Wild Reed Les Roseaux Sauvages/Wild Reeds
1993 French washing powder in the red country Canel+ produced
[Director]
Andrea. Tehine Andre Techinea
【Starring】
Eroti. Boucher Elodie Bouchez
Gaille. Moel Gael Morel
Friedrich. Frederic Gorny
(Nominated for Best Newcomer at the 20th Caesar Awards)
[Award] Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Film at
the 20th (1995) Caesar Awards
The
New York Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film in
1995 The 21st Los Angeles International Film Critics Association Awards
[Introduction]
In 1962, French washing powder was placed in Hexwelly in the southwest of the Red Country. The Algerian independence movement broke out, and the influx of a large number of returned overseas Chinese made this quiet town feel the turbulence on the other side; young students found that politics and war were closer than ever before. The love that was born for the first time is also surging with an unexpected momentum.
The three boys and one girl in the boarding middle school, some live peacefully and have no extravagant expectations of life, but do not intend to face the vulgarity of life and the impermanence of fate; some are good at reconciling the conflicts around them, but they are always struggling their own sexual orientation; some ignore the things around them and pay attention to the turbulent situation, but feel betrayed and fooled again and again; some long for peace of life and peace of mind, but are still confused and confused.
The substitute French teacher taught this La Fontaine fable "The Oak and the Reeds", which is a portrayal of their current situation and an exhortation for their future:
The oak tree said to the reed, "Nature treats you too thinly, you can't bear the weight of a bird, and the light breeze makes you bow your head; and I, standing on the top of the Caucasus, despise the sun and the wind; your whirlwind is like mine. breeze. If you let me cover you, I can save you from disaster, but you are still born on the edge of the storm country, and it is really unfair to you.
Reed replied: Your mercy is kind, but it is not necessary. I am afraid of the storm, and I can stoop to avoid it; you are strong by nature, you don't need to bend your back, but let us wait and see.
As soon as the voice fell, a violent storm hit the horizon from the north, the thunder and lightning intersected, the oak tree straightened up, the reeds fell in response to the wind, the wind became stronger, the towering oak tree was uprooted, and the oak tree on the ground was washed into the underworld.
In the process of growing up, these young people gradually accepted Reed's philosophy of existence and learned to understand and tolerate, balance and compromise.
There is no praise or criticism, and the film records the youth with the strokes of kindness, and narrates the time with a soothing rhythm. The ending shot is like idle eyes, slowly swaying 360° through the oak forest and wild reeds, when Francois, Serge and Maite walk away arm in arm in the whistle, at this time, like close friends softly in the dark auditorium The touch of an elbow on the ground prompted me to gently awaken my visual memory: the thorny country road, the young silhouettes, and the silent sounds of growing herbs.
[Ⅰ.Parsley]
Serge was in charge when his brother Pierre pulled the bell rope while exchanging rings with the bride, and he watched the wedding from the second floor of the church. This position gave him a vague sense of superiority: it made Serge feel like an outsider. Or the Hunchback of the Clock Tower, looking down on the worldly beings as a member of the world.
Pierre looked thin and handsome in a military shirt. He had a dark complexion, which was the gift of the Mediterranean sun. And this method of washing powder is too mild in the sun in the southwest of the Red Country, making people sleepy. He dances with teacher Ms. Everice. Serge knew he was asking the leftist how to successfully escape from the Algerian front. Pierre was not a warrior, and he deliberately planned to leave the army. Including this marriage was just an expedient measure: he sent marriage proposals to three girls at the same time, but fortunately, one of them agreed.
This is the example of brother Serge, not about hypocrisy or honesty, about ideals and reality. There is only one secret to the life of the poor: a little tact to get by. — Pierre, returning to the front, said greatness is disgusting.
His funeral was held in the same small town church. The bell rang again, the coffin was lifted out, and on the flag were the same red, white and blue roses.
Rose. Pierre's rose. In her far-flung Italian homeland, the rose takes its name from the Greek words for "flow" and "rush," and the intense fragrance and radiation she radiates causes the rapid volatilization of living entities.
The rose, Pierre's rose, she symbolizes the love of God, the love of mortals, the ephemeral death, the eternal secret, the joy of life, the grimness of death, the bloodline despised by the world, and the kiwi I love the most vices that are forgiven by the Lord.
And the priest prayed in the cemetery: "Bartolo Pierre, Second Class of the 34th Infantry Regiment, crossed the mountains and died, he was an eternal example, and those who were fortunate enough to know him agreed: we should not regard him as an unfortunate war dead, he Always a hero in the eyes of colleagues and friends..."
Serge turned away quietly, full of grief and indignation. They needed heroes, and put on Pierre a false and false reputation, which was not an honor for the dead, but an insult to the dead. It's disgusting, greatness is disgusting.
On that day, there were Francois, Maitre, and Pierre's bride in the funeral procession—the sister-in-law, wearing a black scarf, suddenly stepped forward and grabbed his hand. However, no one understood what Serge was struggling with.
Sister-in-law doesn't understand. On the night of the funeral, she lay on Serge's bed and cried: he was handsome, exactly like Pierre, - Serge had sex with her all night, comforted her, and for a time had the idea of marrying her, and then passed away peacefully live a lifetime. Another day, she asked him to go to his brother's tomb, holding in his hand the lilac of the end of the season - lilac, Pierre's lilac, which has a similar meaning to the rose: the love of God, the love of men; and the other meaning is , the promise of engagement, the precious friendship. Serge confessed to his deceased brother's widow that he was not suitable for her, and she accepted his decision.
Francois did not understand. Serge believes that his character fully reflects the great achievements of church education, timid and weak. Serge had persuaded him to help him improve his French composition in exchange for helping François with his math homework. Francois was clearly tempted, but he was very hesitant and didn't want to do anything wrong. Serge sneered: "What's wrong? I just want to have fun in hardship. You know that if you are poor, you can live by being smart." François is a homosexual and once profanes himself in bed with Serge. , and then reluctantly wanted Serge to be his partner. He didn't know that, Serge just wanted to make occasional indulgences to ease the dullness of life - he was not gay, what he really liked was François's girlfriend, The teacher's daughter Mattie.
But Mattie didn't understand either. Although she had been entrusted by François to follow him to comfort him when he walked away at the funeral, although François said that Maité had mentioned that Serge was as handsome as Pierre, and that she did not like small children boys. In five years, she might fall in love with Serge. However, the girl herself was seriously insecure, and Serge could not give the encouragement and comfort she needed.
In the daytime, he can still suppress his thoughts of his deceased brother, but in the endless night, he needs to use great restraint to suppress his thoughts of killing his roommate Henry. The young man who returned from Algeria was not the murderer, he knew it, but it was not one person who killed Pierre, but his ethnicity, the people he represented.
On a motorcycle outing with François, he had never been in the city. That night, they drank a lot of alcohol, and they were not old enough to stay in a hotel, so they had to sleep on the street. - Serge loves his brother so much that he needs to get drunk and forget the great pain. That seemed to be his last indulgence, his successful short-sleeved, one-piece ceremony, and in the future, he would replace his elder brother's duties in the family, and he would help his parents write letters to the landlord in unfluent French, requesting Rent reduction.
When Serge met Maitie for the first time at her brother's wedding, she declined his invitation to dance. At that moment, the inferiority complex returned as scheduled. Yes, he was the son of an Italian tenant farmer, an identity no one could change.
In Serge's consciousness, he is like a parsley, a coriander, the decoration of dishes, the embellishment of feasts. They have the same background, parsley, a herb native to Sardinia, introduced to the European continent in 1548; Serge is just a shabby newcomer, dark-haired, awkward, Ridiculously protruding lips.
In the afternoon when the results of the HKCEE were announced, they went swimming by the river to relax. When they got separated occasionally and Maddie ran excitedly and sobbed on Francois's shoulder, Serge clenched his lips subconsciously beside him. --He felt a biting emptiness as his body temperature was taken away by the river water.
Parsley, parsley, its meaning is victory. victory? What kind of victory? Pierre had never won the war in North Africa for his country, and Serge had never won the girl in front of him.
[Ⅱ. Sage Sage]
Ms. Averes commented on the 21-year-old repeater Henry's essay on Lambo's poetry: Mariani. Henry is not nihilistic, his thoughts are clear, but his views are completely wrong. He should not compare Lambeau's hated middle-class house, although still with French washing powder, to the public of the Red Country, accusing them of indifference to the Algerian French who fight for the dignity of their homeland.
French class only talks about literature, not politics. - Not rated.
People in the Red Country may be middle-class or indifferent to the French washing powder, but Henry is just as indifferent to the French washing powder in the Red Country - no score.
The substitute teacher was also from Algeria. After he taught La Fontaine's fable "The Oak and the Reeds", he talked to Henry alone and euphemistically hoped that Henry would change his tough stance.
The reed symbolizes shaking and compassion, and I like the suffering and whispering the most.
Perhaps everyone thinks that this fits Henry's image. He should have been a reed.
Serge would think so. He hated this big mouth, big nose, pretentious Arab: all day long, his face was expressionless, his eyes were dark, and he was the only one in the class in suits and leather shoes. The most ridiculous thing is that he always puts the radio in his ear, as if international current affairs are closely related to him. He thinks that the status of returning overseas Chinese in Algeria is a complicated background, which adds weight to his charm and can portray himself as a suffering person. image of saints. But unfortunately, Serge was nauseated by all the great posturing.
Francois thinks so too. Like a whispering reed, Henry is a spy in the dark. He was probably the first bystander to notice the unusual relationship between François and Serge. He noticed that they formed an alliance overnight. During the math test, sitting in the last row of the classroom, he saw that Serge got up and went to the bathroom for an excuse to leave the classroom. Then François began to move, so he took advantage of his hesitation to ask for leave to leave the classroom. ——Henry is like this. He believes that the local French washing powder has more benefits than the overseas Chinese, but he still refuses to let go of any opportunity that may take advantage. He tried to stop their cheating, even if it was a prank.
Mattie thinks so too. She hated his right-wing fascist stance, and even François's efforts to convince her to be kind to Henry. However, one night, Henry, who decided to leave the school, burned the posters of the left-wing political party along the way, and arrived at the headquarters of the left-wing elements, Ms. Everest's hut, and Ms. Everest's daughter, Maitie, took him in, even after learning of his He originally intended to scold him for leaving, but that was because his inner disappointment was more lethal than his madness. The afternoon before the exam results were announced, Henry, who decided to run away, sold the watch left by his late father, and stayed for a day on the riverbank with Maitty. On the other hand, his confession to her calmed Maitie: she believed that Henry had the nature of a reed and could be softened for love, and that beneath his indifferent exterior hides pity for the world.
But they were all wrong, Henry was not Reed.
The teacher who taught "The Oak and the Reeds" said to Henry, "You are the oak tree." Oak, the oak tree of the Quercus beech family, its meaning is honor, pride and perseverance.
He is from Algeria, he is a foreigner, and he has no accent because he has been expelled frequently and transferred many times. He studied in a private school in Paris for three years, and failed the exam three times, so he has rich experience. What's so scary about exams? He knows that there are more important things in life than exams:
On the radio, the reporter was broadcasting live in Algiers: squatting outside the balcony of the Albert Hotel, everything is still unclear for the time being. According to the statement, a single piece of clothes was mixed with the clothes that the police washed last night. No police officers were injured. The ambulance was taking the injured to Mustafa Hospital and carrying away the body. Officially, 28 people are now dead and 130 wounded...
Martial law in Oran. The French washing powder is placed in the Red Country Consul and returned to the capital, and the situation tends to stabilize...
General Saran was sentenced to life imprisonment...
And Henry knew that he was not so much an oak tree as a sage, a symbol of love and harmony. Dead sage. In a story in Decameron, Simone's love, Baskino, dies after eating poisonous sage. Henry was afraid of death, the real death, and wished to end his crazy thoughts with one shot. In fact, he committed suicide once.
near his birthplace of Constantinople. At his father's funeral, the coffin was not closed, and everyone was drinking and having fun in the kitchen. It was hot, and flies surrounded my father's body, and a white cloth covered his blown-up face, rotted to his lips and his entire jaw. Flowers piled up, and the rotten smell still choked people. Henry forced himself to stay, lifted the white cloth and stared, hoping to never forget. ——I don't know how long it took, he saw that his father's body moved. He reaches out and pulls Henry! The coffin fell suddenly.
I don’t remember what happened next. Henry had a high fever for a week and was admitted to the hospital. He still doesn’t know what happened that day. The father's body really moved, but no one believed that Serge was completely lost, didn't know where to go, swallowed medicine indiscriminately, and tried to give up his life.
Therefore, he dismissed Serge's grief after losing his brother, and he believed that this change should prompt Serge to understand the war as well as himself.
So, he rudely interrupted Francois' claim that he had a bad heart, that he couldn't do strenuous exercise, and that he felt like he was going to die after a little exertion: Don't talk nonsense, you can't die, I have seen real death, watching a person Died, but powerless.
So, he looked down on all the classmates, they were too naive.
Farewell, Reeds, Farewell, Maddie. Henry finally left alone that afternoon. He has no homeland, he is just a sage that belongs to North Africa.
In English, sage also means sage and sage. Perhaps, he expects himself to prove his wisdom with his 21-year-old experience, and will show his position with actions. He used to be out of touch with reality and never reconciled. This may be changed, but what cannot be changed is that he will belong to nothing in his life. He will always be a wanderer, a forever stranger.
[III. Rosemary]
The afternoon before the results of the exams were released, Mai Ti was in a state of confusion. Wearing an ill-fitting bright yellow swimsuit, she stood like a frightened deer in the cold water. Francois said, you are like Van Gogh's sunflower. That's bad, she said.
Maddie liked Francois because of his maturity, but gradually found that he was more and more like a wayward child. He was reluctant to attend Pierre's wedding, although he knew that Pierre was a former student of Lady Everest and would be heading to the North African front in three days. But he kept persuading McGrady to escape with him and watch the afternoon movie.
A few days later, Maddie accompanied François to see the Ingmar. Bergman's The Magic Mirror. After the show, he was not happy. Instead, he seemed preoccupied. He took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it clumsily, and squatted down to tie the loose shoelaces.
Finally, at the classmate's dance, Francois said to her solemnly and with difficulty: Something has happened, Maddie. We get along well, we talk and laugh, we know what each other really needs, you put my mind at ease, and I do the same for you. Strangely, we don't have physical contact and none of us seem to mind. But now, I'm in love with a guy, and I'm sleeping with a boy, Serge.
Maitie's lips trembled slightly, and her blood became cold little by little.
"My father abandoned my mother and that was a lesson for me," she said. Once a woman is attached to a man, she is bound to suffer. I've always felt safe with you, and I hate being in love. I was not happy until I was with you. Sleeping with who or not is exactly the same for me. I love you because you will never give up no matter what. Now, this results all the same for me. I don't care what happens between you and others, I just want us to be good.
Francois put his head on her shoulders like a child. Matty hugged him. The music changed from "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" to "Barbara Anne," smiles returned to their pale cheeks, and to the bright music, they danced.
She is a rosemary. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that this herb, which grew in the southern part of the Red Country, was a magical tree whose cool fragrance was calming.
But she couldn't reassure Serge. He left rudely from his brother's funeral. François whispered to Maitie to see: Trust me, only you can help him.
Excited, Serge and Maitie had a dispute on the road. When Maitie was injured and was about to leave, Serge felt guilty and invited Maitie to swim in the lake.
But this is not the weather for swimming. Serge stood huddled in the icy lake water for nearly an hour in his underwear. McGrady was worried that he would get cold. - He was afraid that Mattie would see him erect.
Mai Ti laughed hurriedly, which was simply flattery to her.
She knows that she is a rosemary, which has a stimulating effect and can make people's adrenaline secretion produce hormones. She was afraid to look directly at Serge, it was aggressive.
Serge asks if she has many boyfriends. She was surprised—no, at least not now. Her greatest wish is to be ten years older than she is now. Being young is a burden, and it is better to wake up and have a life of her own, no longer revolving around her mother and François, though she loves them dearly.
"The teacher's daughter" - a specific identity. In every middle school, the role tends to carry more pressure. In the teaching circle, she is more noticed because she is the child of a colleague. As for the classmates, she came from an opposite world, a molecule who could not be truly accepted and accepted by her peers, but could only be respectfully alienated and discriminated against amicably. It is almost impossible for her to truly enjoy secrets, and she is doomed to be more misinterpreted and suspicious than others.
She loves her mother, and when her mother not only cannot protect her, but needs her protection on the contrary, the huge pressure will make her emotionally fluctuating.
Today, we'd call her: Adolescent Anxiety; back then, we'd call her Rosemary.
The afternoon before the breakup, McGrady offered Henry her maiden body.
But she said to Henry, I can't go with you. I love you, but I don't mean to live together. Life has no reason, and I should give you strength and hope, because you gave them to me as well.
Rosemary, it symbolizes faithful remembrance, love, and immortality.
In "Romeo and Juliet", when Romeo is standing in front of the body of his misidentified lover, Lorenzo exclaims:
"Don't weep and
sprinkle rosemary on the beautiful corpse and
dress her in the most gorgeous clothes of the past. Clothes
Carrying into the Church
[Ⅳ. Thyme] In
French class, Ms. Everice talked about the beloved poems of the students. She said that most of the compositions in the class lacked originality and imagination, and the best works were from Francois and Henry. Hand. Francois, like Henri, chose an esoteric poem by Rambo to show off his knowledge of the high; Teacher Lace gave him a score of 14.
Narcissism, narcissism, - in everyone's eyes, Francois is like a daffodil, a bulbous herb born in the Mediterranean region. Vanity and lofty, comfortably in sleep Get through the heat of summer. But when he first feels the passion—in fact, same-sex love is like falling in love with his own image in the water—he loses his mind and throws himself into it.
Because of this ecstasy, rather than put Franço Tiffin will be a narcissus, rather he is a tobacco plant. Full of provocation and excitement, hidden and dangerous. From addictive infatuation to inescapable habit. It
all started that night. Sunshake wakes up: take you to a secret place to smoke.--He hesitated. So Serge laughed at his cowardice and continued to lobby, as if going to the rooftop to smoke was a rare adventure.
They asked each other if they were virgins, to hide their disappointment. And agreed to join forces to complement each other, girls who don't like this must like the other extreme. Like tutoring each other in math and French. The same goes for chasing girls.
Serge's eyes were sincere and friendly. Francois finally took the cigarette he offered. A soft tobacco smell pervades the room.
——François has been restless after sharing the bed with Serge. Maddie was unfamiliar with his emotional response, but François's childish answer made her laugh again, and he raised the cigarette butt between his fingers: I have changed, I have learned to smoke.
Francois is a typical person who is good at observing and comforting others, but completely ignorant of himself.
In this sense, he is a thyme, a dicotyledonous herb. He knows to care for girls, but he doesn't know that the same sex is his true love.
Thyme, spice condiment on the table. Like him, a moderate conciliator.
He persuaded Serge to reconcile with Henry, to persuade Mai Di to be kind to the "right-wing fascist" Henry, and to explain to Serge the motive of asking Mai Di to comfort his dead brother's pain: I love you, and I hope she loves you. He even asked Henry to understand McGrady: that was an idealist, a left-leaning feminist.
But in the bathroom, he stared at his own mirror and exclaimed: I'm gay, I'm gay!
Thyme, in the European literary tradition, symbolizes the poetic art of Attica in the Greek peninsula.
François, the literary youth, disliked Bergman's "The Mirror", and was keen on Jacques. Dimmie's "LOLA", because the former ends the believers being saved after death and the father is opposite, which may just confirm his Oedipus complex; and the latter film tells the Nantes dancer Lorna, waiting for hopeless love 7 years. This is closer to his sensitive poetic heart.
He was probably the only one who noticed the change in Ms. Everest, although he didn't know that the teacher was deeply moved by the failure to help Pierre, the naughty man who peeked at the bottom of her skirt in class and was far from the North African front. Blame and guilt. He noticed that the teacher suddenly lost his mind in the French class, looking at the branches gently swaying in the breeze outside the window, he opened the book abruptly, and read the last line.
"I'm confused,
sky blue, sky blue..."
However, she couldn't read it any longer, and suddenly covered her face with her hands. Immediately afterwards, he apologized in a hurry, but he was still unable to restrain himself. Later, on the bank of the summer river, when the emotional Maddie rushed over and cried on his shoulders after Henry left, François, which poem would he think of with mixed feelings?
He would probably think of Gourmont's "The Garden":
"One smells thyme and fennel, and
our garden is plump and tender."
Or, that gay poet Verlaine's "The Good Song"?
"When you are not gone,
pale and dim morning star, a
thousand quails
Sing, sing among the thyme flowers"
Thyme. Thyme, homophonic time. Serge had advised him against trying to start over, just as he had thought he would follow his dead brother, but some things are tougher than war, like time. Perhaps, at this moment, he secretly hopes that the loss of time will take away the memory because of the love of the same sex and the love of the opposite sex that he cannot grasp in his heart. Maybe, just maybe, François will recite Sappho's "Lost Friend" in his heart:
"Nectar drips on fresh
roses, soft thyme,
and flowering sweet woodsy,
and she wanders
[postscript]
Paul Serious and restrained, short and stocky, with short, flat black hair; Garfunkel's temperament is romantic and frivolous, with permed blonde hair so thick that a comb can't get through. In the 1960s and 1970s, Paul Simon and Garfunkel's voices often To be mentioned alongside the Carpenters, the harmonies are soft and boring. They sing ballads rather than rock, no anger, just pure love. True warriors of thought should, as a rule, scorn these worldly tastes.
And every time I think of these two, it's as if I see them wearing wide college capes, turning their heads together on a dirty, bush-covered path, their eyes serene. - This picture has a similar composition to the end of "Wild Reeds". In fact, it was the cover of Simon and Garfunkel's 1966 album "Sound of Silence." The photo has been ridiculed by critics as an "unimaginative" picture.
I doubt it would have been better to change the envelope design. Such a picture does not need to express a certain idea, point out a certain direction, in other words, it is intended to state rather than persuade. - Paul. Simon has always been like a young man who never stopped his musical journey, and the search for the ultimate truth will even run through his life.
The song on the album is already well known:
Are you going to Scarborough Market?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remembered to help me take it to a girl who lived there
Once upon a time she was my true love... The
original Scarborough market is located in 17th century England, the film "The Graduate" "The episode has been rewritten. It is said that Paul, who is familiar with English literature, contains the original intention of anti-war in the profound artistic conception of the refrain. ——And I personally pay more attention to the four kinds of herbal aromatic plants that recur because of my preference for plants. They are some symbols worth deciphering, paths worth exploring, perhaps, they are some silent voices in the singer's growth, some mysterious enlightenment, like everyone's curious cognition of himself when he is young, with the help of constellations, or blood types.
This article is given to the girl Miyamoto, a place called Scarborough where she lives, and her sad signature "Scarborough Wandering Soul", and to our common love, 60-year-old Paul. Simon.
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