This is an extraordinary film. Like the style of most French films, the film's narrative is not strong, de-dramatic and focuses on depicting the characters' living conditions and spiritual trajectories, similar to the line drawing in literary creation. The images are hand-held photography and natural light, so the images often give people a rough shaky feeling. Through the angle of photography, the protagonist's nose and chin are deliberately enlarged, the slender neck is often elongated at an upward angle, the head that always falls into the shadow on one side and the sloppy hairstyle, use technical packaging to uglify the character image, making The character's personality is extrapolated, and at the same time, it reflects the restless state of the character in the real society.
The protagonist, Thomas, a 28-year-old young man in Paris, is an economic man of an underground real estate leasing company. He travels all day long in every corner of the city, sneaking mice into the tenant's house to remove occupiers, collecting rent, destroying houses, beating and driving away the poor. The tenants of the gang are flipping the land, like a gang member doing a series of bloody, dirty and shameful deeds. In his spare time, he listened to deafening electronic music with headphones all day long, went to bars and flirted with prostitutes, slept with a colleague's wife, cleaned up the mess for his father, who was also a real estate agent, and lived a miserable life.
However, the musical talent inherited from her mother as a pianist was revived after a chance encounter with an economic man in front of her mother. The Economist had heard Thomas play as a child and admired it immensely. He gave him a business card and strongly recommended him to take the pianist qualification exam. In order to strive to become a professional pianist like his mother, he decided to regain his dream after stagnant piano practice for many years, but the difficulties from life and the obstruction from his father made him suffer a lot in reality and ideals.
The deceased mother, representing music, ideals and the pursuit of art, is a legitimate and bright life. This kind of life existed in Thomas's teenage years, but with the death of his mother, this bright light gradually weakened the edge.
In reality, the father, who represents money, is dirty, bloody, dangerous and ugly. Constantly using feelings as threats, let his son do dangerous work, clean up the mess that he couldn't clean up, and sent him away after the matter was done. Except for a group photo of a family of three placed in a luxurious residence, there is no emotion in this fat-brained middle-aged man. He objected to his son's piano practice, believing it was a waste of time, and blamed "this damn art" for his wife's death. Therefore, rather than saying that the protagonist chooses between reality and dreams, it is better to say that he chooses between his mother and his father's affection, which casts a layer of affection on this movie about the piano.
On the contrary, it is the son who is full of love and nostalgia for his father. This kind of love makes him more like a father who takes care of his son, taking care of all kinds of difficult problems for him and settling troubles. Although he hated his father's girlfriend, after breaking up, he found her and said, I will give you money and you will make up with him. Because of professional grievances, his father was killed at home in the end, and the room was in a mess. He looked at his blood-stained dead father, the corners of his mouth twitching, the tears he held back, and his fingers cramping, almost collapsed.
Love is actually a very important clue in the film. The love between Thomas and piano teacher Miao Lin has always been placed in the small space of Miao Lin's apartment, which is also the piano practice room. Like the mysterious oriental mood of Miao Lin and the music in the background, it is soothing and melodious, and it is getting better.
He loves the piano so much. After the first piano lesson, in the hustle and bustle of the bar, deaf to everything around, immersed in the wonderful world of music, the eyes glow like never before. At home, I constantly listen to my mother's playing tapes during her lifetime. Even on the eve of the fight, he sat in the car with his fingers on the steering wheel. His enthusiasm for the piano was a total genius, yet he missed one of the most precious periods of his life as a pianist. His techniques tend to be proficient, but his artistic expression is still rudimentary. He is already 28 years old, and the lack caused by the vacancy of years cannot be made up for by short-term efforts.
There are two scenes about Thomas going to take the piano exam.
In the first game, he could not finish playing the tune he had practiced and mastered over and over again. After the second failure, he fled in panic with the piano score.
In the second scene, in the concert hall that had ended, he kept wiping the keys, adjusting his sitting position and bench, looking nervous and restless.
Fortunately, there are other choices in his life. Two years later, they were already lovers, and he became her manager. He caught the pulse of music in a new way in his favorite artistic field, and life began to shine brightly. One night, it was raining heavily, and he accompanied Miao Lin to take the pianist qualification exam. He saw the murderer who killed his father, so he followed and fought in the corridor. He held down the murderer, grabbed the gun, pressed it against the opponent's forehead, and then moved it to his mouth. Angry face, hands trembling, hesitating for a long time, put it down, raised it again, put it down again, finally gave up, left, returned to the show soaked, washed the wound in the bathroom, white shirt covered with blood , the injured fingers are particularly dazzling under the tap.
Then, after finishing his clothes, he returned to his seat and looked at his lover who was performing on stage with a smile on his face.
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