You can give these two titles some nicknames, such as "The Murder Caused by a Letter", "The War of Rabbits and Carnations", or "Don't Fall in Love with the Enemy's Daughter", "Peeping at the Cost of Beautiful Women Bathing", or "The Revenge of A Carelessness", or "The Record of Enmity and Enmity in the Process of Rural Urbanization", etc..
The three great actors and actresses join forces, Claude Berri is in charge, and Emmanuelle Béart is amazing, adapted from the novel "Mountain Spring". The story is like spring water, flowing slowly.
The man’s ambition
old Cesar cherished a lifelong hatred for his beloved lover who put him in the arms of others. Love kept him from marrying for life, and hatred made him cold, mean, selfish and cruel. When Qi Luoguo's son appeared in front of his old lover after his death, there was almost no trace of pity and sympathy that flashed in his eyes. It was entirely gloating sarcasm, revenge tricks, and greedy ambition. It turns out that idiotic love can suddenly turn into deep hatred, when she can't be embraced and possessed by you. When "mine" ceases to be "mine" (or never was "mine") and becomes "others", no matter what it is, go to hell. Just like, everyone in the dry mountain city knows the secrets of the spring in the Florette family, but who will stand up and tell the truth to this stranger in the city who is "decent than us" and "lives better than us"? Seeing him being kept in the dark to no avail, falling apart day by day until madness and death, is such a cold observation accompanied by bursts of uncontrollable pleasure? Because it's not about family affairs, you can be indifferent and cruel as a matter of course. How many of us, the people around us, haven't done this kind of thing? The old Chinese saying-May people be poor and hate people rich; it's nothing to do with oneself, but hang up high. This is also part of the truth of human nature.
So it is not so much that old Cesar planned and Ugolin fully cooperated and indirectly murdered the unpaid Florette, but the selfish and indifference of everyone in the town buried the kind-hearted Florette and his dreams.
Of course, compared to the ambition of a man, how can the lost love be anything to say? When huge self-interest is in front of you, what choice will people make? It's like the two ambitious men in "Once Upon a Time in America" once possessed the beautiful Deborah in different forms, but do they really love her? Except for her beauty, her body? Put her first in life? Note that the few pieces of music in "Love in the Mountain City" are played in the three male protagonists, one is smug, one is greedy, and the other is cunning. Everywhere is not the most sincere and ardent desire for wealth.
It's a pity that strong ambitions are also melted at the moment. When Ugolin sews Manon's ribbon to his chest, does the trickling blood hide the confession of Florette's late arrival besides obsessive love? When the old Cesar, who was alone and had no sons and grandchildren, learned that all the grievances and grievances came from that letter, that war, and his very narrow mind, when the bad news echoed in his ears, his old heart was violent. When convulsing, when the old friend spit out all his unexpected, unimaginable, unacceptable, and cruelest truths, this old man who was once able to control everything and persisted in his ambitions left only the last faint breath to mourn himself Misfortune. The intestines are regretful, and there is no way to start again.
If Cesar, who has retired and returned home, can insist on his love without doubt or suspicion, he must either ask his lover why he has gone away or sincerely wish him a destination; if Ugolin can persist, it is either the pity that exists in his heart or the outright greed and ruthlessness like Cesar; If Florette can be easy-going not only to make friends with Ugolin, but also to be close to all the residents of the town, not only ambitious but also to objectively analyze the feasibility of the project... Then the tragedies of these three men will not be staged. However, because of the ambition of men, "man" &. "ambition".
Manon's Revenge
Revenge, like love, is the eternal theme of mankind. "The Count of Monte Cristo" teaches us how to use his own way to treat his body; "Wuthering Heights" sullenly tells that a lot of hatred is born of love, which can be amazingly lasting, or it can be subverted by love in an instant; "Kindly Gold" uses blood and femininity to depict a knife on the head of the word "nin". When doing big things, you must be patient. When I watched "Old Boy" a while ago, I mainly realized what the highest state of revenge is until I finished watching Gan Quan. Of course, the above successful revenge cases all have one thing in common-in addition to sophisticated planning, there must be considerable capital to support them.
So, where is the ultimate revenge? "Old Boy" ("The Original Criminal") exaggerated and exaggerated the idea of "forgetting a tooth for an eye for an eye", and finally relying on forgetting to end hatred, and "who is innocent"; teaching us what kind of revenge can be Let the other party suffer every second and every minute of their lives, as if being overwhelmed with pain, as if ten fingers were nailed to a bamboo stick and fainted with pain, they would be awakened by an electric shock and continue to taste the pain.
Generally speaking, when taking revenge, one takes the subjective standpoint of self-consideration of innocence, and blames all the crimes on the opponent who is set by oneself as the villain. However, it is often funny that the formation of hatred is not caused by one party. In this way, the Avengers did not realize that a new round of crime had already occurred when they retaliated happily, which means that a new revenge will be staged in the near future. When is the so-called grievance report? It is also in the mountain spring. In order to avenge his unfaithful lover, the old Cesar was enthusiastic and tortured his lover and other men’s Luo Guo son, and this buried an indelible hatred in the young heart of Luo Guo’s daughter. Even if she is a woman who has nothing to do with her. She could not leave the mountain city where her father was killed, because the love for her father was unforgettable, and the hatred was also not easy to forget.
But the brilliance of this film is that God took care of Manon and let her inadvertently discover the super secret weapon that can kill many birds with one stone, and can heal her in her own way. Pure as she has not planned subjectively how to design and cook Cesar's uncle and nephew, she just wants people to know the truth! She just inadvertently melted one with her angelic beauty, then destroyed the other spiritually along with her, and ridiculed and ridiculed the big piece. clever. Compared to "Original Criminal", she did so naturally. Her revenge also caused two deaths and more injuries, but no one would condemn her. However, the movie does not stop at the superficial "people are not as good as the sky", "the sky has eyes", "doing injustice will kill itself" and so on. The screenwriter must specify the meaning of the whole story, and must thoroughly rub and destroy the old Cesar's heart. It turns out that he is the real original criminal who thinks he is the Avenger. This is similar to "Old Boy", but the latter's expression is extreme, exaggerated and overly dramatic, and easily misunderstood.
So, what is the ultimate revenge? Do not live by committing sins. Can the sweet spring of
PS
Manon really melt a man's ambition? Don't forget that Ugolin is a hereditary emotional instability caused by close relatives. Moreover, Manon’s sweet spring does not need to melt the man’s ambition, she can nourish him, make this heart more abundant, more complete, and sweeter. If the man loses his ambition, it will be another tragedy.
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