When the sixty-year-old Huppert was walking through the mountains in a red dress, I had forgotten her age.
However, what this film wants to show is not how a woman ages gracefully, it tells meticulously about the various troubles that people will face when they reach middle age. Under these troubles, grace is rare, and it is difficult to hide embarrassment.
The publisher who originally cooperated with him chose another talented person; the husband chose to divorce for his lover regardless of his long-term relationship; his mother, who suffered from depression for many years, died in a nursing home. This may be the darkest and most difficult time in my life so far. They have come so densely that they don't give people a chance to breathe.
However, even if the layers of defense are broken, Natalie still has the last place to live - a rich spiritual world. Natalie is a college teacher, and philosophy is her lifelong love and an important element throughout the film. Therefore, when the blow came, Fabian's appearance was timely. Fabien is Natalie's best student, and they talk about life and philosophy. When chatting with him, she seems to have gained a brief "escape".
While vacationing on Fabian's mountain farm, Natalie and Fabian disagree over some philosophical positions. In this conversation, Fabian said: You only care about how you behave every day, and don't let it damage your values. But it's unacceptable to let your mind spin out of control and lead to dramatic changes in your life.
Fabian's words stabbed Natalie directly in the heart like a dagger. Philosophy makes her look at everything rationally, and she tries to maintain this rationality even when things go wrong. She hides in her spiritual corner and whitewashes the turbulent emotions in her heart.
In the film, Natalie is lying quietly by the lake, with Fabian and his friends playing in the water behind her. At that moment, she may know that her spiritual partner is no longer compatible with her. He owns her. The courage she didn't have, the circles she couldn't fit into and the partners she could talk to, that's when she really felt lonely. That night, Natalie lay crying in her small room on the farm.
From a female perspective, the film tells the story of one's middle age through a philosophical perspective. Many plot settings are very delicate to show the emotions of the characters. After learning that her husband was about to leave her, she threw the flowers bought by her husband into the trash can at home in disgust. After that, she found it annoying, so she found a large bag to pack the flowers and threw them outside, and then returned, angrily throwing herself away. bag removed.
After the divorce, she had to leave her husband's ancestral home in Brittany, where she had taken care of her garden, and sat in the departing car, her eyes full of resignation.
After her mother's funeral, she was still sad and weeping in the bus one second, but the next second she saw her ex-husband and girlfriend chatting and laughing on the side of the road, surprised and funny.
A year later, her daughter was born, and Natasha had a new identity and more things to do. Fabian, who once insisted that he would not keep cats, agreed to take in Pandora, the cat left by Natasha's mother. Natalie, who used to be allergic to cats, would also suddenly wake up in her sleep to find Pandora. At the end of the film, the whole family gathers for Christmas. She hugs her crying grandson in the bedroom, hums a song, the children in the living room chat happily, and everything is calm again.
The blow is like this, the loneliness is like this, but everything is always developing and changing, time is flowing slowly, there is new energy in life, and there is new expectation, it is always like this, it should be like this, this is the future thing.
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