When I watched it for the first time, I thought it was the same movie as "The Pianist at Sea", so I gave it the same 6.5 points as "The Pianist at Sea". It is the psychological shadow of childhood, social discomfort, and it is only when I am with the sea that I feel comfortable.
Later, I looked at it from another point of view, pursuing whatever I choose in life, and I don’t have to care about what other people think or worldly ideas. Follow your heart, don't have to be kitsch. Based on this, 8 points are given.
"The scars of losing his father in childhood, the friendship full of competition, and the love without regrets can't stop the desire of the hero Jacques to combine with the sea. Twenty years ago, Lu Besson's "Blue Sea and Blue Sky" was selected as the opening film by Cannes, the first film After the screening, it received mixed reviews. However, this painstaking work that contains a lot of personal emotions, with the advent of the "Director's Edition", has won more and more fans' adoration. The pursuit of self and beyond the limit, and the love that knows how to let go, It has become many people's nostalgia for the movies of the 1980s. Twenty years later, [Blue Sea and Blue Sky] will return to the big screen in Taiwan, guaranteeing that fans of both old and new will be excited again and completely defeated by the blue and deep image charm!"
Just When I told a friend about this film yesterday and mentioned the splendor of this film, he asked me: what is the story about, I couldn't clear up my mind, and I couldn't classify this as a literary love. The film is still a friendship film, or a self-fulfilling film. Although the plot mainly describes the competition between Enzo and Jacques in the diving competition, the two people's love for the ocean is fully revealed in the competition; and when Jacques When he met Johana, who was infatuated with him, for Jacques, the love with people and the love with the sea fell into the intertwined confusion. In the end, he had to make a decision. Maybe it's because I don't want to draw too arbitrary conclusions to people who haven't seen the movie, so that's why I don't know where to begin to describe the theme of the movie.
The story begins when Enzo and Jacques were children on a small island in Greece. The beginning of the black-and-white film describes the end of Jacques's father's accidental death due to diving. This black-and-white childhood memory must be a lingering shadow for Jacques. Later, Enzo continued to compete with Jacques for diving records and finally died unfortunately. The image that came to Jacques' mind was also the picture of his father's accidental death when he was young. After the end of the black-and-white film segment, the time moves back 20 years, and the film appears in the turquoise blue of the Mediterranean Sea in Sicily and the reddish brown all over the loess. Enzo has become the world's diving champion, and Jacques met Johana in a research base in Peru. Later, Enzo found Jacques, and the three of them met because of the diving competition. Friendship, love and fascination with the sea are laid out in this film. Come on.
The feeling of competition and acquaintance is everywhere between Enzo and Jacques. During the dinner of the diving competition, the two people dressed in suits and held a bottle of champagne jumped into the swimming pool like this, and the two held their breath at the bottom of the pool , opened the bottle, and drank freely. As a result, the two were later rescued ashore. Johana's love and concern for Jacuqes is of course revealed here, but I believe the sympathy between Enzo and Jacques is more impressive in this film, and even Johana's jumping into the pool may have been a match for them. This kind of sweet dream had to be disturbed by waking up. Later, Jacques broke the world diving record. Although Enzo, who was full of arrogance, was happy to see his friend perform like this, he must also be thinking of surpassing such a record. When they met in Greece later, Enzo refused to listen to Jacques and the doctor's dissuasion and insisted on surpassing Jacques' record. After Enzo resurfaced, knowing that first aid was useless, he told Jacques that he hoped he could take him back to the sea, and said that he finally knew why he would say that whenever he dived under the water, he sometimes couldn't find it. A reason to get yourself back on the water. Under the transmission of sunlight, the sea water changed from light blue to azure blue, and then from azure blue to dull black. Enzo disappeared into the deep ocean like this, and Jacques watched him silently disappear. From his father to his best friend, even though the sea is as significant to him as his hometown, he can only watch the sea take away his beloved twice.
Some people say that this blue sea and blue sky should show a very important theme, which is the pursuit of self, especially in the plot of love, which makes this theme more vivid. Jacques regards dolphins as his family, but he ignored Johana's love at first, intentionally or unintentionally. Even after he accepted Johana's love, he had more intimate contact, but when he heard the sound of dolphins, he still preferred to leave the person next to him. And plunge into the sea. Johana thought she could use love to keep Jacques by her side forever. No matter how sweet the nourishment of love was, it couldn't compare to the sea for Jacques. At the end of the film, Jacques woke up from the bed with blood from his ears and nostrils, Johana screamed, and Jacques ignored her advice and just said "I have to go and see", even though Johana knelt on the bank and cried and told Jacques that she was pregnant, Still saying "there's nothing there, it's dark and cold there, you'll be lonely, and I'm here, I'm real", can't shake Jacques' mind. When the diving cable was released, Johana could only look at Jacques, who disappeared in the sea in a pity, perhaps because of love, so she was willing to let him go and let him pursue the blue that he wanted most in his heart. sea.
Watching Jacques sink into the deep sea and let go of the hand holding the cable, as the dolphins move deeper into the sea, the subtitle reads "Dedicated to his daughter Juliette", which makes people feel a little stuffy inside, as if There are many overflowing emotions piled up in the heart. Even though there was another film (Sin City) that afternoon, in the mist (I didn't see any resonance in this film, but made me feel very boring) all that came to my mind were the blue and the submerged. Two people in dark blue. I don't know how to express the mood that was a little somber and full of emotions at the time, other than to conclude that the movie was "great."
PS. The original version of the film that was released in France was about 130 minutes, and it was sold to the United States for about 120 minutes, and the soundtrack and ending were revised. As for this Golden Horse Film Festival, the director's version will be screened for 168 minutes.
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The hero Jacques grew up on a small island in Greece, and he and Enzo were childhood playmates who didn't know each other. Jack disappeared after his father died in a diving accident.
Time has passed, and in the blink of an eye, Enzo (Shang Reno), who used to trick people and become the boss, has become a world champion and made a fortune unexpectedly. Enzo's wish is to make a suit for his brother, buy a bouquet of flowers for his mother, and then find the French boy Jacques Mayou.
Jake seems to have long known that this was a false start. At the kind invitation of Enzo, he officially entered the competition system. The reunion of the two started the game in which endurance and physical strength were used to decide the outcome.
Enzo was confident enough to go head-to-head with Jake, but he probably didn't expect his childhood friend to be anything but ordinary. It's a fish XD.
When Jack dives, does his heart rate slow and blood concentrates to the heart, maintaining a low level of energy consumption? Almost without breathing.
Such a talented Jake has an extraordinary life experience. His parents passed away early, and the film does not explain what kind of life he lived, only that he regarded the dolphins as family. Pointing to the photo of the dolphin in his wallet, he introduced his "family" to Joanna, "What kind of person has such a family?" Inner world.
Dolphins are not so much family, but dolphins are more like lovers. When looking at dolphins and playing with dolphins, Jacques will show a pure and happy smile with bright eyes. At this time, Jacques is completely out of his original state. Even the road is not very good impression. (Is he a mermaid with long legs? XD)
Seeing the new dolphin in the amusement park is gloomy, sitting there worrying that it might as well steal her away and release her~ Jake's mood is as excited as the dolphin returning to the sea.
The whole film is smooth and poetic, and the friendship and love between Jacques, Enzo and Joanna are like colorful and delicious colored bubble balls. Jacques and Enzo are obsessed with the sea and the competition, because the sea is everything to them, and the endless competition is not only the strength of the two, but also to detect their sincerity towards the sea.
Who of the two fools held their breath for a long time for the competition, and actually sank to the bottom of the water to open champagne together?!!!
Actually, they are a natural couple~
In each game, Jake and Enzo set records one after another, and then broke each other's records, and gradually came to the edge of surpassing the physical limit. It was necessary to stop such unnecessary competition, but it was too late. .
It turned out that in these competitions, the so-called endurance refers to the determination to get back to shore, because the world below is so beautiful.
Enzo said: "Yes, you are right. It's much better down there... It's a better place..." When he was rescued by Jake and went ashore, the dying Enzo wished that Jake would fulfill him and let him Back to the sea. Jack reluctantly sent his best friend into the embrace of the sea.
Although the sea has tragic shadows and is mysterious and unpredictable, it does not reduce her attractiveness in the slightest. The protagonist is far away from all the hustle and bustle on the shore, forgetting the color of the sky, ignoring the calls and waiting on the shore, and only wanting to advance to the depths of the sea .
The ocean seems selfless and broad to accept anyone, any state. In the seemingly endless depths of the ocean, is there the warmth that the protagonist has been looking for for a long time? That kind of constant feeling that won't leave?
There are a lot of people on the internet discussing how this version (or between versions) ended up. You can say that Lu Besson did not tell the story to death, but dedicated it to his daughter Juliet.
So, after Jake meets the "mermaid", will he return to the shore?
My interpretation is of course not. To put it bluntly, it is true that Jacques committed suicide, and it is also "reasonable". Because the whole film is full of such tragic stalks, including the aforementioned mermaid story, and Jacques has been looking for a reason to return to shore, and has been slow to make a promise to Joanna, Enzo's girlfriend reminded Joanna Saying that one can have children too...etc. The ocean is too deep and complicated for Jake. It is a paradise for dolphins like his family to play and play freely. It is the eternal place where his father and friend Enzo exist forever. It is the end of all his search, loss and incompleteness .
(The interpretation of KUSO should be to say, because Jake is a fish, why is it wrong for the fish to return to the sea?)
Because of this, Jake said that every time he was looking for a reason to return to the shore...
For such a crazy Jake, perhaps people should think that he has no sense of responsibility, no sense of security and no fetters.
Even Enzo finally agreed with him, but the only bosom friend died...
To keep him, can the power of love do it?
Before he entered the sea for the last time, Joanna cried and roared: "There is nothing there, you will be lonely, I am here, I am real..." Joanna has always understood that for Jake, love Although it is beautiful, it cannot be compared with the sea. She used to want to give up, and it wasn't until she was pregnant with Baby Baby that she found a reason to stay with Jake.
Love is not strong enough, what about family love? At the last moment, Joanna re-emphasized that she was pregnant, but the cries of family couldn't stop the mysterious power that summoned Jake...
The sea is Jake's neverland.
Joanna's last letting go is based on understanding, "Go and see, my love".
Finally, we understand that such an outcome is a destined inevitability. Because the story is about an unchanging, unrepentant desire.
I heard that this film triggered a wave of suicides.
Well, I think that's right. I spent three hours in the blue image with the film. If the state is not good, it must be more difficult to get out of that atmosphere. Of course, it is because the film takes death so freely and beautifully. Super freehand relief.
The interesting thing about watching a movie is that it can detect the creator's mind. From the script to the shots, it is full of the beauty of the sea. After the theme of the story is unfolded, it presents different styles of light and shadows and states of the seas around the world - Frozen The sea, the quiet sea, the turbulent sea.... The dark seabed is irradiated by searchlights, which is full of mysterious and unknown attraction.
It is not difficult to imagine that such a work comes from an author who has a deep attachment to the ocean. Director Lu Besson is indeed a child who loves diving and wants to become a marine biologist. Although he was injured and could not continue diving, he also used his He later made a documentary "Atlantis" with only the ocean and the soundtrack of Eric Serra, a work about the loss and recovery of the soul as a child? !
Within a few days of watching this film, I felt like I was diving under the sea. I could not forget the fairy tale pictures and plots of the ocean, dolphins, balloons, etc. in the film, and even the scene where the protagonist finally saw the "mermaid". The sea gives people a beautiful image of fullness and freedom. With Eric Serra's original soundtrack composed of electronic music and heavy bass, sometimes it is cold and unpredictable, sometimes it is wide and warm, making people mistakenly think that the ocean, music and heartbeat are almost integrated. The eyes followed the two protagonists and slowly probed into the depths of the seabed. The wonderful sight and hearing drove the soul to swim together and do SPA together. There was a feeling that all cells were opened.
Very charming work, I feel very lucky to see it on the big screen in the hall, it will also be a special work that I will never forget in my mind.
＊Unfinished doubt area＊ The
version is different?
It is said that the American version of this film is different from the European version? Yes, there are three editions. The French version is 132 minutes, the director's full version is 168 minutes, and the American version is 119 minutes.
The ending is different?
It is said that the ending of the American version and the European version are different? Yes, it's different, I'm talking about the European version above.
Youtube has two versions of endings: European version / American version
(It seems that the poster picture is from the American version ending = = No wonder I have no impression.)
The soundtrack is different?
It is said that the American version and the European version have different soundtracks? Yes, the American version of the soundtrack was re-recorded by Bill Conti, and he was scolded to the point of not being able to, and I heard that the Conti version of the soundtrack disappeared? !
Click on the composer's name in the right column to listen to Youtube and see which version you like: Eric Serra vs. Bill Conti
Free diving tips:
diving in the sea can be divided into light equipment diving (also known as snorkeling), heavy equipment diving (also known as snorkeling) called scuba diving) and free diving.
Freediving is a short-term breath-hold diving sport that dives as deep as possible into the sea without scuba diving. The diving equipment used only includes masks, snorkels and fins. As for the length of time a free diver stays in the water, it depends on the individual's ability to hold his breath. Because it is prone to hypoxia, it has certain risks. But it is precisely because of the challenge of this sport to the limits of the human body that it has attracted many extreme sports fans around the world.
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