It is said that this film has another translation called "Beautiful Rosetta". After hearing this, I was puzzled, what kind of beauty is this? Why would it be given such a name? To summarise Rosetta in this way, I am afraid that it is against the original intent of the director and screenwriter: you can't put any label on her as beautiful, ugly, good or evil, you can't find any thrilling details, you can't even "understand" this. This movie—this is how some fans feel after watching it—because it doesn’t need you to understand it. The more you ponder the meaning of the film, the more deeply you fall into the wrong position. In such a humane movie, the insights into life are not about the painful and distorted philosophical questions of "who are you", "where do you come from" and "where to go", but that the director and actors give this moving part. A nuanced, sympathetic observation of life. This is the life of an ordinary person, so ordinary that you can only use her name to summarize her life and you can't think of any other way. The name is Rosetta.
At the beginning of the film, there are various repetitions in the screen: the sound of closing doors; changing shoes, fishing, changing shoes, fishing again; the most iconic, there is no feminine elegance at all. pace. Repetition and high speed are the most important part of Rosetta's life. Rosetta must use such methods and steps to face the unpredictable life, although the so-called "unpredictable" can only be "must" and "don't", "trick" and "not recruit". But for her, this was enough toss and thrilling enough. You will never understand why those employers decide to let you stay this second, and will drive you away mercilessly in the next moment, even if Rosetta only asks for an "internship" and "replacement" His sincerity and seemingly inexhaustible, strength comparable to men face everything that comes and goes. There is no logic or probability at all here, there is no why, there is no how, that's how it is.
Of course, even if it is based on intuition, it is obviously biased to use the "fast pace" to evaluate this film; it is like an untightened faucet, dripping with water constantly, but it is always not full of the emptiness. sewer. If you talk about slow motion, I'm afraid I have to mention the paragraph with a hair dryer. The hair dryer appears in the film as a high-level enjoyment, bringing a slow rhythm and a comfortable feeling. Although the sound is not so pleasing to the ears, Rosetta does not make this requirement, because she can only do it at this time Lying on the bed, I don't think about anything, don't do anything, don't torture my stomach and stomach, but calmly and harmoniously makes people very pleased, and also very sad at the same time.
Rosetta's mother is drunk and licentious, does not work, and lives on Rosetta's income. Mom and Rosetta didn't communicate too much every day, but as long as they communicated, they basically communicated physically. My mother always showed up at the most important moment, giving Rosetta a critical and fatal blow, especially her fatal blow, sending Rosetta directly into the mud puddle, almost killing her. Rosetta howled instinctively in pain, and yelled "Mother" as she howled, and we discovered that she was not a tough guy, not even a woman, but she was actually just a girl. This throw is not only a tragic plot, but also a special foreshadowing, because it metaphors ruthlessness and death.
All the male characters appearing in the film are very meaningful to me. Slightly ideologically speaking, in such a patriarchal society, women's weakness is undoubtedly revealed. From the beginning, male employers yelled at Rosetta, male police officers fisted Rosetta, male homeowners greeted Rosetta, male alcoholics and Rosetta squabbling on the ground, and The father who disappeared hidden in the plot. Whether it is what I feel or what happened to my mother or what Rosetta witnessed, hatred and fear eventually constitute Rosetta’s entire impression of men. This group of men’s shadows has been shrouded in Rosetta’s life. The sky is unacceptable and cannot be avoided. Therefore, when she was able to face up to maybe the first male friend in her life, she was excited again, and more fearful—the fear of men, the fear of being someone like a mother—because in her eyes Here, a man has never done a good thing. The hatred of men caused Rosetta to subconsciously not want to rescue her friend from the mud puddle, even though the reasons for saving him are actually quite complicated in my opinion. It's not that she can't afford murder, but she still can't forget her fear of falling into a mud puddle, and she can't accept the fact that there are "good men" in the world, and she can't afford her conscience. Faced with such a complicated choice, it was simply unfair to Rosetta, because she shouldn't have to bear so many complicated things.
On the other hand, the film actually emphasizes that Rosetta is stronger, bolder, and even more cruel than we thought. Rosetta can fight, she can use words and fists, she can break the bottle of the drunk who is filling her mother without any hesitation, and beat her employer desperately; she is not vulnerable at all. She can take firm steps, sit curled up and drink water in front of the dazzling array of shop windows, come up with an extremely ruthless idea, and get an extremely stable and extremely happy job. She can be stronger than anyone, whether it is observation or action. This kind of tenacious vitality is shocking, but she chose death in the end. Because in any case, life is still too heavy.
Rosetta finally chose to die. There was no prayer, no religious rituals, no attachments, no expressions, Rosetta boiled an egg for herself as the last supper, and then fiercely unscrewed the valve of the gas tank and lay on the bed to enjoy it. The "rich banquet" I had never thought of before, quietly looking forward to the arrival of that hazy feeling. However, it was not death that fell on her, but another huge tragedy. Although survival is already extremely difficult, it is even more difficult to die; if you don't let life or death, the Scorpio God chooses to torment slowly. You must accept everything that life brings you-for example, the gas in the gas tank is gone. So, the next thing is not to take the lives and souls of the mother and daughter back to the sky with peace of mind, but to lift the heavy gas tank and replace it with a brand new one filled with gas, so that you can die-
This is undoubtedly a huge irony, whether it is for the audience or Rosetta, it is a huge irony. God, destiny, these things are not helping at all, but provoking, torturing, and testing. . When we saw Rosetta almost crawling to lift the gas tank to the door of the homeowner's house, the homeowner effortlessly pulled out a jar of the same size from the house. Why? Why is he a man? Why is he strong? Why can he do everything so easily and get rich returns? Why do you fight every day for your own survival, but return all the things you get to these men? Why she didn't do anything, her former only friend is now riding a motorcycle around her like a ghost, looking at her with that resentful look? Rosetta finally collapsed, and in the face of the powerful injustice, she finally couldn't bear it. All the pain, injustice, resentment, and anger are all integrated into the cry. There is nothing more powerful than the cry, and it can express Rosetta's feelings at this time. She didn’t want to say anything, and she didn’t have to do anything. She had said enough and done enough. The only thing she could do was to scold fate with a cry, scold God, and scold herself at the gas tank. life.
However, at this moment, although no positive shots were given, we understood that this was her only friend—stretching out his hands—to lift Rosetta up. Although the film stopped abruptly in Rosetta's cessation of crying, but we can not doubt that Rosetta's life continued, and received great comfort and help.
Maybe this is the glory of human nature. When society continues to operate in a neat and ruthless manner like a machine, soft emotions are the lubricant in this huge machine and are the basis for people to survive. We have seen that although there is not a sunny day in this film, all the storyline takes place under tragic clouds or white lights, although all the truth and details are naked in front of us without any concealment, even though the actor has no concealment about the rhythm of the music He has no control, but he is simply an angel. There is no lack of light on his body, and he can play all exciting rhythms. This light should be enough to illuminate the dark clouds and cover the light with a warm yellow. This rhythm is enough to make all living things and The dance moves all lives by it.
Some people criticized "Rosetta" for its lack of plot. In my opinion, this is of course a Hollywood-style evaluation method, because such evaluation obviously ignores (or simply despises) those shaking shots and realistic sound effects. , And there are actors who are simply expressionless. Only when we put these ordinary and not artificial methods on Rosetta, "Rosetta" really shows its most moving segment. And at this moment, all the tactics disappeared.
The director and screenwriter of the film, the Darnet brothers, won the Palme d'Or twice. Sometimes I also think, if Rosetta was covered with Palme d'Or, what kind of smile would she show? The irony is that when I watched this film, I immediately accepted the Blu-ray disc of this film that was released not long ago. I'm afraid this is Bourgeois, the shameless Bourgeois.
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