A few months ago, I watched Rohmer's movie "The Full Moon Reflecting the Flowers" (1984), and wrote a few sentences after watching it, and now I have written it out from memory.
Just like the title of the film, the full moon makes it difficult to fall asleep, indicating the restless heart of the girl. The ending is not as good as the Chinese translation. Female Wenqing wanders among many men but ends up alone. Try to describe the heroine's life without prejudice.
The first is the stubborn ego. It may be common for a young girl with an artistic background to have doubts about certainty. For her, a mature and stable boyfriend and an unchanging life may be the constraints of life; on the contrary, the current mood, the current emotion, will be more important than the long-term future. And then there's the strong self-confidence. "He will never not love me" "If he no longer loves me, I will not love him either". She was born beautiful, she was talented, she was not polished by life, she had no doubts about herself and what she believed in.
The fear of boring life and overconfidence make her absolutely faithful to her own emotions. She is capricious, passionate and fickle, and the ending is destined to be tragic. At the end, she, who was wandering among the men, had already ruined her life, and her life was broken. At this moment, she seemed to realize the true meaning of some kind of life.
This is a self-seeking story. Suddenly, I feel that the image of literary young women in this French film in the 1980s seems to be quite in line with our current stereotype of female literary young women. If the brokenness of faith is a hardship that literary and artistic youth must go through, what will happen next? The ending of literary youth, I think this is an interesting thing.
If the story doesn't end at this point, I think she will continue to go around in life and go through trials and tribulations. Maybe she will eventually learn to compromise and balance, and choose someone to accompany her for the rest of her life. Maybe, she got love and lost love again, and found that life was just like that, so she stopped being persistent and achieved true inner peace. Either way, it's a good ending.
Real life is often less than satisfying, and the slightly tragic ending is all the more poignant, and sadly the young actor who played the heroine died shortly after the film's release. When I heard the news, I thought that even the author of this film, Rohmer, a veteran of the French New Wave movement, who used restrained aesthetics and casual techniques to describe the emotions and living conditions of modern people, was a middle-aged and elderly director. , in the heart as quiet as the old pine, there will also be some kind of helpless lament for those sudden changes in life...
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