Philosophy is often regarded as a kind of advanced and obscure word game, profound thoughts and abstract experiences, revealing the truth between subtle language and words, high-pitched and low-key, ignorant, and the film "The Future" mainly revolves around an ordinary philosophy. The teacher unfolded. The French post-80s female director Mia Hansen-Love won the Silver Bear with this film. This year, Huppert, who has sent excellent works one after another, has also been affirmed by New York film critics and has become a powerful force in various award ceremonies. Competitors, this literary and artistic film does not discuss philosophical issues in a high-profile manner, or step into an unfathomable academic realm. Instead, it focuses on the most ordinary and ordinary daily life. There is a certain space for aftertaste and reflection.
Natalie, a philosophy teacher played by Huppert, is a well-behaved person over forty years old, who concentrates on teaching and is regarded as a representative of middle-class intellectuals. Her favorite student, Fabien, is not satisfied with the status quo. "Revolution", it is easy to be grouped with the passionate young people in history who want to do something radical to change the society. They are also influenced by philosophy, but they have two completely different attitudes to life. One is absolutely Her freedom and passion chose to take the initiative, and she became passive with an absolutely rational and conservative stance, but Natalie's next life changes caused emotional ripples in her heart, her husband cheated, her mother died, publishing troubles, a Piece after piece, after the accident and pain, she lived more freely and calmly.
Schopenhauer, Zizek, Buber... The names of these big-name philosophers appear in the film one after another, and several philosophical classics that trigger association and thinking are also quoted. Philosophy not only reflects the height of thought, but also inspires Consolation, but also shows the mystery and charm of language, it is particularly meaningful to say it through Natalie, but it is difficult to rescue her from a bad life. The furnishings in the house and the natural scenery outside, including some unique and natural plot ideas, coupled with the attention to lines and the traditional passion for philosophy, create a high-end, elegant and literary atmosphere of literature, everything is very French, and this kind of literary atmosphere. The daily shooting techniques that seem to be similar, without losing depth and thought, are hard not to be reminiscent of the image style of French new wave film master Rohmer, which feels extraordinarily cordial and comfortable.
The selection of the soundtrack and the consideration of the appearance of the appropriate bridges have taken great care. Two important and symbolic soundtracks are used very cleverly. It sounded when she left the holiday home where she once had fond memories with her accompaniment, indicating that she was saying goodbye to the past years in which she worked hard for her family (Natalie later pointed to her husband's music preference, listen to it It was Schumann and Brahms), and another paragraph selected Bob Dylan's idol Woody Guthrie's masterpiece "ship in the sky", which was Fabien driving to pick up Natalie with him On the way to the holiday cabin, just like the black cat "Pandora" who is driven by instinct to re-adapt and integrate into the new environment, from classical to folk songs, and Natalie, who also needs to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.
Women can be said to be a focus of this film. There are also many female directors in film history who will regard them as important portrayals. The representative of them is Belgian director Chantel Ackerman, and Mia has also done a lot. Coloring, after the death of the poor and tragic mother in the film, Natalie recounts her mother's life experience and concept. There is no doubt that Natalie's mother in the film is a tragic and relatively low-level female character, and her mother expresses her regrets. It turned into high requirements and expectations for Natalie, and even a willful dependence. When she came to Natalie, she lived a decent and dignified life. Even if she was betrayed and hurt, she could still love and let go. Life has many similarities with Paul Verhoeven's new work "Her", which is also dominated by women this year, but this one is closer to life and more sophisticated.
In recent years, many movies no longer take men as the absolute protagonists, but put more space and energy on the shaping of female characters. Instead, men have become green leaves. The state of women when they are hurt by scumbags is not Then there is the fragile and humble image in the traditional impression, or it always appears as a male accessory, but shows people in a quite independent, independent, strong (potential) attitude, and Natalie is obviously a part of it, even if she speaks. It is a bit realistic and depressing, a bit lonely and melancholy, and I also cry at night about the past and the irreversible years, but later when I accidentally meet my husband and lover, I burst into laughter and quickly break the relationship that my husband had built up. All kinds of connections, and the arrival of a new life, and finally in the gentle singing and care, the freedom she shows is particularly touching.
No matter how wise the philosophy is or how great women are, it is difficult to override the impermanent life. This film mainly tells about Natalie's life based on the future time period. The world is unpredictable, birth, old age, sickness and death, joys and sorrows, different experiences and Age, cognition, coping attitudes and choices will be very different. No matter how rational it is, it is still difficult to get rid of emotional ties and influences. Many people may be like the students in the film who questioned Natalie's unchanging life before and after. , I don't understand her stubbornness and persistence, but in the end, I can understand Natalie quite a bit. Times change, and the experiences I have had will slowly settle and fade in the long river of time, and in the end, I will be very helpless and calm. Discovery and acceptance, insipidity, is the ultimate answer to the difficult philosophical question of life.
Written in December 2016, I am not very satisfied and need to be strengthened and still need to work hard.
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