A Passionate and Short Summer Affair——An Analysis of "Summer Story"

Gilda 2022-10-11 00:37:14

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Read the story of Rohmer Four Seasons Summer in 5 minutes

Spring has the face of first love, and summer always has to wait patiently, just like waiting for summer in spring, waiting for someone in summer. Today I want to share with you the story of a summer.

In the past two days, I watched Rohmer's Four Seasons on Earth in one breath. Rohmer's film was calm, but it contained great drama and was full of literary and philosophical flavors.

"Summer's Tale" is like a three-week travel video diary about Casper. During the three weeks of the record, Rohmer explained information every day, even if the day ended with just one conversation, but this One day is enough to make us look forward to the next. If you like "Love Before Dawn", I believe you will also like this movie.

On July 17th, the boy Jasper came to the seaside town alone. He walked boredly in the streets of the town, sat alone in a cafe, stared absently at the seaside, and played guitar in his room. It seems that he is deliberately isolating himself from the crowd, but he seems to be waiting. The 8-minute live performance without dialogue makes us curious about Casper.

Until the third day, the hotel waiter Margo and Casper met by chance on the beach. Under Margo's kind invitation, the two decided to travel together. In this way, Margot appears in Casper's journey in an active image. Along the way, the two were very close, as if there were endless things to talk about. Although Margot already has a boyfriend, she secretly likes Casper, but Casper just regards her as a confidant who can talk about everything. His expectations for love are still put on hold on the "girlfriend" who has never appeared. body.

That's why he came to this town. Casper and his girlfriend Lena came to this town for vacation, but they still didn't see his girlfriend on the agreed date, and didn't receive any reply. In this relationship, Casper felt that his girlfriend didn't love him that much. , but he was fascinated by her. After Margot saw the photos of Kasper's girlfriend, she bluntly said that the two of them were not suitable, but offered to introduce her friend Su Lian to him.

But instead of taking the initiative to meet girls, Casper is more willing to believe in "accidental".

"I hope I can take the initiative to provoke occasionally. When there is a little hope, I will take the initiative to chase people, even if the chance is slim."

But after a few days of walking and talking with Margot, Margot was relieved and understood everything, which made Kasper deeply fascinated, and Margot was also attracted by Kasper's talent, although between you and me There was a spark, but just as he was about to kiss Margo, Margo smiled and pushed him away.

With her keen emotional judgment and understanding, Margot keeps her due distance in an accurate and safe friendly position.

No matter how absurd Kasper's character behavior may be, we don't scoff at him in the slightest, because it might just be us inadvertently. In reality, there are not a few people like Casper, who are all looking forward to an uncertain contingency.

On July 29th, what Kasper believed "accidentally" happened. On that day, he was looking for his long-awaited girlfriend Lena by the beach, but unexpectedly met Su Lian, a girl who had a relationship with a nightclub.

Casper took the initiative half-heartedly, without any intention of refusing, and without any concealment, he told Su Lian the story of himself and Lena. Soon, Kasper fell in love with Su Lian. In less than two weeks, the man had an affair with two women at the same time.

Emotionally uncertain, Casper finds Margot and confesses that he is in love with Sulian, and decides to go to Wisong Island with Sulian if Reina doesn't show up again next week.

And just at this moment, an accident happened again, and the dream lover Lena, who Kasper had been talking about, appeared on the beach. This chance encounter drives Casper into a daze.

Kasper decided to confess to Su Lian that he thought that if Su Lian hadn't appeared, he wouldn't know how much he loved Lena.

The second half of the film takes dramatic turns almost every day. The elusive Reina is in a good mood, but when Jasper proposes a plan to travel to the island with her, she is reluctant, even vicious and cruel. Shame Jasper. So, the disheartened Casper turned around to find Su Lian.

After Casper made an appointment with Su Lian, Lena figured out and came to Casper. Casper was in a dilemma. When he was about to ask Margo for help, a music businessman offered him his long-favored tape recorder. . Finally, the tape recorder became Casper's "step", giving him a reason to escape.

The next morning, Casper asked Margo to part with him at the pier, and he sent Margo an invitation to visit Wesson Island in the future.

How Kasper's relationship with the three girls developed after this summer has no way of knowing. Following Rohmer's lens, we can always see life with enthusiasm but aloofness. Maybe we can't understand Kasper's desire Margot offered an invitation to travel with Wesong Island, but often the end of our life journey is also connected.

The story of the whole summer is easy to give people the illusion that a long time has passed, but in fact, the story that happened in Casper is only three weeks old. The summer of youth always runs fast, and often a relationship is just a wipe. Shoulder moment, I hope you will not miss anyone this summer.

If you also like this kind of free and loose French romance movie, "Hong Kong's Tomorrow" is also a good choice.

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A Summer's Tale quotes

  • Gaspard: It's not ''Does she love me?'' It's ''Do I love her?''

  • Gaspard: I'm only myself with you.