"I'm the daughter of a pirate,
I'm called a pirate woman.
I love the wind, I love the waves, riding the wind and breaking the
waves like a rush of people.
Hurry up! Hurry up! It 's
never too early for a beautiful boat.
Sail to San Francisco,
via Falbarazo ,
sailing to the Aleutian Islands,
crossing the Indian Ocean. How can I know that the earth is round
unless I go to the end of the world ." This is a pirate song that Gasper originally wanted to write to his girlfriend Lena, but the source of inspiration was to accompany another girl Margot was inspired to hear the old sailor sing local songs when he visited him. While the pirate song was composed and composed, it was inadvertently dedicated to Margot's friend Su Lin. When Reina finally appeared and asked him about the song, Gasper hesitated to answer that it wasn't finished. The creative process of this pirate song is just like the constant ambiguous affairs that Gaspar himself is involved in between three girls. The multi-angle entanglement between these three girls and one boy is the theme that love expert Rohmer is best at. "Summer's Tale" opens with a brisk whistle to the melody of a pirate song, and Gaspar, the hero played by the then rather emaciated Melvil Poupaud, takes a dinghy to the coast of Brittany for a summer vacation. With an air of restraint and hesitation, he ate alone in restaurants, strolled along the coast, and looked out on the beach, as if he had deliberately isolated himself from the crowd, but seemed to be waiting.
He met Margo, the waitress in the restaurant, and the sincere and frank Margo told all about her feelings and academic experience, which gradually made the restrained Gaspar slowly open her mind and talk about Brenita's life. One of the purposes is to wait for his girlfriend Lena, who "seems like nothing". The originally agreed time for the meeting has come, but Lena has not shown up, which makes him distressed. Margot, who clearly had a crush on Gasper, persuaded him to pursue another girl, Su Lian, whom he met at the dance. The beautiful Su Lian is active and resolute, like the opposite of the indecisive hero, but she also happens to be the best performer in "Pirate Song". This made Gaspar, who couldn't wait for Reina, think that he could try a dewy relationship for a short time. They went out to sea with Uncle Su Lian's family, playing the piano and singing "Pirate Song" on the bow of the boat riding the wind and waves. Although Su Lian did not refuse to be intimate with Gaspar, she solemnly declared that she would not go to bed with him the first time they met. At this time, Reina finally appeared. This blond woman with an uncertain personality kept pushing Gaspar away from her intimacy, but always pulled him back when he was disappointed.
Gaspar, who was originally lonely and isolated from the crowd, suddenly had three more lovers, Margo, who was as understanding as the summer breeze, Su Lian, who was as passionate and fiery as the summer heat, and the summer weather. The ever-changing Reina. And his distress also comes from his indecision and passive escape. He is sincere and sincere when facing every girl, so when his feelings are revealed, he unknowingly makes a promise to all three girls to travel to Wesong Island together. In the end, a phone call rescued him from his anxious predicament. Gasper used the music as an excuse to escape, ending his summer in Brittany.
The film is filled with the main characters' chatter about themselves, their feelings, their lives, and their ideals, and the interplay of dialogue drives the plot. Rational self-dissection allows all characters to distance themselves in the process of falling in love and avoid being immersed in passion. They soberly expound their self-principles and rationally interpret the relationship between themselves and others. Rohmer also tries to maintain a neutral and objective attitude when dealing with the dialogue between the characters, keeping the camera at a certain distance from the protagonist. This distance deliberately eliminates the subjectivity of the shots, and allows the protagonist to openly and honestly confess his hobbies and personal principles. , leaving room for the audience to introspect and judge, which is what makes Rohmer's characters fascinating. Rohmer's multi-dimensional observation of characters is both sharp, thorough, gentle and generous, and it is also reflected in the role of Margot.
Gaspar thinks that he is his truest self only when he is with Margot; when he is around Su Lian, he is like a traveler in historical time and space, in a character who is not him; and when he is with Lena, he plays the role of A character made just for her, coming and going when she is called. Margot sees all of this more clearly. She sees Gaspar's indecision, clumsiness, greed, and sanctity. As a doctor of ethnology, she knows the shortcomings of human nature, but she sees him deeply with a kind of tolerance and naivety. To be in a dilemma between several relationships without blaming. She sees the relationship as something that transcends friendship, love, and so on, so before Gasper leaves, she declines the invitation to go to Wesson Island with her, calmly retreating before the relationship goes deeper. .
Most of Rohmer's films are related to summer vacations, from "The Collector" to "Claire's Knee", "Pauline on the Beach" to "Green Light", from "Romania" to "Girlfriend's Boyfriend" ”, the summer vacation from July to August creates a peculiar time and space away from the hustle and bustle of the city for the young French men and women in the film. In addition to sea water, swimming, love and enjoyment, the summer vacation tradition can best represent the spirit of the French middle class. Temperament is immersed in personal reflection in idle leisure time.
"Summer's Tale" has the most common elements in Rohmer's films, told by a kind of the most pure and original linear narrative, in the process of processing a series of film elements, Rohmer is always doing subtraction. There is no background music to enhance the atmosphere, try to avoid close-ups of human faces with subjective colors, and do not deliberately clear the scene and set the scene, which makes the long dialogue the main driving force of the film plot. The pressure accumulated in the character's dilemma (Gasper's difficulty in choosing between the three girls) is relieved in the dialogue, so the audience loses the accustomed tension and anxiety, and does not follow the fate of the characters. With the ups and downs of substitution, it is easier to fall into the thinking of the topic in the film and involuntarily join the debate-style conversation.
Although the movie is about the modern love of young people, all the relationships between men and women that start with love and end with etiquette are affectionate but not promiscuous. The youthful hormones seem to succumb to thinking and let the brain take the upper hand of the body. With a soothing and leisurely rhythm, the film depicts such a small seaside town scene with an almost line drawing technique: the countryside where electronic devices have not yet been popularized, the girls' bodies on the beach that are not too slender, and the heroines are beautiful but not too much. The pretentious face, the modernity that seems to stop outside of Rohmer's film, casts a nostalgic filter on the summer in the image.
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