After watching the movie, I thought it was an old movie, and I even felt a little old Soviet Union. Although I didn't know the Soviet Union, I had this feeling. It was full of simple feelings that moved me, a bit of a romantic revolution. A sense of ism (well, I may have thought too much). It's a pure color like the last white flower, an expression I haven't seen in a movie for a long time. The ending of the movie is almost detached from reality. In fact, the description of the town is almost detached from reality. It is utopian and idealized. It is so beautiful that it makes me feel more pessimistic, because it is impossible in real life, the police. Covering up, the black child successfully escaped, the harmony between people is so harmonious, and the terminal illness is miraculously cured, this is completely idealized. But I agree with the director's idea of building a utopia, because it expresses the director's hope for simple feelings and a better life.
But when I saw that the movie was released in 2011 and was still filmed in France, I didn’t understand my confusion at first, but after reading the director’s information, I realized that it was because there was no modern movie in this new movie in 2011. Information, no flashy mobile phones, no new big houses, no overwhelming electronic communication and Internet, no luxury cars, no hot girls, just like the director's previous films made in Finland were opposed and protested by the local people because they felt The director even made them Finland like this. Others thought that Finland was as backward and poor as in the movie. It was a country famous for Nokia, and the era of Hollywood blockbusters full of violence, sex and weapons. In his films, there is only an ordinary looking middle-aged man who makes a living by shining shoes, as well as his also middle-aged wife who is not beautiful, and many ordinary middle-aged people. There is hardly a young man. Not loud at all, not grandstanding at all.
The shoe shiner played by the male protagonist, he helps the smuggled black child to "go to the other side", he taught him to shine shoes to make a living and make a living like himself, although in my opinion he lives very hard, but he does not. feel. He told the child that although there are more jobs that can earn more money, it is the job that is closest to the human being, and he says that it is also the least ingenious job in the Sermon on the Mount. Isn't this way of wrapping the yellow skirt that his wife asked for in paper to impress people?
His wife, the woman who appears in Archie Kaurismaki's films over and over again, is almost a queen, she's not pretty, but I like her because she's so dignified in this movie, Archie ·Korisma's film gives me the strongest feeling that everyone in it, every little character, every villain, every decent is so dignified.
I found that this is the consistent style of the big directors, and there are heroines that he is used to. For example, Jia Zhangke always used Zhao Tao as the heroine, and he became a husband and wife. This woman has left an influence at almost every stage from young to old in Aki Kaurismaki's films, she is the young female worker in the match factory girl, she is the supermarket cashier in the twilight light. Soy sauce, appeared for a while. He is at home waiting for his husband to come home from work, put the money his husband earned from shoe shine into the box in the drawer, give him some and let him go out for a drink and then she cooks, hardly any more expressions, like the most mundane People at the bottom, but the look in her eyes when she suddenly raised her head to look into the void in the distance shocked me, and this way of shooting makes me feel particularly nostalgic and simple, but it does not affect it is much more moving than other Hollywood blockbusters.
The suffering Vietnamese inside, he is equally difficult, but he does not feel that he lives with dignity, he has his own happy family, a child and a wife, and he can help the black children with the money he saves to buy bicycles for the children When he escaped, he felt that he was very happy, and the black children needed help even more, and the bicycle could be bought again. In the end, he helped the child escape and hid the child with the car that sold vegetables.
After watching this movie, I was moved by the director's style, and I watched The Woman in the Match Factory and Twilight again, but I still liked Le Havre more. His films are all about the lives of the most ordinary people at the bottom. They struggle in real life, are suppressed, and are almost abandoned by society, but they all still hold a little reverie about the beauty of life, like in the dark A weak spark, fragile yet tough. In director Aki Kaurismaki's films, the characters have few expressions, deadlocked movements, and few scenes. The pub, the dining room table, and the sofa and table at home are his most commonly used scenes, which are amazing There is almost no modern information about it, even the car is a retro vintage car rather than a luxury car, and the music is also an element that always appears in Aki Kaurismaki's movies, almost 50's rock. Music, in Le Havre is a charity concert to raise money to help black children escape, the singer and his partner who haven't sang in a long time, they love each other, she is his muse, the source of inspiration , without her he cannot sing. Every character in it is lovable. There are always musical elements in the director's films, or the lonely male protagonist standing next to the woman in a lonely tavern, looking at her sadly, or the lonely woman listening to the song alone in the hopeless room .
I googled the director's profile:
he said, "All I need is a man, a woman, a wall, a lamp and a shadow. Take the woman out of the picture and leave the man, the wall, the lamp and the shadow. ; take away the man, and the wall, the lamp, and the shadow; take away the wall, and the lamp and the shadow; take away the lamp, and only the shadow. I'm not very modern, and the cars in the movie are outdated I don’t want to photograph them anymore.” His own collection is full of old cars: a 1949 Soviet “Moscow” sedan, a 1951 Chevrolet pickup, and a 1956 car. A big bus: a Chevrolet engine, but a Finnish wood body.
And he hates Hollywood so much. In his words, "Hollywood shit! Let the Yankees go and make money, and when they have too much money to hold, I will pick up a few bucks from the ground - this is what we call art films" .
I think he did what he said was just shadows.
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