i have watch year ago some old film of aggelopoulos and i be expect a slow movie and with minimal dialogue and many symbolism and weak plot and superb photography . i get exactly what i expect and something more represent i leave the theatre with an extreme satisfaction . the film represent greece roughly between 1920 and 1950 ( but it be so current and contemporary because it deal with global and recur theme ) . the life of the nation through event represent national catastrophe and refugee and social and political unrest and world and civil war . the life of the person through emotion represent love and lust and pride and hope and love and desperation and ambition and love and death . and many symbolism and extremely powerful and beautiful scene with reference from ancient myth to current international affair . and rain and lot of rain represent ) the plot and the development of the character may appear weak . we be use to ready meal from the business of cinema and which overwhelm u with fast dialogue and strong performance and exciting situation . and that fine . but cinema and people need also the approach of aggelopoulos and we need some space and time and to reflect and realise our existence . to livadi pou dakryzei give more freedom and time to the viewer to participate with his feeling and memory and thought . that exactly interactive art . these be some of my interpretation of some scene represent village flooding ( climate change and the force of nature ) and immigration or separation ( departure of my girlfriend ) and mother cry over her soldier son dead body ( this be a real war scene and not the computer game style ) . you will identify with other scene ( everyone have an opinion and right . ) and you will feel alive . i be grateful to aggelopoulos for give me the chance to look inside myself and remember and sigh and think .