If you put a label on the time.
The word "young" is almost exclusive to 1968.
Vietnam War, sexual liberation, rock music, feminism, black rights, civil rights...
French student movement, German student movement, American student movement, UK, China...
It seems like overnight, the whole planet went crazy.
Bernardo, a director who once recorded "The Last Emperor".
Once again, a film is used to reproduce the rebellion of the year.
Dream of Paris
The Dreamers
2003-09-01
Director: [Italy] Bernardo Bertolucci
Actor: [US] Michael Pitt
[France] Eva Green
01
The film uses the most common triangle character settings in film and television.
One woman and two men, think about it and know that it is the most vulgar love triangle.
However, the seemingly incestuous ambiguous attraction between the twins and the foreigner Matthew brings an unusual charm to the film.
From the very beginning, the encounter between the three was very romantic.
During the Vietnam War, Matthew (Michael Pitt), who studied in France, was undoubtedly lucky.
Because the conscription system in the United States at the time did not include students in school.
The French Film Archive, which has the most complete archive of films in the world, is naturally a sacred temple for movie fans Matthew.
This boy, whose home is so barren that it resembles a refugee camp, spends almost all of his spare time on movies.
Matthew's fascination with movies quickly catches the attention of Isabella's (Eva Green) siblings.
The French government suddenly ordered the dismissal of Henri Langlois, the curator of the museum, which inadvertently facilitated the interaction between the three of them.
Isabella and her brother Leo (Louis Garrel) have had a passion for the student movement from the very beginning.
The same young Matthew, although also rebellious and unruly, likes to pee in the sink.
But in the face of a twin who wants to be an enemy of the government, Matthew's presumptuousness seems to be insignificant.
Whether it is a twin or an alien Matthew, they are all attracted by the novelty and difference of each other.
The world of young people always seems to be full of enthusiasm for novelty.
Although there is estrangement, although they are a little puzzled about each other's way of life.
However, it is precisely these curiosity that aroused the desire of both parties to explore each other's secrets more and more.
The undisguised ambiguity and denseness between the twins, as if there was an inseparable adhesive to sew them together.
Matthew sometimes blends in, and sometimes feels cut off from their world.
It was only after Matthew's helpless intervention that he suddenly discovered that this warm and bold girl was actually a virgin.
Under the pretended mature appearance, there is a completely pink world hidden.
Upstairs is singing every night, and the world downstairs is also turning upside down.
Originally the most ideal organizer, I don't know when I can't do without extravagant ramblings.
The young man who originally thought he was the coolest against the conservatives, for some reason, also fell into confusion and sadness.
This group of dreamers hiding under the fragile shell of the fantasy world can only feed on garbage in the end.
When the sunlight of reality pierced the defense of the ideal fortress, the parents finally discovered the absurd incest.
However, even their suicides that ended in death were all jokes adorned with solemn drama.
So Matthew, who stepped in reality, finally parted ways with his sister and brother who were intoxicated in the ideal world.
The glass bottle full of ammunition burst with a bang, and the young students who collided frantically finally squandered all their youth in the smoke of gunpowder.
02
In the rumors of the rivers and lakes, this film mostly appeared in a one-sided manner such as large scale and incest.
But in fact, compared to the body art that can be seen everywhere in the film, this carcass is more like a symbol.
Matthew (Michael Pitt) from American pop culture is shy, reserved, and unstoppable.
The twins stationed in mainland France, mature and charming, but still virgins.
It is like a civilian art that originated in the United States in the real world.
Little by little, it penetrates into the "fortified castle" of France, which contains a strong heritage.
The young people who are trapped in the old culture are hungry and thirsty for the strangeness of the outside world, and they can't put it down.
When he really touched the inside, he found that the other party was completely and completely different from himself.
A little change is exciting, but an uprooted modification is heart-wrenching.
Dissatisfaction and confusion enveloped the entire country, and inadvertently boiled all the youth.
Isabella and Leo are the two extremes of rebellious emotions.
These two twins with idealism on their heads, like two halves of a Tai Chi map.
Yin and Yang, black and white, seem to be separated, but they stick to both sides of the same disk, and no one can do without the other.
Leo was ostensibly the most speculative revolutionary.
He hated evil and expressed a firm protest against his father's conservatism.
His sharp shell crushed everything around him without leaving any room.
However, he is clearly such a staunch defender, but when his sister is intimate with outsiders, she is silently sad.
At the moment when the most should be charged, the money is drunk.
Many crazy ideals, once they really touch the real world outside the castle, instantly become necessary.
Isabella on the other side is actually a similar structure.
It looks like a very tempting ripe fruit from the outside, but when I cut it open, I find that it is still a green virgin.
The lingering and bold on the surface, the interior is a pink world that can be broken with a poke.
Leo is full of anger at the world, and Isabella is full of tenderness.
She depends on her father, on her younger brother, and on Matthew.
Full of thorns, but boneless.
The combination of the two seems to really make up the whole yin and yang map.
The blood of youth screams with excitement for revolution, for change.
So they fight everything.
Participate in marches to demonstrate against the government;
Roaring at the father, dissatisfied with the conservative;
fighting each other, hysterical;
Even they are not satisfied with the existence of self.
The elder sister is going to have sex with Matthew in her most private territory, and the younger brother does not know which girl he brought home.
Rebellious fury almost flooded their entire world.
But in fact, these two ostensibly most pioneering representatives are not willing to change at all.
The two who seem to know the world well, in fact, have never left each other at all, they are as simple as blank paper.
All the rhetoric that seems to be backed by a solid theory is actually nothing more than a fantasy locked in a room.
The vanguard thoughts full of revolution, in the final analysis, are nothing more than the wanton venting of young people.
The pure virginity was quietly lost in a laugh and play.
All the madness has turned into silence by this time.
All ideals are instantly oxidized and turned into garbage as soon as they see sunlight.
And Matthew, who is opposite to them, is actually just a realist intoxicated in the romantic world.
The final separation of the three seemed to be sudden, but in fact, it was already under the plan of the compass of fate.
03
In the 1950s and 1960s, it was like a heaven suddenly playing a joke on the earth.
When you have nothing to do, rub your fingers and set the whole world on fire.
The students who were supposed to spend their time on campus suddenly rushed to the street in a rush.
They are clamoring for revolution and freedom.
Shouting out the slogan "I would rather be hungry than bored to death" broke all the peace.
All the repression and dissatisfaction accumulated from the First World War, World War II, and Cold War that followed one after another suddenly erupted.
In addition, the baby boom that followed after the war, in the 1960s, the first batch of post-war youth finally grew up.
All the negative emotions accumulated around the world are ignited in the most sensitive and vulnerable group of students.
This group of young people was the first to feel the vagueness in the air.
They want to change, they want to renovate.
But the most noisy, but also the most vulnerable.
How ridiculous is it to be unarmed and penniless, only to fight against the economic and political foundation that the capital world has built up for many years?
It is said that innovation is needed, but it is ridiculous to ask three questions about the shape of the leather.
The student movement, which had just started to boil, suddenly fell into confusion at the moment when it was reaching its peak.
The fullness of the ideal and the backbone of the reality finally shattered into a helpless disillusionment in the violent crash.
Young people who say they are striving for the same ideal are actually skeptical of their "shared" goals.
In the final analysis, the "love and peace" in all slogans turned into intoxicating "sex and drugs" in the end.
The result of the revolution seems to end in victory, but is the final result really what the vanguards once imagined?
However, not all ideals should really be turned into nothingness under the illumination of reality.
Before rebelling, I found that the world is not as beautiful as it should be, so I was confused.
After rebellion, it is to reconcile between ideal and reality, so grow.
It also came out of that "ridiculous" era, and the legends of Clinton, Jobs and others are still enviable.
People who really stick to their ideals seem to shine no matter what age they are born in.
It's a pity that looking at the general public, how many Bernardo Bertolucci are there in this world?
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