I watched this film after drinking, so I basically lost the possibility of objectively evaluating this film, and I could not grasp many details. But the steam train, the long shot of the three people running on the bridge, and the ring shot of the four smirking and grimace around the table are still impressive. Especially the shot of three people running on the bridge can feel their happiness across the screen. Truffaut's films have such magic: he can make happiness very happy, sadness very sad, despair very desperate.
My gut tells me this should be a feminist movie. When Catherine disguised herself as a man on the street, passersby didn't recognize her as a lady. When Zu made remarks that belittle women, she even fought back with her life and jumped straight into the river. This is the awakening of women's consciousness and resistance to the patriarchal society, but the way of resistance is extremely extreme, and can only use their own lives. Many people say that this movie is showing Catherine's pursuit of love, but I think what she is after is not love at all, but happiness. And this pursuit is very extreme, self-centered, and finally hurts many people around you and even yourself.
The name of the film is Zu He Zhan, but it actually focuses on the love between Catherine and Zhan, and mainly focuses on Catherine.
First of all, let me talk about Zu, he really likes Catherine. When the three people just met, he said to Zhan: This (Catherine) is not good. He likes Catherine and doesn't want Zhan to snatch him. After Katherine changed his mind, he still chose not to leave. He said: In order not to lose him completely, I would do anything. So he got at least 4 green caps. His love is noble and selfless, but that doesn't mean he won't get hurt. When Katherine and Zhan were first establishing their relationship, he said to them upstairs: Oh my God, how much pain these tumultuous hearts are causing. It shows that his heart is also in pain. So when Catherine tried Zhan with Zu, Zhan said to him: I will be jealous of you and not jealous of me, Zu said: Do you believe it? His heart is also jealous and painful, but he doesn't want to lose Catherine, and his love for her conquers everything. Finally after Katherine and Zhan's death, the narrator says: Zu will no longer be afraid that Katherine will lie to him, that Katherine has made a mess of his life, and he feels a burst of relief. The audience is also relieved, and this tortured N-angle love is finally over.
Then came Zhan, who had been fascinated by Catherine since the first time he saw her. After Zu proposed to touch his feet, Zhan's foot was placed on Catherine's for a while, but Catherine gently moved it away, which also showed that Catherine didn't really like Zhan. But Catherine was also interested in him. At the end of the party, Zu said to Zhan: Catherine wants to know more about you. But because of Zu, he chose not to pursue Catherine. But when Catherine took the initiative to seduce him, he still chose to give up Jiao Bei, whom he had promised for life, and go on an adventure with her. With Zu's acquiescence, he even wants to marry Catherine and have a child. This child is the crystallization of their love, but also to keep Catherine's heart. But in the end, Katherine felt that having a child was like homework, and she couldn't get the happiness she wanted, so she chose to break up. Later, because of the pregnancy, I wanted him to go back, but the relationship between the two ended because the child left. As Zhan said: We play with the source of life and fail.
Finally, Katherine, she is smart, beautiful, mysterious, cunning, self-centered, and has many qualities that men like, in Zu's words: she is a real woman, the woman we all love, the desire of men, because to get this kind of woman There will be a great sense of conquest. But this kind of woman does not belong to anyone, because no man can give her the love she wants, or the happiness she wants. As Zhan once said to Zu: She will not be a good wife and mother, and she will never be happy in this world. She is like a ghost, not a woman for men to have.
Catherine's ideal love is Napoleon: I fell in love with Napoleon when I was fifteen, I dreamed of running into him in the elevator, he made my belly bigger, and I would never see him again. Only Napoleon can conquer her in this world, give her everything, including the happiness she wants, and leave her. But this man lives only in the ideal, the real world does not exist.
So she started looking in the world, she chose Zu, and bore him a daughter. But she doesn't love Zu. Zu is down-to-earth, simple, and selfless, which can give her a sense of security, but cannot satisfy her pursuit of happiness and novelty. So she cheated on her ex-boyfriend after being bullied by Zu's mother to get revenge on Zu, and later cheated with Aba, because Aba, as a musician, could satisfy her romantic fantasy. But she would not think that her derailment in marriage was a betrayal of love and marriage, and a ruthless injury to her ancestors. She just wants to pursue her ideal love and get the happiness she wants. After Zhan, she began to seduce Zhan again, because Zhan is tall, handsome, smart, humorous, romantic, and has a wide range of interests, and is closer to her ideal Napoleon. But she wouldn't think about it, Zhan had already made a lifelong agreement with Jiaobei, and she wouldn't think that this would destroy the friendship between Zu and Zhan. Her pursuit of love is self-centered, not thinking about whether to hurt others. Her love is not even love, because love is mutual and comes with responsibility. What's more accurate is that she is pursuing the happiness she wants, and whoever can give her happiness, she will be with whomever she wants. So Zhanhui said: She is not necessarily right, she just wants to be happy and learn about life, she wants to be wiser.
After Katherine failed to create a life with Zhan, she felt like she was doing her homework and made her unhappy, so she broke up. She said to Zhan: I am a heartless person, I will not love anyone. She never loved anyone, she was with a man just to be happy. So after she succeeded in seducing and occupying, she dumped Aba directly. After Zhan left, he was with Abba again. Finally, when she met Zhan again in France, Zhan was about to get married, and she found that she was happier with Zhan, so she wanted to seduce Zhan again, without even thinking about marrying Zhan. Zhan said to her: I also have curiosity, everyone has it, I will control myself for you, but I am not sure if you will. It's not enough for two people to love each other. Look around us, you think it's better to reject hypocrisy and obey, you want to create love, pioneers need to be humble rather than self-centered. We failed and messed everything up. This is her awakening and Zhan's reflection on himself. Because of their own curiosity, Katherine hurt Zu and Zhan hurt Jiaobei. Zhan went on to say: In order to make you happy, I hurt the people around me, and the promise that I will live with Jiaobei forever has been delayed again and again, and it has become empty talk. This shows that Zhan has recognized his own mistakes, but Catherine has not recognized the harm of self-centeredness to the people around him. She eventually drove Zhan to the sea, in order to be happy with him and get her own Napoleon.
Catherine told Zu and Zhan about a passage in the book before: We see the sky, but it's just a bigger bubble. We walked towards the center with our heads turned upside down, an outward force dragging our feet towards the hard shell that envelops the bubble. This mysterious force is the secular rule, which tells us that marriage is a contract, and love is a promise, to keep this contract and promise. You can't be self-centered and simply pursue your own happiness, which will hurt the people around you. And at the center of the bubble lives Catherine's joy, her Napoleon. In the end, for her own happiness, she fell into the sea and lost her life.
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