【Supplementary Memories】 "Paris Smoke and Clouds (2004)"

Durward 2022-03-21 09:03:01

It's a war movie with art and love as its backdrop, and it's downright tragic. People in troubled times are like floating duckweed, neither body nor soul can find a safe place to live.

This is a story of a man and two women who parted ways after sharing the same bed in the war years and finally came back together. There are love, war, ideals, fate and death. The first scene at the beginning is that the heroine Gilda knows through fortune-telling that she has only 34 years in her life, and her life is too short, so she chooses to live in the moment wanton, interact with different men, and experience a warm life. Until one day, she accidentally broke into a Cambridge student dormitory because of an affair with someone else, and met the male protagonist Guy, a passionate, idealistic, concerned about politics, concerned about the community of human destiny and with revolutionary dedication. He couldn't understand the excessive burning passion in her, but he was deeply attracted by her. Unfortunately, his affection could not keep her, because from the day she knew her destiny, she did not believe in eternity. After Gilda's mother died, Gilda chose to go far away. She went to many cities, had many interests, and tried many careers. Guy even saw her in a movie. Every time she went to a city, she would send postcards to Guy, and she would go to the next city without waiting for him to reply. In the end, she came to live in France and became a photographer. She wrote a letter inviting Guy to visit her art exhibition in France, and Guy went on happily after receiving the letter. It's just that he didn't expect that in Paris, Gilda was with a man and they held a photo exhibition together. Here Guy experiences the extravagance and selfishness of the bourgeoisie who don't care about the war, especially Gilda's male companion, and even teases him for going around lobbying for the Spanish Republican Party, who are like Gilda, or Gilda is just like them , only care about their own happiness, covet comfort. It was also here that Guy met another woman, Mia, who was bereaved in the Spanish War and crippled a leg, and who was later exiled to Paris as a stripper, picked up on the street by Gilda. When Gilda kicked the man who helped her curate, the three of them lived together, they danced, took pictures, slept, and ate, and it was the happiest time of their lives, because there won't be a good day like that again. . The war in Spain is getting more and more intense, Mia and Guy finally decided to go to Spain, the peaceful days are about to be broken, Gilda is in pain, but just like Guy couldn't keep her back then, she couldn't keep it The two most loved people in my life. Before leaving, Gilda kissed Mia drunkenly, biting her lips, the blood made the mouths of the two women red, as if the salty beauty of death had already heralded the end at this moment, Gilda's eyes were full of eyes in the camera. Painful tears. We all know that the Spanish war was finally lost. Guy heard that Mia was killed not far from him. He wrote to Gilda to tell Mia's death. I don't know if it was this letter. It changed Gilda's life. If she didn't have any hope and belief in life before, then the meaning of her life after that was to fulfill her lover's unfulfilled wish. Mia's death turned the three-person line into a two-person line, and it seemed to be walking in the opposite direction. Guy became a British intelligence agent in World War II and was sent to Paris. He was looking forward to meeting his former lover Gilda. But she saw that she had become the mistress of a German officer, a military courtesan, shuttled by the Nazi officer's side. She was still so beautiful, even more beautiful, and Guy risked his life and couldn't help himself to see her, he broke into her house, and their fighting posture turned into a deadly entanglement.

●The two heroines, Gilda and Mia, I often think that they are a pair of red and white roses. They have pursued, lost, tried to bloom, and finally withered in the war, but their fragrance lingers.

He didn't want to believe people's disdain for her, said she was a German whore, said she was arrogant, he asked her why, he asked if you don't care what other people think, and Gilda didn't defend anything, just told him to leave quickly . Guy's recklessness made the officer very angry and ordered Guy to go to see Gilda and shoot him. Guy complied, but he didn't expect the unexpected meeting to come so quickly. Guy's fellow intelligence officer was caught by the Nazis. Da rushes over to rescue Guy, and he begins to wonder who she is, but his love makes him choose to trust Gilda. It turned out that Gilda was an invisible spy. She sold her looks and reputation in exchange for a lot of useful information, but everyone didn't know it, even when the war was over, everyone didn't know, so when the Nazis were defeated, Gilda fell into hell. ending. The Nazi officer wanted to take Gilda, maybe he really loved her, but it was too late, the angry mob came and killed the Nazi officer, blood was splattered on his beautiful lover's blonde hair, the mob grabbed Gilda hair and let her kiss the officer's death's face. "The last kiss", the mob sneered, and Gilda's red lips were bloody, and her trance-like expression seemed to recall a long time ago, a long time ago, there seemed to be such a parting. They wouldn't let Gilda go, they locked Gilda with the woman who was also the German mistress, and Gilda saw them tie the woman to a chair, cut her hair, and slut-humiliate her, The woman who had her hair cut did not dare to resist the mob, but yelled at her, only because she was associated with an officer with a higher title, so she was the one who betrayed the state secrets and harmed her. Gilda's eyes were extinguished ashes. Facing the coming torment and death, she just said calmly, "You won't understand." She was 34 years old that year. She read her suicide note in her room, and her review of her life. She used to think that the most important purpose of life was to make her life full and complete, and then resigned to her fate. To do nothing to fate is to bow your head to yourself. You should not be afraid of losing. You must stand up and fight, even if the result is doomed to failure.

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  • Gilda Bessé: Beauty, bravery, and brains. What a catch. You also have a nice willy, and I hope to dream about it.

  • Julian Elsworth: [Guy and Gilda are on the pool table, naked under a blanket] What are you wearing under there?

    Gilda Bessé: As it's your big day, I'm wearing my Birthday Suit in your honor.