On the morning of the opening of "Love Short Film" , I sat in the Family Mart convenience store with a cup of milk tea by my hand, and watched it with almost full attention.
That cup of milk tea reminded me of the dramatic connection of milk that appeared many times in the film . The film ends with a glass of milk spilled on the table, the female protagonist sits with her back at the table, her face collapsed, the male protagonist suddenly enters the picture, and the female protagonist strokes the male protagonist's face with her hands. A simple action, but very emotional. And this scene is actually what the heroine imagined when she peeped through the telescope .
In fact, in the previous reality scene, after the heroine broke down and cried, her hand just stirred the milk liquid on the table. Comparing the two scenes, the heroine finally found a home for her hand that had nowhere to put . And the director also tried to use this scene to tell the audience that the heroine finally believes and accepts that the hero's infatuation with her is really out of "love".
The movie "Love Short" depicts a young Tomek peeping at Magda, a sexy woman in the opposite building with a telescope, and falling in love with her deeply. The woman's frown and smile make the young people indulge in it. The young man finally mustered up the courage to confess, but the subsequent development became unpredictable.
Regarding "Love Short Film", some people think that it tells about the voyeur and the peeped, and some people understand it as an ethical story of a young man secretly in love with a sexy mature woman. The tone of the film produced by the two understandings is actually similar, with strong taboos and sexual dangers .
Director Kieslowski did the opposite in his approach to the story. Through the English translation of the film's English title "A Short Film About Love", I can see one or two, so I prefer to believe that this is an innocent film that tries to explore "what is love".
It's short, powerful, and addicting. Even if you know the end of the story, you will be tempted to open it up and watch it.
The topic of "love" has always "troubled" the heroine. She finds it ridiculous to face the simple and sudden "I love you" confession of a 19-year-old. He's just a bland boy in the post office, maybe a virgin who hasn't been in a relationship. In the heroine's cognition, this is not like a man who can relate to himself. What's more, he kept peeking at himself.
After she learned that the other party was peeking at her, she boldly moved the bed to the male protagonist's peeping range, and had fun with her lover. Express contempt for the male protagonist in a flirtatious way. Even guiding the boy to take the initiative to touch himself, causing him to rush to orgasm, making his infatuation instantly disillusioned. She said that she was "not a good woman", but the subtext in her heart: You (the male protagonist) don't understand anything, how can this be love.
But the male protagonist's eyes never leave the female protagonist. In his telescope, the female protagonist is so charming, like the only light in his life.
The emotional relationship of "Love Short Film" with unequal recognition of each other seems to have become the driving force of the entire plot. Until the last 30 minutes, the identities of the male and female protagonists and the voyeur were switched. The director provides another perspective, so that the layers of the story no longer remain in the vortex of asymmetry.
If you know director Kieslowski, then you should know that his most famous work is not "Love Short", but "Blue White Red" trilogy. This classic series depicts three kinds of love in three colors.
"Love Short Film" was filmed in 1988, a few years earlier than the "Blue, White, Red" trilogy. Like the prequel of Blue, White, and Red, it also maximized color matching.
There is a lot of red, green, and blue in the film . Especially in red.
The main scene in "Love Short Film" - the house of the female protagonist in the male protagonist's telescope, is divided into two parts by green and red.
Green embellishments can be seen everywhere in the kitchen and living room. The post office where the female owner works with the male owner downstairs and the restaurant where the two first dated all have green as the main background. Green represents life.
There are fewer scenes in blue than in green. Most of them are at night, and the picture basically shows the state of the hero or heroine when they are alone. blue is lonely
And what about lots of red? What does it stand for? Red is the bed in the master bedroom;
It was the phone that the male protagonist dialed to hear her voice;
The cloth used by the male protagonist to cover his treasured binoculars;
Or the window when the male protagonist confesses to the female protagonist;
The sofa when the two touched for the first time;
Even the heroine wrote a painting of apology;
Blood dripping from the male protagonist's wrist.
It goes without saying that red stands for - love.
Contrary to the bold use of red in the film, the romantic scenes in "Love Short" are very restrained .
After the male protagonist showed his love to the female protagonist, he finally gathered up the courage to ask the female protagonist out. To his delight, the heroine agreed readily. The next second, the male protagonist pulled the milk cart down the downstairs of the community and ran wildly back and forth. This scene is very like the cautious and uncontrollable kind of first love. (There is also a very romantic and life-like scene for everyone to discover for themselves.)
There is a controversial point in the film, is the love of the male protagonist for the female protagonist really pure, even sex can be ignored. Not really. Through the dialogue between the two, we know that he initially noticed that the heroine was completely sexually attracted (high buttocks, good figure), and falling in love with her happened when the hero's attitude towards seeing her having sex with others changed - the beginning Consciously avoid looking.
The male protagonist's (if it can be called) possessiveness towards the female protagonist completely devoured himself. This possessiveness is mere: loving her quietly and doing nothing.
Some people think that the almost Platonic emotions of the hero and heroine are just the dramatic expression of the movie, which is difficult in reality. I suddenly remembered what a friend said in high school, "When you have a crush on a girl, you don't even want to watch porn, it's boring, and it feels like betraying her."
In my heart, I despised this kind of false innocence, like a naive expression of self-motivation. Until I watched the film, I repeatedly recalled the scene where the male protagonist confessed to the female protagonist
- "Why Peek"
--"because I love you"
--"what do you want to do"
--"need nothing"
Again, I recalled the serious look on my friend's face that afternoon in high school.
I think at that time he really loved that girl very much.
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