A different France

Eduardo 2022-02-26 08:01:03

I don't want to talk about the storyline anymore, because it's not the strong point of this movie. What impressed me was that the film reflected a France that we, especially French art film audiences, were not familiar with.

This country:

also has its suburbia, or urban sprawl (Suburbia, or urban sprawl), instead of the historical and artistic precipitation of Paris that we are familiar with from Rohmer or Truffaut;

also has the mechanization of lifestyles and people's occupations that can be seen everywhere. The industrialization, modularity, and "impersonalization" of the film, rather than the non-cannibalistic fireworks in the ordinary French art films, let us finish watching the "urban bohemians" who do not understand why the protagonist makes a living;

there are also white-collar workers who are unemployed. The cruel reality of China also has the threat of international production output (this is because China is still a beneficiary country, so probably it is difficult for everyone to realize it), and there are also middle-class “elites” who see their own career and lifestyle change from The skin-cut pain that flows between the fingers.

So this is an admirable attempt and a real nightmare. However, perhaps for today's impetuous young white-collar workers in China, it is still a bit farther away. Everyone may wish to continue to indulge in the carnival of food and food until the competitiveness of Vietnam and India catches up in eight or ten years.

Off-topic Express: According to the statistics of Global Sourcing in February, the performance/wage ratio of Chinese white-collar workers, or the so-called performance/price ratio, has fallen behind India, Thailand, Poland and the Czech Republic.

So the future is not far away.

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  • Gérard Hutchinson: Vous savez, au bout de cinq ans de chômage on est devenu... non, comment on dit en français?

    Bruno Davert: Has-been.

    Gérard Hutchinson: Ah oui, voilà, has-been.

  • Gérard Hutchinson: [When the interviewer abruptly ends the interview] I said to myself, lucky I didn't have the gun on me.

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