If you can return to any era, the deadline is one night.
Which era will you choose?
I believe that many people have dreams about "traveling". Unfortunately, before the invention of the time machine, crossing can only exist in novels and fantasy.
But there are a group of people who see business opportunities in "traversal", they customize the journey through privately for customers.
With powerful actors, props and setting venues, whether it is World War II or the Middle Ages, they can allow you to experience an immersive journey.
Does it sound a little moving?
The movie to be introduced today is about a private customized journey through——
Director Nicholas Bedos, after reaping a high reputation for his self-written and directed and acted "Adelmans", he once again launched his self-written and directed production of "Good Dreams One Day Tour".
The heroine is still played by Doria Tillier.
Realizing the theme of dreams is not restricted by culture and region. The film is also called the French version of "Party A and Party B" .
It is also a story that ordinary people like to hear and see, not only is it full of jokes, but also has a very ironic effect.
At the beginning of the movie, there was a reversal and then a reversal, which caught people off guard.
At a dinner party that was clearly a nobleman in the Middle Ages, people humorously complimented the king.
Riding on the wine, they also humiliated black domestic servants for fun.
Suddenly broke into a group of masked gangsters armed with guns.
If you didn't read the synopsis in advance, it might be a bit embarrassing to see this.
Isn't this ancient? How can there be guns?
Then the gangsters started shooting, and someone exclaimed: I am an actor!
Oh, it turns out that this medieval dinner is an act.
At this time, someone pointed to the "King" actor and said: He is a customer, he has money!
Oh, it turns out that this is a paid experience cosplay?
The black brother who had been humiliated before suddenly stepped forward and joined the ranks of gangsters.
After a single shot, the building was lightly lit.
The camera turned, and the team behind the scenes appeared.
It turns out that this is a short film made by a company that personally customizes the travel experience for customers.
I don’t know when nostalgia has become a good business.
Many people are willing to pay an expensive price to go back to the past, even if only for one day.
And these nostalgics are mostly a group of people who have suffered a mid-life crisis.
The loss of reality makes them reminisce about their beautiful youth.
In this movie, the protagonist Victor encounters a crisis of old age that is more desperate than the crisis of middle age——
Work has been eliminated due to changes in the times, marriage has fallen into crisis, and many years of unemployment have done nothing.
Decades ago, Victor was an illustrator who arranged pictures for magazines.
But with the advent of the Internet age, the magazine became a website, and his illustrations are no longer needed.
From then on, Victor fell into a depression and fell into a stagnant life.
Widow is a person who resists the changes of the times from the heart. He doesn't even use a smartphone.
And Victor's wife Marianna is a person who tries hard to keep up with the times.
She will actively try the latest electronic products.
The difference between the two people's life philosophy is getting bigger and bigger, and they are drifting away.
Finally one day, the couple broke out in a long-repressed quarrel.
Victor was kicked out of the house by his wife.
Widow, desperate, remembered that his son had sent himself a space-time travel invitation letter before.
Because the boss of this dream company is his son's youngest son, he has the opportunity to experience it for free.
Widow took the invitation letter from his son and came to the dream company.
He hopes to go back to May 16, 1974 , to relive the time he and his wife Marianna first met.
He provided the cartoons he recorded the scenes to Yuanmeng Company as the materials for the restoration of the scenes.
When the staff asked him why he liked the 70s,
Widow said: Back then it was much simpler... People communicated with each other and didn't play mobile phones. Besides, I was still very young.
The Dream Company has its own shooting base, where they restored a street that Widow used to go to when he was young.
Bars, hotels, everything is what Widow remembered.
In the hotel in memory, Widow seemed to have regained the time of the past.
He shaved off his sloppy beard in the mirror, trying to regain his youth.
On the other side of the mirror, the team of Yuanmeng Company is also observing him with great interest.
All this is strikingly similar to "The World of Truman".
May 16, 1974 was a special day for Widow.
Because this day was the day when he met Marianna, who had tortured each other for decades.
But at that time, there was only sweet love between them.
The dream company hired actress Margot to play the young Marianna.
Behind the counter of the bar is the staff of Yuanmeng Company.
Seeing Victor coming in, the actors immediately lit their cigarettes, setting off the psychedelic and decadent atmosphere of the 1970s.
Victor walked into the bar in memory.
Although he was surrounded by extras, and he could see the spotlights on the setting booth when he looked up, reminding him that all this was fake, but he still felt a touch of kindness.
Victor once drew this day into a detailed cartoon.
The next plot is almost a repeat of his comics.
The young and reckless Mariana was resurrected from her memory and appeared in front of him again.
After all, it is a scene restoration, and there is still a discrepancy with the real memory.
Victor corrects the actor's lines from time to time. At this time, he has no real immersive experience.
But the rebellious personality of the actress in front of her is somewhat similar to that of Mariana when she was young.
This makes Vidor gradually trance between the false and the real.
In Widow’s self-report, the audience gradually understood why he loved the woman who drove him out of the house.
The young Mariana is wild and beautiful, with many suitors, but she chose the not-outstanding illustrator Victor.
And for many years after that, he supported his painting career, helped him to get rid of alcoholism, and made his life more colorful.
Despite the poor immersion experience, the encounter with the young actress Margot made Victor feel the long-lost youth.
Widow who returned to the hotel was like a young man who had just begun to love him.
Inspired, he picked up his paintbrush again and drew all of this into comics.
However, Widow only had one day's experience of realizing his dreams.
The next day, the hotel front desk informed him that the experience was over.
If you want to continue, you will have to renew the fee. Seeing this, I can’t help feeling the routine!
The price for continuing to realize the dream experience is quite high, costing several thousand Euros for 2 days.
This is not a small number for Victor, who has been unemployed for many years.
But in order to see the young Marianna again, he agreed to renew the fee.
He had to bite the bullet and ask his son for money to pay the cost.
After the renewal fee, Victor can continue to be immersed in the world carefully arranged for him.
The young and beautiful Mariana and the 70s filled with youthful memories, Wei Duo picked up the brush and recorded everything with comics, even though they were so unreal.
As the actress Margot and Widow became more and more familiar, she told Widow that she was a Polish citizen and that she had learned piano since childhood.
Her dream is to become a pianist, and being an actor is only forced to make a living.
But Widow found that he gradually fell in love with Margot.
In this time journey created for him, they interacted like real lovers.
Widow used a paintbrush to record the bit by bit of the two.
In order to continue to experience this passionate and inspired life, Victor had to continuously invest money.
In the end, he even sold the property to pay the high cost.
However, when he invested a huge sum of money again, he found that the actress who played Mariana had changed.
The new Mariana in front of her was not the Margot who had dreamed her before.
After questioning, it was told that Margot was no longer in charge of this project.
Victor sold the real estate to raise money, so that he could stay with her for a long time in this virtual and real scene.
After the substitution, everything becomes meaningless.
At this time, Vidor was no longer obsessed with Mariana, but Margot.
Widow did everything possible to find out Margot's home address.
But Margot, who he went to find, was totally different from before, and she claimed to have been married and had children.
As for the personality of the Polish pianist, it is only part of the acting.
In fact, all of this is a play in the play, and the screenwriter is directing the actors through headphones in a car not far away.
His purpose is to make Victor give up on the actress.
Then, the director used the headset to direct Margot and said a word of heart to Victor.
I hope he will return to real life and accept his wife Marianna:
"We can't control everything. We have to accept disappointment and criticism, and accept that we won't be dazzling as expected.
Otherwise, we can only live when we first met, we finished the draft, but lost the real life. "
However, this bowl of chicken soup failed to comfort Widow, and everything couldn't go back.
Before leaving, Widow confessed to Margot: I am in love with you.
He certainly knew that this was just wishful thinking.
Widow, whose dream was shattered, ends the journey of time and returns to real life.
He told his wife everything that happened, including him and Margot.
Marianna flipped through his cartoons and became jealous of her husband's romantic journey through time.
She had a bold idea.
She Jovedo returned to the restored bar and replayed the scene of the day of the encounter again.
And this time Marguerite is Margaret herself.
The two returned to this once-familiar scene again, but the atmosphere was a bit far-fetched.
Mariana hopes to restore the old, but Victor knows that this will not change her boredom with him.
She couldn't heal the harm she had done to him before.
Before leaving, Mariana deliberately left her scarf as she did many years ago.
According to the original plot, Victor should pick up the scarf to catch up.
However, Victor did not get up.
In a daze, he seemed to see Margot sitting not far away smiling at him.
It was no longer Mariana who made him feel love, but the actress.
At the end of the movie, there is no Hollywood-style warmth and reunion, and Victor and Mariana did not restore the old good.
This movie is covered with romantic filters, but it actually tells the cruelty of time.
Widow, who originally expected Yuanmeng to relive, finally discovered the fragility of love.
It's not only Mariana who is bored with him, but also he is not.
Widow laughed mockingly, and if his fascination with Margot had come true, he and his wife would repeat the same mistakes many years later.
Too many movies are praising the romantic beauty of love, but "Good Dreams One Day Tour" does the opposite.
A good movie is not necessarily like a delicious candy that allows people to enjoy the short-term sweetness, aftertaste, and thought-provoking. It is also the charm of movies.
Its fancy packaging makes people almost forget that this is a French movie.
After all, this is a country that lists philosophy as a compulsory course in high school.
French movies often conceal a deepness that is different from that of Hollywood, and this movie uses absurd and romantic stories to expose the cruelty of love and the complexity of human nature.
The disillusionment hidden behind the romantic filter in "Good Dreams One Day Tour" is actually asking everyone the question——
What is love?
Why did it arise and why did it die?
*Author of this article: RAMA
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