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"Francis Ha" is a niche and quiet film no matter what angle it is viewed from, but in this kind of subtle affection and insight, Francis’s To some extent, Rushui Life just hit the weakness of us sitting in front of the screen, showing the love, hatred and itching in life. Francis,
another kind of friendship, is
actually nothing special. Apart from the careless optimism brought about by her own thick-lined "silly elder sister" character, life is almost a mess, but fortunately she has one more speechless. In the opening paragraph of the film, the friend Sophie, the two of them naturally have fun and squabbles, and they are intimate and talk about everything. Francis even refused her boyfriend's request to live together, and then broke up with her boyfriend. However, this relationship soon ended with Sophie moving out of the apartment to share with others, and Francis' disappointment and collapse were obvious. The state of girlfriends holding hands between the girls finally ended with the continuation of life. Even if Francis was reluctant, he could only learn to get used to such a blank. She would also curse Sophie’s “betrayal” from time to time, and would smoke alone on the windowsill every night, and she would continue to want to regain her innocent state like Sophie with different new friends, and she would be in a state of innocence again and again. After being uproarious, having fun, and laughing with friends, he falls back to the sense of loss of being taken away from a part of life. She also tried to return to her parents, but found that there was no place for her, so she could only pack up and leave. This is a long process, especially for a simple and clumsy girl like Francis. We see her stubbornness and perseverance here. The black and white color of the film accentuates this simple and tough power. In the picture stripped of reality, Francis’s joy and sadness are magnified in their truest state. In such a concise and clean form, what the film presents is exactly what is concealed by the bizarre modern life. Like Francis, there is no heart and emotion of the city.
Friendship, or to be precise, the friendship between girls, became one of the most important footnotes of Francis's growth in the film. Later, Sophie, who used to be just "another self with a different hair color" in Francis's opinion, had a boyfriend, got engaged, and moved abroad. Francis finally never understood to be tolerant. At the end of the film Let them lie together on a narrow single bed as before. Suddenly, nothing has changed. The friendship is still there, the tacit understanding is still there, but there is a finer way of flowing, but we all put it. Hidden in the heart.
Undead dreams and life
Francis always believes in the beauty of life. There is no doubt that she has been working hard to move towards her dream. Even if she is just an amateur actor who teaches children to dance and is euphemistically expelled from the dance company, she can still be After getting drunk with friends, she spun around improvisationally. At this moment, the standard "loser" in social evaluation is shining. She is depressed, she is incomprehensible, she has lost friends and family, but she is still beautiful. She was even glorious, because there was still a dancing soul in her heart. The never-ending power of dreams and the cruelty of reality created enough ups and downs in Francis’s dream journey, and even until the end, she also looked like nothing. She had no choice but to accept that she couldn’t. The reality of becoming a dance star. This is always the case, not all efforts have results, and not all dreams must be realized. Sitting across from the dance company manager's desk, Francis almost instinctively resisted the office clerk job offered to her by the manager, knowing that he would be penniless immediately, and would blurt out "I have found a job." I think that everyone who has ever insisted on their dreams has persisted in their choice so stubbornly and decided to die of old age and illness on their own path to pursue their dreams. Francis is the same. She had nowhere to rely, knowing that even her dreams would abandon her. The next few scenes were even full of sadness. When she returned to university, she found that her youth was long gone and she was out of place here; she was a busy waiter with a wine bottle at the banquet and faced a former alumnus. Now he is at a loss for the status disparity. Her loss and sorrow completely wiped out the bottom line of life just like when she lost her friendship. Francis has fallen into the deepest valley here. There is no job, no income, no report of happiness to her parents, Sophie moved to Japan with her husband, and even a little bit of her own savings, all under the last impulse. Exhausted during the trip to Paris. At this time, Sophie's return became her last salvation, but Sophie was only a temporary escape after quarreling with her husband, Francis had to face her departure again. Very helpless, but unable to change, Francis ran along the road while calling "Sophie", just like all the futile pursuits she had experienced.
At the end of the film, there was a large blank space. We didn’t see how Francis recovered or got out of the predicament, but she was indeed smiling while sitting on the tram. She accepted the job as an office clerk and called , Organizing files, and taking students to rehearse. When there is a gap, she will take off her shoes and spin again on that stage. After a performance, Busy found Sophie in the crowd when Francis, and the two laughed from a distance. This was enough. Francis said, "That's Sophie, my best friend" and met. Smiled and grieved. Francis has a new life and moved to a new house. When she forgot to plug her name card in the mailbox downstairs, her name was too long, so she could only tear off the second half, leaving only "Francis Ha", living It is precisely this, sometimes we need to tear it off bravely, sometimes it needs to be simple and straightforward, and it needs a refreshing ending.
Originally published in the May 2014 issue of "Modern Family · Life", with deletion and modification
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