Mathilde: Is life always so hard, or is it just childhood?

It is a fairy tale in the dark, with invisible scars buried under the light and shadow of glass.

This is an elegy in The City of Lamentations, which praises the magnificence of life redemption with the belief of a killer.

It is more like a fable about growth and mutual change, which makes a killer who wants to look for innocence and an ignorant girl who wants to be a killer find the long-lost love in her heart.

This is luc besson, a great French director, the seventh work of his career: Black Boy in Leon.

The first picture of the film is a famous aerial camera in the history of this film. The camera passes through the ocean and forest, and then it pans to distant buildings, highways and city streets. Then there is a black shot in the film that leads to the protagonist. Leon, who came to France from Italy to make a living, is a lonely hired killer. For the 40-year-old, a killer only means a career, just like some people are doctors and some people are teachers. The only difference is that he has no choice but to be ruthless and clean. In a few short shots, the film depicts Leon without the killer mask: buying milk at the grocery store, taking a bath in the bathroom, ironing clothes in the room, wearing sunglasses and sleeping on the sofa with a pistol in his hand every night. His room is always so simple, without anything superfluous, simple and monotonous, just like the loneliness of his life. The only thing that comforts his soul is the lush silver queen Evergreen. Perhaps this evergreen tree does not represent the survival significance of a killer, but it symbolizes a kind of innocence hidden in a corner of his heart. Leon's life has also been enriched by this green plant.

/kloc-Mathilde, a girl of 0/2 years old, is Leon's neighbor. She is weak, lonely, stubborn and willful, with a pair of cold eyes on her angelic face. The tender and thin body vaguely exudes irresistible beauty. Mathilde's happiest time of the day is sneaking out of the room and sitting on the stairs smoking cigarettes stolen from her father's pocket. Poor tobacco always blinds her eyes. Her family's murder linked Mathilde, 0/2 years old, to Leon, 40 years old.

As soon as the door was opened, the sun shone on Leon. Chose death. The killer's cold life has a fairy tale color because of a girl's pure love. But the killer's fairy tale ending is doomed to be sad. Leon gave his life to protect the sunshine in his life, to avenge Mathilde and to save Mathilde's life. When dealing with the scene where Leon was shot at the end of the film, the director used slow motion and silence. We see blood spots between our eyebrows that have never slowly expanded, but we can't walk out of the light that is only a few steps away from ourselves.

The embodiment of "love" in the film is hazy and ambiguous, neither vigorous nor low-key. It acts like a drop of water invading cotton yarn and then slowly spreading inside. The director endowed the two protagonists with gentle emotional tone and French luster. So this special emotion between them is as beautiful and charming as a fairy tale, but it is so far away.

There are many killers in film history who are cooler than Leon, but he is the only one who combines simplicity, coldness and warmth. Luc besson didn't use many direct violence scenes. But Lyon is always hidden in the darkness, and that tired figure is full of a real cruelty, a coldness and sadness that completely puts the meaning of life after survival. Jean Reno created an image of a killer who was cold outside and hot inside. Renault's portrayal of killer lyon, an alternative edge full of human fireworks, seems to coincide with his own civilian life style. His delicate description of life fragments is touching, full and full of tension, and killer lyon's simple silence, simple warmth and trustworthy tough guy temperament can also be found in Renault.

Most of luc besson's films always have the music of music composer Eric Shana. Black boy Leon's music mainly uses cold and dark electronic timbre to render the tense action atmosphere. Almost all the action scenes are accompanied by the melody carefully written by Eric Shana. He also used Sogeum Symphony and chamber music with aria style to complete the natural connection between transitions and convey the charming charm of generate in emotional moments. In addition, the theme song of the film "The Shape of Understanding", especially the ending, is full of magnetism and slightly sad voice, which uniquely interprets the tragic fate of being as lonely as a song. And Matilda's strength on thin ice seems to be safe only in this hand singing.