The second Alain Resnais I watched, the first was "Last Year at Marienbad" after he continued this film. Although I can't do an in-depth analysis, some of his styles are roughly the same: panning, long-mirror empty shots, which he prefers to shoot buildings; poetic lines, although he did not write either, but he prefers to use lyrical narration. , mostly in the form of voice-over and smooth shots, and the literary temperament emerges spontaneously; disorderly editing, disrupting the timeline, breaking the sequence of space and time, the voice-over is also lingering; and the training of the actors is simply There is a clear stream, and the acting skills are all reflected in the lines and inner drama. The background is more than a decade after the Hiroshima nuclear explosion. Here, a French actress meets a Japanese architect and begins a 24-hour love affair. The first 10 minutes or so is the tragic situation of Hiroshima, and the lingering flesh is cut into it, which is extremely visually shocking. The heroine and the hero talked about the past. They came from Paris and first lived in a small town called Neville in France. The male protagonist's sleeping posture reminded the female protagonist of Neville's past. In the subsequent conversation, she completely remembered: it was more than ten years ago, a few years before the atomic bomb, and the German army was still occupying her home. , while she fell in love with one of the enemy troops. Eventually the man was shot dead by friendly forces, and she couldn't bear to leave for Paris. Both of them have spouses. Although the man wants the woman to stay, this is also a talk, and everyone understands it in their hearts.
The encounter between the heroine and the first love is because of the war, and the encounter between the heroine and the hero is also because of the war, one is the past and the other is the present. The forgotten past is awakened by the present, but the present will also be the past, and the future will be the past. No matter how much you experience, you will only remember some, some short-lived memories. The gears of time never stop turning. As time goes on, there must be nothing, and everything will be forgotten.
No matter how much experience I have, I can only remember a few. I can't even remember the name of the other party. I only remember one Hiroshima and one Nivel.
Dialogue at the end:
Hiroshima is your name
my Hiroshima
my name? right
Your name is Nivel
Nieves in France
Can't help but think of Amber River in "Spirited Away"
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