1. Before the opening, director Jérémy Clapin introduced that this is a special one-line and peculiar story. Before it is finished, no one knows how to show it on the screen. But still tell this story in a very peculiar way.
2. The story is adapted from a novel called "Happy End" published in 2008. Screenwriter: it's a joke.
3. The movie is called "I Lost My Body". I chose the same double line as the book structure, and inserted the flashback hand and the owner's common memory during the process of finding the owner of the main line player. And Raoul was also looking for Gabrielle. They even thought about worse names, "I Lost a Hand", "I Find My Body", and "I Saw My Hand", but they still want to keep the perspective of the hand as the theme.
4. Screenwriter Guillaume Laurant has done many well-known movies, including Angel Aimei. This film is actually the first feature film edited by director Jérémy Clapin, and the budget is very limited.
5. With a very limited budget, they chose to produce a realistic animation work. The street scene completely adopts the 3D real scenes of Paris, subway, river, buildings and garbage trucks. Then draw and add close-up 2D characters and scenes. Of course, many people pointed out that the frame rate is too low, just because of budget issues. It may feel like a sub-series style, but the original intention is to present a science fiction work that allows people to experience reality.
6. Dan Levy's soundtrack is very amazing. It fully reflects the emotions, and most of the time it is very gloomy emotions. Guillaume likes to make the soundtrack and the movie fit perfectly, just like angels love beauty. But in this movie, because it is so hooked, you will know where the movie has reached when you hear the music during post-production.
7. The director invited some music producers, left some phone messages, and also left his own phone number. Dan Levy was the first to respond to him. During the production process, some drafts were made first, and then Dan created synchronously. Scripts and editing are also produced in this way. Rather than arranging them all in advance, Jérémy prefers the collision of different inspirations.
8. In addition to music, the sound is also well-designed. This is a movie about sound. Raoul likes recording, his parents like music, and he wants to be a pianist. Gabrielle's earphones, Raoul's earphones, and even loud music at the party are very obvious hints. The sound of rain, the sound of wind, the sound of snowing and pretending to be snowing. The sound of the walkie-talkie in front of Gabrielle's house is also one of the most important clues to the story.
9. When conceiving Gabrielle's persona, I wanted her to have a very attractive voice, but also make people feel close. The voice alone can give Raoul hope on the darkest rainy night in Raoul's life, allowing him to cross 35 floors, connect with the world, and find her hope as a turning point in life.
10. Igloo is a symbol, just like an astronaut. In the white monotonous world filled with loneliness and heavy snow, an igloo can symbolize many things. Every audience can have a different interpretation. In the last part of the film, a lot of snow fell in Paris, falling on the windows and rooftops of the cottage.
11. The person dressed as a crow is actually a symbol, and it does not appear in the novel. Seeing the crow in his hand, he inspired some things. Let the audience guess for themselves. Although I guess most viewers, like me, feel a little baffling.
12. The story of the hand search and Raoul's own story are not coherent in the first part, and it is difficult to figure out what kind of story it is. Jérémy admitted that he did this deliberately. After all, he lost his body and lost his way. If he wanted the audience, he was a bit lost. When he saw it, he needed to use his brain to assemble the string. Or go see it a second time (laughs).
13. When showing the perspective of the hand, even if it is an animation, it is deliberately made to look like a lens is observing and shooting. And the lens is tracked at a distance of 80cm, because 80cm is usually a safe distance between people. At this distance, the audience will feel that they are on the boundary of observation and intervention.
14. I really like the adventure of hands, a bit like the creepy version of Madagascar. Especially thanks to the opposite finger, it can use itself while walking! You can light a lighter, grab a railing, and do everything your hands can do. But it is walking with fingers, watching the road with the wrist, especially walking with five fingers is not the best solution. Obviously you can use two or three to walk, and the rest can be grasping or climbing or maintaining balance. (Well, everyone was laughing when I asked this question...)
15. The director wants to show a hand with only his own thinking and decision, so some want to make it more realistic and more human-like. So you will see it sometimes sit down, or it will be like kneeling on the ground. Walking with five fingers is really intentional to make it scary, not to walk cute or funny, otherwise there will be no contrast in the section of the baby's room.
16. After experiencing so much, I arrived at the owner's room and tried to connect myself to the owner, but failed. It may feel that it is no longer necessary to go to the owner's own existence, or that it is enough to share the same memories. In short, they feel that it is a better choice to witness the owner's departure than to disturb.
17. There should be no sequel unless Guillaume writes it out (laughs).
18. Guillaume didn't even remember why his hands were in the refrigerator in the first place! It seems that there have been a lot of things in the novel, and the failure to refrigerate and seek medical treatment in time prevents it from being connected back to the arm, and then illegally traded and so on. But in the movie, the journey starts directly from the refrigerator. Maybe the other organs are alive, except for the eyeball, which is really dead.
19. France will be officially released on November 4th, and there will be a small number of shows in China and the United States. Netflix outside France is also on the shelves at the end of the month, and France seems to have a 36-month limit.
I personally really like this movie very much. It's really realistic, and the emotional transmission is very precise, and it makes people feel uncomfortable almost instantly. I feel the pain that I can't stand. Some small mistakes in life's inertia have resulted in irreparable consequences, losing hope of survival step by step. And we can't even blame him on his own, because it will almost become self-blame. In a poetic and gloomy way, it depicts the difficult walking dead in the cold steel jungle just like us.
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