It's raining today, and watching a movie at home is a pleasure, but the movie I watched today doesn't seem to be as comfortable as mine. It’s raining outside the window. It’s also raining in the movie. Leconte likes such melancholy mental games more and more. The tone of the film is still the same as that of The Barber Lover. He doesn’t have the passion of the new generation of directors. It feels a little pretentious. "Intimate Stranger" is a well-intentioned, low-cost "room movie". The scheduling of the shots in the room has been developed to the maximum. The characters in the play are pitiful, and two people who don't know each other are in the same room. Talking about the problems faced by this middle-aged man, the two were changed by each other in the seemingly real dialogue. It makes people feel that silence is also a kind of beauty, probably the psychological defense line of love for middle-aged people is so cautious.
In the past two years, French literary films have become more and more problematic. Focusing on new perspectives has always been a feature of French films. A friend of mine once said to me, "I can't watch this kind of slow film." I understand him, I watch films. I felt the same way at the beginning. According to what I said, we have not accumulated a good experience of watching movies since we were young. When we were young, we watched all official movies, which are of great educational significance. Many people have lost interest in movies since then. This is one of them; the other is reform. After the opening, we can watch foreign films, but it was already the 1980s, and we were completely unaware of the great changes that have taken place in world films in the past 40 years. We have not caught up with the "new wave"; Then we were so influenced by "American blockbusters" that we couldn't watch slow-paced movies for a long time. Moreover, such a middle-aged film.
Middle-aged issues, like youth issues and old age issues, cannot be ignored. The ancients said that "forty is not confused", but in fact the ancients saw it clearly and told people that at forty should not be confused, but no one can tell clearly. In recent years, Chinese people have become more enlightened, and they have talked a lot about the topic of "menopause". It seems that the current wave of middle-aged people will have "menopause". I don't know how I will feel after watching "Intimate Stranger" in this wave of menopause.
At present, the problems of middle-aged people in China are different from those of foreign middle-aged people, and it is difficult to compare them. This also affected the audience of the film in China. In fact, it's not that the theme of the film is "niche", but the young people who watch the film in middle school are mainly young people. It is very difficult for young people to understand middle-aged people, and they are also middle-aged people in France.
When I watch this film again when I am middle-aged, I must have a deep understanding.
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