when a child asks "dare", another child must say "dare", this is the rule of the game.
Director Yann Samuell wants to tell such a simple story, a boy, a girl, a game, and then use his life as the length of the film to interpret an incredible love.
They -- Sophie and Julian -- started the game when they met, but young and rebellious, they didn't think the game would last a lifetime. At that time, she was surrounded by ill-intentioned children, bowing her head silently, her schoolbag was thrown on the side of the road, stationery was scattered all over the place, they insulted her, laughed at her, and used those dirty words. She is not a soft lily growing in a greenhouse. The harsh living environment has created her wild rose-like character, with an attractive fragrance but also sharp and acerbic. He handed her mother's beautiful wooden horse box, hoping that she would not frown. She smiled at the unexpected gesture, she said, prove it to me, dare you. He answered without hesitation, dare. So he started the school bus without the driver noticing and let the bus full of children drive on its own. Then he and she smiled smugly.
Pranks ensued, challenging all kinds of taboos on campus. They took the Trojan box as a bet, proving their mettle time and time again. As long as the game can continue, he and she are willing to pay any price. The teacher's reprimand, the parent's scolding, the forced separation, even so, as long as two people exchange a look and hand the Trojan horse box into each other's hands, they will occupy a world for each other without turning back. This tacit understanding is beyond expectation.
Ten years have come and gone. The camera swiped, and handsome and beautiful secretly changed childishness.
Yet the game continues.
On the street, the young girl Sophie stood on the top of the taxi, holding up the wooden horse box, and asked the young Julian, kiss me, if you dare. Julian climbed up naturally, without hesitation, without scruples, just like when he was a child. Loud car horns, cursing from taxi drivers, and stranded vehicles all faded into the background as they kissed. The love revealed for the first time is truly like an illusion. She pushed him away and said, this is just a game.
None of them dared to reveal their hearts to each other first, they were all too strong, too afraid of each other's ridicule, worried that this was just a game, no different from any game they played from childhood to adulthood.
Some people say that Sophie and Julian can do anything except say I love you. Whoever speaks first loses.
Yet it is not without compromise. It's just a time difference between them. Stubborn, none of them will look back. When Sophie stole her sister's dress and went to the library to find Julian, he said, I want to go to college, stop making trouble, when Julian chased Sophie's bus and shouted When I love you, it is destined that they will be separated for four years.
Perhaps time will dilute the impulse of young people, and their tacit understanding, and their love. But time has lost to them this time. They still dare to do anything. Have fun.
In front of Sophie's proposal to another woman, Julian quietly pushed the Trojan horse box in front of her and whispered, who said I dare not hurt you. Sophie with a trojan box, dressed in fancy dress, shouting at Julian's wedding, I object. Julian made Sophie stand blindfolded on the tracks, waiting for the roaring train. Sophie said, we haven't seen each other for ten years, dare not. They dare to gamble on everything, and their feelings and lives are only part of it.
Ten years, long enough for them to be content with their own family careers, enough for them to forget each other, and enough for them to quit their willful ways. However they didn't. They are all waiting to meet again, waiting for the next game to start. Just like throwing mints into a Coke bottle, their lives will burst into a turbulent spring because of each other.
The Trojan box arrived on schedule, and only Sophie dared on the note. When Julian arrived at Sophie's mansion, dressed in a bright red dress like a wild rose, the house was in chaos as if it had been ransacked, and she called the police in a panicked tone. She said, I tried it and they'll be there in a minute. He understood what she meant, couldn't understand it any better. But they just laughed wildly and waited for the lonely minute hand on the wall to pass the long minute, and yes, it started again, and again, without the slightest fear, the game began. They waited for this moment for ten years. When the minute hand swiped the number twelve, the police's blue and red lights began to flash outside the house. Julian started to run out, started his private car, and started a chase with the police. He shouted excitedly from the driver's seat, always knowing that only Sophie could give the mints in his life.
"Sophie, you're playing games again, just for fun, okay. It's better than anything. . . . better than freedom. , the burning wooden box rolled to the side of the road. When Sophie rushed to the hospital, all she saw was the charred Trojan horse box and the unrecognizable wounded next to the Trojan horse box. In the end, she took the wooden horse box and sat in her husband's car, crying with the sky, and suddenly, realizing something, she burst into laughter and shouted to send me back. At the door of the hospital, under the pouring rain, Sophie met Julian, who was only slightly injured. Their tacit understanding never faded or disappeared. Behind them is each other's family, but at the moment they only see each other in their eyes, singing the old French song "Rose Life", just like when they were children, gradually getting closer.
Sophie and Julian's love is so stubborn, extreme, and brave, it's like a complete fairy tale. No one can understand themselves as well as the other party, to defeat the other party, to have the other party admit defeat, and in the end they just lose themselves and admit their love for each other. Shanmeng vows are superfluous.
However, the secular world teaches us to go with the flow and smooth our edges and corners to integrate into this society. Their love is so abrupt and out of step with the mundane world that people cannot accept immortality achieved at the expense of family, career, and reputation. And this childish story fills the long-lost void that there are still people who can live so bravely.
It is true that they still torment each other, using the game again and again as a proof to prove how much the other party cares about themselves. Their refusal to admit defeat laid the strength of this love. Those loves built with rotten sea and rocks may be defeated by cowardice and reality, but the real death is sometimes just a game.
Unique, without hesitation, just for this person, I would rather give up everything I have and give my life willingly. Beautifully like an illusion.
And you, dare you.
The old French song "La Vie de la Rose" runs through the entire film, and the languid melody blurs the game's impulsive blindness, so the damage can be forgiven. The original singer of this piece is Edith Piaf, known as the French Little Lark. The different versions in the movie give the song different flavors. When little Julian mourned at his mother's grave, little Sophie stood high in the cemetery, wearing a fresh garland, singing "Life of Roses" aloud, Julian's smile bloomed quietly. Music dilutes sadness, for both protagonists, and for us as well.
I heard this song again at the 80th Oscars. Marion Cotillard, who played Sophie at the time, won the Oscar for her role as Edith Piaf in La Vie Rose. Sophie sang "Life of the Rose" again, a wonderful coincidence.
Like Amelie, it's a brightly colored film. On the poster, the background is rendered in red and blue, and the vividness is brought into full play, implying the colorful love of the two protagonists and the immersed lives of each other. The director is good at using pictures to describe the psychology of characters. It is both virtual and real, wandering between reality and fantasy, full of the taste of French fairy tales, just like freshly baked bread, with a rich creamy fragrance, which happens to cater to the sunshine of the afternoon with rainbow.
In the last game, they walked into the construction site, waiting for the cement poured in to solidify them and their love into eternity. They hugged and smiled. He said, there are things I dare to do even if I don't say it. She looked up and said, like. He laughed and said, eat ants, insult the unemployed, and love you like a lunatic. Then hug deeply.
Under the dim light, it is still the familiar old song "Rose Life".
Happiness lasts forever instead of night
Un grand bonheur qui prend sa place
troubles and sorrows all disappear
Les ennuis, les chagrins trepassent happiness
, happiness until death
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