Plot Summary:For his feature debut Monteiro creatively borrowed from traditional Portuguese legends to craft a series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods. A lyrical and profoundly cinematographic allegory with a glistening sharp political edge, Paths traces a pattern of repressive authority across Portuguese history while also pointing, with cautious optimism, towards the steady presence of youthful resistance. With its stunning choreography of landscape and use of a poetic, associative structure to evoke the longue durée of mythical time, Paths anticipates Monteiro's mid-career masterpiece Silvestre.
美如油画，乡村图景隐喻的人类简史——“周而复始的时间洪流，将裹挟着光明的荣耀直抵这座城镇。”以土地为图腾，粗粝而具有仪式感的日程生活，蕴含了葡萄牙的历史。
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大量传统歌谣、风俗传说组成了电影的主要部分，属于以Landscape隐晦地带动Mindscape的片子。停留在农业文明的葡萄牙乡间，青年与老农除了唠嗑、吹笛、放羊、沐浴，也没多少事可干。然而毕竟还有统治阶层与上流社会，他们与乡民的冲突以生命为代价。没想到这片子如此不被关注，IMDb上只有葡萄牙语介绍