After watching the movie several times, I thought of a lot of things. From the first time I felt vaguely about the boy's vague feelings, I felt the subtle perception of each actor's expressions and movements when I watched it later. My understanding of this movie is also slow. change slowly. First of all, the most annoying problem is the moral concept shown in this film. Since the director is preaching a theme (love), he must present a concept to the audience. For example, in ancient Chinese stories, it is written that the hero kills and hates evil. In fact, another layer of meaning also shows that this is an act of justice for heaven. On the other hand, most TV dramas with love as the theme, from soap operas that are popular on TV to movies such as "Amelie" and "Heartbeat" can be It is said that their plots are developed within an aesthetic range that meets human health needs. Every intimate interaction between the hero and heroine satisfies people's yearning for the sacred thing of "love" to a certain extent. In the theme of "love" "Despicable" and "dirty" have never been allowed in the cultural products of China. Few people think that the "fornication" like Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian counts as "love". Therefore, rather than classifying it as a movie about "love", I prefer to say it is about "loneliness". Assuming that there is something beautiful in our culture called "love" that can only take root in a positive and healthy atmosphere because of its own purity, then what we ask is, in Sometimes, like the loneliness and low self-esteem buried in the boy's heart in the film, at that time love was deformed and distorted, and began to develop in a situation that violated human values. Can love at this time still be called love? The ancient and sacred love can save the infatuated children in this world. Like the legend in folk tales, the arrival of the Weaver Girl bestowed love on the Cowherd, so even if the two met on the bridge of magpies, they finally achieved happiness? I prefer to believe that the answer is no. Loneliness is difficult to make up for with love. Love is just a distant light that people see when they are lonely. You can never use the light in front of you to warm yourself. You can only be like the aunt in the film. It is said that "one pain forgets another".
The boy's loneliness revolves around his peeping through the telescope. Through the telescope, which is a secret and unobtrusive way, the boy crosses the gap between buildings and the life left by the irrelevant life between people. The huge gap intervenes in the heroine's life from a hidden and humble perspective. From the beginning, he has been a "voyeur" directly under the relationship between men and women. The accompaniment of the film is very distinctive. In the early stage, every time the boy observes the heroine through the telescope, the plucking sound will sound. The somber style combined with the dark background is almost a projection of the boy's spiritual world. Lonely (I don't know if the translation is correct, according to a dialogue in the movie, I guess the boy may have grown up in an orphanage), and the only happiness for the boy is that he successfully hides in the heroine's life through a telescope. A little joy. Immediately after the storyline developed further, he pretended to deliver the invoice to the heroine just to see her, and went to her house early in the morning to deliver milk. There are a few scenes that left a deep impression on me. First, when the boy chased up and confessed to the heroine that the invoice was quietly delivered by himself and stated his love, the heroine left angrily and the boy returned in anger. He turned around and shouted "you cried last night". I saw a lot of expressions on his face, ranging from anger to sadness. I can't tell whether the underlying meaning of this sentence is to prove that I have personal concern for the pain of the heroine and want to share it with her, or I am not satisfied with it. Always in the perspective of a hidden observer who wants to really participate in her life, transforming from being a spectator of someone else's life to being a participant. Second, the boy ran to the roof and covered his ears with two ice cubes with his hands. After his face was frozen red, the boy ran to the door of the hostess again. Through the actions just now, he seemed to have gained courage and took the initiative to invite the hostess to coffee. Shop to eat ice cream. At first, I didn't quite understand the plot, but later I understood. In fact, it's the same as the boy pierced his finger with scissors at the beginning of the film, and the wrist cut at the end. Use another pain to forget the original pain, only this way Only by temporarily forgetting can people continue their life, even if only to better meet the next more severe pain. Third, the boy dragged the milk car and ran happily and bowed his head sadly. The two different plots became especially emotional and sad after the director set up the same witness. The first time the boy dragged Running crookedly on the cement road in the community with the trailer, the man who went home pretended to be in his arms with him, the man turned his head to look at him, the boy smiled happily and said sorry, the man who went home turned his face and smiled, the first The second time, the man was carrying the large and small bags he had brought home and was about to leave. He ran into the boy again, but this time the boy just lowered his head and took the beaten The blue eyes looked at him, this time the director gave a long shot, one side was the man holding the bag and turning around to look at the boy's back, the other side was the boy walking back to his unit building with his hands down. I especially like these two shots, they can't help being brought into the perspective of the same man before and after. For him, these two shots are just the difference between going home and leaving, while for that boy, he will go back and forth in just one day. Filled with charming happiness, it turned into despair for the world. If I were that man, the feeling in my heart would probably be astonishment and trance.
Although the whole film is based on the boy's emotional changes, I believe that loneliness is not just the boy's loneliness, the heroine is also lonely. Depressed, I came home from the outside, opened the refrigerator, took out the milk bottle, spilled the milk all over the table, and finally sat on the chair and cried with my hair in my arms. A meal, just as the heroine finally saw in the boy's telescope, she once cried sadly alone, and she also had a loneliness similar to that of the boy.
The director's final intention was probably to give the story a happy ending. Even in this unreasonable way, the two loners finally found comfort for each other. The boy did not give up his love for "love" after cutting his wrist. The heroine also put down her trampling on the poor "love" of the inferior boy. Is this relationship love? I don't know, the only thing we can probably understand is that many people are lonely in such a distance between people who seem to be close but are actually very far away.
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Let's talk about the structure of the movie. The second time I watched it, I found out that the beginning of the film is that the heroine came to the boy's house to touch his wound, but was grabbed by the wrist. "The original pain can only be replaced by another pain". The filming of the whole film is very simple, and people can only guess about the causes and consequences, such as the occupation of the heroine, the life of the boy, and the whereabouts of the aunt and son, but these relationships are dispensable for the focus of the film, so they are all. It can be properly omitted. With the development of the plot, we also have a better understanding of the character and psychology of the boy, and the director is focusing on the humble act of "peeping" to expand the boy's lonely and inferior inner world, which seems to be a special one. For the sake of this presentation, every place in the film is concise and economical, and every stroke speaks of one's loneliness and self-rescue in loneliness.
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