"Dans La Maison" (Dans La Maison) tells a story about literature and voyeurism. This translation also popularizes the film. The original meaning of French is "in the house" because the object of "voyeurism" is a In the house of an ordinary French middle-class family. Germain (Fabrice Luchini) is a writer who went to a middle school to teach literature because his writing career was not as good as he wanted. The first homework he gave his students was to write a weekly journal. The weekly diaries of French middle school students are as bad as those written by Hong Kong middle school students. Germain was very disappointed. However, one student's weekly diary deeply attracted Germain. The student named Claude (Ernst Umhauer), whose weekly diary is based on the experience of going to a friend's house to help him with mathematics during the weekend, is meticulously and vividly written, and he also adds a sentence of "to be continued" at the end of the article, which is intriguing. Germain discovered the student's writing talent and began to provide him with additional writing guidance.
We often say "the author is dead", which means that the author is only responsible for the creation of the work, not the interpretation of the work. Once the creation is completed, the work is left to the readers to interpret and imagine. "Stolen Love and Isolate Mom" puts forward a special situation. Germain is both a reader and a teacher: as a reader, he has the right to interpret the work of his student Claude and will add his own imagination; as a teacher, He directly intervened in Claude's writing and taught him how to write. In exchange, Claude intervened in his life in turn, causing him to lose his job and his wife. At first, he felt that Cloude's Weekly Diary was a fiction, but later he secretly printed the math test paper to Claude in order to help Claude stay at his friend’s home to study mathematics. Since then, he has been unable to distinguish between fiction and reality. , I don’t know if I just want to cultivate Claude’s writing talent as a teacher, or to satisfy the voyeuristic desire as a reader.
Maupassant asked Flaubert's story to show that observation is an important part of writing. In other words, writing is inseparable from peeping. Whether in a public square or in your own bed, there may be a pair of writer's eyes watching you. But if both Claude and Germain were limited to "voyeurism" and did not intervene in the life of the "voyeur object", they could have been in peace, and once they intervened, they would no longer be pure writing. The state of "intervention" is sometimes abstract and indescribable. This movie is presented in the form of fantasy. For example, when Claude and a friend's mother Esther kiss at a friend's house, Germain will suddenly appear; Esther and her husband sleep in their own bed At that time, Claude would sleep between the two again.
As a French movie, the color tone of "Separate Mom" was surprisingly bright. It wasn't until the last scene that Germain and Claude sat on a bench in the park, and the story of each family in an apartment appeared before their eyes, and then a little French movie began. Shades. France in the movie is actually not French. The characters talk about American basketball, Chinese art and Russian novels. If they were not speaking French, you would not think that this story happened in France. The biggest French element of the film is its calm sense of humor and unique concept. With these, French films can always bring unexpected surprises to those of us who have been immersed in Hollywood movies for a long time.
The French director François Ozon, who directed this film, did live up to his reputation. He made a seemingly difficult and dull story full of fun. Even if you are not interested in learning about literature, but just want to satisfy the desire for peeping, this movie is also worthy of your admission.
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