La Chanson d'Hélène (The Song of Elaine) is the theme song for the 1970 French film Trivia, starring Romy Schneider (9/23/1938 - 5/29/1982). That same year, she performed live on French TV with Michel Piccoli.
What impresses me most about Romy is not the nobility and elegance of the famous film history, but the exhaustion and despair, the long and deep sorrow of a woman. When she looked directly at the camera, her eyes were full of shadows, and she sang the phrase, "You don't love me anymore," over and over again. Her expression was sad and calm like a deep pool, and the end of her eyes fell quietly, making the viewer feel like falling into an abyss. After the whole song ended, she finally glanced at Michel's side face in panic, and silently withdrew the evasive eyes.
I looked at her eyes that can only be found in women who are trapped by love, as if I had died once.
It was nothing more than 1970, when all the cruelty in life had not yet unfolded to Romy. Except for the cruel yellow rose beside the girl's pillow, what made her innocent look like this.
What makes people feel uneasy are the lyrics, which are actually very Eileen Chang. Jean-Loup Dabadie, who wrote the lyrics, is French, and it is unknown whether he read Zhang or not. "I fell into the mirror looking at the night", which must remind many people of the white tassels who had a night of indulgence.
And "Before we came to this house, I liked the life at that time, like a child's painting", reminded me of "the color film at that time was still very bad, tawdry like a colored landscape postcard, a reddish-brown wooden house on a green hill. , reflecting the blue sky, the shadows of trees all over the ground swayed under the sun, and there were several children haunting the pine forest, all of them hers. Zhi Yong appeared and pulled her into the wooden house with a smile. It was ridiculous, she suddenly became shy , the arms of the two were drawn in a straight line, and she woke up at this moment. The film from 20 years ago, the person from 10 years ago. She woke up happy for a long, long time." The dream at the end of "Little Reunion" must be It is one of the saddest descriptions of dreams in the history of modern Chinese literature. Especially the sentence "the two men's arms are drawn in a straight line." It echoes the "... smiling and pulling one of her hands to the bed, and the two's arms are drawn in a straight line." This appears in the previous chapters. The sentence in the previous text is the most trivial and bland writing, and no one would have expected that it was a grass snake gray line buried at the end of the text. The two left dim light shadows on the walls of their small apartment in Shanghai. Now, after rain and cloud, war and artillery fire, and across the ocean, all personnel and personnel have long been lost, and no one has survived. Only Jiuli's wish hidden in her subconscious is left, like dripping water through a stone, and seeping into her dream ten years later to meet her again. When I woke up, I realized that I was "happy for a long time" without any resentment. Such joyous and miserable thoughts cannot be restrained from reading.
It was the eve of Zhiyong's escape, and in the dim light, Jiuli caught a glimpse of the woman from his past. Five or six, with their heads wrapped in ancient Greek robes, followed one by one, walking in front of them. This silhouette is like a montage in a movie, slowly showing the patterns on the pottery unearthed in ancient Greece. It also seems to be the reincarnation of fate in the East, but also has the meaning of religious rituals in the West. The sex that followed with Yong was funny and embarrassing, which made her even more clumsy and absurd, and she couldn't help but burst into tears. There is not much speculation, not to mention the lack of sex. Perhaps it was also because of the calamity of the day that the affections dried up. Jiuli had intercourse with Yong this night. It was no longer the physical problem of the pain in the organs in the past. Instead, she realized that she had become a container, and she was embarrassed in the vast and helpless icy waters. Endured in vain to fiddle with Zhi Yong and float up and down. Nothing more. Jiuli gave birth to a sudden killing intent. Although after dawn, she had to let him escape from home.
Talking back to "The Song of Elaine", the lyrics are exactly the illusion of Romy's sad retelling of the relationship before it ends. The images of the sun, birds, mirrors, and children's paintings are beautiful and shiny, but all of them are cut by Michel like a verdict, painfully and ruthlessly. The comparison of the two texts gives a double sense of beauty and shock.
This "Song of Elaine" is lamentable in text, and even more embarrassing in interpretation. The reason why I am so fascinated by the profound woman's sorrow on Romy's face is precisely because I don't understand it now, but I know that I will understand it in the future. But what fascinates me most is that people can never imagine how vicious life can be. Perhaps it also caters to my infatuation with sadness.
Four years after singing the theme song of the film, Romy ended her first marriage; in 1979, her ex-husband hanged herself in the apartment; in 1981, Romy's only fourteen-year-old son died in an accident ; On May 29, 1982, Luo Mi, who was suffering from the pain of losing his son, died at home due to heart failure.
In recent years, I have been watching this singing video continuously, and I just want to ask Romi, your expression, why you reveal that you have fallen deeply into despair. Are you vaguely aware of what lies ahead? if you know.
Dream of Red Mansions 63rd Shouyi Hong Qunfang held a night banquet, and all the golden hairpins drew flower lottery for fun, unaware that they were going to the invitation of blood and tears tomorrow. It was the night where everyone happily ate Baoyu's birthday wine. Who would have thought that Quan Dangtu Yile's signature that night was not fake at all.
Afterwards, Qian Hong, the beauties of Si Zhong, burst into tears, and Wan Yan shared grief. Bones are like mountains, forgetting surnames.
"Good morning, girl."
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