The place in my mind that occurs in the movie is the Dali Sycamore hotel in the movie 《Encounters on the road》The movie uses a two-line narrative. One is a series of interesting events that happened when the male protagonist, Geng went to Dali with his friend Hao after his divorce. The other one happened five years ago, Kang met Geng traveled to Dali, Yunnan after hearing Geng’s song “Go to Dali”, and eventually got married with Geng. At the beginning of the movie, Kang intends to divorce Geng. From the conversation with the lawyer, it can be known that Geng’s wife had a marital affair. After Hao’s persuasion, the two started a journey to During their journey to Dali, the two met the sexy Avatar actress Dongdong, non-mainstream girl Zhou Lijuan, the lesbian girl Siqing, and Sasha who worked in a bathing and entertainment place as a whore. Many twists and turns could be witnessed in the movie and the interesting ending also happened in the Dali Sycamore hotel. There are two time line and clues in the movie. One was Kang who went to Dali 3 years ago. When she encountered her best friend’s marriage, she fell out of love and was urged to marry by someone around her. With such emotions, she went to Dali, the city in the song, which is a cultural and youth resort.
Kang hopes to enjoy a good journey here, and something may happen, about love. She did meet her love here, that is Geng, a singer who sings Dali. They signed up their name on the recording wall as a sign of their love. Another line is that Geng will go to Dali 3 years later. He wants to say goodbye to Kang’s love, which is the city they met. Geng hopes to erase the memory of Kang in this city, but he does not accept Kang’s departure in his heart. Finally, he chose to move on and erased the signature on the hotel’s wall. Although the film does not discuss the topic of human nature, it tells the story of lovelorn from another perspective, and also conveys an open-minded attitude towards life. It is not an easy thing to be able to understand such a truth from a broken love, otherwise there would not be so many crazy men and women in the world. For most people, although broken love will make people sad for a while, but this paragraph After time, they will repeat the same mistakes and fall into one more sadness.
The picture is the Sycamore hotel in Dali and it represents the memory and the obsessiveness of the past love which should be forgot and people should move on.
On the other hand, it also means that the past love should not be totally denied since at least the memory was enjoyable and the life experience is also exists.
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Virtual fieldwork reference seems rather limited. But I suggest you dig deeper by broadening reference resources, like newspapers, literary works, photographs, etc. Beyond the basic film plot, what other perspectives do you get from your virtual fieldwork research? While I would suggest you analyze from the perspective of cinema, like how Sycamore Hotel performs in the film differently and what filming techniques had been utilized. And it would be more reflective if you contrast the photos of real scenarios with film sets to achieve a stronger comparative effect. Furthermore, I would suggest you frame your analysis with ideas/theories/concepts from coursework. Besides, where is your reference from? Please specify your reference and figure information.