Dream of Paris – a dream only possible for young people

Maia 2022-04-22 07:01:31

Have a dream about a movie, and suppose the location of the dream is Paris, where the movie begins. In 1968, a movement had just started. People were dissatisfied with the fact that the director of the Film Archives, Langevar, had been dismissed by the Minister of Culture and took to the streets to march. The parade included movie stars and many directors of the new wave of that year. In this group of people, I met two movie confidants, lived in a beautiful big house, my parents went on a trip, the young people drank and chatted together, and played a game of guessing the movie based on each other's performances, like the movie "Ancestors" Walking on the riverside of Paris like the three in Zhan, the background music of "Four Hundred Strikes" gradually sounded in his ears.

This filmmaker's dream makes it too late to think about whether it's sweet and unsustainable, because you can think of all the beautiful and passionate things about movies happening at this moment, and there will always be a moment when we all want to live Don't come out in the movie, lose your sanity and sobriety, rush and disappear together with this heat wave.

This is a state of being young.

In the first season of "Partial", Chen Danqing described the perception system of an 18-year-old as a complete system. The teenager sees the world and is covered with cameras. The teenager does things with vitality and feeling. Bertolucci wrote this film in his old age to describe the cultural movement led by young people and young people. The three protagonists exude a youthful atmosphere inside and out, while the background period of the film is before and after the French May storm, the new wave of French cinema. The peak of the film was only a few years ago, and all the rebellion and innovation brought by the New Wave to the film, and its impact on film history, make him well-deserved to be the youngest period of the art of film. At the same time, sexual liberation, rock music, anti-war ideology and so on were also erupting.

There is a difference between hearing a young man tell what happened to him now and hearing an old man tell him what would have happened when he was young. Play Dream Paris is obviously the latter. We can feel that Bertolucci, as an old man, or as an excellent film director, brings the audience the reality of the dream, without contrived hormones. However, it is not the purpose of the movie to feel that you have a "young man's dream", but there is still a sense of regret when you wake up from a dream. What a good movie, you can immerse yourself in the world of the movie as serious and rigorous as the protagonists. How good, presumably this storm had a profound impact on the young Bertolucci.

The heroine Elizabeth said, you know that when a person really needs love, there is no such thing as love, there is only evidence of love.

The three protagonists were immersed in the bathtub with their backs to the camera naked. The three mirrors on the wall just reflected the faces of the three of them. This is the warmest scene in the movie. Matthew asked his sister and brother for a word of love for him, not too much love. As long as it is love, they fall asleep and wake up in the water, forgetting the time, the bathtub wraps them like a tank fortress, the worry is that the water temperature in the bathtub will gradually decrease, which is difficult outside the movie confronting reality. For Matthew, what exactly does he love? Is it a little utopia for three people? He couldn't figure it out either. The so-called love can only see the evidence left by love in the end. Everything is the carrier of love.

It's normal for a young American to fall in love with everything there in Paris and then plunge into this dreamy life. Matthew brought surprises and surprises to the lives of the sister and brother, and the three gradually merged into one, both spiritually and sensually. It's easy to find someone to race with in track and field, but it's hard to find someone to cross the Louvre hand-in-hand. Because it requires the love of movies as a premise, and this love must be fresh, hot, and blind.

Later, like a rational person, Matthew persuaded Leo and Elizabeth not to indulge in dreams, go to life, and go to the crowd, but he overestimated himself, in fact, what drunk life and dream death wants is a thoroughly emotional experience. If children play with fire, if the fire is not too big to control, if it does not attract the attention of parents and the police, and if it does not burn the original whole thing to black, how can they realize the danger of fire, but will only be immersed in the change of flame. Unpredictable appreciation. It's like Elizabeth wakes up and sees the check on the table and realizes that her parents found out what they did, and immediately panics. She uses plastic pipes to connect the gas to the place where the three of them are sleeping. Imagine the heroine of the movie "Mouchette" Die well and die beautifully. However, the riotous rocks smashed the window, and a sense of tension hit the face for a while. The three woke up to the sound of the alarm. Elizabeth immediately hid her motive for wanting to die with everyone. Maybe Pan Ran woke up, but this scene at least showed that Knowing that Elizabeth understands the difference between dreams and reality, rather than just wanting to live in dreams, it is not the same dreamers who can wake up the dream, but a revolutionary movement of the whole people. Instead, they walked into the parade with this rising sentiment of resistance, and experienced the clutching and reunion without thinking.

Young, because it has enough possibilities, it may not meet Matthew, may meet another Matthew, may become a member of the demonstration crowd, may still be lying in bed drinking for unknown time, may be alive , may die. Youth is the future, every second has the potential to change his life.

Youth is the best key to enter this dream.

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Extended Reading
  • Leonor 2022-04-21 09:02:12

    Unforgettable erotica. As well as the portrait of Chairman Mao on the wall.

  • Lucile 2022-04-19 09:01:58

    Erotica in a political context does not understand but moves you

The Dreamers quotes

  • Isabelle: Oh, how sweet of you Matthew to keep my image next to your heart.

  • Isabelle: [standing in the doorway, wearing only long black gloves and sheet draped around her hips] What sculpture?

    Matthew: I always wanted to make love to Venus de Milo.

    Isabelle: I can't stop you. I got no arms.