love in the cracks

Melisa 2022-11-28 15:23:00

"Lovers in the New Bridge" is a French film I have always liked. The story is composed of many, many fragmented pieces. The content is a pair of strange lovers. The woman is a painter, the colonel's daughter, who is madly in love. A man who played the cello, but he was ruthlessly abandoned by him, so he gave up on himself, and walked unkemptly on the street in the dark night with a picture clip all day. Walking on the street one day, she saw a drunk man lying on the road, his leg was run over by a speeding car, she numbly watched the man being pulled away by the car from the shelter, and then Painted his face.

Her eyesight was deteriorating due to a special eye disease. She had lost hope in life and began to live on the street. She randomly chose a bridgehead as her temporary resting place, and that bridgehead was the man's "territory". The picture book beside him while he was sleeping was seen by the man who walked out of the shelter. At this time, the man had become a lame person because of the car accident. He looked at his portrait for a long time seriously. So the next morning, before the woman woke up, he ran under the faucet and vigorously washed the dirt that had accumulated on his body for many days... So, love happened, between the two most decadent and darkest people, a man He cherishes this hard-won love very much. For her, he can do anything: spy on the breakup letter written by her boyfriend, go to the place where she lives to read her diary, follow the woman at any time, drag a lame The man whose legs are rushing to hear the sound of the cello before the woman arrives, who threatens the bridge to play the cello, will never come again...

His way is domineering and savage, but also affectionate and desperate: When Qiaotou slept, he carefully helped her to turn off the switch of the street light, so that she could fall asleep peacefully; he drank, sprayed the torch in his hand, and created the splendor again and again for the woman in the air: he used the little money he had to go to the market He buys cheap fish to make up for the woman's body; he and the woman sing and dance on the new bridge with fireworks, happy like two children... The woman finally finds the man who plays the cello and kills him with a gun in front of him, vulnerable Laughing wildly, there were fifteen bullets in the gun, seven of them each shot wildly in the air, venting their anger against the world, the last shot left, the woman fell asleep tiredly, took the gun to him, let him Throwing it away, he held the woman's gun as a treasure and pinned it carefully around his waist, then the woman heard a plop, but didn't know it was his shoes that fell into the water...

At this time, the woman can no longer see the world in front of her, and everything around her is becoming more and more blurred. The man carefully accompanies her, makes her eyes, and makes exaggerated movements in front of her so that she can feel the world. He rolled around comically, and suddenly saw a huge photo of a woman. It was a missing notice posted by her family. The woman on the photo was noble and beautiful. good her eyes. He stared blankly at the beauty in the painting that did not belong to him, feeling cold all over, he took the woman away, and then went back to the photo by himself, tearing it frantically, but, however, he found that the whole under the bridge was covered with He took pictures of her, the pictures and words kept mocking him in front of his eyes, he went crazy and set a fire that burned down the whole bridge, and the beautiful pictures that tortured him all the time. But the whole world is already flooded with this news, and he continues to destroy the things that will take the woman away, even a train and the train driver who arrives later, because the side of the train is also full of pictures of her... yet , The woman finally left irrevocably, and the source of the news was the radio he gave to the woman. After the woman left, he hit his hand with the only bullet in the gun. Without her, the whole world has no meaning. At this time, he was brought to court for murder and sentenced to three years. imprisonment.

This is not the end of the story. There should be no love between people like him and her. If there is, it is destined to be fruitless love. Three years later, a woman came to pick him up from prison. The woman who recovered his eyesight and identity had pretty short hair, and was as noble and beautiful as she was in the photo. She was no longer the greasy woman he was three years ago. They went back to the repaired new bridge and chatted happily. He thought this was the end, but the woman finally offered to go home. His heart felt deceived again. For the last time, he rushed up desperately and jumped with her in his arms. Into the water...

I thought this was the end, but the real end is that they got on a boat together, and both escaped from this place, looking for a place where love can hide...

At the end of the movie, Juliet Binoche's blank and expressionless face was firmly imprinted in his mind. French literary films are romantic and beautiful. Therefore, they cannot accept the cruelty of reality. Even the love between a beggar and a princess will leave them a happy ending. As for the unhappiness in life since then, that Not something worth recording.

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The Lovers on the Bridge quotes

  • Michèle Stalens: The people in our dreams, we should call them when we wake up. It would make life simpler. "Hello, I dreamed of you. Love woke me".