Gilman is a French teacher. He is familiar with all literary works and giants. The paragraphs of writing theory that he picks up easily make people addicted to him unconsciously, just like Claude will say after listening to his enlightening explanation. It's like a master. But he has an unknown sadness. He wanted to be a writer, but he became an ordinary teacher in a school after he only wrote a novel that was not well-known and could not be compared with the works of the "master" in his heart. The students who are worse than the previous year spend their days in writing articles that are grammatically incomprehensible and less literary, and gradually get older.
Until one day he met Claude when he was grading a student's composition. Claude's keen observation and delicate brushstrokes attracted Gilman. He went from being suspicious and puzzled at the beginning to being deeply immersed in the story he created. Under the director's arrangement, it was actually a very swift process. We can see that when he secretly photocopied the mathematics test paper in order to keep Claude at Raphael's house and continue to write novels, he knew that he had fallen, and his full devotion to Claude from this moment on He was destined to lose everything in the end. And when Claude urged Raphael to write a letter of complaint, he, as part of the novel's plot, didn't even stop him. When Gilman's wife invited the Raphaels to her art exhibition to make him happy, I realized that the plot of the novel had fully intervened in their lives, even merged with reality.
When reading that Raphael hanged himself because he saw Claude kissing his mother affectionately, Gilman rushed out of the classroom to confirm whether Raphael was still alive. When the movie entered this climax, Gilman The realization came a little too late, and he could no longer truly withdraw from this novel. He looked at Claude, and led him to write step by step with such cherishing talent, just like looking at himself at the beginning, and even a kind of father's love for his son, for fear that this talented seedling would waste his life like himself. No achievement. At first, he simply wanted to instruct Claude to write this novel with ups and downs, but in the end he realized that each piece of the novel had become a reality that Claude practiced for his creation.
The end of the film was also unexpected to me. In order to find the end of the novel, Claude came to Claude's house and had a conversation with Jenna. Just like when he walked into Esther's heart, he started to walk again. into the life of another family, only this time it became the home of his mentor.
In fact, Claude's background setting is very cliché: his mother is gone and his father is sick. This arrangement seems to suggest from the outset that he has a unique preference for Esther and Jenna, who are about the same age as his mother. We can call it an Oedipus plot. There are many close-ups of Claude's deep eyes in the film. When listening to the teacher teach writing skills, it is so empty that it wants to absorb everything that can be used for creation; and when he is standing on the stairs of Raphael's house. When he went to peep at the back, the dark part of the room and walked into the family, his eyes were so deep and even terrifying.
Esther went from rejecting Claude at first, to not disliking Claude when her son got A+, and then to that bland Saturday, Claude talked about his poor background and won it. Her sympathy even opened up. When she reaches middle age, she repeatedly compromises for the sake of real life, and even forgets why she set out in the first place. She wants to study the ideal of architecture, wants to be a designer, and even the small idea of remodeling the balcony and redecorating the home must be in front of reality. Bow down and let go. So when she saw the little poem Claude wrote for her, just the sentence "Even with bare feet, the rain can't dance" completely captured her long-dry soul. Of course, at the end of the story, she still has to return to the family, how could she run away with a child. It's just that she and Jenna both represent the loss of passion for life for too many middle-aged women, the futility of hard work, the constant shattering of ideals, and the repeated compromises to the constraints of family life. This may be a woman's deepest sorrow and misfortune for a woman. Just like the Zijun portrayed by Mr. Lu Xun in "Sorrowful Death", an intellectual woman who struggled to fight against the times and feudalism.
At the end of the film, Gilman, who lost his wife and job, is sitting on a bench dejectedly. He is somewhat unrecognizable without glasses, and his dejected appearance is pitiful. They are still guessing the identities of women who are quarreling in the distance, and making up stories in their minds, but one person's expression is so helpless, and the other person - Claude is still energetic, always walking into another Family life, write a new story, his smile is still so pure, full of curious colors.
It may be easy to get into someone's life, but you never know what impact you will have on their life. When someone walks into your life, never get too deep into the play. As Qingfeng wrote in his poem, "At that time, I stretched out my hand regardless of my body, and when I saw the outline, it was regarded as the universe." Later, it was discovered that we were just passing by each other, or even just fictional characters in each other's minds.
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