Assayas returned to the '90s style and refocused on the narrative game in intellectual circles. From "Blurry Tribulation", which describes the inside story of the movie circle, to "My Love Forgotten in Autumn", which is intriguing in the writer circle, and then to the book distributor circle in this new work, the director temporarily put down the first two works ("Tin"). Smaria, "Private Shopper"), a brilliant type experiment. The film mainly explores the interdependent relationship between paper books and e-books in today's society, and whether changes in people's reading habits will lead to the decline of the traditional book publishing industry. This kind of interesting topic is built entirely on the carefully constructed script, the density of character dialogue is maddening, and the collision of each other's points of view is difficult for me to digest in an instant. I feel that the director wants to avoid falling behind in this information age, so he throws a lot of unresolved discussions in the dialogue. Worried about being eliminated, the male protagonist of traditional publishers took the initiative to change and introduce e-books to meet the trend of the times. At the same time, his relationship with his wife is fading, and he begins to worry about a major change between the two. This shift from work to personal love life comes with an interesting intertextual relationship. On the other hand, the clues of the wretched male writers who have been relying on the publication and distribution of the male protagonists are also quite interesting. He specializes in writing emotional novels from personal experience. After the hero refused to release the new book, he still insisted on the original style of creation. In fact, he had a secret affair with the hero's wife. The constant overlap between the life he wrote in the book and the real life is another brilliant aspect of the script, and perhaps the origin of another title, "Non-Fiction." Passionate intellectual discussions suddenly turned into romantic and erotic relationships, and they kept throwing out fanfic memes ("Star Wars" and "White Ribbon") to make the audience laugh. This weakening of the author's style and the switch to the French romantic comedy genre is very similar to last year's Claire Deney's "Heart Warming", and it seems that it is not just because of the same actress. Perhaps Assayas returned to the basics after many genre explorations in his creation, so the essence wrapped in the topic of seemingly in-depth exploration of traditional books and e-books is French comedy, and the free and easy love values between intellectuals . These various signs are believed to definitely help Assayas to develop a wider commercial market, but it is difficult to leave too deep traces in the author's style of work. The director's usual shallow-focus photography and mise-en-scene are all gone, not to mention the lightness of the character's movement, leaving me with only the score that best reflects his personal taste.
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