Antoine set up a situation-playing company. "Night of Old Dreams" can help customers "travel" back to any age they want to reach, such as the Middle Ages, World War II... They completely restore the scene according to the customer's request.
It can be said that Antoine's creativity was influenced by Victor, the father of Maxime.
Victor is an illustrator. When Antoine was young, he gave him a lot of comic books, which portrayed a lot of colorful hope for his unhappy childhood. Victor and his wife Marianne are also the best and most loving couples he has ever seen.
It has been more than forty years since Marianne and Victor met for the first time. Now their sons are already the bosses of a company, and he has a successful career in his middle age.
But Victor has actually been abandoned by the times. He has no interest in any trendy electronic products and has no understanding. Even because he didn't use electronic equipment to paint, his career gradually came to an end.
His wife Marianne tried hard to keep up with the times and became younger, and her ideas did not agree with each other, and the relationship between the husband and wife began to have problems. Marianne even had an affair with Victor's friends.
Finally after an argument, Victor was swept out by Marianne.
Suspicious of life and disappointed in feelings, Victor took the invitation letter his son asked from Antoine, and the comics he drew at the time, and decided to return to 1974 to relive the time he and Marianne first met.
In the scene, the girl who played Marianne when she was young, Margot, is the person Antoine is dating.
The French romance film "Belle Epoque" , intertwined between a couple who are in marital difficulties when they reach old age, and a young couple who are in love but are in a painful relationship, discussing love, marriage, time, and aging in a humorous tone. , Social development, falsehood and reality.
Victor was much friendlier to Victor in 1974 than it is now. At that time, he was a talented and loved young man. Unlike now, he was an old man who was unemployed, poor, and failed marriage.
So instead of going back there to relive his old love, he is better at regaining his peak self in the hallucinations he set up for himself.
So the familiar scenes reappeared, the actors who entered the role, were taken from the lines in Victor's memories... all this is so false and true.
Victor knows that they are fake, he doesn't even have to play the role of himself at the time according to the scene, he will also fall into the real feeling.
So after one night, he wanted the second night, the third night...
Dreams have to go on.
In order to be rich and continue to experience his life in 1974, he went to work in his son's company. The situational experience helped him regain his youthful state, creativity, and the heart of falling into love.
He even learned to paint with a drawing board.
When the wall is covered with Victor’s re-created paintings and the actual Margot’s paintings in the play; when the direction of the story, under Antoine’s arrangement, there is a fuzzy boundary between the play and the play; Victor is in a fake In 1974, I fell in love with another girl I met at this moment- a Marianne who integrated Victor's memories, Antoine's creation, and a woman improvised by Margot.
Then Antoine had to help Victor play again. He arranged for Margot to have a family identity and created a line with life philosophy for her.
True or false, false or true, Victor has not gained new love, but has gained a self who has picked up the paintbrush again; and Marianne is finally bored with the derailed subject.
So time went back to 1974 for the third time.
Victor was invited to play herself again, this time Marianne was played by herself.
Marianne said the same lines back then, but got a different answer.
The scarred feelings couldn't relive the old dreams so easily, instead, they had to face the cracks in front of them. It was not a time that could be reversed with a sorry sentence.
Life is not a situational act, every moment is arranged with lines, and it is impossible to relive the best moments forever.
Joy and romance, pain and hurt will all happen unexpectedly in the real life, and then all the following plots will be changed, and time will never return.
It's like the ending of Marianne and Victor who didn't give an answer.
But this is life.
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Original: Yi Xiaomeng
First published on the official account: a little movie
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