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What is Margaret? Is it a cocktail? A flower? A white dove? Still alone? For germain, the French great old boys, Margaret is an elegant and weak old lady, and also symbolizes the afternoon he yearns for most in a day. Before they met, she and he were just strangers, but after they met, she became the warm sustenance of cool thin in his life. As the narrator at the end of the film said, "The story about love is not just love." In the movie Afternoon with Margaret, we see another definition of love.

It is not without deep psychological reasons that two strangers can quickly sublimate into spiritual companionship by talking about the names of pigeons in the park (forgive me for not thinking of a more appropriate word to describe them). On the one hand, in the eyes of germain in the film, Margaret is so special. Her name has two T's. It seems that the 95-year-long years she has gone through are just to precipitate her elegance and wisdom. She always speaks softly, and her clothes always fit and look good. Even when suffering came, she was as calm as an angel's aura (for example, her eyes gradually went blind, for example, she was later sent to a cold and compulsory nursing home by her nephew). Her spiritual world is so rich that it is a very carefree and advanced enjoyment to communicate with people with rich spiritual world. She is a delicate existence different from his previous life circle. In describing her, germain exhausted all the adjectives about beauty he knew.

On the contrary, in reality, his mother is irritable and depressed. He ignores him without doing anything wrong, and humiliates him in public if he does anything wrong. Even after he became an adult, her mother spared no effort to express her indifference and torture to him. Even if his mother once stood up to protect him when he was beaten by others and drove away her lover with a grass fork, those injuries were deeper in his heart. Like every child who lacks love when growing up, he is so eager to be loved that he clumsily adds his name to the monument again and again. Looking at chubby germain's childish behavior in front of the camera, we smiled bitterly. So in germain's mind, Margaret is his ideal mother image. So he couldn't help liking and loving her, sending her fruits and flowers, carving a crutch for her, and even trying to keep her in the world of books. He tried to overcome the shadow of his childhood school and learn to read again. And this level of effort, he did not do it for his biological mother and girlfriends.

On the other hand, Margueritte in the film is a knowledgeable and childless single old woman. Before meeting germain, she had little contact with her closest nephew. She is gentle, kind and optimistic, but her greatest pleasure every day is just chatting with pigeons and communicating with people in books. So, when she met the same kind and pure germain, she soon found her spiritual sustenance in the real world in a simple and undefended conversation. She patiently read to him, listened to his childhood sufferings, and comforted him by saying, "If a person doesn't get enough love in childhood, everything is still waiting to be discovered by him." Understanding him "indifference is the worst, especially as a mother." She gave him a dictionary and told him, "You will enter another world from one world." For germain, she has the tolerance of a good mother, the patience of a good teacher and the respect of a good friend. All this is the most lacking in germain's life.

Naturally, two people who need each other found the projection of the ideal parent-child relationship in reality, and also found the simplest and most beautiful happiness in life in this leisurely afternoon. Margaret enjoyed real companionship and care in the last stage of her life, while germain, under the leadership of Margaret, entered the elegant world of books through listening, which made him insulted and discouraged before. From then on, the knowledge he learned gradually helped him to build up the self-confidence he lacked since childhood and win respect among his friends. He longed for respect for knowledge and life for a long time.

Just as germain slowly began to be happy, life changed, and his mother died alone in the attic. At the end of the film, when germain is sitting in a law firm, holding a small tin box left by her tortured mother after her death, and looking at every small object in it, she finds that her mother loves herself silently in her own way. Her mother carefully collected memories of her father and his growth, worked as hard as possible, and saved a house for his stable old age. I think at that moment, germain should understand that his mother loved him from beginning to end, just didn't know how to express it. Sadly, when he knew what she had done, his mother had already left.

As soon as the camera turned, germain came out with an iron box and announced the news to his girlfriend. Then he immediately went to Margaret, even not far from Wan Li, and "kidnapped" her from the cold nursing home without hesitation, shared a sandwich with her and took her back to the house left by her mother to enjoy her old age. These happy times, he has never experienced with his mother. In the camera, Margaret and he are so happy that I can hardly bear to think of germain's mother who just died.

When everyone saw the brilliance of human nature, I felt a little irony about the untimely life. If germain's mother hadn't died, he couldn't have given Margaret a more comfortable living environment. Yi Shu once said, "The biggest mistake people make every day is to be too polite to strangers and too harsh to those close to them. Reverse this bad habit and the world will be peaceful. " Perhaps, we are all too easy to expect too much from the people closest to us. Once it can't be realized, all kinds of grievances, losses and indignation will produce many feelings that are difficult to resolve, such as German mothers and German mothers. This emotion, which has accumulated too many negative effects, makes them unable to be kind to each other in real life, regardless of whether they still have a desire for love in their hearts.

Therefore, when germain faced the stranger Margaret, there was no psychological pressure. He can easily feel love, express love and return love. Even, he transferred all his dependence on the ideal mother to the gentle Margaret, and provided all the care he did not give to his biological mother in reality to Margaret as much as possible.

It turns out that love is gentle and cruel.

In fact, Margaret also means "river" (although this one has only one T). There will be many changes in our life, some of which you expect and some of which you don't want. Life is like traveling in a fast-flowing river. Whether you like it or not, it will bring you some changes. For example, the elderly Margaret finally left the nursing home and lived happily with germain. For example, germain finally started a reading trip that was decades late. For example, germain's girlfriend told him that they had a new life. For example, germain's mother took away all the pain and cold in her son's life with a lonely death ... No matter what your wish, the irreversible river of life flows like this, taking away the lost love and hate and bringing the future and hope.

It turns out that love is gentle and cruel.

But maybe love can be redeemed in love. I hope everyone in germain can meet Margaret in his life.

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