Like many French films, the camera fades in and out, and the mood changes. It drives me crazy for no reason, and I can only capture the understanding of the story from trivial fragments. The stylistic analysis of French films is omitted here because I do not know. Don't replay the plot of the movie again, just talk about it.
If I met such an old man on the streets of France, I would definitely not be happy to talk to him, even if I knew that he was played by Marlon Brando. However, who the hell you are? My knowledge of him is limited to his name, and an unkind face. And there are 100 ways to strike up a conversation in the development history of 100 kinds of relationships between men and women. Their method of approaching a conversation is so simple and straightforward: sex! After the climax, the young girl rolled on the floor a few times, the old man was lying on his back and gasping for breath, and then the camera switched to two people walking out of the apartment quickly, the young girl stepping on the unsteady pace, like this embarrassing sex. There is no love here, go to the cinema to see love. The conservative old woman on the dance floor at the end of the credits dismisses them like that. The reality is also like this, there will be no such absurd encounters, although it is not clear whether one-night stands have become popular in France in the 1970s. However, fortunately, they hooked up smoothly in the movie, and finally called the name of love.
The old man holding the tail of the dead mouse and saying that he wants to eat it with a dipping sauce really made my appetite. He was too persistent and frantically expressing his lust, making the young girl both love and fear him, love his straightforwardness, and fear that the man next to him would not know what he would do to make him unacceptable. At the last moment, the gunshots sounded, and the young girl, who had lost her sense of proportion under the pursuit of the old man, was afraid to the extreme, and her love came to an end. The ordinary heart of the old man's lover died long ago with the death of his wife, leaving only an increasingly unbalanced and extreme obsession with love. It is a magnet for the beginning of love, and a reminder for the end of love.
What does my name mean to you? ! It is the call to the end of the story. The old man resisted all the memories related to the name. For example, although I was an insider, I refused to disclose the key plot. This name is the most closely related part of all plots. And without the appearance of a name, he can build a safe distance from the world for their affair. The past he avoided, and the past that he could recall and mention, were just incoherent and anonymous details. The self depicted in this way, the self shown to the young girl is the self that has been screened and filtered. He may not be himself, or he may be just an imaginary self, he can do evil, beautify the past, and vilify love. He can ignore everything, don't ask where he came from, and only indulge in sexual affairs with young girls. So, that's why I don't like this old man. He used this to avoid the pain of his wife's death and betrayal, but he was trampling on another woman's heart.
Here, let's call the young girl's love for him sincere. As for why she fell in love with the old man?
1. Because of my bad preconceptions about old men, I can't find any reason to convince myself.
2. Then let me guess:
a. Electra, why not?
In the absence of father's love, her boyfriend's love cannot give her a sense of tolerance like a giant umbrella. Even if they finally talked to her about marriage, they were still thinking about each other's children. Well, let the old man's attraction become a kind of fatherly attraction. Maybe, the wrinkles on his face and the tone of a middle-aged man's voice are the reasons why the young girl loves her.
b. She cannot understand the old man.
The beginning of the hookup is, I find you pleasing to the eye, I want to know your name, I want to know your this, your that, and then report to each other, and take the first step of understanding. Communication, communication, the tools that normal people need to maintain a relationship, are even more needed between lovers. However, the old man blocked the young girl's mouth from revealing her name and sincerity, and only revealed some specious details, which were indistinguishable from the truth and the false, so that the curiosity of the young girl was nowhere to be placed. Encounters are inherently mysterious, and since the old man keeps secrets, it is not surprising that this sense of mystery is derived from love.
c. Absolutely private.
The secret passion is always more condescending than the emotion on the stage, and it is also related to the relationship of sex. Partially born women are sensitive and emotional creatures, and when dealing with feelings, they are always more aware of their feelings than men. The scene of meeting with her boyfriend followed after her smooth one-night stand with the old man, and as soon as she met her boyfriend, so you kissed me because it was a question from the movie (the subtext is not love), I already had it in my heart Compare. On the one hand is the familiarity with the old man, on the other is the estrangement with the boyfriend. Of course, during the filming of her and her boyfriend, it is clearly a memory of a young girl, but it always makes people feel absurd and funny in the dark. His boyfriend shows excitement and madness anytime and anywhere. Compared with her relationship with the old man, her meeting with her boyfriend is exposed to the camera and people's eyes all the time. She was tired of her own will being raped, and she was tired of this part of herself being exposed.
d. Not pop is unrealistic.
Maybe it's just because she doesn't like the popular marriage routine of popular young people, and with old men, she doesn't have to care so much, she can be herself as she likes, and she can consummate the shocking world in her mind. Although most women have a husband who is snoring in the middle of the night lying beside them, they must have had beautiful and unrealistic fantasies about their future partner when they were young. She may love the old man, but she still decides to end the relationship with him, she hesitates, and she does not give up anxiety. Young people are impulsive and don't care about the consequences. She can show her feelings, or she can decide to leave the old man after the old man reported himself and stalked her. His revelation was something she didn't expect, and it also tore the veil of the relationship she maintained with him in private. She cares about whether the farmhouse life or hotel life is about to unfold. She needs to face up to what will be put on the table. emotional problems. Perhaps, only the distance between fantasy and reality is the most beautiful existence in the story, and it is also the moment when love is allowed to be soft.
e. There may be other reasons, and the imagination is limited, so I will not repeat them one by one. It is summarized here as: the plot needs.
I originally watched it for the name of this tango, but fortunately, the tango at the end was hearty. For me, a tango, getting up, stepping, brisk walking, stepping back, turning around, leaning on, every move and every move should be a brisk toe game. Tango is a dance for two people and a dance between lovers. The old man said that tango was a ritual, and the men and women on the field were rigid in form. French women with serious make-up danced tango with the guidance of their dance partners, turning around and raising their feet, with graceful manners, but behind their standardized movements and stiff expressions, there was just a boring tango competition. In comparison, young girls and old men are writhing on the dance floor. Although they have no rules, their bright and happy smiles and their intermittent movements are like the unremarkable play of you chasing me between lovers. Although they have no tango shape, they have Tango meaning. This is a tango staged in Paris, their last love game, but not the last game between men and women in Paris.
I didn't get it until the last minute. The simple-minded people who are usually corrupted by those romance novels suddenly realized at the last moment, and the plot of the whole drama finally became clear and coherent. I gave it 5 points because, although I read it in a confused way, there are still some places that I don't quite understand.
1. Filmed in 1972, an old film that has passed nearly 40 years. The old man's words are fierce in many places, you fucking family, okay! Maybe it wants to talk about the background of the times. I don't know the style of France in the 1970s. This is a unclear point.
2. Regarding the passage about him and his wife and mother, he turned off the lights, pulled them into the dark corridor, and showed them to people in the dark. What does this passage want to explain? Is it to pave the way for the pain of bereavement and betrayal below? !
Of course, for all the jokes that I can't understand, I have used the reason that the plot needs it. Maybe after a while, the feeling will be different. Recommended to see! If you see something, let me know how you feel.
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