Life is a spinning web

Michel 2022-03-21 09:01:56

It took me three weeks to watch these three films, and sure enough, "Red" is the best, both in terms of plot, dialogue, and characters are not as melancholy as the first two films.



Sure enough, the three films are a series of trilogy, until after watching the last scene of "Red", watching those people emerge from the boat one by one, wrapped in warm blankets, I suddenly felt that this is the theme of the whole story- - From the struggle to seek oneself and get rid of shackles; to revenge for those unfair; and later those love and doubts are all part of destiny. They clashed, overlapped, and reincarnated, like a long and grand movement, with those melodious and lonely minor keys, a deep, repetitive and intense middle part, and all the instruments sounding together, a powerful and brilliant ending.



"Red" is such a colorful and powerful ending. It's actually a lot of stories: the increasingly estranged relationship over the phone between the female model and her out-of-town boyfriend; the young male judge and his cheating girlfriend; the weatherman; the retired judge who became a wiretap and his young The story...these colorful stage scenes are connected through two windows on the three-pronged corner of the street, the old judge's pregnant dog, Zhizhiquan's wiretapping phone, and all kinds of details, so the characters are all related. We have to marvel at the director's and screenwriter's organizational ability to handle these scenes and details. The camera is in different windows, the large poster of the heroine, the courtyard of the desolate old judge... and so on, the constant switching between still lifes, but there is no fragmentation at all. Feel.



Connection: "A butterfly flapped its wings in England, and a big storm broke out on the east coast of the United States." "Red" seems to have caused such a result unintentionally. The pregnant dog accidentally bumped into the old judge; her visit led to a wiretapping case; the old judge turned himself in because of the influence of the female model, which led to the acquaintance of another pair of men and women in court, And so a new story begins...and the big poster, the story of the falling book, the dog (young judge and the old judge) running all the time, and the news of the rescue at the end, a lot of looks It seems to be an unintentional stroke, but it has become a thread that runs through the entire story. And these interlocking details make people feel the weight of the whole life - if you know that everything you do will have huge consequences, will you be trembling with fear? At the same time, he sighs that the fate of mankind is too easy to change.



Reincarnation: The old judge and the new judge repeat the same story; the female model often visits her mother while she always confuses her daughter and sister; the bitch who gave birth to seven puppies; Ships across England... what has happened still happens, and more than once. This is exactly the same issue that Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Life expresses from the opposite point of view. Milan Kundera believes that because what has happened will never happen again, life cannot be repeated and there is no if, so its traces are so light that we cannot bear our own insignificance and insignificance, nor can we bear it. Sloppy and imperfect. In "Red", the repeated appearance of the plot makes us know that we are only a very small part of all living beings, one of many, we are also so small and small, equally imperfect, but countless same One note makes up the whole movement.



Unfinished: The story of "Red" is open, and many, many unfinished people feel that this is a life with branches and branches, rather than a story with a round layout. Westin and her boyfriend who has only a voice until the end; whether she will meet the young judge; the story of the old judge; the puppy that is about to be delivered; even the six stones on the old judge's piano... How will they be? How will they affect life? We seem to know, and we don't seem to know. This is another aspect that I like about "Red". When the story is finished, the audience is given countless stories that are about to begin.



"Blue", "White", "Red" is a movie about life, and because of that, it's too heavy.

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Three Colors: Red quotes

  • Valentine: If I had to go to court...are there still judges like you?

    The Judge: You won't go to court. Justice doesn't deal with the innocent.

  • Valentine: You're not afraid?

    The Judge: I wonder what I'd do in their place. The same thing.

    Valentine: You'd throw stones?

    The Judge: In their place? Of course. And that goes for everyone I judged. Given their lives, I would steal, I'd kill, I'd lie. Of course I would. All that because I wasn't in their shoes, but mine.