The film was shortlisted for a kind of attention at Cannes last year.
But I deeply reflected, at first I opened it for the gimmick of love jade films.
Who is the best at making love jade films? French, of course.
No matter how obscene the subject is, it can be shot bright and moving.
But in this movie, the 15-minute plot advances to the middle-aged wife who is a philosophy professor and her sturdy renovation worker.
Yes, I had a lot of fun watching it, but I couldn't help but roll my eyes.
This is the plot of which daddy straight man YY came out?
There are also episodes that make me roll my eyes even more.
The sturdy decorator took the heroine to the river and said to her:
If you have something unhappy, shout it out, shout it out, and the unhappiness will be gone.
This idol drama line is not as good as Hua Ze's 25 years ago, "When I can't hold back my tears, I go to a handstand, so that the tears will flow to my heart".
How can this kind of movie be nominated for a kind of attention?
But seeing the second half, oops, totally worth it.
The single-knife straight and brain-dead lines in front are deliberate.
It's to show some contrast, some contrast.
The real highlight is the spirituality from the female perspective in the second half of the movie.
Provocative, but open.
It's not a superficial work of the senses at all.
Looking at the director again, it is not an old man, but a female director born in the 80s.
That's right. We are tired of watching the hideous statements of male creators that "my heart loves my wife, but my body loves others".
This time, let's take a look at how female creators express this theme.
Jane as Sylvan
The movie opens with a middle-class family party like "Perfect Strangers".
There are painters, there are professors, there are artists.
The topics we talked about were Rousseau, neoliberalism, whether the death penalty should be outlawed, and the religious origins of vegetarianism.
The topic is high-level, profound, and rich.
Of course, they also have a different understanding of marriage.
When the heroine Sophia came home, she asked her husband, "Do you have a crush on the new one in today's party?"
Or change the subject: if there were only two people left in the world, you would ...... herReproduction?
In the second act, Sophia goes to renovate her and her husband's cabin by the lake.
Meet the domineering, earthy renovation worker Sylvain.
This person speaks savagely, lacks words, is full of Internet buzzwords, listens to ** is the Internet Divine Comedy, and the most interesting question is "whether the legend of Bermuda is true or not", and the sweetest love words are: "Love you for 10,000 years, love you can stand the test." ”
The way he confessed to Sophia was: You are so beautiful, I am stone-more.
As a professor of philosophy, Sophia, who taught students about Plato and Nietzsche in class every day, quickly fell.
Revel in his rage, directness, and violence.
That's right, seeing this, it's too much like a YY movie made by a middle-aged man.
But those few large-scale boat shows are indeed from a female perspective, and the construction workers are very service-oriented.
The direction of the plot behind is a bit unexpected.
If it is a man YY movie, the direction of the story is approximately: the hypocritical moral entanglement in the heart of the deviant, and the tragic loss of control after being discovered.
But "Jane as Silvain" is not.
Sophia felt no guilt about being with this earthy strong man.
The part where she abandoned her current boyfriend was silky and relaxed, with reluctance, but no moral burden.
That's what's interesting about this movie.
The middle-aged heroine frankly surrenders to freshness, to "male offense" that does not match her values, and to the stimulation outside of the order of her life.
If she's a male character, it wouldn't be true.
But she is a middle-aged intellectual woman, so she has a different meaning.
The second half of the story is another kind of self-examination of Sophia's whole self - it's not that I'm doing it right or wrong, and it's morally immoral.
Rather, do I love him, do I love only his flesh?
This issue, which is talked about by men, is finally carried out by a female director so silky and without burden.
Sophia, as Sylvain's girlfriend, attends his family reunion.
This is a completely different class from her, and when his family members learn that she is a university professor, the question they are most interested in is:
Does UFOs really exist?
If she didn't know Sylvain, she wouldn't be able to stand the family, including their passion for having no boundaries.
Sofia also took Sylvain to his intellectual gatherings, and Sylvain was completely unable to immerse himself in the intense discussion of literature, art, and philosophy.
The way he expresses his enthusiasm is:
Your toilet flushes weakly, I'll fix it for you!
Sophia's obsession with Sylvain's body and his contempt for his spiritual world go hand in hand.
After the clouds and rain, she asked Sylvain, do you think that I love you, just your body?
Sylvain replied, I don't think so, even if it is, then what? Just be happy.
But here's the thing,How much emotional energy is this kind of happiness worth investing? What percentage of concrete life is it worth incorporating?
Watching the whole film, it reminds me of a high-scoring "scumbag" movie a few years ago: "The Worst Person in the World".
Jane Ru Sylvain can be called the middle-aged intellectual's version of "The Worst Man in the World".
The movie has no hypocritical moral burden on the ** of spiritual desire, completely self, completely frank, and relaxed.
Let me and others, who are used to "pretending to be a good person", once a little indescribable.
But fortunately, this kind of frankness was made by female directors, especially French female directors.
Then everything is good.