In order to prepare a more personal short film, I found this movie again, and watched it in a hotel where the sun still hadn't dissipated and the curtains shed a little golden light, washing my face and brushing my teeth for breakfast.
Even though I have a dual purpose, every frame of this film is precious to me. Because for a long time, I didn't have a deep empathy with the movie at the beginning like today, and I was firmly grasped, as if I had entered that time and space.
The short film I'm going to shoot recently is about old people. I'm going to shoot my grandma. She and my grandpa have been living with me for a rare time recently. I'm going to cast her as an Alzheimer's patient trying to find love and losing it.
With such a prepared mind, I revisited many movies. When I watched Wong Kar Wai, I thought, I would like to draw a frame. It's a purely documentary approach. But when I finally saw "Love", I suddenly felt that I couldn't get the effect I wanted.
I cried twice for no reason after entering the world of movies, the first time was when Mrs Lawrence looked at old pictures and she said: What a beautiful time.
I also like to look at old photos, I saw them for a long time yesterday. My family loves it too, and every time we go back to my grandma's house, we always open the photo album and look at the pictures. The old man looked at the photos with indifference regardless of nationality, but I was much more excited when I saw the photos.
In this scene of the movie I suddenly realize that the memories they carry on their shoulders are far heavier than mine.
In fact, I used to know this truth, but I have never really experienced the precipitation of memories, and it is the same now, but in "Love", the old man's sense of powerlessness hit me deeply, and he didn't even resist , when he faced blatant extortion, unreasonable requests, and afflicted conditions, they didn't even resist.
If it is the youngest person, he will disdain to argue and then be proud of all the words and deeds of extortion, and will not express his position in behavior. If it is a relatively young person, he will argue with reason, but if he can't argue, he will change his way until he wins. Even if his head is broken, he will eventually win spiritually. If it is a middle-aged young person, then he will try to argue, but he will also let go, but he will never forget to be brave.
And the elderly they don't even want to resist. When the daughter played by Huppert was in a hurry, it seemed that only the old man knew the feeling of powerlessness under the heavy weight.
I used to fantasize about a day when I too would stop being a godfather like Al Pacino and shave my mohawk like De Niro did. I asked myself why I was like that, because I couldn't beat the young man, very simple. I thought so at the time. In fact, this feeling of powerlessness is very despicable. I hate it because it is cowardice for self-preservation, I thought at that time.
Actually, when I look back now, I won't deny it, but I won't keep that attitude. Because when we try to judge others for cowardice, we must first be strong and stand on the commanding heights.
I am now a young person who is denying marriage. I am keen to argue with adults about my views. After observing the state of the world, I am convinced that "the contract is destined to make love rot on the pillow". But after watching "Love", I suddenly longed for marriage like never before, longing to be restrained, bound by contract, to lose the freedom of love and the right to lose the prodigal son. Because I see the purest love in it, asexual, no lingering, what I used to think is the so-called weak love that tries to find shelter to take care of each other after frigidity.
There is no problem with young people being strong, but when they stand on the commanding heights because of this, they appear stupid and inflexible, and they will subtly become what they least want to be. Because maybe the people they taunt are who they were when they were old.
Not everyone can imitate the appearance of time. Old age not only means physical aging, but also means that they have experienced more time and have a heavier burden. Young people can listen to them and pretend to see through, but they can never get all at once all the burdens of old people, which they always criticize with contempt.
If the young man insists on living his life, the only way to make him feel at ease is to become a nihilist or hedonist. Otherwise, he will find that the burden of time is on him at some point, and he can no longer insist on some things, so that he has become the person he once hated.
Therefore, in the above reflection, I came to the answer that "Love" gave me, and I suddenly felt that I could not shoot the effect of the short film I envisioned.
The second time I cried was at the end where the old man caught the pigeon. After he told the story and sent his wife the last ride, while writing something (maybe a suicide note or something), he saw the pigeon again. The first time he saw the pigeon he let it go, and the second time he tried to catch the pigeon, but he let it go.
The helplessness of the old man rushes out at this moment. I personally feel that the pigeon is a form of life, and the way the old man treats the pigeon is the way he treats life. He let the pigeons go because he thought life itself was precious. He went to catch the dove because he believed that the way of life, the form is more valuable. He may think that life is worse than life is like an animal without emotion, it is better to die. But he finally let go of the pigeons because he made a distinction between life rather than life and life itself. Therefore, the director did not explain the ending of the old man clearly, and he let the old man follow him through an illusion. Because after killing his wife, the old man is not as good as death.
From here I saw the purest love mentioned above, and from here I suddenly longed for marriage.
Earlier I said that young people always like to stand on the commanding heights, but after all, it is only a wrong prerequisite for making judgments. But what made me truly discover that cowardly love is better than free love. Precisely because he has the change and imprisonment that I hate the most.
We all say to live out who we are, but we also need to be others emotionally, because people are people who are eternally longing for love, and what love is, love is exchange. The real selfless love in the world is only the love of flesh and blood. If you pursue your dreams alone, the love of flesh and blood will never go with you. It will grow old when you grow up, and gradually travel far away. Therefore, true and pure love that will never die will only break out when you are willing to change and sacrifice. It's not about sex and lingering, it's about sacrifice. "Love" is full of this kind of silent giving. Old couples have lost their passion for romantic pursuits, so their sacrifices are more natural and pure.
Lawrence killed his wife, and his sacrifice was the greatest. And many people will blame him in their own position, and I have also blamed him. But now that I think about it, I have to pretend that I have experienced the world and say that this is the purest love.
The power contained in the whole film is constantly suppressed, restrained, and finally not erupted. This may be the burden of the film's two-hour time.
I am not qualified to discuss what kind of director can create such a burden on the audience, but in the past two hours, I was suddenly in awe of what Mr. Yang Dechang said.
Movies tripled people's lives.
Put a line at the end (the part where he said he had diphtheria when he was a child)
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