"My King": A heartbroken marriage

Elizabeth 2022-10-02 18:57:20

(Zhening wrote on May 4, 2016)
It seems that for most people, entering into a marriage means to accompany your loved one through the most unbearable years of life, but this companionship cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It not only requires the cooperation of both parties, but also depends on whether the person you accompany is suitable and worthwhile, otherwise this companionship will become a kind of mutual torture, waste each other, and fall apart.
The French film "My King (Mon roi)" presents the personal trauma of inappropriate marriages and families in a delicate and transparent way. The excellent performance of the actress Emmanuel Beckett restores the truth of life, entangled and broken. A little bit of joy can't conceal the long-term pain, and the fracture is no match for the heartache. The silently suffering in the rehabilitation is full of silent weeping blood.
The heroine of the film, Tony, still loves so deeply and so selflessly after many years, she is ecstatically in love with the charming, charming and charming "sister master" George Ou. For Tang Ni, her marriage with George Ou, to be exaggerated, is like the marriage of a fan and an idol. Such an unbalanced love is just like what Weistein Hugh Oden wrote: "He is my North , My south, my east and west; my working day and my Sunday rest; it is my lunch, my night, my conversation, my singing; I thought I could love forever, I was wrong "The love is deep and unsatisfactory, and the love is too obsessive and deep, which is not the most suitable way to love.
The emotional marriage presented in the film also seems to have a realistic universality, no matter how many mistakes Georgeou made that hurt his marriage and family, even after fierce quarrels, even after stumbling and stumbling after ten years of marriage Every time, Tang Ni still chooses to forgive. There will be future troubles when she continues. This fierce and painful emotion is too exhausting and exhausting. Tang Ni once thought that the marriage would continue, and I didn’t want her to have a complete awakening. That day, even if this awakening was tragic, it was accompanied by real injuries.
The film is not so much about discussing the relationship between the sexes in marriage and love, but rather expressing women's awareness of "love". At the beginning, Tang Ni's skiing injury seemed to be caused by her deliberately. The female psychiatrist of the rehabilitation center had a conversation with Tang Ni who came to seek medical treatment about the psychological problems implied by the "knee". The female doctor’s point of view sounds a little bit mysterious: the knee is broken. On the surface, it looks like Tang Ni had an accident while skiing. In fact, it is not that simple. The knee is the only joint in the human body that allows the body to move towards the rear. Carrying the main pressure of the human body, this pressure is not only physical, but also mental. A broken knee indicates that Tang Ni's tolerance has reached its limit and her relationship with others has problems...Tony, who has suffered many years of trauma in her heart, listens to it. Tears and whirling.
Tang Ni’s deliberate fall actually represented her subconscious decision-she wanted to end this marriage, and the doctor’s words gave her an opportunity to review and sort out this relationship, so the two main lines of the film are clearly structured. Begin to interweave and narrate, and complement each other. One is Tang Ni’s rehabilitation journey in the rehabilitation center, including body and mind, and the other is a review of Tang Ni’s and George O’s emotional experience. The success or failure of the main line of physical and mental rehabilitation also depends on Whether Tang Ni can overcome her inertia in marriage and love when looking back on her emotional experience.
Maivin Le Besco, the ex-girlfriend of Luc Besson, is one of the newest forces in the French film industry in recent years. Once emotional movies are introduced, his delicate side is undoubtedly revealed. From the perspective of a woman, McWun expresses this long-lasting and laborious marriage in a meticulous and pure manner. She does not extend the emotional narrative to the social environment, nor does she rely on bizarre plots and suspense to attract people’s attention. It just makes effective use of the emotional space, tells empathy and emotional stories, and creates typical characters. With a female analysis, it shows the heroine’s struggle and hesitation, reason and emotion, deep depression and extrication, and calmness. Along with excitement, pain and joy, many clips in the film give the audience a feeling that the director has expressed his personal emotional experience together.
Lermontov once wrote this sentence: "Maybe it is not you that I love, but the enthusiasm for you. It is like a temple, even if it is barren, it is still an altar. A statue, even if it collapses, is still a god ." and the title "My King" seem to have the same effect. Xu is to show Tony’s fascination with Giorgio that is hard to quit. The film uses Tony’s sight to draw the audience’s attention to Giorgio’s speech and behavior, but when the two have a conversation or quarrel, the camera is on again. Looking at Tang Ni's facial expressions, the audience seemed to directly understand Tang Ni's inner changes.
The two leading actors of the film, Emmanuel Beckett and Vincent Caso, gave an appropriate performance. They created two flesh-and-blood screen images with their verbal charm and physical performance, which added points to the film's strength. It is worth mentioning that in this film with a female perspective, Caso’s performance has formed a strong support for the character of the male protagonist, Giorgio, and made the image of the protagonist, who might have been relatively flat, full and three-dimensional.
The marriage, which was time-consuming and time-consuming, seemed to come to an end relatively smoothly. At the end of the film, when Tony looked at Giorgio, Giorgio had no longer the plausible obsession with her before, and almost didn’t even look at her. Obviously for him, This page has been completely turned over. Tang Ni looked at her ex-husband’s face with interest, and then there was a hint of thoughtfulness on her face. There was no infatuation in her eyes, she just looked at A familiar old friend.
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My King quotes

  • Georgio Milevski: You leave people for the same reason that attracted you in the first place.

  • Georgio Milevski: Fact is, I want to see you because I love you. And you love me, so you avoid me.