Well, at dusk, outside the small window of the honeymoon resort, on the quiet roof... The movie is over, maybe the story has just begun.
I haven't seen such a pleasing five-point movie for a long time. The narrative is so smooth and natural, and the topic is so deep. I really want to call such a movie a "walking movie". Imagine walking aimlessly with someone you love, talking about topics that are completely unwilling to slack off, yes, let's not give in to each other, don't be ashamed for seeming quarrels, and liberate our true self, not for the sake of Just to make each other happy. I even enjoyed the rhythm with them and my heart was pounding.
I admire the director's grasp of the film's structure. The first half seems to be about the original art and reproductions. It wasn't until the waitress' misunderstanding in the coffee shop that the story suddenly turned. A replica of a married couple facing a midlife crisis after 15 years of marriage, who tacitly unleash the emotions of the original in a fake identity.
Looking at the first half, I was very powerful, and I was excited because I was so familiar with this kind of topic. The protagonist James recommends his new book "Legal Copies" in Tuscany, which is a book about the value of the original and the reproduction of a work of art. The subtitle is "A good reproduction is more valuable than the original". Contrary to Benjamin's point of view in "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", Benjamin believes that the copy has lost the Aura ("Aura") of the original, and therefore lacks the value of the original. But James himself claimed that the subtitle was only the result of the publisher's need for a topical title, and that he himself just wanted to prove the worth of the reproduction itself. He said his inspiration for the book came from a mother and son in a square five years ago. They were sitting at the foot of a statue. The mother was explaining to the son. The son looked up at the statue. He had no idea what it was. It is a reproduction, so he appreciates it as if it were the original.
The heroine, played by Binoche, is a French woman who owns a small gallery that sells both originals and antique reproductions, and because she doesn't fully agree with James's book, she asks him to narrate. The two continue the conversation about originals and reproductions as they drive to a spot in a Tuscan township with very old cypress trees along the way. Binoche has an older sister named Marie and lives a simple life. By comparison, Binoche is obviously putting too many restrictions on herself. She has a terrible marriage, and her relationship with her son is not well handled. Well, she is always difficult to get rid of tension, likes "responsible life", complains that other people in the family think too simply, only cares about her own happiness, and turns her into the last person in charge.
They talk about the simple life, saying that the simple life is the hardest, because people are not simple creatures, and it is so complicated to live a simple life. At this time, James told a bad joke. A very thirsty man went to the beach and saw a devil in a bottle. The devil said that he could grant three wishes, but he only wanted three bottles of Coke. So they naturally talked about the minimalist Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol - plug in, and suddenly remembered the British Alain De Botton's "Love Notes" about Andy Warhol's soup The jar, thought it was a material warm solace, and sometimes life is so simple - you take an object worth a few euros to a museum and people's perception of it changes. But what matters is not what the object is, but how people perceive it. So what is the function of art? A large part of art is to convey ideas, that is, opinions. So how different are reproductions and originals in terms of conveying ideas? If you are appreciating a piece of art and no one tells you whether it is an original or a reproduction, will it affect your understanding of it?
If you always pursue the concept of originality, how many works of art are original? From Plato onwards, artworks are just shadows of shadows, imitations, and Leonardo did not create that mysterious smile, but copied it. Real originals are rare, James joked that Marie's stuttering husband was original when he was called MMM-Maire, oh, Maire liked that, thought it was a love song, she liked his stuttering, and her opinion of his husband changed that man's value. Just as an artist puts a worthless junk into a museum, this affirmation and naming transforms the meaning of ordinary objects.
Haha, let's hurry up and talk about the second part of the thrilling. It's weird how sometimes I actually fall in love with someone because of someone else's affection (the empathy is so obvious), let's say this James, the most attractive moment in the movie for me is when he's out I answered the phone face to face, and the waitress kept talking to Binoche about his goodness. I fell into the imagination of James with waitress and Binoche. I really fell in love at that moment and felt that I loved him for 15 years, Having so many sweet pasts with him, even though he does have bad moments, it still fascinates me.
I like him so much when he talks about the "Plain Garden" in Persian poetry, although he preaches with a little bit of it. The attitudes of women and men towards love are really quite different. Women believe in promises and like to pursue eternity and immutability; while men believe in right and wrong, they cannot ask a tree to bloom forever. If there is a little indifference, it is not that you do not love, but the way of love has changed. They walked through a poor garden to a square with a fountain, in the middle of which was a statue, and the woman rested calmly and tenderly on the shoulders of the man. They started arguing again about the statue:
Female: I like it, don't convince anyone, don't treat it as a work of art, I just like the subject, I like the way she put her head on his shoulder
Male: I'm surprised you always It's so... Emotional
Woman: I'm surprised you're always so... irresponsible
Man: Irresponsible? This man can't do anything but protect this woman.
Girl: that's what made him immortal.
Their argument was getting a little irritating, when an old gentleman wisely told James that The only thing that needs to be done is to put a hand on her shoulder.
Is it really? Sometimes a woman is aggressive trying to argue for an outcome, expecting an unexpected tenderness. James did it anyway, and Binoche was thrilled. She went to the bathroom to put on lipstick and put on earrings, and she dressed herself in such a way that she hoped he would like it. The strange thing about this movie is how unconventional it is! When the Binoche came back, James was uncharacteristically angry at the cork smell in the red wine! I was blown away by the way he sneered and raised his eyebrows when he was angry.
I remember a friend of mine said that he liked the way Binoche looked undressed. Abbas did not give such a scene in this film, but gave a person taking off his shoes, and of course he also took off his underwear, but he took it off quietly in the church, and he never saw it. Although Binoche is old and slightly fat, she is still beautiful. I like the charming atmosphere in the changes of her expressions, which makes me feel her realness, as if she has never been coquettish but unaware of all kinds of charms. When she begged James to stay, she deliberately stuttered and called him JJJ-James, oh my god, I'm going to stutter something original one day.
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