This is a somewhat depressing romance film. Penniless boxer Ali brings his five-year-old son Sam to his sister to rescue shark trainer Stephanie who was injured in a fight while working as a nightclub security guard.
Two people who seem to be in completely different worlds come together by chance. Stephanie had an accident at the shark show and woke up in hospital to find her legs were amputated and lost.
At this time, Ali was working as a security guard, helping friends install cameras in factories or shopping malls, and walking among different women. He was impatient with his five-year-old son, and seemed clueless about his work and life.
Stephanie calls Ali. Ali went to see her, to see her huddled in the apartment in decadence and despair, refusing the sunlight outside. Ali took Stephanie out, took her to the beach, to swim, to breathe the breath of life.
A friend introduced Ali to fight street boxing to earn money. Stephanie went with him. When someone asked who the lady was, Ali's friend said it was Ali's girlfriend.
At that moment, Stephanie's eyes and face were shining, a light of hope. Love always gives people hope, especially women.
A stubborn Stephanie goes to get a prosthesis, while Ali tells her they're just buddies.
Ali is a cold-hearted man, short-tempered and reticent. When his sister reprimanded him for his dismissal, he stormed off the house in a rage.
No one can get in touch with him. He went to a boxing ring, practiced hard, and fought to make money to compensate his sister.
Ali and Stephanie eventually came together. She listened to him and comforted him when he was most helpless and cried for the first time.
Two incomplete lives have experienced all kinds of hardships and come together to form an ordinary and touching love story. Literary and artistic shooting techniques, sunshine, sea water, beach, ice and snow, everything is both real and brilliant, with the soft and romantic French, it can be said to be seamless.
Stephanie said to Ali's sister, you don't know him. Ali's sister asked Stephanie, what do you know about him? Stephanie said, I don't know.
A person's understanding of another person is a kind of heart-to-heart connection, a kind of resonance that can be understood but not spoken, a kind of subconscious connection, a chemical element produced between the skin, a kind of Compassion for each other's pain.
Stephanie has always followed Ali, just like the MV of the song Follow River, a woman follows a man in the ice and snow, persevering, as if following the light of life. The firmness of her footsteps and the stubbornness in her eyes, just like Stephanie, who is weak in appearance and strong in heart, sees Ali's soft heart through the cold, supports his cane, moves his prosthetic limbs, and follows Ali.
It's a quintessentially French film, shot in a seemingly casual, yet gripping way. Boxing matches without any protective equipment on the street, knocked out teeth, amputated legs, confused life, noisy nightclubs, fragile self-esteem, proud self, everything is just right for this, but it means profound.
The strong Ali has a weak side, while the weak and disabled Stephanie hides great strength and toughness. Two imperfections make a perfect one.
Perhaps this is the beauty of love.
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