This is a French film with a magnificent era background. The story takes place at the beginning of the 20th century, when Vietnam was reduced to French colonial rule. The lady Yi Ling and her adopted daughter Kamy fell in love with the navy officer Zhan. She is so warm, but her daughter Kamey is so cold, so determined and stubborn. I almost forgot the plot of the film, but I can't forget the maze-like sea area surrounded by small islands, a pair of dying alien lovers, a small boat that doesn't know where to drift.
When mentioning "Indochina", we cannot avoid mentioning the classic film "Lover". The secret love immersed in the soul but unspeakable in Duras's writing occurred in Indochina. When Zhan met Yi Ling at the auction site, he said that the Saigon without coast suffocated me. The French living in that colony, "suffocated", may be a breeding ground for all kinds of heterosexual love. "Lover" is all about loving this mountain, indulging in suffocating sex; "Indochina" has a more magnificent background, no one can control love, and there is no sense of suffocation.
Yi Ling loves Zhan, but she can't leave the world. "The First Lady of European Film" Catherine Devna always makes people feel that she is higher than love. She looks down on love, and at the same time refuses to let love interfere with the normality of her adopted daughter. Life. However, Kamey is desperate for love. After marrying into the royal family, she fled to a deserted island to find Zhan. She accidentally became a Communist Party. After killing an officer, she began to fight Zhan. The mottled and swaying light spots on the sea, the boats without sails, and the palpitating blue sky, the precise creation of the scenes in "Indochina" has already foreshadows the unhappy end of love.
French love always makes me uneasy. I don't think that a man will have a love with a mother and a daughter at the same time. In a film describing this kind of inconsistent love, one of them is often regarded as erotic. But "Indochina" really describes love, and it doesn't make people feel uncomfortable. On the contrary, it is more like the suffocating atmosphere of a colony, everyone is looking for a breakthrough in their soul sustenance. Love failed, Zhan finally died on the bed; Yi Ling sold everything and left and returned to France with her adopted daughter’s son; Camey went on the revolutionary road after being imprisoned, until Indochina finally changed its name to “Vietnam” and never looked for it. Passed mother and son.
Every time I watch "Indochina", there is always a deep sadness. Part of this sadness stems from the tragic love that the protagonist can't control at all, but more of it comes from love's helplessness. If you take off the epic jacket, "Indochina" actually verifies the dialectical relationship between love and people. Love may change at the most inadvertent moment. It was originally crazy to love, but then suddenly it is no longer necessary to love it. But if love is still crazy and hasn't changed, it can only be that people have changed. The weak people have gone to revolution, and the strong people have begun to flee. If you don't let love become an epitaph, you can only use yourself to lay the foundation for love.
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