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Keyshawn 2022-09-21 19:44:37

About politics, about sex, about movies, about rock

, and the backdrop of the May 1968 storm in France, a group of impulsive young people holding red flags of workers, peasants and soldiers, mass marches, riot police in the streets, a portrait of Che Guevara in a bookstore...

Bertolucci. I read about him in "Cinema" - born in Italy, he was a poet in his early years, and he changed his career as a director at the age of 22. It turned out that the "The Last Emperor" that he watched many years ago was one of his oriental trilogy, and because of the last emperor, he became the best director of the Oscar. However, it is said that if you want to know him more deeply, you must not miss "The Dreamers", which is translated as "Dreamers" in Chinese, or "Dream of Paris".

To be honest, I don't really understand after watching it. At the end of the film, the parents come home from vacation, and the home is in a mess. Seeing the three children sleeping together naked, the two adults choose to leave quietly while being surprised. Finally, the three were awakened by the parade outside the window, and the siblings resolutely joined the parade. Leaving the child from the United States, withdrawing from the crowd, bewildered and withdrawn alone...

If there is no elder restraint in reality, there is only the fanaticism of people outside the window for politics and the youth inside who do not know how much day and night can be squandered, I Could it be that crazy? In the three young people, you can more or less see their own shadows - stupid, impulsive, crazy, dreamy, decadent, lonely, confused... Of course, movies are the art of life after all. "If" can only be limited to a wild imagination.

Interestingly, in the somewhat ornate middle-class home, in Bertolucci's lens, the portrait of Mao Zedong frequently appeared on the wall. There is also an imaginative dialogue between Matthew and Leo - "If Mao Zedong, if he were to direct a movie, what kind of scenes would there be?" "There should be a lot of Red Army troops standing on the hill, everyone There is a small red book in the room." "No, there should be only one, only one small red book."... The two argued endlessly. Indeed, the communist complex of the Italian director can be seen.

It is worth mentioning that the three main characters are all avid movie fans. The film is interspersed with scenes from old movies and debates about the film. And the nostalgic '60s songs that fit the movie just right. What is playing in SPACE is a French song "La Mer", which seems to have been heard before, and it is also an episode of another movie in my impression, a touch of sadness. The other songs are also good, I like the tune. Well, I found the playlist, I want to download the original sound, and relive it one by one.

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The Dreamers quotes

  • Matthew: As we walked, we talked and talked and talked about politics, about movies, and about why the French could never come close to producing a good rock band.

  • Theo: Papa's full of shit.

    Matthew: I think you're lucky. Um, I wish my parents were that nice.

    Isabelle: Other people's parents are *always* nicer than our own, and yet for some reason, our own grandparents are always nicer than other people's.