-French film "The Wandering Girl"
"Such bad weather is no longer suitable for camping." Shepherd
"I don't choose the weather." Mona
"Then you choose the road." Shepherd
"I think so." Mona
The film’s director Varda said before the film’s screening, “This is a film without suspense, because you see the outcome of things from the beginning.” This is a story told from death, the end is the beginning, so In a sense, I understand it as-it crosses death.
The body of the homeless woman (Mona) was found by the farmer in a gloomy early morning. Her ragged face was dark and stiff, and her limbs were stiff. She was lying on her back in the ditch. The first shot was quite shocking. Face of an angel. The police finally judged it as natural death. The cold and hunger took her life.
"Freedom, if you choose freedom, you choose loneliness. If you don't stop, you will go to destruction." The shepherd said to Mona. The film unfolds as different people who have been in contact with Mona remember her, the first memory comes from the sea. The woman from the sea reminds me of the famous "Birth of Venus" and "Daughter of the Sea". Mona is a wandering girl with a backpack. All her belongings-tent, books and pictures are all in her backpack. At first I thought she was a very fashionable backpack self-service traveler. As the film progressed, I found that backpacking and walking are just appearances. The real theme is about wandering, about freedom, and an almost stubborn uncompromising. Like another translation of the film "Lawlessness".
Almost everyone who met Mona was deeply impressed by this lone wandering woman. The student of the phoenix expert and his wife were terrified, disgusted and horrified by her filth and behavior. What they needed was her aunt's big house and her. The legacy of China requires a clean, orderly and decent life. But more people are momentary admiration and envy, and what is stimulated is the deep desire of the soul. Everyone has the dream of wandering, the longing for the unknown distant place of freedom. The old lady regretted that she didn't let everything down and stayed in the withered marriage for life. The boy who warmed her home imagined that she could wander the world in such a chic, but mother's words brought him back to reality. "I don't think she can often have bread. "Those kind-hearted people who took in Mona for a short period of time, shepherds who are masters of philosophy but choose to shepherd for a living hope that Mona will choose his way and walk between reality and ideals like him; together with the simple and kind pruning worker Asu The short period of time is a rare and warm time in the film, but in the face of reality (companion’s opposition to leaving Mona), he chose to obey and give up the struggle; after passing by with the god of death, the phoenix expert said with horror that death flashed back in an instant In the picture, there were several figures of Mona. She trembled and regretted not taking care of this girl better, hoping to find her. In my opinion, her care and protection of Mona is like a kind person's protection of his previous dreams.
With the help of the shepherd, the film predicts the ending of Mona. The dialogue between the shepherd and Mona is also the most exciting and intriguing. It is reminiscent of God always using the shepherd as the prophet in the Bible. Rules, the world has the rules of the world, and God has the rules of God. The price of breaking the rules is not something everyone can afford, so few normal people dare to just follow their own heart from the beginning to the end. Mona is not a downcast vagrant in the ordinary sense. She speaks English, is educated, and has been a secretary. Her vagrant life depends entirely on her personal will. The price of this pursuit of free will is hunger, cold, exhaustion and filth, rape and surprise, and finally, death. But nothing can stop her, ragged clothes, innocent face, she is like an angel walking in the world, like a flower blooming in the dark night, emitting a halo of freedom and ideals. So that when death came with cold and hunger, everything seemed so calm and calm, losing the face of a peaceful angel under the dust of worldly life, and fell asleep like a child.
Black screen, a short collision between a lone idealist and the real world is completed in front of the screen. Wandering is actually the seed of a deep-rooted dream in everyone's heart. If we want to give this dream a human word, it is-freedom. I think of a sentence in Shi Xiaojie's book, "Who can escape the fate? Then, where else is unreachable? Where else is unreachable?".
"Sans toit ni loi" (Agnès Varda, 1985/105 minutes/color. A documentary style depicts the wandering experience of a young woman who refuses any social rules. Varda, the mother of the new wave, enters creative heyday of important works, won the 1985 Venice film Festival Golden Lion award for best film)
author / Snow Huna
2005/3/5 · Chongwen in Beijing
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