This young Canadian director who inspired Feng Xiaogang to shoot round frames, following the stunning "I Killed My Mother", "Double-sided Lawrence", "Tom's Farm Trip" and "Mummy", this time he brought French all-stars. The lineup brings a new work "Just the End of the World".
The original square frame of the movie "Mummy"
This film helped him win the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize again after "Mummy", and represented Canada in the 89th Oscar held in February this year.
It is said that after the film was shortlisted in Cannes, Dolan was so nervous as to swear words during the media questioning session of the film conference.
Director Dolan and starring Marion Cotillard at the Cannes Film Festival
"Just the End of the World" is adapted from the work of French writer Jean Luc Lagas (Pioneer of French Theatre Festival), and tells the story of a gay writer returning to his hometown after 12 years of wandering in a foreign country. At this time, he is suffering from AIDS. He wanted to tell his family about his near-death situation, but it caused a disturbance.
The fate of the original author is similar to that of the protagonist Louis. Lagas suffered from AIDS and died of complications at the age of 38.
Unlike Dolan’s previous films where he or his friends often guest appearances, this film brings together Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard, "Blue-haired" Léa Seydoux from "The Life of Adele", the French actor and actress. Vincent Caso, Gaspard Ulliel, and Natalie Baye are the most star-lined movies in Dolan's films.
This is a story that does not fit the taste of the year.
Speaking of it, its core is a bit sad.
However, it is a story about returning home.
A 34-year-old writer and screenwriter, Louise, who was seriously ill, returned to his home after 12 years away. He met his a little hysterical and fuss-like mother. Before Louis entered the door, his mother was busy with makeup, nail polish and complaints. His son was gay. It seemed that she didn't expect much of this son's return.
A little alienated from Louis, the eldest brother Antoine who speaks a little bit mean and emotionally irritable.
When meeting Louis for the first time, she was kind and talked about her sister-in-law, Catherine.
Also, she has no impression of Louis, who left home in the early years, and her sister Susanne, who is full of angular and smoky personality.
And the whole film unfolded in this trivial family chat, just like the beginning of every time you and I go home.
Family members always have too many things to tell you, and you also have too many new situations that you want to share with your family, but you don't know where to start. Before returning home, we had the desire to communicate well with our family. However, when we returned home, we found that every “good communication” was interrupted and cut into pieces again and again.
What's more, if you talk too much, you will lose it. As you chatted, misfortune came out of your mouth, and there was a dispute between the family.
The brother suspected that the sister-in-law put the focus of life on the child, saying that no one wanted to hear her talking about the child. The sudden blame made the sister-in-law nervous to stutter.
(My sister-in-law tells Louis about the child, my brother always turns his back to his sister-in-law and looks out the window, always acting very impatiently.)
The younger sister wanted to complain for her sister-in-law, so she said something to her brother, and the brother immediately pointed the finger at the younger sister.
Even the simplest daily wear can become a hot topic for both brothers and sisters.
The elder brother criticized the younger sister's makeup for painting like ghosts, and the younger sister disliked the older brother's suit for being too old-fashioned.
The sister-in-law seemed to be accustomed to such quarrels. When the siblings quarreled, she just smiled bitterly at Louis.
In the first ten minutes of the film, the family’s personalities and conflicts between each other are shown. The problems in Louis’s family seem to be no different from ordinary people’s homes: for
example, for trivial matters, family members They speak bad words and can be polite and thoughtful to outsiders, but they leave the most ugly words to their family members.
Often the closest person knows where the other party’s weakness is and can poke each other’s sore spots during a quarrel.
Seeing the conflicts between his family members, Louis felt at a loss. He was ready to confess everything to the family, but he became speechless, like a throat.
No one seems to really care what Louis has experienced in the outside world.
The delicate-minded Louis wanted to become intimate with his family again. At first, he was full of kindness and expressed to his sister-in-law that he would listen to her talking about the child, because he knew his brother was surly. If he didn't listen, the sister-in-law would lose the last thing. listener.
My brother even said to his sister-in-law, "Just say what you want, don't look like a bully who silences you."
Louis listened very seriously to her sister-in-law about naming the child.
The elder brother is not willing to let the child call his name Antoine, saying that this name will bring bad luck. So the sister-in-law named the child Louis, the same name as his uncle.
It's a pity that it collapsed when I talked about it this day.
It seems that Louis and his family are separated not only by 12 years, but also by a wall of 12 cm.
In the film, there is a segment of Louis smoking in the backyard, smoking for a long time, and then crying.
But this is just a family meal, not the end of the world.
Louis can only face his family and tell them bad news if he repeatedly encourages himself and does enough psychological construction.
And the family’s understanding of Louis is limited to the words his mother said, "He is doing what he has to do, he has always been like this", "You always answer me in three words, the same as your postcard. It says the same".
There is also a sister complaining about him. "You always send postcards to your house, as if you are going on vacation. This is weird, and the postman can see what you write. Could it be that all the important words you write can make any Do people just look at it?” The subtext is that you don’t treat this place as your home, and you treat us as your family.
Yes, just as his family did not know Louis, Louis also did not know his family.
He didn’t know his brother’s work situation, he didn’t know that his younger sister grew up into a beautiful but bad-tempered girl, he didn’t even know when his elder brother got married and had children, and he didn’t care what kind of slogan his mother liked, all about Louis didn't know the details of his family in the past, nor did he want to know. The only contact between him and his family is the postcards sent back from other places, those postcards that even the postman can read casually.
If it wasn't for his life soon, he wouldn't even go home.
What is unavoidable is that Louis still sat at this dining table. He listened to the trivial conversations between the family members. Although he was in it, he seemed to stand at the end of the world. Everyone became very far away from him. He couldn't. Being close to any one of them, just as any family member can't really understand him now.
At this moment, what Louise's emotions are conveyed to the audience through the scenes that are near and far, is a kind of anxiety and worry. He doesn't know whether he should tell the story of his dying.
Although the movie is about crooked nuts, when it comes to the topic of family members, it seems that the moon in foreign countries is not rounder than that in China.
My brother dislikes his mother and always complains about the history of revolutionaries
Every Chinese New Year, going home becomes a topic that Chinese people cannot avoid.
However, how many conflicts occurred when they returned home. The husbands and wives were at odds, the brothers turned against each other, and the elders were chilled... There are even data showing that many couples would choose to go for a divorce on the first day of the end of the Spring Festival holiday.
A year has passed, how long have we not sat down and listened to our family members to tell their innermost thoughts, but the innermost thoughts are always the hardest to hear. Most of the time we gossip about neighbourhood anecdotes and talk about irrelevant topics. Someone just started a conversation and was interrupted by irrelevant small talk. Everyone seemed to have lost the ability to speak well. They wanted to overwhelm each other on every topic. They were caught in an endless loop of bargaining, running, and mutual arrogance, showing their best The reckless and clumsy side...
Between the family members, the joy and freshness of reunion at the beginning has become the embarrassment and anxiety of getting along with each other over time. Many people want to buy tickets quickly after the fifth day of the new year. Why do we bring good things every time? This home, which we wished to return to after so many hardships, eventually became the place we wanted to escape as soon as possible.
Maybe you also want to ask, what went wrong in the end?
Just like the song about home sung in the opening title: Home is not a harbor, home is a place that scars me.
Although Dolan is often criticized by the industry for his frequent use of close-ups and BGM in movies, he is a "MV aesthetic director". The media likes to put his appearance and gay identity on the premise of the work. His preference has caused the media to jokingly call him "Cannes's pro-son" or even "Cannes's pro-grandson", but Dolan always explores the themes of family and affection in the movie, and the details that resonate with the audience in the trivial dialogue. , Still let him gain a lot of movie (mi) fans (mei).
As a young director who can rely on his face, but on his talents, each of Dolan's works seems to revolve around the same motif, that is, the bondage and escape between family members, how to reshape the broken family relationship and trust , He is constantly filling the understanding of this motif based on his comradeship, and hitting the hearts of the audience with details time and time again.
Perhaps in Dolan’s heart, there is a very soft place, no matter how bustling the outside world is, full of temptation and attraction, he wants to go back, whether it is in "Tom's Farm Trip" or this "Just the End of the World" "It is all shown in ", when Tom went back to his boyfriend's house to attend the funeral on a farm trip, but was imprisoned by his boyfriend's homophobic brother who didn't know his brother's sexual orientation, and finally escaped from the farm.
Dolan film "I killed my mother" line: I love you, although sometimes I am not very
Love and hate, love and kill each other.
This is the commentary of Dolan's movie to his family.
Going home is probably something that makes Dolan look forward to and feel scared. You can also say that it is Dolan's gay status that has created a more complicated feeling for his home and family.
Longing to be close, longing to be understood, but unable to share secrets, had to keep a distance.
Desire to care, desire to be loved, but may not be able to meet part of the family's expectations, and my heart is full of contradictions.
As in the film, Louis and his sister talked about the reason for his return.
Susanne felt that Louis’s sudden departure from home many years ago was a nasty thing for both his family and himself, and then the sister said that maybe he needs them too.
At this time Louis couldn't help saying that this is why I came back.
Immediately afterwards, he added another sentence, part of the reason.
There are also warm places in the film.
It's this little sister who doesn't have a deep impression of Louis, and can only think about Louis' appearance from others. She often reads articles published by her brother in newspapers, and cuts out the articles published on them, and pastes them on the wall of her bedroom.
When Louis didn't know it, his family members were also keeping an eye on his movements.
Also, the whole family couldn't help but laugh when the verbose mother forced her sister to do the funny nostalgic aerobics.
Hopefully, home can be transformed back into a harbor like this, not the place that will scar our hearts.
Let us say that sentence from the bottom of our hearts: It feels so good to go home.
But what we really want is not a false harmony of prosperous trance and harmony, but true mutual care, mutual understanding and mutual understanding.
After all, every time I go home, it's a long-lost reunion.
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