This is a love tragedy, but this tragedy is not due to any external reasons. There are no barriers to family, property, power, or morality. It is not a Romeo and Juliet tragedy (most love stories are not variants of Romeo and Juliet). ?).
When Camille fell in love with Stephen, she did not evade her emotions, even though she was in love with Maxim (Stephen and Maxim are friends). The director did not give Camille a rationality for empathy, and there is no emotional rift between her and her current boyfriend (Maxim). This shows the director's attitude towards emotion: when love comes, people can't resist it. One cannot resist irrationality. Camille is not a woman looking for dependence everywhere, and will not turn to a new party due to the collapse of one party. She is an independent person, and she will not lose her independence because of love. She faces up to her love, which is a responsible attitude towards herself. She had the courage to express herself, unfolding herself, and reaching into Stephen's heart.
When he was alone with Stephen for the first time, Camille spoke bluntly about his pain at the time: the contradiction with Liggini. Ligini is both a good friend of Camille's mother and her agent, which played an important role in the development of Camille's career. Camille was very grateful for Ligini's support over the past ten years, and she also became dependent on this female partner. What made Camille painful was that she began to hate this dependence. Stephen made Camille aware of his hatred through very concise language. The conversation between the two was brief, but it pointed to the bottom of their hearts. Camille felt Stephen's care and invited him to watch his violin recording on Monday.
The two were alone together for the second time, when Stephen went to watch Camille's recording on Monday. The congested vehicles made a slight touch between the two of them. In the heavy rain, Stephen took off his jacket to protect Camille from the rain. Everything seemed trivial, but it was enough to be engraved in Camille's heart. In a cafe near the recording studio, the two had another brief conversation. It seemed that there was nothing to talk about, but the look in Stephen's gaze made Camille even more courage to love. Before breaking up, Camille asked Stephen: "Will you still come to see my recording?" Stephen nodded.
However, Stephen did not attend the appointment. When Camille called, he said that he was busy, which made Camille very restless. When the two met again by chance, Camille asked Stephen: "Why avoid me? Is it because of Maxim?" Stephen not only denied the friendship with Maxim, but also denied his love for Camille. "When you belittle friendship, you also belittle other things." Camille didn't believe Stephen's words, but Maxim's return stopped their conversation. Camille couldn't accept Stephen's rhetoric, and her heart was very painful. She confessed her feelings for Stephen to Maxim.
The next day Maxim was on a business trip. At the airport, he called Stephen and asked him to watch Camille's recording for him. The arrival of Stephen made Camille play very well. At the end of the recording, everyone congratulated Camille, but she asked Stephen to leave alone. She showed love to Stephen Tan, but Stephen refused.
"I want you. This is actually not my style, but I have to tell you."
"Camille, I don't think I can give you what you want."
"You want it too. I understand you and accept you, No matter what you look like. I don’t care about the world you built for yourself, the closed world. I am yours, look at me. You can’t continue to live like that, you must see that you are changing."
"Camille, you are very Beautiful, you will become a great musician. You have a lot of talent..."
"So, since I'm so good..."
"But you insist on seeing me like you imagine. I'm not that person."
"Don't deceive yourself, it's very simple."
"I have to tell you the truth, I originally wanted to seduce you, I don't love you... Maybe I want to attack Maxim."
"It's up to you."
"You I don't understand. You are talking about feelings that I have never had before. I don't love you
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When I saw this place for the first time, I was dumbfounded. I don't understand at all, why Stephen rejected Camille in this way. No, no, he looked at Camille's eyes. He suddenly felt the pain when he was about to lose Camille in the apartment Maxim was about to rent. These were not fakes. He loves Camille, why should he refuse her?
Camille couldn’t accept Stephen’s refusal. She went to Stephen again and started the conversation in the restaurant:
"Look at this man, who is he? An'ear'. A craft genius, his friend Maxim said. .As long as the two parties have similar interests, they can be together, but there is no friendship....I can't...accept this, we can't break up like this.
Say something." "I've told you the truth."
"You know you don't have one ." . It was raining in the recording studio that day. I didn’t expect you to pay attention to me so much."
"That’s my job."
"Don’t tell me that I am like other musicians."
"No."
"You look at me ." Looks like..."
"I'm sincere."
"All the things we talked about..."
"But we didn't talk about anything."
"Then it's me... No, absolutely impossible, no. But why?"
"I I told you."
"If it was to attack your friend, you would have sex with me. Dirty, but at least it's life."
"Don't do that."
"No, no! You are worthless! ... Embarrassed, huh? They have fun, a group of old antiques... just want to leave here. It seems that he likes music very much... because it is the'material of dreams', but has no choice in life. You know nothing about dreams, you have no imagination, No enthusiasm, no testicles. You have nothing there!"
When she was rejected, Camille did not fall into blind self-denial. Although painful, she bravely pointed out Stephen's lie. So why did Stephen lie? What kind of person is he?
Although Stephen's behavior is unexpected, his nobleness and non-escaping cannot make you look down upon him. He would rather lie, but don't make excuses for himself. If a person attributes his actions to past setbacks, he is cowardly. The film does not explain the history of the characters, so it does not attribute the behavior of the characters to the history. What Stephen showed was not cowardice, but introspection. Stephen tried to accomplish introspection by keeping a distance from others. Compared to love, he grasped fear more firmly. As Nietzsche said: "Fear helps people see the world better than love, because fear requires people to figure out who the other person is, what he can do, and what he wants to do. It is disadvantageous and dangerous to deceive oneself here. On the contrary, love has a secret impulse to see as much beauty as possible in others, or to lift others up as much as possible. It is advantageous and joyful to deceive oneself here.” Stephen is deeply afraid of the illusion of being loved. Confused, he was worried that he was not himself in Camille's eyes, so he hesitated in front of love.
The breakup is a foregone conclusion. How will the three (and Maxime) face such an outcome? The most exciting part of the film is in the last third. If it is said that when strong emotions come, people are irresistibly pushed forward, then when all the dust settles and the reason comes back, it restores people's true colors.
The relationship between the three has gone through a violent shock, as if it has returned to its original state, and everyone returns to themselves without losing their nobility. The people around him have experienced marriage and death, and the river of life continues to flow.
Camille, Stephen, Maxim, who is happier? who knows?
At the end, Camille gave Stephen a kiss, which lasted slightly beyond the courtesy farewell. When she and Maxim drove away, her look back was endlessly memorable, as if everything was back in front of her eyes, maybe the love that was once has been deeply engraved in her heart. Camille understood Stephen, and she chose to be lonely just like Stephen in a different way.
"Winter's Heart" is a tragedy of a noble soul. This tragedy comes from deep introspection and questioning. This is a film that uses love to talk about people's self, eros, life and death and other deeper propositions. It transcends secular moral judgment, it also transcends romanticism of love, and confronts human nature.
The film does not stop at the beauty or pain of love. What the film is more concerned about is, what exactly is love? How should we treat love?
This is a film full of author's intentions, but the author's intentions are completely invisible. All the author's intentions are only reflected in his setting of two characters who face love with sensibility and rationality, and who is right and who is wrong, the author gives the audience the power of analysis. There must be a God looking at every character in the story, and giving each character the rationality of his behavior. The director does not deliberately beautify or demonize everyone, he never compromises with flattery, he faces every form of life.
Movies about love are often easy to make lyrical or even sensational. Only by constantly adding materials to love can the taste for love be touched, thereby creating an illusion that I am in love and I can love. They yearn for beauty and delicateness. In fact, they religiousize love and beautify love unlimitedly, which just exposes their lack of love. But "Winter's Heart" faithfully shows you the possibility and paradox of love, showing the directness and introspection of the strong when facing love.
The simplicity of the form of "Winter's Heart" is unified with the author's apathetic attitude towards love. Claude Sutti pursues reality, just like the refinement of his film language. Without visual exaggeration and sound effects, you are unknowingly taken into the work to understand the essence of the content. Like a cup of clear spring, you don’t need it. Stimulate your senses, but smoothly penetrate into your heart, just right.
"Winter's Heart" takes subtraction to the extreme. The director's pen and ink are refined, but the design is very detailed. By accurately using every film element, it removes the glitz on the surface and truly conveys the inner life of life. The film format is calm and concise, but the tragedy stirs up huge waves in the hearts of the audience.
Mid-to-near shots and heads-up angles are used throughout the film, which is very similar to the way our eyes observe, without deliberate emphasis or exaggeration.
The actor's performance is implicit and restrained, and the smallest character can't conceal the sincere light of the soul-a life without pretense! Camille and Stephen had sparks for the first time, using only the middle shots of the two of them, relying on the actor's eyes to convey subtle changes.
Music plays a very important role in shaping emotions, and because of this, many movies are almost full of music in emotional passages. The music of "Winter's Heart" is clever and restrained. Only two places in the film (the climax and the ending) use subjective music, and the rest of the music is completely integrated into the plot. The music not only assumes the narrative but also accurately conveys the character's inner heart. emotion. It will not make you intoxicated or lamented in vain, but pay more attention to the hearts of the characters in the play.
The film borrows a very traditional theater form, with a concise structure, perfect layout, and a relaxed rhythm, bringing the audience into the plot completely.
The most perfect form is to make you not feel the form, "Winter's Heart" is such a moving and thought-provoking masterpiece. After watching the movie, you will sigh: this is the real life, this is the life worth living, without dust cover, thoroughly bottomed out. We experience the human tragedy created by Claude Sutti with feelings.
The reason why "Winter's Heart" moved so deeply and made people toss and turn for this story is that the director and screenwriter Claude Sutti created a character like Stephen.
We were moved by Camille, she let us experience the flame-like beauty of love, without any pretentiousness and pretentiousness, we aspire to have such pure love. And her true temperament-the sincerity, bravery and perseverance in the face of love, how can she not let people who love life be moved?
We are also moved by Maxim's tolerance. He is passionate about life and actively participates in it. He is good at repairing the wounds of life. Whether he is to himself or to others, he responds to understanding and tolerance. He is the warm color of life.
Stephen is complex, profound, and elusive, like the black hole of life, secret, and has a huge attraction to people. Stephen’s charm is even beyond your description. He has abandoned the worldly vanity, so he is less jealous; he is not confused by the surface of life, so he does not follow blindly; he does not speak falsely about love, so he appears indifferent; he is indifferent to love There is a deep desire, so he retreats in the face of fanaticism; he restrains desire, so he doesn't care about loneliness; he sees life clearly, so he can face death calmly.
The last shot of the film stops on Stephen who is sitting alone. He sits quietly, and the shadows of pedestrians and cars flow on the glass window. We are blocked by the glass window, as if we are separated from his world. His loneliness with his head held high is not lonely, and he does not invite sympathy. We saw him, but we couldn't touch him. This heart-wrenching sense of loneliness leads directly to the deepest part of everyone's heart.
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