An encounter, a spiritual redemption

Marlin 2022-04-22 07:01:53

In this movie, an encounter is arranged in Hiroshima. Taking World War II and the disaster left by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the background, in the form of memory, a stream of consciousness fragment reproduces a painful first love of the heroine. This love happened during World War II, a love that was not allowed by morality, a love in a slit (this is also the reason why the heroine said that this love is cheap in the later monologue, but it was her first love, and it was also her love A kind of heartache and regret of first love). The spiritual disaster that this relationship has brought to the heroine is just like the disaster of war. The shame, the pain of losing a lover, and the crazy feeling of lovelorn have been deeply buried in the heroine's consciousness, and she tried hard to forget. , but never forgotten. In an encounter, I met the male protagonist, a one-night stand, and the male protagonist fell in love with the female protagonist for no reason. Bring back that painful memory again. Even when she recalled that she was going crazy because of her broken love, the male protagonist gave her two slaps to bring her back to reality. The male protagonist also follows the female protagonist's memories. As the first love object in the female protagonist's memory, the process of listening to the female protagonist may be a kind of psychological healing for the female protagonist, just like the rebirth of the land of Hiroshima. , the appearance of the male protagonist is a spiritual healing and rebirth to the inner trauma of the female protagonist. The last lines of the movie, I don't know why there is this encounter. Maybe, everyone who can walk into you in life seems to be accidental, but it is actually destined. At the beginning of the movie, this woman said to the male protagonist, "I am a woman with moral problems, and I have occasional one-night stands. Love doesn't always last long. And Germany is a hostile country, she fell in love with a German soldier, the love between the two is not allowed by morality, after the German soldier died, this woman was labeled as immoral and imprisoned in a dungeon) Bring this woman There was so much pain and trauma that she thought time could forget it. In fact, these feelings and consciousness have been potentially dominating her life and behavior, making her not believe in love, labeling herself immoral, and treating her with immorality. One night stands are also very casual. As the film progresses, the woman's pain is slowly peeled off. The war separates the two lovers, makes this love dark, and makes this love cheap and immoral. This encounter in Hiroshima , is also the rebirth of this woman. Like Hiroshima after the war, for her, this reunion in Hiroshima is a period of psychotherapy. Maybe after this experience, her inner spiritual world will be like Hiroshima. redemption. This movie is a classic because it describes the war brought The disaster is not only physical, but also makes human love become depressed, distorted, lost, immoral, cheap, and the war has brought this woman spiritual damage. The encounter in Hiroshima allowed her to finally open up her heart, be able to talk about it, and re-examine her own heart, so that she could really let go and forget.

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  • Else 2022-03-15 09:01:10

    Time is difficult to go back, space is fragile, and after moving Zuogan to Hiroshima, the forbidden love between city and city occurs. The way to let go of an old love is not to embrace a new one, but to tell the memory. The biggest feeling after reading it - well, Duras's text is very suitable for narration...

  • Bonita 2022-03-20 09:02:53

    Alain Resnais made his feature film debut. The film marks the shift from classicism to modernism in Western films. Written by Margaret Duras, who also belongs to the Left Bank, Renai cross-cuts the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb documentary and erotic passages, and uses flashbacks to interact with The jumping editing combines personal suffering with the catastrophe of war, discusses memory and regret, inner reality and outer reality, and achieves a balance between film and literature. (8.5/10)

Hiroshima Mon Amour quotes

  • Lui: Does it mean anything else in French, "Nevers"?

    Elle: No, nothing.

  • Elle: I was so young once!