This story is a mystery. It can be said to be the most subtle and charming story about love (if I can use the word) I have seen so far. I can't even find the proper language to describe its plot.
Stephane's posture makes me feel terrible. His existence is like an abyss, quiet and deep, and occasionally flashes of intoxicating blue light, but it is fleeting, so that the woman who unexpectedly finds the light plunges into it, but realizes that the light is already No trace.
The handover between two people was as loud as the touch of a diamond and a jade. When he first watched her play, he didn't say a word, and the huge magnetic field of his existence made her uneasy and unable to concentrate. And he actually noticed that the cello and piano accompaniment, her agent and boyfriend were also present at the time, and when he got up and left, she seemed relieved and her condition returned to normal. Such a subtle aura confrontation made the power balance between the two people clear.
Of course she is undoubtedly beautiful. When he saw her for the first time, he, her boyfriend, and his colleagues looked at her in the crowd together. There was a diamond-like grace and dazzling luster, and the eyes were slightly melancholy and in a bun. Meticulous. Of course he was attracted to her.
Later, he went to the recording studio to watch her for the first time, and it was particularly wonderful. She played Ravel intently in the recording studio, while he stared intently outside, the atmosphere was elegant and melancholy. When she saw him, she did not hide her happiness. The two of them went for a cup of coffee, ran side by side across the corner in the rain, and when they were crossing the road, they encountered a speeding car, and he immediately protected her with his body. This is probably the only physical contact between the two. After sitting down in the cafe, she wore a simple old sweater and black dress and flat shoes, with water drops still hanging from the ends of her hair, but there was warmth in her eyes. The contrast between the dynamics and statics of these three scenes impressed me extremely, the strong music in the enclosed room, the running in the rain outdoors, and the warm and humid aroma of the cafe I imagined.
He is a violin craftsman, and she is a violin player. When he pointed out the subtle flaws in the piano and corrected them, there was something different between the two. The ancients in China called such people "friends." Such encounters are rare. Both of them knew it well, but some were joyful, while others just stared deeply and turned around.
Such a gesture of absolute rejection made me deeply puzzled at first, and the director seemed to want to explain his behavior through other clues. He studied the piano since he was a child, but dropped out of the school when he was admitted to the Conservatory of Music. Instead, he learned the craftsmanship of the violin. Rather than immersing himself in music on the road to perfection of art, he would rather approach his beloved from a purely craftsmanship perspective. Musical instruments, in this choice, we can see that he seems to understand the fate of directly entering certain things, so he chooses to stay away, or to approach in a roundabout way.
What impressed him was that in the end he gave the old man an injection of euthanasia (if he understood it correctly), and the sky light the next morning, the dark green field, was silent.
He said, "There is something inanimate in my heart". What is it, let him reject love, family, friendship. And he is by no means a merciless person. You can see his gentle side from his attitude towards his apprentice and the little girl who plays the piano. There is a section in the film that describes him seeing the old couple arguing loudly but finally comforting each other. His expression is painful and complicated. He does not want to (re) involved in any emotions, just like the gadfly that has been rejected, using fragility to come. It may be appropriate to describe this type of person. But this fragile outer layer is a lustrous and delicate jade, which makes people want to explore.
I have to admit that when I was watching this film, I couldn't help being scared, as if I was on the side of an abyss.
2007.8.26
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