At first glance, they are two mischievous children, full of childlike interest, but they are actually unhappy childhoods. The male protagonist Julian is full of contradictions with his father, and his mother is seriously ill. Rejection, even the surname is always mispronounced by the French, and the two children are like people who have lost their identity and are out of tune with their surroundings.
So a betting game unfolded under such circumstances, "Do you dare?" Julian got his mother's favorite carousel tin box and gave it to Sophie. This is not a gift, but an exchange. Personally, relying on this game, I constantly challenge adults' endurance, let the school bus without a driver drive away, speak foul language in class, urinate on the floor, pull down the tablecloth, and all kinds of pranks. In Julian's father's view, this kind of behavior is useless. Meaning, he even thought that Sophie had broken Julian.
But for two children, betting is not pure fun, but to prove themselves. In the childhood when parents are the whole world, their parents are always absent or alienated. Since they are abandoned by the world, they ignore the universal rules of the world, even What's wrong with trampling on the rules, defiant is the best revenge for the injustice of fate, school is also a metaphor of destiny, order and iron law, God came in the form of a funny headmaster, and cursed Julian and Sophie respectively , these people's lives will be irreversible no matter how absurd bets.
Julian's mother died, Sophie stood on his mother's tombstone and sang "Rose Life", Julian burst into tears and laughed, death is absurd, but it is even more absurd to sing love songs against social common sense, in order to avoid the tragedy of fate Looking down, only Julian and Sophie can understand this. Julian's father also noticed something, so he let the two children sleep in the same bed for ten years.
Ten years later, the betting game has also been upgraded. Although it is also a prank, it has more sexual characteristics, affection, and even love. He wears underwear to take the math test, steals the earrings of female classmates, beats the male sports teacher, and is on the street. Blocking the car and kissing, despite doing a lot of adult things, the relationship between Julian and Sophie is still in the childhood stage, is it a game or love? Whoever admits the latter first loses, and Julian's unsmiling father also affects the way Julian sees Sophie emotionally.
A serious and lawful father is a contrast to Sophie, who ignores social common sense. Julian still hopes to get his father's affirmation, so even after being hurt by his father, he still listens to his father's advice and plans the future carefully, which seems to be different from Sophie's. The relationship is more like a child's play, so the more sincere the relationship between the two, the more unable to open their mouths. After all, two people who always laugh at the law of fate in front of each other, how can they admit that they also have love like all living beings.
In the library, a place incompatible with Sophie, Sophie looked small and cowardly. He longed to plan the future together with Julian, but remembered that the only time to plan the future was his childhood tyrant dreams and cheese. This kind of fault is in the courage to defy fate and ignore the world. Sophie is much stronger than Julian. It may be like in the movie, Sophie's parents never show up, but Julian still cares about her parents, which is a metaphor for this gap. The source of , Sophie was more thoroughly abandoned by the world, so in love and even in life, Julian is more like the one who "does not dare".
Sophie bets that Julian doesn't dare to hurt herself, but the key to the whole movie is here. Four years later, Julian holds the ring, so Sophie is full of anticipation but finds out that the person he loves will marry someone else. Sophie is at the wedding. Bet to ruin the wedding, father and Julian broke up, Sophie angrily made a bet of "not seen in ten years" on the rails, and left with the iron box.
Since then, Julian has discovered the importance of Sophie to him, he has started to notice various numbers, which are typical symbols of socialization, the number of his children, the frequency of his orgasm, his property, his ability to 200 kilometers But he can only drive 60 kilometers, 3650 normal but boring days, without Sophie, his life returns to order and law, living the life his father wants him to live, his life is envied by ordinary people, but it is already Losing the ability to resist fate, he is just a walking corpse, restricted everywhere, an ordinary person, the kind of person he never cared about in his childhood.
However, on the tenth anniversary of the marriage, Julian knew that this was also the last day of the bet. Sophie on the other side of the picture was the old god, and the day was as usual, and she still seemed cynical. Julian's inner turning point was greater than Sophie's. , "Does he still remember me?" was the only thing Julian cared about at this time, and the playful children stung him even more. The doorbell, he ran to the door with tears in his eyes, but the figure was not Sophie. Just when he felt desperate, a familiar iron box appeared in the package just delivered.
The game restarted, and Julian rushed to Sophie's house. The two who met after ten years smiled at each other, with tears in their laughter. Then they called the police, escaped, and hurricane. Julian finally found his life. A beauty that trumps all drugs, orgasms, and the end of the world, the sports car finally breaks the norm, crashing into the van at 200 km/h. Then in the hospital, Sophie mistakenly identified the horribly wounded patient as Julian, and left heartbroken. In fact, Julian, who was only slightly injured, asked the doctor to sew the wound with a triumphant smile on the other side.
In an instant, the two finally realized how much the other cared about each other, and the frequency was right. They met again outside the hospital. Julian sang "Rose Life", which only Sophie could sing in the past. In the heavy rain, the two ignored social norms and each other. The partner's call and anger, only each other is left in their eyes, until Sophie's husband punches Julian in the face, Julian is dying, a car accident can't kill Julian, but social morality can make him die, until the carousel The iron box reappeared, and Sophie began to bet again: "Stay by my side forever, dare you?"
The iron box, which has always been considered a symbol of the game, pulled Julian back from the brink of death. In fact, "Dare you dare ?" "The game itself is the proof of love. Without love, there is no "dare". Life is courage and determination. It can also be said to be a game. It is precisely because Julian and Sophie are together that they know how to enjoy the normalcy of the world. It took more than 20 years from the beginning to the end, and the two were finally no longer confused about whether it was a game or love.
However, social norms still exist, life is irreversible, and fate remains the same. The reality that was challenged by the love of the two to be irreparable could not tolerate them, so their last bet was to seal each other in cement and never Separation is also the last betrayal of the world.
However, the movie itself does not think this needs to be sentimental, because in the end, we still see a beautiful imagination. If the two live to old age, they will still repeat their childhood games, still be deviant, and still laugh at the world.
I'll give this movie five stars, maybe it's because he touched me too much. The movie always perfects the impossible in life. "Dare to" is actually the gap between the movie and reality, and I admire this movie very much. It is possible to use something as boring as cement and difficult to connect with romance as the final ending, and handle it properly, as well as the French classic ballad la vie en rose, sometimes the more classic it is, the more difficult it is to use. In a regular movie, it might seem like a second or abrupt, but in this film it is very well presented.
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