I always wake up at 4 o'clock before the jet lag is reversed, and I just watched a movie early in the morning when I was recommended this one. The story itself is very simple. A musician lost his beloved violin by his wife. Since then, he has no desire to live. He went on a hunger strike behind closed doors and begged for death, and finally got what he wanted on the eighth day. I haven't watched a French movie for a long time, and I couldn't slow down a little in the first few minutes, but I was gradually brought into that small town by the camera from the male protagonist's perspective. There are only very simple characters and character relationships in the film, but the whole plot is connected by these characters. In the eight days from the male protagonist's single-minded death to getting what he wants, the entire life of almost all the characters is connected. This is a comedy, with a hint of gloom in the simple and elegant tone from time to time, on the bus where the male protagonist is looking for the last hope (or the last gauze of his own pain), The bear son sings that song endlessly; the male protagonist wants to leave the fart that the bear son put on when he was dying (this son can't do it); the god of death is playful... All the characters in the story have very detailed emotions, Less intense and less black and white.
I really like the portrayal of all the female characters and the performance of the actors. The daughter's agility and liveliness when she was a child, her round eyes like clear glass beads, her happiness on the swing, her awe when she was strict with her mother, her coquetry to her father, her loss of being exposed to her little fantasies, her cunning when she bullied her younger brother... That pair of glass beads peeked through, and then turned it all into the smoke that lingered in the half-shadow of adulthood. Although my mother didn't make many appearances, her character was fully revealed. The decisive sound of the knife when cutting the watermelon and the smile before her death, as well as the fact that the male protagonist lost his father at the age of 12 in the mouth of others, seems to have drawn her life in three points. Besides, Ylang Ylang, that flower-like beauty. I actually thought she was beautiful when she first appeared, but when I went back in time and saw her for the first time, I was amazed at the beauty. I thought it was wishful thinking in the movie theater, but when the shy hands turned to hold it, the male protagonist's eyes lit up at that moment. Then her life went forward like a silhouette of music, and you saw that the beauty of the original appearance was the rust of this flower. Finally, there is the wife. The pair of glasses on top is her mask. Putting it on and taking it off seems like two worlds, and this pair of glasses is made with a wasted life, bitter love, and incomprehensible hard work. She should be the kind of clumsy beauty, it should be the flower that opened at the corner intersection. When that person came, the petals were blooming with shaking, and then she bowed her head sadly while watching the back of the person who had no time to take care of the galloping back. But tomorrow, but next time, she will still shake the petals in full bloom, until these sadness and loss accompany her through the entire flowering period. On the seventh day, the male protagonist raised his hand to his wife, maybe it was no longer warm, maybe because of the high fever, his palm covered the wife's cheek, and the wife smiled. Under this dress, she smiled for the first time, Tears lined up. The plate of plum chicken placed in front of the bed, I wonder if it has become bitter. When the scene of smashing the piano appeared for the last time, Mother Jia's face popped into her mind, she was saying, where is the jade (qin), that is his lifeblood. Probably the male protagonist is such a happy person. People who love him are very hard, but they have not given up loving him.
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