about politics about sex they're just kids

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 Leaving the child from the United States, withdrawing from the crowd, bewildered and withdrawn alone...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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Extended Reading
  • Ludwig 2022-04-20 09:01:43

    Adolescence is actually a disease. The symptoms are irritability, rebellion, fanaticism, and a pure psychedelic feeling. In some eras, the disease will be fatal, but most people will survive it, leaving the sequelae of amnesia. Adolescence in the next generation represents incomprehensible. ps: The self-proclaimed young American youth can only faint in front of the crazy French youth, literally.

  • Annamae 2022-04-21 09:02:12

    00:09:59, the continuous back view. 00:10:25, insertion of the classic segment. 00:11:18, peeing in the sink. 01:13:57, mirror. "The filmmaker is like a voyeur, and the camera is like a keyhole in your parents' bedroom. You feel sick and guilty when you peep, but you can't take your eyes off it. It makes the film feel like a crime, the director like a criminal, like a criminal." 01:31:37, "You should think that Mao Zedong was a great director, who made a movie with thousands of troops and millions of Red Guards marching into the future with Mao's quotations in their hands, books instead of guns. , culture rather than violence, don't you think this is a beautiful epic blockbuster?" "It's not easy to have a book without a gun, that's not true, it's not a lot of books, it's a book, just a specific book, take all of them Singing the same book, singing the same song, repeating the same slogan, so everyone's just extras in this epic blockbuster, and I think it's scary and creepy." 01:33:17, eyes open The world, there is nothing in the movie.

The Dreamers quotes

  • Matthew: Yes, I'm drunk. And you're beautiful. And tomorrow morning, I'll be sober but you'll still be beautiful.

  • Isabelle: Theo, Theo. Wake up.

    Theo: [sleepily, eyes still closed] What is it?

    Isabelle: I want you to listen.

    Theo: Why?

    Isabelle: Because. Theo?

    Theo: Mm?

    Isabelle: I love you. You know that?

    Theo: I love you too.

    Isabelle: You love me too? That's funny. Are you listening? It's forever, right?

    Theo: What's forever?

    Isabelle: The two of us. Right?

    Theo: Yes. Why did Matthew say that?

    Isabelle: What did Matthew say?

    Theo: That we're monsters, freaks.

    Isabelle: I just want you to tell me that it's forever. It's forever.