Luc Besson's greatness lies in his ability to grasp the delicate emotions and subtle psychological fluctuations in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", and he can also present Hollywood-style visual spectacles to the audience with ease like "The Fifth Element". A "quiet" movie like "Blue Sea and Blue Sky".
Simply put, Le grand bleu (1988) is the story of two men who say goodbye to their lives and return to their respective spiritual places. The simple story is very moving, as if recalling this movie in the future, people will always think of the man who danced with dolphins in the blue water. This is undoubtedly a very beautiful picture, and at the same time it is so simple that it does not require any imagination. . Only pure things can have that kind of beauty. Maugham said that truth is often too simplistic, too simple to allow anything new.
If you cut into this movie halfway through, you might even think you've missed a travel trailer or something. In the movie, the sun is warm, the sea breeze is gentle, and it is rare to see tears in the eyes of people. What lingers is Enzo's hearty laughter and the warm staring of Jacques and Joanna, and many comedy scenes. The soundtrack is full of the 80's unique sense of fashion and modernity, without rendering any sadness. The sentimental mood is quietly placed at the bottom by the director, so that you hardly feel sad. Yet it is precisely because of this contrasting writing feature that the film is extremely sad. It tells us that such confusion and contradiction will happen to everyone, and that similar misses, farewells, and bereavements will happen in every seemingly insignificant daily life.
The whole passion of Enzo's life comes from constantly breaking records of deep dives. Under the calm waters was his most cherished pain and glory. Enzo began to regard Jacques as his opponent during his childhood, and his obsession with winning the game remained unchanged even as he became an adult. But at the same time, Enzo also knew that people will get older, the body is losing its own functions every day, and the depth of the sea is obviously far beyond human endurance. The belief of conquest is rooted in the heart, but there is absolutely no possibility of realization. In contrast, the personal sense of destiny and insignificance is extremely strong. You have to give up, but you can't give up. For Enzo, those ordinary things, love, family, and friendship, cannot produce lasting happiness. Real happiness always comes from another world: to accomplish the impossible, in another world Experience the possibility of transcendence, conquer those ancient blue seas, even if the brain lacks oxygen, almost fainting, and the pain is unbearable. He firmly believes that only when the load on his body reaches the limit, will he hear the mysterious singing from the distant world... So he is willing to go crazy for this, suffer for this, and surrender his life for this.
Jacques and Enzo are so different, yet so similar.
Since childhood, Jacques was full of curiosity about the mother he had never met, and yearned for the mother's love he had never felt before.
In French, "sea" and "mother" are the same sound. Sloterdijk's vision of wombs and spheres may explain Jacques' sense of belonging to the sea. For the fetus, the mother's womb is the perfect space: warm, safe, and filled with endless hope, endless time, and endless love. But the birth of a baby means having to slip out of the womb into a cold world, a world full of threats. Sloterdijk said that the fetus is fundamentally unwilling to descend from the womb into the outer space, so the baby is born into this world with a terrified cry. The hope of returning to the womb and the fear of the world constitute the infant's initial attitude.
Sloterdijk came up with the concept of "bubbles" in the infant's experience of a lonely, cold world. The bubbles are transparent, people can see the outside world through the film of the bubbles, and at the same time, people create their own, comfortable and comfortable atmosphere in the bubbles. Thus, the duality of the womb of the primordial infant-outer world becomes the duality of the bubble-outer world. People use bubbles as a substitute for the uterus and enjoy the comfort and carefree feeling that bubbles bring. Like the uterus, the bubbles also provide nutrients and have the same metabolism. For Jacques, the calm sea is his bubble, there are lovely healed dolphins, and there is a quiet underwater world, all of which make him seem to return to the original life, enjoy wrapping, companionship, protection... Jacques is like relying on a A mother is as dependent on the sea.
Joanna, like Jacques' mother, is from New York, and from Joanna, Jacques more or less gets some kind of imaginary compensation for her mother's love. But life is more complicated than that. The father who died in diving, the mother who abandoned her family, Zog who sank into the sea... The hook and sinking of memory, the revelation of fate penetrated Jacques. When making love with Joanna, Jacques's mind flashed a picture of himself constantly floating up in the sea, which was also rich in meaning: his impulse to Joanna was not pure love - for Joanna, for him, It seems to be just another gentle but unfamiliar sea. Joanna abandons everything and goes to Jacques, she loves Jacques madly. At this moment, Jacques painfully realized that there was always a sea between them, a sea of beauty, loneliness, and heartbreak.
Jacques and Enzos chose to be alone forever, but left a mess to their living relatives and lovers, which should have a strong sense of tragedy. But the director bridges the divide with understanding, mutual comfort, and even some kind of detachment. The actress hints Joanna, the man you love will leave you, but you can have his children, and in the end it's your own choice and your own thing to accomplish; when Enzo decides to be buried forever at the bottom of the sea, Jacques doesn't Stop him; finally, and the most touching scene, when Joanna finishes saying "I'm real, I love you so", she takes the rope and says to Jacques "Go and see, my love". Linking these passages together, it feels like a revelation: when human beings embrace and fulfill each other with a fraternity greater than nature, those unresolved contradictions will eventually find their answers, those who wander about Gu Ying will also find a place to return. The understanding and fulfillment between people is so great that it may give birth to the courage to fight against fate.
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