Sans Toit Ni Loi

Stanford 2022-03-21 09:03:05

Literally translated into Chinese, the title of the film is "without 'house' without bundles", which may be a little more appropriate. toit is the roof, which represents the house that shelters the wind and rain; loi is the laws and regulations, which means that the constraints of behavior are limited in the rules and regulations. Double negation sans...ni...is the most accurate way to describe Mona. Wandering around, she has neither a fixed residence nor abiding by potential or explicit regulations, breaking the routine of life, and walking in the desert with a backpack.

She is an individual out of the community, a small molecule without a trace, who shuttles between all kinds of people. The dragonfly flies to the next place after staying for a while, with no nostalgia and no direction. How much does a person need? Besides water and bread, what else is essential? Set up a tent to spend the night, a cemetery or a field. Red wine, tobacco, and the music played on the radio are the preparations for a dry life. If you have it, you can enjoy it and enjoy it. If you don't have it, it's okay for her to enjoy loneliness.

She is an absolute practitioner of free will, but also a trampler of the traditional social system. Not affiliated with anyone or any organization. Family and work are the main life components of a social person, yet she disdains to be bound in one place. Doing odd jobs is for food, sleeping with men is for a short escape from the cold wind and a moment of fun. That's all.

Anyone who interacts with her a little will feel that this is an incredible soul. The botanist drove her to work in various places, left her in the car and brought her to eat; the maid envied her because she saw the eternity of Mona sleeping for a moment in the arms of a man; the philosophical shepherd gave her a piece of land Growing potatoes, but refusing to work, she eventually escaped. What impressed her was the moment when she and the old woman were toasting and laughing. They were well aware of the antics of the world and the hypocrisy of human nature. It is also because of this that the old woman's heir and nephew, who is also a student of a botanist, finds Mona terrifying and resists and disgusts from the heart. Just as a false pretense cannot stand against the naked originality.

An accidental fire left her without her backpack and tent, and she had to live overnight in a crop shed. The carnival in the village was the last place she passed through. The villagers disguised themselves as monsters and targeted her. This is the last injury to her by the masked social animals, it is accidental and inevitable, it is accidental but also expected.

Martyr of freedom--Mona

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  • la platonologne Mme Landier: Why did you drop out?

    Mona Bergeron, sans toit ni loi: Champagne on the road's better!

  • les Bergers: She blew in like the wind. No plans, no goals... No wishes, no wants... We suggested things to her. She didn't want to do a thing. Wandering? That's withering. By proving she's useless, she helps a system she rejects. It's not wandering, it's withering.