The male protagonist is called Stephane. He was originally in Mexico and was persuaded by his mother to recall to France to do creative work. When he returned with hope, he took his paintings to the calendar company, only to find that no one appreciated his works, and he also No need to do any creative work, just cut-and-paste every day. For him with a rich imagination, life is like a stagnant pool, and he can only use his imagination when he dreams at night. The reason why this film is difficult to understand is because it mixes Stephane's imagined dreams with reality. Many scenes are imagined by him and are completely inner activities. And I can be happy and sad with Stephane's inner activities, and I can understand his thoughts. And I can easily see the difference between imagination and reality in the way of expression in the film. When the imaginary scene appears, the things in it are surreal. I have seen the kind of professional shooting method described in the film review, which is like animation. Shooting in the same grid, in Stephane's imagined world, the scenery is like a child made of cardboard boxes, or made of cloth, you can see clear big pins, the water is made of cellophane, etc., like a fairy tale world. The way Stephane communicates with himself is the TV station he imagines, directing, choreographing and acting. The camera is also made of cardboard, and there are two TV screens on the wall. This is his imaginative way of talking to himself. I also have my own imaginary world, and I have a dialogue with myself.
His monotonous life was changed when Stephanie, a girl, moved in opposite the door. Stephanie moved in with the help of her beautiful friend Zoe, and when the movers moved her piano up the stairs, Stephane was also on the stairs, and the workers accidentally dropped the piano and hit Stephane's fingers. So Stephane had the opportunity to meet Stephnie and Zoe. Stephanie bandaged his fingers, but he lied and didn't say that he lived opposite. At first he felt that he had a good impression of the beautiful Zoe, and wanted to ask Zoe's phone through Stephanie, and even thought that Stephanie had a good impression of him. It's a bit of a mess here, he's still sleepwalking in the shower and writing a letter to Stephanie, admitting he lied and asking for Zoe's call. What's interesting here is that he didn't know his sleepwalking state, and when he woke up and found that he had put the letter under Stephanie's door, he regretted it, and hurried back to retrieve it. And he didn't know that his every move was seen by Stephane through the cat's eye on the door and read his letter. Later, he also showed his whimsy to Stephanie, tossing cotton on the piano and playing a specific frequency on the piano to make them stay in the air. This is his theory, as long as the frequency is on the cotton, it will stop like a cloud. He also invented the time-reversing machine, and the funniest thing is that he used it to hug Stephanie twice. He discovered that Stephanie liked to do imaginative things himself, volunteered to do it for her, and even tampered with her booby to make it run. The story is so magical, and it seems so natural to me, and I am very happy to watch two people do some whimsical things together. And Stephane's timidity made him never dare to express his feelings to Stephanie, and he didn't know how to express it well. After making an appointment with Stephanie, he was walking on the road, but because of his fantasies, Stephanie waited for a long time to see him. He always said nonsense to Stephanie, and the more he said, the more chaotic, but there was one sentence that impressed me very much. He said that when you are 70 years old, no one wants us to be together. This is probably what I meant. At that time, my tears fell involuntarily. I felt that I had the same feeling, and it was the same idea. Finally, he said he was going back to Mexico, said goodbye to Stephanie, but climbed up to Stephanie again. Hanie stayed on her bed until she fell asleep again, dreaming that he and Stephanie rode to the water's edge on a cloth horse and boarded the boat she was sitting on. The real Stephanie is stroking his hair by the bed. The story is over like this, I don't care how it ends, whether Stephane and Stephanie will be together or not, the feelings expressed in the process have made me deeply understand.
Stephane's lack of self-confidence, innocence, and shyness are shown in such a funny way in the movie. In my opinion, it is romantic. The dark life can be so interesting. Don't worry, it's just that the onlookers look funny or even absurd, so I laughed with tears, because that's my character too. Well, people who don't understand should be congratulated because they don't have such a character and won't have the same troubles. This is a French film, and the style is really different. It has a French romantic feeling, which is also my favorite style. When I see people with the same personality, I don't know why I always feel warm, because I feel that I am not alone in bearing those troubles.
P. S. I just wrote it from memory, so I can't guarantee the accuracy of the name and plot.
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