If the filming is good, I still like to watch those nostalgic films. People have an illusion, as if the old age is more reassuring, because everything is certain, there is no feeling that there will be accidents anytime and anywhere in the current or future era. You can be sure that none of this will happen to yourself. It is this stupid sense of superiority that makes people a little bit nostalgic. And when I saw "Mom in Paris", I was moved in a different way, because it can be regarded as the prequel and postscript of Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls". God knows how obsessed I was with Hemingway when I was a teenager. So the film filled with the decadent atmosphere of the old age instantly knocked me out of this idle idler.
Gilda, a young, beautiful and slutty girl, broke into the Cambridge freshman Guy’s room to escape the heavy rain and guards, and Guy fell in love with her since then, even though the girl had long been notorious. After several fate, Gilda left Britain to travel everywhere. Money is not a problem. Her father is a wealthy French businessman and her mother is an American celebrity. Although they divorced a long time ago, money is still not a problem. Gilda writes to Guy every time he goes, and leaves every time Guy's reply arrives. She travels, lives in different places, meets different people, and tries different careers. Guy even saw her in a role in a movie-a glamorous slave girl.
Finally one day, Guy received a letter from her stating that she had settled down in Paris and her career was photography. Guy immediately rushed to meet her overnight, which was almost beyond Gilda's expectation. Of course, there are others around her, and more than one. In addition to her lover Max at the time, there is also her female companion and model Mia. She was with Max for a film festival, and Mia was picked up from the street. Obviously there is no place for Gay in her life. Gay can only return to London. Soon Gilda broke up with her photographer lover and lived with Gay. To be precise, Gilda, Guy and Mia are living together. They mix friendship and love perfectly, and they never make mistakes. Live every day happily and sloppily, heaven and hell merge just right, so everything brings pleasure. This short, frantic and beautiful life gave Gay the idea of marrying Gilda. He also acted to propose to her, but she refused. She refused all the possibilities that might change her current life.
The Spanish Civil War broke out. Guy is a passionate young man who takes the world as his own mission, even though he is also bohemian at the same time. And Mia’s home country is Spain, where she lost all her relatives and a leg. They decided to go to Spain to participate in the war, which inevitably left Gilda. Gilda was puzzled and sad. She said that we have our own world, why should we follow others blindly. But Guy and Mia understand that there is no one in this world whose world can stand on its own. After all, everyone lives in the same world, and one person cannot escape his own destiny. Although Gilda's anger made them very sad, they left.
The conditions on the battlefield are undoubtedly very bad. Guy followed the team to deal with the enemy all day long, but he had no complaints in his rags and beards. That spirit is comparable to that of the Korean War to Resist U.S. Aid and Aid Korea, and I think it is almost less. Besides, people voluntarily abandon the corrupt life of the bourgeoisie and throw them into the fiery battle. Do you think they still have Bethune's style? Mia was in the ambulance team, she had studied medicine in Paris, and had already prepared everything for this war. They met on the battlefield by chance, and the surprise was self-evident. Gilda still didn't forgive them, and the letter they sent her was never answered. But they don't hate her, how can they hate the person they love most? They are jealous of each other's position in Gilda's mind, and they all want to get Gilda's deepest care, but at the same time they resolutely leave her. They understood Gilda's anger and waited for her forgiveness. The war was extremely cruel, and the jeep that Mia was in when she left was blown up after meeting one night, and she finally left her life in her hometown. This reminds me more deeply of "For Whom the Bell Tolls", even though I have forgotten the name of the protagonist. If this movie stopped abruptly, I would very much doubt whether the screenwriter copied Hemingway. But after all, the times have progressed, and the movie still has something to do with it.
The Spanish War failed, and Guy returned to England to continue his teaching. Immediately after the start of World War II, Guy joined the war again. The difference is that this time he is doing intelligence work, and as an experienced man, he was sent to Paris to coordinate operations. Paris is the city that left the deepest mark in Guy's life. Once he arrived in Paris, he missed Gilda uncontrollably. He stalked her secretly, only to find that she is now interacting with the German officers, like a high-level military courtesan. She tells Guy that she knows about Mia's death and that they can never be together again. But at this time Gilda was actually unable to tell. She is a senior French intelligence officer, and her identity is secret and must not be revealed. She listened to the news by dealing with the German officers.
Gay was really annoyed and suspected by the French military for his reckless actions, but the experienced intelligence personnel during the war were really scarce, and they had to be used with reservations even if they were suspected. During an operation, Guy stepped into a joint cafe and found that it was a trap. Gilda in disguise passed by him and whispered to tell him to go to the bathroom. She hid a set of priest's clothes there, let him go through the window, and escape on the bicycle she had prepared. She went out to flirt with the soldiers guarding the gate, distracting them, they didn't even notice a priest riding a bicycle away.
Gay was sent to work elsewhere, and Gilda continued to deal with different German officers. And one of them fell in love with her. The German army was about to be defeated, and Guy knew that as Gilda, he would definitely be submerged in a mob's siege, and he ran to Paris desperately. Regardless of the upcoming defeat, the German officer ran to Gilda's house and asked her to go with him, but was killed on the spot by a sniper who had been ambushing him on the spot. You see, people like Gilda are stupid for giving up their lives to do such things. She is even more stupid if she still can’t let go of Guy, but this damn German officer actually fell in love with Gildana. Shockingly stupid. Then angry self-defense team members rushed in and dragged Gilda away. No one would listen to her excuses carefully. After a long period of occupation and oppression, people need channels to vent, and collective brutality has never been pursued. Guy desperately ran to Paris, unable to wait for the victory that was coming tomorrow, rushed into downtown Paris with the cold guns and artillery fire of street fighting, and finally arrived at Gilda's home, only to find the mess on the ground.
At the beginning I was a little confused by the end, I don't know if he has time to save Gilda. But I understood right away, of course I didn't have time. If it is too late, does he need to find comfort in the mess? He found the note Gilda left him. He finally knew that she finally forgave him, accepted his ideas, and walked out of her own world, and plunged into his world, but these brought her It is a disaster of extinction. And how ridiculous all this is, God never gives people a chance to regret. So Guy can only sit on Gilda's chair and cry with mixed feelings.
Halfway through the film, I thought it was very similar to "Mourning". Later, I felt that the difference was still great, but I couldn't say the specific theme because the narrative spans a lot. Now I want to understand. As far as I am concerned, the main point of this movie is to talk about a man who believed in love and a woman who did not believe in love at first, but finally believed in love. It's just that they didn't have such good luck, and finally no chance. And such stories are actually being staged every day, not just in the past.
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