For fans who are familiar with De Palahim, the opening of "Three Memories of Youth" is easy to think of his classic "La Sentinelle" (1992) - a French diplomat returned to his native France from Russia because of his passport. The reason was interrogated, and the interrogation evoked bits and pieces of the past, and the memories unfolded in Yan. The film also has some of the most typical DeParahim-style image labels—circle in, circle out—and DeParahim loves to use this image technique that symbolizes the era of classical silent films. The imprint is what gives birth to the unfolding of the memory. In addition, Mathieu Amalric, De Palahine's royal male star, who can best show the complex inner world in contemporary French cinema, is still the protagonist and the main body of memories. However, this time, the texts to be dealt with by DePalakhine are not as complex as Sentinel, and they have to evoke the entire history of the Cold War.
The title of "Three Memories of Youth" (the most direct translation of "Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse" should be "Three Memories of My Youth") already points out the narrative structure of the film. The film (compared to the dozen or so paragraphs of "Sentry", this film is also concentrated and refined in terms of structure), the first paragraph "Childhood" and the second paragraph "Russia" are only half an hour, and the third paragraph "Ace". special" for eighty minutes. Judging from the length of the film, the proportion of the three-stage structure of the film is a bit strange. Deparahim's intentions can only be understood after watching the whole movie, it's all about self-identity, self-awareness perfection. The hero of the film and the main body of his memories, Paul Dédalus, grew up in a very peculiar family. His mother committed suicide when he was young, his aunt was gay, and his father was a sales representative. Paul didn't like his mother since he was a child, which made him recall that the object of the funeral was his mother very late in the film, and the avoidance and rejection in it can be imagined. My father was always busy in order to make a living, and he never remarried because of his love for his mother. Paul's feelings for his father were also cold because of this. Aunt is Paul's favorite elder. Because of this, Paul has never had a family complex and is very curious about external things. He likes to play Go, and later chose to major in anthropology. His tutor is an anthropology expert of Benin origin. In order to write his doctoral dissertation, Paul has lived in Central Asia for many years. The second story is a comprehensive presentation of his adventurous and curious personality. During the Cold War era, Paul actually went to Belarus with his friends to carry out a secret mission to help the Israelis escape. He even generously gave his passport to a man of the same age as him. The boy on the run - his official identity is blurred, he has a "replica". The third segment of the film revolves around Paul's love affair with his girlfriend Esther, interspersed with his school life in Paris and his relationship with other friends. The relationship between Paul and Esther is naturally the focus of the memory. We see the two get together, and sometimes love and hate. Due to the isolation of space, the love between Paul and Esther is intermittent, and the two occasionally have physical relationships with others, but it seems that the other party is their only treasure. De Palahim is very sensitive to the handling of the female body. In the sex scene of Paul and Esther, we see mostly complete (spiritual) images of physical pleasure intercourse, but the scene of Paul and his good friend girlfriend cheating, the video The core point is the girlfriend's private parts, a very physiological subjective point of view.
Time is the best proof and the best mentor. Years later, when Paul met his old friend Kovalki again and the memories unfolded again, he realized the invaluable youthful love between him and Esther. Only at this moment did Paul and the audience suddenly understand that although his love with Esther was not the only love for each other, it was "complete" (Paul's words), and the damage to their emotions by others was also "complete" ”, and his resulting anger is also “complete.” Precisely because of "integrity", for Paul, although not the only one, it is also a utopia, a piece of memory of the purest home in his heart. External symbolic signifiers such as passports and ID cards cannot testify to a living body at all. Only beautiful emotions are the eternal proof of identity and self. Self-affirmation can never be determined by seemingly rational social laws and laws. , the self can only be related to individualized memory and cognition.
Recalling the tender days, Esther sincerely sighed at the loss of Paul's passport, "I confirm that you are the original!" I love so I am here! And the events of the outside world, no matter how important, are just a proof for the ego, an unconscious attempt to present the self-historical process, as Paul said, the fall of the Berlin Wall for him "is the end of childhood. ', because there are some of his most thrilling childhood memories. All of this is described in words familiar to the Chinese, and perhaps this is something that can be remembered, but it was lost at that time.
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