What kind of emotion can make a director incoherent?

This is my favorite poem by Yeats. It has a different tune but the same meaning as Yan Jidao's "The fallen flower man is independent, and the tiny swift swallows fly together" and "The bright moon was there at that time, and the colorful clouds returned home".

I have always been lucky that when I was a teenager, I could read words like this, which contained a sound of gold and stone that penetrated the clouds and cracked the silk. Compared with the shortness of breath of a hero, the words "beauty is like a dream" are just for saying.

The original attachment will surrender to time, and the past care will be polished by time until it becomes rough and thick. The so-called beauty only exists in the moment of first meeting. Therefore, the premise of "loving the painful wrinkles on your aging face" is how much we have experienced together.

Many people have questioned Judith's transformation at the end of the film, which was rigorously laid out several times. After all, feelings are not scientific experiments. Otherwise, humans would be much more relaxed.

It’s just that Julian is not very authentic. It is said that at the premiere, a bright-eyed person once grabbed the director and asked him what happened to Julian’s girlfriend who appeared at the beginning of the film!

The so-called letting down is always from one point to another.

I really like the small town where Julian is located.

In the film, there is a description of him rushing from his residence at one end of the town to the bookstore at the other end of the town. The camera follows him through a group of stone buildings. Behind me there was the sound of a door opening, the sound of someone washing up early, and the pleasant rustle of bicycles on the stone path.

At the beginning of the film, director Kauchez seems to have intentionally or unintentionally ignored the character of Julian, focusing on the streets, buildings and even the woman in red passing by on the street corner.

It must be admitted that such hints did work. The small town acted like a master and made a sincere conversation, but Julian walking among them became a dispensable background.

In fact, the protagonist of the film is this young man named Julian. Like the name Julian, the face under this name doesn't have much of a feature, and is easily lost in the sparse crowd in the small town.

Julian opened a bookstore, and his favorite thing was to read in a corner of the bookstore where the sunlight could shine in. I closed the store in the evening and rode my bicycle back across most of the city as in the morning.

His girlfriend who lives with him will not disturb his creative time after dinner, which is the most satisfying thing for him.

The final decision to go to Paris was also related to his creation. In a soliloquy not long after the beginning of the film, Julian revealed that he had written a novel called "A Town with a Story".

Like many literary young people, after the creation is completed, the problem of publishing hangs over their heads.

The problem was solved easier than Julian imagined. A guy he met by chance who traveled to a small town actually had a father who was in charge of Summer Publishing House. With his encouragement, Julian resolutely embarked on the road to Paris.

In the vast reception room of Paris Summer Publishing House, Julian was brainwashed by a seemingly deep female editor for half an hour. From a cinematic point of view, this is a cutscene that can be ignored. Another cutscene that can be ignored is after the conversation, he went to the bathroom and was trapped.

Then a huge guy turned his body into a hammer and knocked open the door. Perhaps, a scene that should be ignored is when he said to another woman Julian had never met, "Judith, this is the last time I do this."

After several cutscenes, Julian understood that the person just now was not the editor Judith who should be guiding him at all, but her secretary Jenna.

In fact, Judith was in a really bad mood today. Her hair was not dyed the right color; her stepmother pestered her for a long time and forced her to give her an iron box, saying that it was full of stories about her father. ; I went to see the opera with my lover St. Clair and couldn't get a taxi; less than halfway through the opera, it ended hastily because of the troubles of an unemployed actor.

Bad luck always likes to come in groups. When I turned around, the iron box actually disappeared.

Although everyone can see that the relationship between Judith and the white-haired St. Clair is unusual, the director has painstakingly set up so many troubles, not just for St. Clair to show off his skills. . Looking around, only Julian was left with a dull look on his face.

Sure enough, Comrade Xiao Zhu staged the scene of speeding, discovering the box, and then waiting with great energy after discovering the box.

When the panic-stricken Judith appears in front of Julian again in a spring breeze, we can finally be sure that Julian's trip to Paris is just the beginning.

I don’t know how the two of them will recall their experience that night, but the director obviously put in a lot of hard work and did not hesitate to hold a handheld camera and follow them all the way.

But it is obvious that his attitude towards the so-called love is a bit ambiguous, and more often than not he uses things to express his ambitions. For example, throughout the entire movement, Judith has always been dominant; and for example After it was over, Judith refused Julian's hug.

This night was a turning point in Julian's relationship. Before going to bed with Judith, he called his girlfriend and told a lie that was not very clever. After that, the director no longer had the intention to take care of him. He had a girlfriend, and she only appeared briefly with red eyes when Julian was being interviewed;

This night was also a turning point in his career. After Judith kicked him off to sleep on the sofa, Julian flipped through Judith's iron box.

As for how Julian returned to Paris, the director only skimmed it. Judith's memory is that she was making out with her lover St. Clair on the sofa that day, and Julian shot back.

This is also the most humorous passage in the film. Judith, who is always serious, hides Julian in another room, and then pretends to be uncomfortable in front of St. Clair and asks to "make another appointment." , when St. Clair showed dissatisfaction, she brought out "You have been treating me badly", which made St. Clair shake his head.

However, the cunning St. Clair also played a back-and-forth and politely wished them, who were making out on the sofa, "Have a nice evening."

Julian rented a house near Judith and bought printers, computers and other items. Most importantly, after spending a night with Judith, he secretly took away the iron box After that, the director used many shots to show Julian's selfless state of desperately writing.

"The Last Battle" is based on the mysterious iron box, which means that the publication of this novel needs to be authorized by the relatives of the iron box. Then when "The Last Battle" is completed, that is, Zhu It's time for Leanne to face Judith.

For this reason, Julian put a lot of thought into it. The time was chosen at noon when they were out for fun, and the location was chosen in a hotel room with a pleasant view outside the window, but Judith still used the same words as an old woman in the countryside. The roar shattered the atmosphere he had carefully created.

After that, the movie fell into a stage that I least want to recall. Julian bypassed Judith and couriered the manuscript directly to her boss. After Judith failed to defeat her boss, she could only use the trump card of not granting authorization to force Julian to give in.

The two did not hesitate to use the most vicious words to attack each other's parents, relatives and friends, and used all the connections at their disposal to stop and even intimidate each other. They fought on the phone, through emails, and even on TV talk shows.

Julian, who had never experienced strong winds and waves, was defeated in front of the whole of France. The director deliberately emphasized every detail of his standing and running in front of the camera. The messy footsteps sounded thrillingly in Judith's eyes. heart.

When a wanderer is injured, the most instinctive reaction is to go home. Sensitive and timid Julian is no exception.

At the beginning of the film, the director showed a different emotion towards the small town where Julian was located. It is not difficult for us to know that this small town and Paris, where Julian once placed high hopes, are not the same. What position are they in?

A quiet, uncontroversial town and a noisy, materialistic city, what role do each play in a person's life?

Some people feel that they are hurting After marrying Julian, Judith's anxiety, loss and regret were comparable to Pang Qingyun's hypocritical monologue in "The Letter of Surrender".

In fact, the more we care about the other person, the easier it is to hurt him severely, because the other person really cares, and subconsciously we always want to monopolize this caring, and hurting becomes a way of love. .

Just like at the beginning of the movie, Julian travels across half of the city to the bookstore every day, and opens the door of the bookstore in the dim morning light. He spends every day reading, organizing and meditating.

When night comes, cross half the city and return to the humble room where you live, and slowly fall asleep while reading, as if nothing has happened.

But the final outcome is finally coming. Every step of this ending was not beyond my expectations, but I must say, I really enjoyed it! One day, Julian, who was lying on the floor sorting out books, saw a pair of feet coming in. He said hello but received no response, and the camera followed his gaze and spotted Judith's back.

She brought him the copy of "The Last Battle" and told him that the novel was published as scheduled and, as expected, caused a sensation.

Then, Judith unexpectedly turned around and ran away. Unexpectedly, she stayed on the platform after the train left; without any creativity, she called Julian and said, crying, I Love you, Julian appeared behind her unexpectedly and hugged her...

Well, the director seemed incoherent in front of a beautiful relationship. This ending inexplicably dissolved the film's charm. Most of the emotions, however, we are always willing to see lovers grow old together hand in hand, so we will just take the cliché happy reunion.

It can be seen that a lot of thought was put into the selection of the two actors. Julian is sensitive and suspicious, and with a face as youthful as Eric Caravaca's, he is a little more convincing.

Judith’s mature charm does not need any special expression. It is already swaying in the movements of Jia Lian Weiya. More importantly, the two leading actors' grasp of their respective roles, the interpenetration of details and little habits, give the characters themselves a unique style.

The love scenes in the film adhere to the principle of being delicate and compact. Whether it is the passivity of Julian and Judith for the first time or Judith's subtle teasing after that, the director regarded them as Metaphorical vehicle.

In the film, one of Julian's friends said to Judith, "You are just a spoiled child." It was this spoiled child who won Julian's love at the end of the film. hug.

What the director means is that this experience is part of the growth of the two of them. After that, Julian learned to take responsibility and Judith learned to love.

Love is an experiential thing. Some people never learn it in their lifetime, and some people never know how to love in their lifetime. Before meeting Julian, Judith enjoyed being loved. After Julian, she finally learned to love.

In fact, in my opinion, both Julian and Judith gained and lost in this process.

In the second half of the film, although the director once again arranged for Judith's lover St. Clair to appear and play the bad guy, which was a bit unkind, it was still better than treating Julian's girlfriend like nothing.

There is also the issue of their age. I don’t think age is a big obstacle, but the requirements of love and life are different.

If it is as hinted at the end of the film, then meeting her or him cannot be solved by love.

I hope that what they experienced in the film can become a precipitation for each other. This movie is not like French movies in the traditional sense, nor is it like the American attitude towards love. This in-between state is very attractive. If you have been in love or loved it, I recommend watching it. It is quite ambitious. Lovely.