Hormonal idyll

Kasey 2022-09-19 05:45:51

Before talking about "Dream of Paris", I suddenly thought of "Rejuvenation". Of course the two films have nothing to do with each other. But "Rejuvenation" presents a possibility that the most mature mind and the most dynamic body have at the same time. But the reality is that no line of thought merges with the most beautiful body, and "Dream of Paris" is brilliant in inserting a hormonal idyll into this habitual growth pattern.

It's hormonal because it doesn't have any meaning. Without those great frameworks, there are no overly bright words such as "persistence", "dream", "high-spirited", "youth" and so on.

These words are too personal and subjective, which is another style, a bit of edification. But this movie is just a show, showing how the three protagonists can vent their excess hormones. Because, this is a natural movie.
Regardless of the May storm, movies, sex, bright carcasses, delicious wines, there is not much artificial color, meaningless, and simply showing existence.
It just echoes "existence precedes essence".
So everything is so natural and graceful.

As for idyll, that's better explained. Naturally, living as one wants is inherently poetic.
What's more, its specific and habitually endowed with "essence" of the background of the May storm, which adds to the psychedelic feeling of being illusory but not illusory, both fake and real, and can be in and out.

This seems to be a tried-and-true routine. If you want to give a phenomenon a solidity of authenticity, the most convenient way is to drag it into a major collective historical event.
For example, World War II on "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily".
This is the best background setting for pastoral freehand brushwork, because in fact, the individual's life is not so deeply involved, just like a series of red ribbons on the hand, the individual still lives freely in another world, and on the other side you have You can hear the pulse of the opposite era through that ribbon, and it's so real.
For the three of them, the pastoral is about movies and sex, a kind of enjoyment in the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty and the origin, pure and natural, with the spirit of carnival.

There are three scenes in the movie that impressed me the most.
One is that Isabella swayed leisurely to the music, took off her clothes little by little, and revealed her clean and beautiful body at the beginning, which was really beautiful.
In fact, the nude images in the whole movie have an indescribable beauty. Without being pretentious or pretentious, the naturalness and authenticity of the benefits, but unconsciously implies the first level of interpretation of the word "young", that is, the perfection of the body.

Second, Isabella was about to commit suicide through a gas tank.
And she's not actually dealing with the concept of "death" seriously, she just thinks that's how the movie should go.
Just like they have always liked the character guessing movie of the game, they seem to be interpreting death with the same heart. Understatement, inattentive, and most importantly, remember, there is no philosophical significance, no "essence".
And the film that runs through the film is actually the projection of their inner world. The pictures they kept in their empty heads.

The third is when they rushed to the street, Theo took the Molotov cocktail and was about to throw it at the police. Matthew tried to stop him, saying they were against violence.
And not long ago, Theo in the bathtub told Matthew that he would rather go to jail than participate in the Vietnam War. Because he is against violence.
And the difference between words and deeds at the moment does not mean that Theo is a duplicitous person. All this just shows that the soul wrapped in their body is the most primitive, and has no position, so it is erratic.

And all of this is the genius of this story, it doesn't try to convey any artificial ideas, it doesn't explain the various words that people have coined. Only expression, which precedes the existence of essence.
All these pictures and phenomena just reveal the second meaning of youth, the emptiness of thought inside the body.
Everything changes as you want.

Therefore, the film is to show the natural person.
Like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, there is no shame in being naked. All day long in the garden, playing and having fun, without pain and without paranoid thoughts. They are dreamers, not what kind of definite unilateral goals they have with all the contrived noble qualities that go with them.
They are dreamers, dreamers.

Everything done is driven by hormones and follows the nature of nature. Then when each of their actions were connected, an idyllic curtain was laid.

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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

  • 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.