"Once you know the facts, you will begin to understand the story."

三段故事的三個聖母／母親：東正教聖母、Madonna（懷孕的Anne）、Hana，從聖到俗，神聖化概念化的母愛、世俗偶像和即將成為母親的女人、真實的人母

暴雨就是母親的眼淚。

攝影與殺戮的交互影響，戰爭裡多了另一重關係，觀看者和表演者

從背後開槍的總是＂自己人＂

看到第三段時一度以為自己弄錯了三個故事的時序，但沒有，接著便懂了為什麼要有這樣的時間錯置，刻意將事件的順序錯置是為了強化所有情感的交互影響和糾纏

仇恨製造殘缺的迴圈。

剛剛才意識到教士的叔叔就是攝影師（lag

Anastasia - Time Never Dies

小羊雙胞胎和山崗上Ciril 與Zamira攜著手的靈魂

Love is in the silence.

Broken images, broken faces, broken lives.

对Manchevski自己影评的小小翻译

"The country was made to look like a fairy-tale land in the way it was photographed... Special effects were utilized (moon, stars). The music was quite dramatic. We even created new geography of the country...

we wanted to create even more heightened reality composed solely of wonderful landscapes, a place obviously unreal, closer to a mythical land than to current-day Macedonia."