Keith's "Red"

Frederik 2022-04-20 09:01:42

"Red" tells a few stories that came close to passing by. Originally, these stories should stay in a certain corner of the world, grow lonely and die peacefully. It seems that these characters should also hope and despair alone in their own small world. But Keith used an almost cruel fate to fuse everything together step by step. All the characters are different parts of the same apple, and they are scattered throughout the story. They hope, they seek, they suffer, they seek another part of destiny, another part of Apple. They were separated by 40 years. They lived in adjacent houses but never knew each other.

The only complete family in the film is the neighbor the old judge eavesdropped on, the father quietly maintains a homosexual relationship with a man, the mother knows nothing, and the daughter eavesdrops on her father's secret and keeps it. In Keith's eyes, the essence of human beings is loneliness, and the harmony of the family is just a piece of white paper that can be broken with a stab. In the face of grim reality, in today's absence of idealism, what has become of love or fraternity in a higher sense, and is love possible? These are what Kistrovsky really cares about.


The ending of "Red" is truly surprising. Keith's work has always been too pessimistic, but he left people with a hopeful ending in the final work.

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Three Colors: Red quotes

  • The Judge: Perhaps you're the woman I never met.

  • The Judge: You think I'm a bastard?

    Valentine: Yes.