2013 was a bumper year for Juliet Binoche, and it was also a year of English. This year, I filmed "Text and Image" in the United States, and also filmed "A Thousand Good Nights" directed by Eric Pope. In "Words and Images", she plays a female painter with a disability, and a writer starred by Cliff Owen. She staged an intellectual battle between words and paintings. The love scene in it can be regarded as a leisurely aftertaste. . She is still glamorous.
In "A Thousand Times Good Night", the role starring Juliet Binoche is not so good. Fortunately this movie. Since she starred in English films such as "Love in Prague", "The English Patient" and "Chocolate", she has undoubtedly become the female star with the most English films in France or Europe, and even the great beauty Sophie Marceau is inferior. A lot.
In "A Thousand Times Good Night", she starred in Rebecca, a top war photographer who has been in the war zone all year round. The noble words of mission, responsibility and responsibility, of course, do not apply to her. For her, it's just a job, a compassion. As she said to her eldest daughter Stig, I just think of those people who are leisurely reading the newspaper while drinking coffee, and I can also think of some war-torn people in the distance whose lives are worthless and extremely embarrassing. No one is thinking about their future.
I often walk by the river, so why don't you wet your shoes? This time, in Afghanistan, she was not so lucky. During the whole process of tracking a woman who was tied up with a bomb, she witnessed the woman's resolute determination and at the same time saw her panic. Just after passing the checkpoint, Rebecca yelled "there is a bomb, go away" after getting off the car. The woman still set off a time bomb, breaking her bones, and at the same time the innocent people around her also suffered. Rebecca fell and the mud splashed all over. She unexpectedly got up again, picked up the camera and took a "click-click" shot, but after all, she couldn't hold it. This time, she really fell down. Then, transfer to Dubai and fly back to your home by the sea in the outer suburbs of Dublin.
Injured, she can only convalesce at home. The problem is that her husband can no longer stand her reckless travel. He said, do you know how worried I am? I look forward to the call, but I am afraid of the sudden call. I always sleep and eat, and I can't live with you anymore.
Even the eldest daughter Stig didn't want to talk to her, only the ignorant little daughter could do well with her. Stig, who was in middle school, painted well and participated in the project research of the "African Activity Plan" organized by the school. She is a child with cold outside and hot inside. She just loves her mother and hopes that her mother will never leave, and the family can live happily and peacefully together.
When Rebecca saw Stig's sketchbook, which was her sketch lying on the hospital bed, with touching words like "My Mom", she couldn't help it anymore. She decided to give up going out for photography for them and for this family. This time of meditation at home is full of joy. But Lei always felt the loss of being unclear. When her daughter asked her to go to Kenya together to inspect the life of the local ethnic group, she did not agree. After her husband nodded, she decided to take her daughter to the experience.
When he came to the refugee area on the Kenyan border, Stig had an in-depth conversation with his mother and took a lot of photos. At this time, there was an ethnic vendetta, and after Lei sent her daughter into the car, she hurried back to filming, just like the war she had experienced before. This scene made Stig unacceptable. Although his mother was lucky enough to survive this time, Stig, who was extremely frightened, didn't want to pay attention to her mother anymore. Back in Ireland, her husband got this situation from the video. In a fit of anger, he pushed Lei away and asked her to leave this home forever.
Lei finally left home. She is reflecting. Did she do something wrong. She didn't. Did the husband and eldest daughter do something wrong? nor. It's just that the family is too small for Lei, it's not that it's irresponsible, it's just that those countless painful eyes pray to her, follow her closely, and even merge into her blood. She decided to set off, since the family didn't want her anymore. Just as she was about to board the plane, her two daughters were all in front of her. She retracted.
As night approached, she hurried to Stig's school and stood quietly in the last corner of the lobby, not daring to disturb her daughter. My daughter is participating in the "African Activities" report party. My daughter came on stage and talked about the "Journey to Kenya" emotionally. She said that my mother is a war photographer. She took countless photos of those suffering people. This time I went to Kenya with my mother and experienced the bravery and bravery of my mother. Perseverance.
Lei, who listened quietly, walked out and smiled at her daughter. It turned out that my daughter understood her. Love her as deeply as she loves them. Lei finally went home. Husband no longer hinders her. Lei was born to belong to those remote and miserable people. She took her family a thousand good nights, and she set off again.
She came to Kabul again. Came to the home of the suicide again. Only this time she could no longer bear to watch the "human bomb" go to death generously. This little girl is about the same age as her elder daughter, with a delicate, beautiful and moving face. Lei stepped forward to stop it, but in vain. She wept bitterly, for these devastated creatures, and even the thousands of innocent people.
Life turned out to be pale, feeble and lonely in a photo. Only the freeze-frame death has a deep fishy smell, and it hurts Lei's mind. Should she give up. Maybe.
2014, 8, 26
Selected from the film review collection "Invisible Movies" published by Haitian Publishing House
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