The movie "Boy Meets Girl" is a black-and-white world created by Karax in dreams and fantasies, which is full of pain and loneliness after being burned by love, and addiction after being eroded by desire with distress. When a boy meets a girl, in addition to emotional entanglement, it is nothing more than satisfying each other's ideological and physical possessiveness. In addition to this interdependent nature of men and women, the film also shows the subtle connection between men and women in a unique way of expression through the perspectives and perceptions of different characters. The atmosphere of the whole film exudes a very obscure sense of depression, and most of the men and women of all kinds show a kind of boring and lonely gesture. But it is also because of the control of the emotional tone and the intentional arrangement of the scenes that the artistic conception of the whole film can be rendered to the extreme, forming a strong appeal and impact.
The story structure of this film is extremely simple, but the main theme wrapped in it is unusually vague and jerky, with a sense of illusory simplicity. In Paris, France, a man and a woman suffered emotional ups and downs almost simultaneously. The boy Alex's beloved girlfriend betrayed him and his friend, but Alex still couldn't give up his love and nostalgia for his girlfriend. The love between the girl Mirra and her boyfriend has entered a freezing period, or the boyfriend can't bear the depression brought by his girlfriend. Gradually, in the eyes of her boyfriend, this love has already turned into a fear and panic. In this way, Alexander, who is intertwined with love and hatred, and Mirra, who is exhausted, seem to have nothing to do with each other. Different feelings have created each other's final life tragedy with irony.
This movie is worthy of praise because there are many details and settings with profound meanings. For example, at the beginning, the mysterious man used a low voice to slowly tell the unavoidable tragic factors in life, which just complemented the ending of the film. Behind an oil painting in Alex's home is a detailed record of all the important events of Alex since his birth. As the camera slowly sweeps through these events, love and desire constitute Alex's life. It gives people an indescribable sense of compassion and vulnerability, and also highlights Alex's life pattern that he has nothing but love and desire. The clearly visible gap on the cup and the broken glass of the phone booth seem to symbolize the hard-to-heal wounds in the hearts of the hero and heroine. At the end of the film, when Alex and Mirra both fall to the ground, it is in stark contrast to the couple who are still in their composure. This also reflects the most straightforward love experience for people who are deeply in love and lust, like falling into a dream and indulging in it until they lose their most basic senses.
In the film, Alex's surroundings are often filled with the voices of different men and women, the quarrels of men and women next door, friends and girlfriends discussing the details of sex, customers who can't tell their names after talking for a long time in the bar, Mirra's boyfriend to the walkie-talkie. Talking about his fears and troubles about love, the cries of a group of babies in the small room, and the guests who praised the silent film with body language, etc., but accompanied by these inconspicuous sounds, it reflects the men and women invisibly. The protagonist is not good at expressing his love for silence in common. In the face of her boyfriend's constant complaints, Mirra's silence is golden, but invisibly attracted Alex's attention. To make a phone call to confess to his beloved, Alex still needs to take notes as if to ponder, and the extremely passive and clumsy communication method of the hero and heroine also reflects the direction of the final two people from the side.
Mirra always exudes an extreme sense of loneliness and alienation. She tap dances at home alone, and the crisp sound from her feet seems to be Mirra's desire for joy. Holding scissors to look like she wanted to commit suicide, but changed her long flowing hair into delicate short hair, Mirra tried different changes to wake herself up, but she got deeper and deeper until she couldn't extricate herself. In the kitchen of the party, Alex and Mirra talked to each other about their inner pain and sorrow, constantly looking for comfort and resonance from each other, but just when Alex tried to open Mirra's heart When helping her heal, she didn't expect that Mirra's wounds had already rotted away, and the two people's different experiences of love and desire ultimately resulted in very different life outcomes. The departure of his girlfriend took away Alex's love and desire, which is more like ruining his life. He stole and gave the letter and the stolen record to his girlfriend, showing his reluctance and attachment to his girlfriend in every possible way.
Just as Alex gradually lost confidence, Mirra's intervention aroused his renewed love and desire, and more importantly, Mirra's appearance injected new hope and motivation into his life. But Mirra is completely different. She has already silently accepted and greatly enjoyed the constant erosion of her boyfriend's desire. In her heart, there is no room for new love or desire. For her, only death is the final way of liberation. At the end of the film, when the audience is sighing for Mirra's death, the real mystery has just begun to be revealed. It turned out that when Mirra heard Alex's voice, she hid the scissors in her arms, but unexpectedly, Alex's strong embrace ruined Mirra's life. Suicide in erosion, but die in the embrace of love. In the end, the director seemed to play a painless joke to the audience, but it was this absurd ending that gave the audience the most "fatal" blow.
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