Everyone is a hedgehog eager to transcend ordinary life

Alice 2022-01-22 08:05:06

After watching the movie, my feeling is that it is completely a movie by a female author. Sure enough, both novels and movies are made by women. The French are so romantic and like to make up myths about love, such as "The Man by the Pillow" and "The Elegance of Hedgehog".
They are all humble heroines, perhaps called "artistic women", who love literature and art, love to read, and are single. There is a man who fell from the sky, and brought her extremely dreamy love. Especially Ozu in the elegance of the hedgehog is simply the ideal man in the dreams of all women. He is rich in gold, tasteful, understands life, has connotation, emphasizes feelings, and is personable. These are actually nothing. The point is that he doesn’t care if you are short, ugly, poor, and humble. He sees your noble soul through your plain appearance. He just likes to resonate with you in spirit and transcend the world. He is not Because of your beauty, not because of your status, or because of your other mundane conditions, he will personally cook delicious food for you. He has such an elegant taste and will considerately give you suitable clothes. , Scarf, shoes... He speaks decently, always so considerate. With him, you feel respected, you feel spiritually happy, and he is the kind of man who exudes charm that makes you have to fall in love. This unconditional, perfect love makes you dazzled and unbelievable.
Sometimes I wonder why beautiful fairy tales can last forever. Maybe humans need a spiritual haven. The reality is so ugly. How can I live without dreaming?
In reality, a man likes a woman, and her beauty is often the first. Just like Cinderella, she won the prince’s love because of her amazing beauty. In real life, she is actually short, ugly, and poor. It's unfortunate to focus on you alone. Walking in the vast crowds, it is a bit difficult for an ordinary girl to win love, let alone such a prince-like man who loves you desperately, so most of the creators of such love fairy tales are women, and women may be born. Animals who like fantasy, if I can’t get what I want in reality, let’s make a dream with pen and image. Although it is a dream, it is beautiful, and there are many people dreaming with you.
And in this movie, the reason why the soul beats the appearance is that the two of them are middle-aged and old people who have gone through vicissitudes of life, especially the Japanese prince, whose hair is gray, and is estimated to be at least 70 years old? Women are 54 too. People of this age are estimated to be able to put aside everything about appearance and worldliness, and enjoy the joy of resonance and communication in the spiritual world?

I don’t know why, regardless of Chinese culture or Western culture, women often place the hope of changing their humble destiny and unhappy life on a man like a prince? In Chinese proverbs, some people say that marriage is an opportunity for a woman to change her destiny. So women always dream of marrying a prince to change their destiny. So there are too many additional things given to marriage. There is no pure emotion. From the perspective of women, men are actually regarded as women’s saviors, but maybe this is based on the consideration of a patriarchal society? No matter how strong a woman, she still hopes to find a man who is stronger than herself. From this point of view, women have always put themselves in the position of the weak. Equality between men and women is actually impossible to achieve. The fundamental reason is that women actually identify with the social model of strong men and weak women.

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The Hedgehog quotes

  • Paloma Josse: Planning to die doesn't mean I let myself go like a rotten vegetable. What matters isn't the fact of dying or when you die. It's what you're doing at that precise moment.

  • Renée Michel: Happy families are all alike.

    Kakuro Ozu: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

    [Quoting from Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina']