Redemption, Not Destruction - About "Love Short" and "Red"

Wilfred 2022-04-20 09:01:42

Want "Blue", "White", "Red", not "All the time". A good movie should make people see hope and be rescued, not - lethality. A good movie should make people realize their own evil and strive to be good. A good movie should be a spiritual salvation.

If, there is another eye, or an ear, watching us or listening to us outside our lives, then, by chance, one day, we find ourselves through this eye, or this ear, our consistent self, Find yourself alone and cry, find yourself doing some irrational and unclean things, find yourself a polyhedron, find yourself so far from the heart, then...

believe we have a third eye, in our See beyond the two eyes of the world. Please believe that the third eye is the eye of the sky, it does not shed tears, but only flows out of the blue sea.

In "Love Short", this eye is the telescope of young Tomac. He saw sex without faith, he used his innocence to get close to the sleeping soul, and then he was deeply insulted. He suffered such injuries in the way of a teenager, slitting his own wrist with a blade. I could only bite my lip as the red blood changed the color of the water. I believe that the suicide of the teenager is not to make someone feel guilty, but that the flawless love that he trusted in completely collapsed in the face of reality. Young man, this word is somewhat related to innocence and beauty.

The actions of the teenager made the adult woman feel remorse, yes, I would rather believe it was remorse than remorse. Finally, the woman lowered her eyes to the ones the boy had stared into hers. In that small hole, she saw her back, the back sobbing in front of the spilled milk...

"Love Short Film", the sixth commandment in Kieslowski's "Ten Commandments". Known for his socially-focused documentaries, he felt the limitations of documentaries because "the door is always closed when people cry" (to the effect), and turned to feature films. Focusing on the human inner universe is the theme of all of Kieslowski's feature films. Most European masters prefer to explore the mind, and Kieslowski embarked on a journey of salvation.

What is the legacy of time in people? We grow old day by day drinking rain, snow and dust. Aging is a slow and stiff process. The similarity between "Red" and "Love Short" is the opposition of a young heart and a rigid heart, then melted or melted into each other. Of the three colors, I used to prefer "Blue", now it is "Red". Kieslowski was a pessimist, and a master became a master because he transcended himself. Religious sentiments did not allow him to indulge in pessimism.

"Red" corresponds to fraternity, and I would like to understand it as broad love. The girl Valentina in "Red" is Veronica with a double life. There was an air of cleanness and holiness about this girl. She appeared in the old judge's life because of an accident that hit a dog. An old judge who always opened the door but had no visitors, and used a bug to spy on the hidden world of his neighbors. He said that he had been doing this all his life - he was a judge, and his job was to spy and judge the secrets of the heart.

At first, the conversation between the two begins with a sense of morality. Moral sense, a word that we have to look at again and again. If wiretapping is not a moral, then what about what is done under the sun? What's behind these things? Telephone lines are hidden passages. The husband who has a happy family has a same-sex lover at the same time, the neighbor who passes by your window every day is a drug dealer, the gray-haired old woman feels deeply lonely because her relatives are far away... The world in the hidden passage is desolate, it is everyone Unknown heart.

Conversations that begin with a sense of morality turn inward. "Did that get you thinking?" "There was a boy who found out that he was not his father's own, when he was 15..." "He was on drugs?" The old judge's acuity was astonishing. The girl's 15-year-old brother has just been arrested for drug use.

So, do we deny sunlight because of the shadows in life? Because of his wife's betrayal, the old judge's inner world was closed for 40 years. It's hard to imagine how the huge loneliness in the heart can be saved. As mentioned above, Valentina has a clean and holy breath on her body-in this world, everyone has their own secret sign language, which corresponds to a certain color and a certain adjective. Woolf is destructive, Laura is estranged, Yoko is late spring rose, they are all people who can't even achieve self-redemption. And Valentina is neutral, gentle, and free of thorns. Her strength lies in her young, uninjured life. She walked into each other's hearts in the mutual snooping with the old judge, and the souls approached step by step, resulting in love.

If love specifically refers to love that has been defined by the world, then it is too narrow to use love to define the relationship between two people. It cannot be understood by earthly love, spiritual love, or the love in Song of Songs. It is a love that transcends the secular and is close to religious color. This kind of love is no longer an emotion, it is to bring each other back to faith, gratitude, love, and all possible goodness.

Like "Veronica's Double Life", "Red" still has a lingering atmosphere of mystery and destiny. The young judge Augustus suffered the same fate as the old judge, or he was the old judge's present life. The director arranged a meaningful ending - they met on a ship and were rescued together in a shipwreck. Also rescued were the heroes and heroines in "Blue" and "White" - they were all people who were salvaged ashore after the sinking of their souls.

The last shot of the film is frozen in Valentina's melancholy eyes, and behind her is a fluctuating red, which is a flashing life jacket. It's the same huge ad she hangs on the streets of Geneva, a chewing gum ad with the subject line: Breath of Life.

I really like this symbolic ending. "Short Love" and "Red", two films in 24 hours, they made me realize that films like "The Moment" should be avoided, the catastrophic events of life should be avoided - we need redemption, not destruction.

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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.