On a whim, I searched for the winners of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, and then became interested in the film "Graduation Exam" (hereinafter referred to as "Bi") by Christian Mongy, the best director in the main competition unit, and then on a nonchalant afternoon I watched it carefully, and I was deeply impressed. The film's main character, Romeo, is a well-respected and professional doctor. He and his wife, Magda, have a daughter who is about to take a graduation exam (similar to China's college entrance examination), because her daughter was attacked before the exam. Going to the examination room in a stable state, Romeo had to use a disreputable method to start a relationship operation, hoping to ensure that his daughter would get enough grades through the help of others, and then go to Cambridge University in the UK to study. However, it backfired, and everything started to develop in an uncontrollable direction. "Bi" is 122 minutes long, and every minute of the play is building, paving, and polishing its own plot, so that when it is finally fully presented in front of my eyes, I first feel that it has a very high degree of completion: a simple and complex piece of Things are described in an orderly manner, the priorities of the plot are well grasped, the logic is not abrupt, and the narrative is not redundant. I have also watched another well-received "April Two Weeks and Three Days" (hereinafter referred to as "Four") directed by Mengji. Personally, I feel that the director's narrative ability was quite skilled at that time, and he preferred to use a single-line method to tell The story, some minor things, stop at the point, and never let the story deviate from the main line. Speaking of specific plots, I personally like "Four" very much. Like "Bi", it only tells about a trivial "point" (only about the contradictions and gains and losses between individuals and small families), but it actually shows the "face" of a larger environment, which the director can see with his skill of seeing the big from the small. One spot. In "Bi", some people saw the moral dilemma, some people saw the mid-life crisis, and I "empathized" with the male protagonist Romeo throughout the whole process. The most intense experience is the word loneliness. Romeo has a marriage, but it lives in name only; he has a lover, but he can't become relatives with her (as can be seen from the refusal of his lover's requirements and his attitude towards his lover's children); he has a mother, but a mother who is old and sick is absolutely Not the object of his confidence; there is a daughter who loves the most, but the daughter does not want to live the way he wants, even if his hope is likely to be a shortcut to his daughter's life. A lot of times I feel like Romeo is on a deserted island with no help, and when something hits, he has nothing to do but fight alone. For example, there is a scene in which Romeo asks his daughter to cheat by marking exam papers during exams. He said bitterly that we couldn't afford to lose the exam, while the daughter looked at her father with some doubt and astonishment. The father at this time was very different from the father who had always taught her to be honest. His patriarchal image had already collapse. But at this time, Romeo couldn't care about his sense of morality and not being understood by his daughter. On both ends of the scale, he firmly chose to consider his daughter's future. This is quite sad in my opinion, because according to the plot, we know that Romeo cherishes his honest and noble reputation very much. He is completely unmoved by the temptation of money, but he personally destroyed his most precious for the happiness of his daughter. s things. In real life, everyone knows that cheating is wrong, but in the face of a father's sacrifice, I really can't criticize his actions from the moral high ground. In this place, I have a strong emotional resonance with the film, because when I saw Romeo, I seemed to see my own father, and also saw the fathers of thousands of other people. Although I haven't experienced what happened in the film, I believe that when faced with difficulties, my father would choose to sacrifice his own interests to achieve me. At the end of the film, when Romeo was about to be investigated, he did not disclose his situation to his daughter. He said, "But let's keep the kids out of it (don't involve the children)" in the mood of "It's all up to me", and he walked alone. On a difficult road without a single person to accompany you. In addition to a good story, the lines of "Bi" are also set quite standard. The original sound of the film is in Romanian. The version I watched had only English subtitles. Personally, I felt that the English subtitles were translated very well. For example, a scene between Romeo and his wife Magda, Magda: "I'll follow her. Wherever she goes, I'll go too.
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