Germain and his wife:
It's not good to have a good relationship with each other. The communication gap and the relationship are estranged. The husband who has become a teacher because he hasn't done anything, always only cares about his own affairs, and he is stubborn and complaining. The wife thinks that she hates married life just like Mrs. Ralfe, who was peeped. Although she is not a housewife, she is also disappointed with her husband and marriage.
The Ralfe family:
The way of performance reminds people of Lola running fast, jumping back to the back of the timeline again and again, trying another possibility of the story, as if the game is over and then restarting, which naturally gives rise to a sense of humor. Such a sense of humor seems like only a movie can show it.
The protagonist Claude:
Appearance method: The opening feature is a close-up of wearing the new school uniform, and then the first to arrive at the campus to wait for the start of the school. These are not noticeable, but there is still a little suspense in my heart, and I feel that the film produces a kind of lonely atmosphere. Although everything is new, new school uniforms, new semester, but it just gives people a cold feeling of strangeness and loneliness. And then no one heard of his text first. An essay about gossip about someone else's family life stands out in a pile of stupid running accounts. Then came to the class, and we didn't let us see him for a long time. After Mr. Gilman talked about literature and satirized the classmates who didn't like reading and had low writing skills, we finally saw this mysterious student. I switched from the distant view to the close-up view of the back, and finally, when answering the teacher's question, I saw the pair of ghostly blue eyes that were close to the eyes. These eyes seemed to have an innate insight and an unpredictable appearance. Desire is terrifying to look directly at.
Family background: Determining his initial voyeuristic motive - wanting to know what a normal family is like. It also determines what kind of contradiction he will bring to the characters in the story as the master of the story, which will undoubtedly break the harmony of the family. He even wrote the ending as Raff's suicide based on his revenge against Gilman. The most normal child, his crazy behavior did not shake the state of the family, everything seemed the same, Ralph did not change the family, not even the cheating poem. We can't believe how we have forgiven such a little devil who tried to break up two families, the first family he tried to break up, so we hated him but didn't hate him, the second family was not harmonious and we don't blame him entirely, At the beginning, what we knew about the Claude family was just the single-parent family and the disabled father he mentioned in his mouth. We didn't see the real appearance until this time at the end of the film, which seemed to dissolve a little bit of our morality towards voyeurs. Doubt, but also experience the projection of the plot of Oedipus.
Claude's involvement in the Germain family:
In fact, the foreshadowing was bought as early as the beginning of the story, not so much an intervention, but a potential catalyst, when Gilman read Claude's essay that vaguely described the middle class In the woman's posture, the camera just showed Jenny who took off her high heels and sat cross-legged on the sofa in black stockings. It was repeated again. Extremely elegant and charming French gesture, but the husband turned a blind eye to all this, and it is no wonder that the subsequent warm kiss to his wife was also mediocre. Not to mention the numerous complaints that followed. Until Jenny saw Mrs. Ralph's cheating in the story, her heart was finally released, and with Claude's provocation, she left Gilman, who she hated for a long time. I actually admire the frankness of French women in this kind of thing. If the other party doesn't love them, they will separate. Why should they feel wronged? In fact, when she asked: Am I also fictional, her answer was already yes, that is, she thought he no longer loved her.
Claude peeks at the Ralfes:
Claude allowed himself to intervene in such a very normal middle-class family, not to live their life, I don't see his so-called yearning for this kind of life, what I see is a kind of enjoyment of voyeurism, for the story of becoming this reality The pleasure of being the master of him, he can easily control the contradictions in this family, who will be happy, who will be disappointed, who will trust him, and who will hate him. All the characters in this story are transparent, only he can't see himself, but we enjoy such a mysterious storyteller, because we can follow him to see what we can't see before, just like the unkempt ending Mr. Gilman, who is no longer majestic after removing his glasses, although he pretends to be calm, but in front of the geniuses, his talent is really a trick. He has always taught Claude to write as a mentor. He can talk about writing techniques. If At this time, he didn't say anything, his majesty as a teacher was not broken, but he wanted to humiliate himself, but instead made what he said earlier seemed ironic, all the people, the characters in the play and the play The audience outside, can not help but worship Claude, we worship Claude in addition to worship.
This is a character with absolute initiative/dominance. His incomplete family background does not make him a incomplete character, but only gives him more desire than ordinary people and more insight into world affairs. eyes, and more cunning means.
But he was not annoying because he did what we wanted to do but were afraid to do.
Claude has grown up alone for so many years, and also takes care of his paralyzed father, so in addition to being self-reliant, he has a strong sense of strength. In front of such an invincible character, other characters are just left to be slaughtered by him. What this character does It is undoubtedly the screenwriter.
In almost all movies, we can see the change and growth of the protagonist, but this character just sticks to his position, but sets off huge waves in the world of two families, if the first family intervenes He did it deliberately, so the breakup of the second family was within his grasp. He just showed us what he's capable of, so it's really a b-movie. However, it can stun the audience. I didn't expect that this is not only possible for suspense films.
Suspense films often do this, presenting a confusing truth to the audience in a series of broken clues. If you find it, then your IQ is considered to be passable. The so-called truth of this film is the ending of the story that we have been worrying about. What kind of ending will Claude give to the story? Yes, as the film says, we have seen the best ending, because he is surprising. It has to be admitted that there are other endings to replace it. The reason why the story is called a story is because the character has to make a choice when he encounters a contradiction, and the result of the choice leads us to read the story. This choice is made through the character's experience and character, and it is through this choice that the character can grow.
The storyteller, standing on the stage and interfering in other people's lives, is the beauty of this movie.
In addition, what really infected me was the genius insight of the protagonist (actually the creator of the story). Rather than saying that it stems from the misfortune of the family, it is better to say that it stems from the vigilance of the world around it brought about by this misfortune, and it turns into concern and love. I want to watch the fun lies in this open way of observation and thinking. .
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