In 2011, Antoine and Carole were a couple who fell in love with each other when they were teenagers. Life is worry-free. After Antoine, who seems to have everything, meets a younger and more beautiful Rose, she seems to find the blood and flesh of her other half. She is hopelessly in love with each other, and she also cruelly divorces Carole. . Antoine greedily enjoys everything with her new love Rose (more lustful), and at the same time seeks the help of a psychiatrist because of her guilt towards her ex-wife, wondering why she has found her soulmate Carole, but still has no intentions Looking back, he decided that Rose was the one destined. And Carole couldn't accept the soulmate she loved so much, and now she wants to end this relationship by herself. She has been lingering in her memories, having strange dreams every night, and crying in pain unconsciously when she sleepwalks. This scene is painful to watch in the eyes of the audience, especially those who have similar experiences on the emotional road, under the excellent soundtrack, they are all unmoved.
The story is interspersed from time to time in Paris in 1969: Jacqueline takes care of her son Laurent with Down syndrome alone, she is not afraid of all difficulties, and the mother and son depend on each other. Until another girl, Véronique, who also suffered from the disease, attended the same class. At the first meeting, the young Véronique had already embraced Laurent mother and son. This embrace was pure and direct, but on the screen it separated the existence between Jacqueline and Laurent. Since then, Laurent and Véronique have been hugging each other tightly every day. Laurent even lost his temper with his mother when he could not see each other again because of Véronique's transfer, and ran away from home more daringly. Jacqueline, who had never tried to have the slightest distance from her son, was so petted to the extreme that she could not extricate herself from possessiveness and anger.
Seeing this, the audience actually has a bottom line. The stories of the two time and space are that the happy world that I have worked hard to build collapsed due to the intervention of another person. Everyone hugs tightly because of love, but it is also suffocating. . Clever editing makes the stories of the two eras intertwined, leading the audience to shuttle through each other's memories, hallucinations and subconsciousness. 40 years ago, Jacqueline chose to destroy everything under obsession. 40 years later, Carole, who was reincarnated by Jacqueline, chose to be more detached and courageous. Carole came to Antoine in the heavy rain. In front of him was Antoine who was a teenager 20 years ago. He realized that what he loved was just a bubble of memory, and he let go of his obsession with love and no longer felt sorry for himself in sadness. The three souls intertwined in the two worlds have a new outlet because of forgiveness and tolerance.
Music deserves credit for its emotional traction in this film, Pink Floyd's Breathe, and Sigur Ros' Svenfn-g-englar (sleepwalkers) have been intertwined, serving as a primer for different emotional periods in the film. The electronic music Café de Flore that runs through the plot is the love music of two generations of characters (also the title of the movie). Whether it is post-rock, electronic music, PUNK, or French chanson, it almost never stops in the movie, but it is not too crowded.
Leaving aside moral concepts, Jacqueline and Carole have different answers to their emotional betrayal. Director Jean-Marc Vallée's approach may bring some wisdom of "forgiveness" and "letting go" to those who are suffering from obsessions. Inspired by yourself”.
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