The background of the story is the student movement in France at the time, and it mainly tells the subtle, secret and somewhat extreme relationship between three young people who love movies. The story begins with a demonstration against the removal of the director of the film library by the French authorities. Matthew, an American student, got to know the twins Isabelle and Theo during this demonstration, and was deeply attracted by Isabey. The siblings invited Matthew to be a guest at their home, and then their parents went on a trip, and Matthew moved to their home. So three movie-crazy young men live in an apartment next to the street, freely arguing about movies, politics, philosophy, and trying all kinds of sex games without restraint. At the same time, the student movement outside the window was also vigorous. At the end of the story, Theo and Issa brothers and sisters participated in the street riots as if they were in a game, and Matthew passed the parade with his detachment of outsiders
. . The three young people in the film are not very beautiful, but they have a unique and mysterious temperament. The three people are often casually naked, on a bed or in a bathtub, talking, laughing, arguing, tasting fine wine... The sex in the film is bold and straightforward, to be precise, it is very natural, there is no Hong Kong tertiary film The pretentiousness and the beauty of Korean erotic films naturally make people lose the pleasure of voyeurism, as if life should be like this.
Director Bertolucci said, "This is a bold and interesting story about the relationship between people. We have brought three young actors to star in the film, all of whom have the innocence, mystery and arrogance of this age. I am interested in how they will bring their quest for spirituality and idealism to the characters of 1968.” Politics and sexuality are his constant themes, and the film’s producer says: “The Dreamers” Not a film about the 1968 Paris upheaval, but about the youthful idealism that inspired them."
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Before discussing the student movement in Europe and America, it is necessary to briefly talk about the Red Guard movement in China for comparison; because the Red Guard movement in China has indeed had a great impact on the student movement in Europe and America.
In June 1966, the "Cultural Revolution" broke out. On August 18, Mao Zedong wore a military uniform and climbed the Tiananmen Gate. With a wave of his arm wearing a red armband, the most spectacular, frenzied and irrational student movement in the history of the world appeared.
While the Red Guard movement in China is in full swing, the student movement in Europe and the United States is also surging. In the United States, there has been a series of "countercultural movements" with strong left-wing flavors, with college students as the main body; middle-class children are afraid of being left behind, they are all fighting to be rebels, and even rock singer John Lennon has actively joined the ranks of the revolution.
In May 1968, a huge student movement broke out in France. Immediately, the student crisis turned into a social crisis and even a political crisis, and the resistance movement became a prairie prairie . The trend
spread across the country, and 10 million workers went on strike. The college students held high the huge portraits of Mao Zedong and Guevara, recited the quotations of Chairman Mao in unison, the red flags were rolled up, and they sang forge ahead, occupying the campus, building barricades, and the "Internationale" resounded over Paris. The marches, united by the students and workers, marched on the government institutions with mighty mighty force, reminiscent of the revolutionary scene of the attack on the Bastille in 1789. Following the example of China's Red Guards, French college students, under the slogan of "Down with the Old World", "fighting with people is a lot of fun" and launched a barricade battle with the police. Under the crisis, President Charles de Gaulle once left Paris to play "disappearance" to avoid the edge. This is the "May Storm" (also known as "May Revolution" and "May Incident") that shocked the Western world.
A more breathtaking scene appeared in the United States. On August 16, 1969, more than 300,000 young people gathered in a valley near New York, where they spent four extremely happy days. They sing rock songs, dance to intense beats, smoke marijuana, dress strangely or get naked, and practice their "lifestyle."
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The movie has a beautiful time before Matthew's erotic entanglement with Isabella and Cerne, the Isabella siblings and Matthew constantly imitating scenes from classic movies, when the colorful Fragments of reality and old movies are intertwined, silent movements and black and white light and shadow bring an indescribably beautiful mood. It seems that life should be like a movie, full of dreams, imaginative, and can be shown again and again...
Born in 1979, I didn't even catch up with the movement in the late 1980s. , idealism is completely unfamiliar to me, thanks to Bertolucci for reappearing that beautiful old dream for us, at least we can still have some fragments of memory, when the prosperity is gone, play alone.. .
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