The beginning of the film is black and white, with a white house on a Greek island, a gray sea, and a taciturn French boy who likes to dive. The sun was shining brightly on the sea, a little white light, and the boy's father disappeared in this white light forever for his livelihood. When I saw the boy again, he had grown up, and the film was changed to color. The location is Peru, far from Greece. There is no blue sea there, only a vast expanse of ice and snow, and if it weren't for the boy's red diving suit, I would have thought that the colors were still black, white, and gray.
From Greece to Peru, from boys to men, from the sea to the ice fields, a lot of this may have happened. With the death of my mother and the untimely death of my father, I can't guess what life experience Jacques had, how he crossed the ocean and wandered here. And what I saw was a pair of eyes that were still extremely innocent, as clear as the sea, and it was no wonder that the heroine Joanna Gray fell in love with him at first sight.
At the invitation of Enzo, Jacques began to participate in various diving championships, and the result was always that Jacques beat Enzo to become the champion. With Jacques winning the championship, his love, his dolphins, his sea, maybe everything was too much. Perfect, and God is always jealous of the one who has everything, he wants Jacques to make a choice. So misfortune came, and Enzo had an accident because he was too eager for results in the game. The night he lost his friend, Jacques dreamed of a house surrounded by sea water, and he made a decision. He headed out to sea, donned his blue wetsuit, and dived down the control rope. In the end he left Joanna who loved him dearly and the new life in Joanna's womb. When he held her hand for the last time, he handed the control rope of the dive to Joanna. She was very sad and loud. She cried, but she still pulled the control rope and chose to bear the love of two people alone, because she loved him and she knew that he belonged to the deep blue sea. Jacques dived all the way to the bottom of the control rope, when a dolphin swam, he stretched out his hand and swam towards it, so he left the last bit of light and dived into the dark seabed.
Annie Baby also wrote about this movie in her "The Flower of the Other Shore". She said that the director dedicated the movie to his daughter, that is, dedicated the loneliness of the whole sea to his daughter. Perhaps the feeling that the sea gives baby Anne is lonely, but for Jacques, the world is lonely, so he would rather choose to be a fish, a fish that swims in the depths of the sea forever, where he can avoid the need to surface. Looking for a reason on the sea, he can forget the color of the sky, and he can stop crying, so he is happy.
In the film, Jacques told Joanna a story about a mermaid. He said, do you know how to meet a mermaid? You are going to swim to the bottom of the sea, where the water is bluer, the blue sky becomes a memory, and you lie in the silence where you decide to stay. With the determination to die, the mermaid will appear. They come to greet you and test your love. If your love is sincere and pure, they will accept you and take you away forever... Jacques found his mermaid on the shore, but was taken away forever by the sea, Maybe everyone has such a blue dream in the bottom of their hearts, but how many people can let go of everything and fully devote themselves to that dream. When the burdens of life weigh on their shoulders one by one, the first to give up is often Dreams, it's called growing up, and Jacques is a kid who never grows up, he'll dance with Enzo in the depths of the oil well, he'll leave his lover at night and be happy with dolphins in the sea... I admit I don't have the courage of Jacques, so I can only take out my anger at too many ties and responsibilities in life, so I envy Jacques, so I said to myself, Jacques is a fish, and a fish cannot survive without water, so He chose the sea, and I chose to retreat.
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