"The Elegance of Hedgehogs": The Temperature of the City

Hipolito 2022-09-26 03:56:23

- What is the most beautiful scenery for the city?
-The most beautiful scenery is people.

When leaving a city, many people will ask me, what do you miss most about that city? If you are familiar with the city, you will easily name the city's scenery, bars, and neighborhoods. However, in some cities, it's not these things that really make your heart flutter, but the specific people you meet at specific times. If there are no people, the building is just cement bricks and tiles, and there is no temperature, and people are the temperature of a city.

Ever read the phrase, if you are lucky enough to have been to Paris when you were young, Paris will always follow you because she is a fluid feast. Paris is always young and there will always be new lovers falling in love with Paris. Unfortunately, I haven't been to Paris, but, I think, I can touch Paris.

I have seen more than once, from novels to movies, every time I have a new feeling. I always firmly believe that a good novel or movie will let you walk into it and become one of them, you can see it with your own eyes Witnessing their lives and even taking part in them. is like that. If you ask me, this is a story about what, I think the most accurate expression is that she is a story about a city, and this city is Paris. Romantically, I'm not in Paris, and Paris has always been here. I didn't know Paloma, but she was like someone I knew, and she was as lonely as Paloma. I don't know Ha Ni, but I know that there are many people like Ha Ni in this world. They are ugly in appearance, but have extremely elegant souls.

After watching the entire movie, the first impression is loneliness. Indeed, everyone in the movie is lonely, perhaps because people are born alone. Such propositions always carry a strong sense of fate. What does it feel like to be alone? Probably just let it go without remembering anything. In other words, loneliness is a hedgehog. It wraps its softest part and treats the world with tough thorns. It is also ugly, even a little ugly, but it exists quietly like this. When you walk into it and gain its trust, it will put away its thorns and bring you softness and warmth. Humans are like this. Each of us is a puppet wearing a mask. On the one hand, we long for the approach of others, and on the other hand, we are afraid of being hurt by others, so we wrap ourselves under the mask and cry secretly in the dead of night.

Mr. Ozu in the movie should be a bridge. He builds a bridge between people to understand each other. He brings pure Japanese culture to Paris, and allows two different cultures to merge with each other. People can snuggle with each other to keep warm. He walked into Honey's heart, and saw her grace, recognized her, and encouraged her. She walked into Baroma's heart, understood her little thoughts, affirmed her little wisdom, and made her a unique existence.

After watching the movie, I imagined myself living in a small apartment in Paris, sharing music we liked with Honey or Mr. Ozu, and reading novels with the essence of gossip, so close. I imagine myself dancing with baloma on the streets of Paris, from one end of the street to the other, I know that Paris is an elegant city, she can tolerate all my presumptuousness, we can breathe and use our eyes Swear to have no worries, no fears.

It is the interaction between these people that makes the city warm and turns the city made of reinforced concrete into a charming girl. Living in the city is a very private thing. The things you feel and the people you meet are actually connected, because this is the unique temperament and endowment of the city, because the city is a living organism. It is our friend in another form, coexisting and intertwined.

This movie is adapted from the novel of the same name. The original book is very exciting, and the movie has also won many awards. It is worth mentioning that the heroine of the film is played by Honey. She is an authentic French talented woman. She can easily perform any role, from elegant to paranoid, from crazy to wretched. This time, the 54-year-old widow who plays It's also a deeply entertaining performance. Although has a little sadness, the sadness is just right, so that you won't cry or panic, it will tell you that the city is actually like this.

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The Hedgehog quotes

  • Paloma Josse: Planning to die doesn't mean I let myself go like a rotten vegetable. What matters isn't the fact of dying or when you die. It's what you're doing at that precise moment.

  • Renée Michel: Happy families are all alike.

    Kakuro Ozu: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

    [Quoting from Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina']