I finally watched this famous French movie. Judging from its starring characters, I know that it is a very heavy work, Audrey Tatu, Marion Cotillard, Jodie Foster, all of them are extremely heavy Charismatic actor. I know Audrey Tatu from "Amelie"; I have seen "Little Ones", "La Viejo" and "Inception", Marion Cotillard is the French actress I know and like the most; Jodie Foster's The name is even more eloquent. Therefore, I also have a lot of special expectations for this work.
The beginning of the film describes the cruelty of war. Soldiers were executed for various reasons, but not for glorious reasons like dying for the country, but only because of human cowardice, disgust and fear of war. Choose to self-harm and get punished. This depressing and inactive tone also pervades the first half of the film. At this time, a handsome and handsome young boy appeared, which made people's eyes shine, but soon, he was also punished for self-harm and trying to escape the war. In the switching of the screen, the face of another young girl appeared, Audrey Tatu, it turned out that she and this young boy were old lovers. And now, during the war, this boy, along with four other people, will face self-mutilation and be punished as a sentinel to enter the battlefield, which is destined to never return.
The screen switches back to Audrey Tatu. Unlike the cruelty of the front line, she lives in an ordinary town with no competition from the world, and in the time and space where she lives, the boy she loves has lost news for three years. For three years, she had been waiting for news from him. The people around her persuaded her that the boy was no longer there and told her to stop being persistent. But she stubbornly refused to give up, and kept looking for the comrades beside the boy on the battlefield at that time, trying to restore the scene at that time. She went to Paris and asked Bao Bao, a well-known local, and asked him to help with the investigation; she followed the information mentioned in the boy's letter at the time and asked the priest of the church; she also sneaked into the National Archives, wanting to inquire about the casualties at that time Personnel information. Everything brought her closer and closer to the truth at that time, but it also constantly revealed the cruelty of the war, making her realize how slim the hope of finding a lover was.
In this process, the film is inserted into flashbacks. It turns out that in that ordinary and beautiful town, she and the boy grew up as childhood sweethearts when they knew each other, and the boy once carried her to the high lighthouse to look at the blue sky and sea , they also played carefree in the endless fields of the countryside, and they spent all the good times of their lives together. She loved him so much that she couldn't give up until she searched for all the clues and heard everyone say that he was dead.
If the story of Audrey Tatu is the main line of the film, then Jodie Foster and Marion Cotillard are the two distinctive branches of the film. Following the information from Bao, the heroine found the widow played by Jodie Foster. How cruel the war is. Her infertile husband made her have sex with her best friend so that she could give birth to help herself. The children who were exempted from military service, ironically, before the war, they were a plain and happy family, and the war made this man lose his blood and self-esteem as a man. In the end, he and his friend died in battle, leaving the woman to continue her struggling and painful life.
The story of Marion Cotillard is unique in Gothic style. From the beginning of the film, as a prostitute, she kills two officers in different ways until she is arrested and executed on the eve of her death. The heroine just met. It turned out that at that time, the French president had issued an amnesty decree, pardoning five death row prisoners, including the hero and her husband, but the news was suppressed by one of the officers, while the other officer was in When her husband was powerless to fight back, he was shot dead. So in the end, she chose to avenge her husband in this decisive way.
You can't blame any of them, you can only sigh at the coldness and ruthlessness of the war, which makes all the good feelings in the world disappear.
However, there are also some small episodes. After these sad and unbearable stories, we can see the other side of human nature that exudes a faint light.
The heroine gave her the relics of the prostitute's dead husband in prison. The prostitute opened it and saw a small note inside, which read: I am dead, don't avenge me, live well and avenge me ,not worth it. When I saw this, there were tears in my eyes. If she had received her husband's relics earlier, would she have chosen to let it go and live another life? Unfortunately, no if. I didn't read any regrets in her eyes either. She may be relieved, it is a kind of relief to be able to go to Huangquan with her beloved.
The female protagonist was drinking coffee in the coffee shop. She mentioned that the male protagonist wore a red glove on the battlefield. Suddenly, the woman behind her stood up excitedly, walked to the small blackboard in the store and rubbed the words MMM. It is a password between the male and female protagonists, representing their love. The heroine chased after him to the bathroom. It turned out that the woman's younger brother was a member of the German bomber. He was on the plane and saw the man engraving the MMM logo on a tree. His eyes were filled with simplicity and hope. When it comes to the male lead, those people feel sad.
You see, how contradictory the war is. It is your comrade-in-arms who sends you to the execution ground, and it is your enemy who regrets your fate. It's really emotional.
The twists and turns and ups and downs in the middle will not be mentioned. Most of the film has passed, and it seems that everyone who found it is telling the heroine that the boy is no longer there. Although they do not have definite evidence, according to the scene they described the last time they saw the male protagonist, it was a brutal massacre that no one could escape. But only the heroine has not given up. She found the last person, the one she gathered based on all the clues, and finally fled with her boy.
It turned out that the boy escaped the brutal massacre, but when he was diagnosed and treated at the temporary nurse station, he encountered another terrorist attack by the German army. The boy lost his memory in this bombing. He borrowed the name of the dead comrade in arms and turned into another A woman's son, when the heroine finally found the hero, he no longer remembered her.
In the garden of the boy's new home, they finally met again, just like the first time they met, he asked the girl, "Does your leg hurt?" The girl shook her head and sat beside him and watched him play with building blocks. Young and shy, just like in that small town where there is no competition in the world, far away from the war and the hustle and bustle of the world, the boys and girls of childhood sweethearts, sitting quietly together, it is very beautiful.
It turns out that the cruel beginning, the twists and turns, and the fairy tale ending are enough to heal a broken heart.
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