped in front of a house on the side of the road and found a small statue of a man in a hat carrying a big piece of wood forever. The villager told the director a related folk song: "I am Pedro. Markau; I carry a big piece of wood on my back; many people pass by here; some have a white face; others have a black face, but. No one will put me out of my misery! " In the final scene at the end of the film, the director said to his assistant, "you are also a Pedro." Markao, you can never get out of your misery. This is also Oliveira's sigh to himself, he has been exploring the principles of the uncertain human emotional world all his life, and he can not get rid of this sea of suffering all his life. Olivera was nearly 90 years old that year, and in 2002.
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