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This French literary film has a very special narrative structure. It is the important stage of a man's life before he commits suicide that is replayed in his mind like a movie. Are all the important clips before death be played back like this?
Why is it set to 7 days? It is probably because science says that if a person does not eat or drink for 7 days, he will be exhausted and die, so it took 7 days for this person to kill himself.
1. It started when he was a teenager. He did not study well and was insulted by the teacher at school. It was really sad to see the child at a loss. In school, he has always compared the appearance of a bad boy with his younger brother who is an excellent good boy role model, watching the teacher bring the whole class together to insult him and destroy his self-esteem in an attempt to make him change and learn a lesson. It's shocking to see it. Who knows the future? The brother of the bad boy and the younger brother of the good boy have taken completely different paths as adults, and it seems that the criteria for judging their good and bad have also undergone a completely reversed change.
2. In his youth, he was a famous music teacher, but after listening to his performance, the teacher said that his skills were very good, but the music sounded like shit. It is said that the violin is just a tool, but how to use the tool is entirely up to the individual. There is no soul in his music, so it sounds like nothing. When the young man was at a loss and wandering in the street, he occasionally met a beautiful and beautiful girl. After some stalking, he finally met this girl in a wait-and-see way, and began a sweet date and love. However, the girl’s father strongly objected, thinking that musicians are not only easy to empathize, but also poor and unable to guarantee their future life. The couple broke up in pain.
3. This broke his heart. His pain sublimated his experience of musical emotions. Each note resembled his lover breathing, sighing and sadness by his side. Hearing the sound of his piano will make people cry. The teacher gave him a very famous violin. It was with this tool and his understanding of emotions that he became a master of music, played all over the world for twenty years, and achieved fame.
4. His mother thought that he should get married and have children when he was over 40. He didn't want to, but his mother forced him to submit. He married a woman who had a crush on him for over ten years, a rigorous math teacher. He didn't love her at all, but they gave birth to 2 children, a boy and a girl. The trivial and no emotional combination of married life makes the relationship between them tense. The world only sees this wife's tyranny and thinks it is the cause of his misfortune, but they don't know the pain and helplessness behind her. Her husband is unemployed, and economic burdens are coming, and the completely cold husband and the burden of casual education make this woman often hysterical and continue to collapse.
5. Although there are 2 children, but they are still too young, he wants to leave them some warning quotes, but the children don’t understand these, only knowing that they are laughing and chasing in the yard heartlessly, he even feels like himself A fart. They also have little meaning to him, because he has never taken them, so he does not have a deep emotional attachment. Of course, on the road of his quiet pursuit of death, his several-year-old son has been silently facing the night. My father prays, and perhaps the youngest child is the closest to an angel.
6. His wife also became a narrative in it. She had a crush on him since she was a girl, and refused to pursue a few pursuits until she became an older young woman over 30. Although she is not outstanding, she has a decent job. He has a high level of education, looks virtuous and reliable, and finally became the wife appointed by his mother. She may have tried to use tenderness to use time to impress him and become his spiritual partner, but she finally discovered that his lover only had the violin. Does she know his story and the meaning of the violin? Maybe she didn't know, she just believed that the violin was her rival in love according to her instinct, and she might be able to make this obstacle disappear by destroying it. She is not too naive, but emotionally she has become a stranger, and she is so angry that she is hysterical.
7. The man spent a lot of time looking for a new violin, and even got a violin that was said to have been used by a celebrity, but he couldn't get the original sound at all. It was because he met his first love girl twenty or thirty years ago on the road. She has become a silver-haired grandmother with a grandson. He called her, but she said that she didn’t know him at all. He was extremely depressed and painful and felt everything in life. It's meaningless. And she cried bitterly at the corner, because she could no longer recognize him, her youth was gone, and their respective life trajectories had been withdrawn from the north to the south, and love only became the impression in the memory. What is the meaning of meeting each other.
As a result, the man lost all his thoughts. He lost the violin and his faith-love. His current life is not what he wanted, and after he lost his faith, he could no longer play a decent note, which means that he has already been in the world. Born to be unloved, he decided to leave, without eating or drinking for 7 days. On the eighth day, he finally got his wish and was taken away by the god of death.
When I told this story to Xiao Xianrou, he felt it was really meaningless, saying that this man was too boring to live, and it was such a tragic result. I said that people live mainly by looking at the meaning of the process, rather than just looking at the last so-called result, because everyone's final result is death, then there is no need to experience in life? Of course, young people always don’t understand. When they were young, they only asked who the good and bad people in the movie were, and whether the final result was good or bad. If it wasn’t a happy ending, they would choose not to watch it. Therefore, it is more appropriate to watch American movies when you are young. The final endings of American movies are very positive. Good people do not die and have rewards.
In fact, this story, as far as this person is concerned, every period of his life naturally has his meaning, because his failure in love adds a rich sense of experience to his life, so it gives his music a soul, so as to become famous. As far as the process at this stage is concerned, the result is actually not bad. The joy of his career success for so many years has not been narrated in the main picture, but his passionate music path should also be fulfilling and happy, not just the touch and tears explained by the sound of the piano. Because in a person's life, love is not the only thing in life.
As far as the result of love and marriage is concerned, he is indeed unhappy, but as far as the artist is concerned, a smooth life cannot make them a good artist. Certain special experiences and insights in life must have stimulated them. Like many famous artists that we can’t understand in contemporary times, they use incredible deviant performance art, erotic and even terrifying graffiti art, scene art composed of various terrifying materials, etc. to express their influence on the human world. The thinking of this phenomenon, the discussion of the bizarre human nature, etc., show the warning effect that ordinary people's thoughts and behaviors cannot achieve, and the artists' own source of inspiration and the process of growth they have experienced are not without Relationship, it can be said that many famous artists have used their pain and insight to complete their shocking works of art to give people thinking and enlightenment. They completed their works and got some redemption in their works, and those artists who still can't get redemption can only leave the world in a special way, because they will never get out of the painful devouring. It can be said that artists are of course more sensitive, their brain cells are more active, and they have a more thorough understanding of the nature of the world, so they will see things that ordinary people cannot see or feel, and because of this, they consume more brains. Cells, and thus it is precisely the life of their organism that is constantly and powerfully consumed.
Ordinary people don’t understand the pain of artists, but they understand the pain of ordinary people. For example, artists who have no inspiration to show their works can only see their mediocrity and incompetence, and musicians who are part of ordinary people cannot get it. The pain of my love, the pain of the wife who was trapped in the quagmire forever without love and recognition, and the pain of the relatives who watched their relatives leave but had no way of doing it, and so on.
When it comes to death, this is of course not an easy movie. I don’t know why the introduction says it’s a comedy movie. It's just that the meaning of death is usually not to let us understand death itself, but to think more about the meaning of living and living itself. Death is just the last moment of life. The long process before it is full of indescribable feelings, such as happiness, pain, boredom, confusion, disappointment, frustration, anger, hope and despair, etc. The feelings are constantly changing, just like The human electrocardiogram ups and downs, the feeling of a certain process will eventually pass, and then the feeling of the next phase will be ushered in. In this human world, happiness is of course not the main tone, because as a person, the pursuit of happiness is the goal of a person’s life, and happiness is originally bred in various other materials, such as hardship, anger, despair, and pain. And so on, may be the soil that breeds happiness. Because of comparison, various feelings have their own meaning. Ultimate happiness does not exist, and the immutable so-called happiness will only become numb and boring. As a biological person, the sensations synthesized by brainwaves, biological nerves, etc. are too complicated, and the reactants and products are constantly changing. Therefore, for thousands of years, the study of people’s own thoughts and emotions has never been studied enough or not. Through.
Going back to the name of the movie "The Taste of Plum Chicken", it originated from the helpless wife facing her husband who was on a hunger strike, and suddenly remembered that the only time he ever smiled was when she made plum chicken for him. So she still wanted to use this only trick to satisfy his stomach, hoping to satisfy his heart. Of course, the begging husband rejected her kindness, and in the end he still rebuked her loudly because she was the source of his painful life. Of course, she was helpless, and he was also selfish. There is no such thing as absolute good and bad in modern stories. Certainly, it is impossible to tell the story of a good guy and a bad guy. It’s just two people. Although they have different occupations, the stories of two ordinary people with their own weaknesses will still resonate to a certain extent. And thinking.
For the wife, the plum chicken is a kind of real thing. But for the husband, his plum chicken may be the heartbeat quietly stalking on the street, that time when the beautiful woman turned her head back, the girl’s bright smile when he hit up with him, the girl quietly held it when she was watching a movie Holding his hand, the girl listened to his appreciation gesture when he played the violin, their dating and eachother in the summer under a big tree full of white flowers, and even the last time the girl came to bid him farewell on a rainy day, etc. Wait. . .
In short, the plum chicken you think is not the plum chicken he thinks. There are many cases of affectionate mispayment in the world, and the truth is probably not so.
Also, as a literary film, this male protagonist is really ugly, this female protagonist is really beautiful, do you want to say that the charm of art itself lies in the soul and not in the carrier itself? Of course, the story itself is what makes people read.
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