Sunday, November 10, 2019
In the middle of the night, on the deserted streets of Paris, although everyone fell asleep, in the strange city, the arrival of night made some special people feel safe: those who indulge in the bars and restaurants in the city and drive to the next place. Civilized people"; those who can't sleep at night; those who choose to wander because of various troubles.
A civilized man was driving through an empty street, and on the streets of the city made for vehicles, there was a man walking uncontrollably in spite of any car honking and flashing lights. Civilized people can see from the rearview mirror that he is a dirty and ugly homeless person. Civilized people never want to get entangled with homeless people, so they drive away from him and continue on their way. "It turns out that there are still pedestrians in Paris at such a late hour." While driving, he thought, because he saw another woman walking alone in red with a big picture clip. Is such a night safe for women? Civilized people want to see clearly what kind of woman has a face that has the courage to walk alone, what he saw was not a clear face, but a strange messy woman with one eye blindfolded, "I don't know what happened to this woman before, But she looked really weird and gave it a creepy vibe."
The civilized man continued to walk away, back to where he was going. The two "savages" he occasionally met while driving at night are the protagonists of the movie's story.
The streets of the city are for cars. Only the wild people don't know the danger. The homeless man walking in the middle of the road committed suicide after falling to the ground. The flat ground where the car is running is also a murder weapon! He rubbed his head on it, bleeding all over his face, but the danger was still behind him. Another civilized man drove by. Indulging in the satisfaction brought by his beautiful car, he drove by quickly, slower than the one in front. The civilized man is even more dangerous. The fast civilized man crushed the fallen barbarian's foot, but the barbarian didn't make a sound, and his expression was distorted. The woman holding the picture clip had never seen such an expression before, she drew a sketch for him and left, she thought, "This kind of expression is only available to dead people."
After such a "quiet" appearance, it's time for the noise - the "scavengers" on the streets of Paris, they drive a bus full of homeless and drunkards, just like the sanitation workers who collect garbage in the morning. "Barbarian" Alex slaps to wake up and drags him into the car. They and Alex are old friends, after all, they are professional recycling "barbarians", and they all know the barbarians in the city.
Following this Alex who fell to the ground in the city, we came to the shelter. The people we met in the shelter looked the same as Alex, with dirty bodies and violence. Alex was a little more savage than them. Also have young capital! The urban barbarian recycling station cured Alex's crushed foot bone, and he left there with a plaster cast, not because he was nostalgic and liked the wandering dens outside, but this recycling station was an even more lifeless place. It means that Alex is not stupid at all.
We followed Alex through Paris to his den. It was an undisturbed bridge to be repaired, and there was an old man on it to support him. They were a business relationship. He gave Alex tranquilizers to sleep, and Alex gave him daily He brings food. But there seems to be only this kind of cooperation between the two men, and there is also respect based on cooperation, and there is no exchange of thoughts and emotions with each other, just like two animals living in a symbiotic relationship.
The old man begged Alex to do something tonight and drive the woman in red away. The woman in red also wandered to the bridge and fell asleep without saying hello. According to the words behind the old man: the life of wandering outside is particularly hard for women, menopause, robbing, rape and starvation, but this woman in red lay down like this, and she was not attacked by these two people. Violent treatment because Alex fell in love with the self she painted, the old man sympathized with her like his deceased wandering wife, the most important thing is that the old man found solace in this woman, his years of grievance, sadness and ability are all gone. Being able to be listened to by this woman also led the old man to commit suicide after chatting with the woman about his life, so wandering is not scary, it is why wandering and why he died.
Alex is young, strong, and smart. He knows from the clues of women that he is a wandering body because of love and illness, just like an animal that knows it is about to die will stay away from its own clan. She has an eye problem, is it fatal for a painter who loves color and loves observation? Maybe some people can continue to live in other ways, so does she, she just wants to stray; and the love is gone because of his illness or because of other reasons? We don't know, we only know that the woman needs to kill the heartless man to relieve her hatred. At first, Alex also misunderstood the woman, thinking that she wanted to return to Julien's side, and the roundabout stop let us see the deepening of Alex's love for the woman. On the night that the woman didn't come back, Alex was heartbroken thinking that the woman had returned to her old love, and that the woman had actually killed Julien. For the woman, she continued to come back and wander because the demise of her eyesight made her unable to face the old world, the world of civilized people. She spends the rest of her life living on the streets and sleeping rough like an animal. If you talk about the reasons for wandering, she and the old man have reasons. The old man wanders because of his love for his wife, his wife wanders because of his love for his younger daughter, and the demise of the younger daughter is the reason for their husband and wife to wander. However, there is no reason for Alex to wander. He just lives like this, not participating in any organization, without any ambition, just to live. But the woman inspired his ambition, the kind of ambition he wanted to take over hers.
They are so wild, free and adventurous together. The entire Seine River is their playground. The gorgeous fireworks of the city are just watching the fire from the other side. The sadness is known only to herself: only bright lights like fireworks can give her some vision, she will soon be blind, she will become a stray animal. To this end, her education and social experience told her that she needed to save money, at least in the light of the day, to plan for her future blind life. A person who is not born on the street cannot think like an animal born in the wild. Alex listened to her plan and complied, and they got a lot of money. But he found that money is not a good thing, because women always want a better bed and are afraid of the coming winter, so the gap with him is too big. Alex designed it so that the money would be lost. The woman had nothing to do but the atmosphere, and begged Alex not to dislike herself who was about to lose her sight. Alex thought, I don't know who dislikes who, his ability alone is enough to keep two people from starving. That money would break such a life.
The development of the story here is not exciting enough. The most exciting thing is that the eye disease of the woman who gave up on herself has been cured. Her father is a rich and powerful person and finally conveyed the message through advertisements and radio, but Alex has already tried to stop all this. Manslaughter, how could he let the woman go, the woman can kill her ex to vent her anger, or poison Alex to save herself. When she rescued herself home, she didn't forget to tell Alex to forget herself because she didn't love him. If Alex is a civilized person in society, what would a civilized person do at this time? Selfish civilized people will kill each other like a woman, but Alex is from the savage, he only hurts himself, he shoots his finger off.
In three years, the woman's eye disease was cured, and Alex also came to the civilized punishment house - prison to serve his sentence for manslaughter. Why should a civilized man come back to civilization and be healthy? A barbarian like Alex returned to civilization and learned the cunning and punishment of the civilized world. Why should they trust women? This time it was the waters of the Seine that gave the eternal answer. It turns out that they finally fell in love with each other after the baptism of civilization and barbarism, including each other's civilization and barbarism, but it seems that both of them have become better. In fact, Alex has never changed. It is a woman who loves life and love. The concept has just changed. How long can she go on without giving up her wanderings this time? Can Alex really live his homeless life? These movie stories are no longer given, but one can give a positive answer, they have all become barbarians in the eyes of the civilized world.
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