The audience's discussion and controversy about this film mostly revolved around the feelings between the male and female protagonists: Is there love between Anna and Adrian? Is this feeling against ethics? Compared with the audience’s thinking outside the play, the film did not show Anna’s psychological struggle to "fall in love with killing her husband and enemy" from the beginning to the end. She was attracted by this man whose appearance, temperament, and hobbies were similar to her fiancé, and survived. After learning the truth about his identity, he came to Paris to confirm his whereabouts. When he saw his name on the roster of the dead, he hid his face and wept bitterly. When he met again, he was full of joy.
The feelings that are unconsciously trapped in it are the purest and most charming. This unsuccessful feeling finally turned into a tear in the corner of the eye, with dissatisfaction, disappointment, sigh and relief, disappearing at the end of the autumn. This article does not discuss the definition of feelings between male and female lords. I don't think it is important. No kind of love in the world is wrong, and not all feelings can be specifically named.
In addition to the topic of war and love, this is also a movie showing the "power of the virtual world".
Anna and Franz met in a bookstore when they were young. Anna liked the German poet Luct, Franz liked the French poet Verlaine, and the two became connected by poetry. Franz once read to Anna a poem about autumn by Verlaine, and read it to Adrian in Anna's mouth in the film: autumn sound of mourning/like a violin/crying/long and unbearable gloom/stinging/my heart and spleen /Dull and dull/Dark and misty/The bell is swaying/The past is like smoke/Reappear in front of my eyes/I cry like rain. This poem is almost a reflection of the plot of the film, and several images have concrete counterparts in the film. After learning the truth, Anna, who was once in pain and perplexed, attempted suicide. She ordered Verlaine's collection of poems while recuperating. Seeing the poems on the title page thoughtfully, the fog in her heart gradually dissipated.
The connection between Adrian and Franz, in addition to the similar appearance and figure, the same shy and sensitive personality, and the same hobby of playing the violin. When Adrian picked up Franz's violin to play, the solidified air in the room flowed, and the black and white pictures were stained with the sound of the piano, which changed the Franz family's attitude towards him. Anna made this into her fictional world. In a letter to Franz’s parents, she wrote: “Adrian became the principal violinist of the Paris Orchestra. Every night I go to the theater to listen to him, and occasionally Invite me to participate in a private concert. We will play together and have a wonderful time..." These vivid and beautiful imaginations make people unable to recognize the disillusionment.
The only remaining connection between Anna and Franz in reality is a painting by Manet in the Louvre. Franz, who died in a foreign land, brought back nothing. This fictitious memory of Adrian gave Anna an important spiritual sustenance. On the day when she arrived in Paris, Anna experienced the warmth and coldness of France after the war. She stayed in the hotel where Franz had studied and lived in the Louvre Museum to find this "Franz favorite painting", as if it was a certainty. fact. At the end of the film, this painting seems to have become the driving force for Anna to live.
Poetry, music, painting, these fictitious artistic creations, separated the boundaries of life and death, crossed the country and family feuds, and connected the three young people in troubled times. It is lies, fantasy and memories to resolve the rift between Anna and Adrian and heal the pain of the old couple who lost their beloved son.
There are nine scenes of colorful shots in the film:
1. In the first shot of the film, the close-up flowers and trees are colored, while the distant town buildings are shrouded in black and white. A subtitle explaining the background of the event appeared in the lower right corner of the screen: 1919 QUEDLINBRG (Quedlinburg, Germany). Obviously, this film is not made in black and white for nostalgia purpose. Only the place where the story takes place in the whole world is in black and white. (Reality)
2. A memory fabricated by Adrian: the last time he and Franz got together was to the Louvre to watch the paintings, and stopped for a long time in front of Manet's paintings. (lie)
3. Anna and Adrian walked out of the cave and walked to Franz's favorite place during his lifetime. The picture transitioned from black and white to color. Then the two chatted about Franz's past. (recall)
4. Memories fabricated by Adrian: He directed Franz to play the violin. (lie)
5. Adrian picked up Franz's violin to play. The sound of the piano was like a complaint, seemingly overlapping with Franz's face. (fantasy)
6. Adrian's true memories of encountering Franz on the battlefield. (recall)
7. Anna's fantasy: Franz played the violin for his family in the living room, turning his head, half of his face was blood stained. (fantasy)
8. Anna's fantasy: When reading Adrian's reply, a scene of Adrian playing in the orchestra emerged in his head. (fantasy)
9. The last shot of the film: Anna stared at Manet's painting and said, "It gave me the courage to live." (Reality)
Except for the first and the last two pictures, the other seven color shots are all fictitious fantasy in the heart of the protagonist. These illusory things are full of all the emotions of the whole film, which promotes the relationship between Anna and Adrian --- Anna to Ah Derian's feelings are based on lies and fantasies. On the night that I confessed the truth to Anna, Adrian also said that because of this lie, I was lucky enough to know Franz. Irony? It turned out to be fictitious lies, fantasies and memories that brought people tenderness.
The first and last realistic color shots have two meanings. One is that she and Adrian finally came to the same conclusion: one can't live just for oneself, so she decided to stay in Franz's favorite Paris, to continue Franz's memory to live, and the knot was untied; the other was Two shots, one and one tail, echo, color gradient black and white-black and white gradient color, symbolizing the end of the story and returning to the real world.
Poetry, music, painting, lies, fantasy, memories. I call these elements that change the protagonist’s life trajectory in these films as "virtual world forces". They make people feel soft and strong.
The painting that gave Anna hope to live is called "Suicide", which seems to be a big joke. The author Manet is named after the Latin "Manet et manebit", which means: he is alive and will live.
It is meaningless to indulge in the past, daydreaming is a waste of time, self-deception is tragic and ridiculous... For some people, these words are true, but there are also a group of people who have nothing but memories, only these illusory things. Things can comfort them a little bit.
Past poems, music, and paintings, today's movies, dramas, and games cannot bring about technological changes that promote the progress of human society, nor can they bring material security for survival, but they are enough to support people in difficult situations to survive.
For me, "Franz" is a work that "gives people the power to live".
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