On May 13, 1968, the
French May storm arose
. After Charles de Gaulle became the president of the French Fifth Republic, he implemented a series of domestic and foreign policies, which made France's economy develop and its international status improved. But the independent development of nuclear forces was costly and was opposed by both the left and the right, the president's arbitrary actions caused dissatisfaction, the government's anti-strike legislation led to workers' revolt, and the policy of cutting small farmers also provoked peasant resistance. Due to the bad economic situation, the number of unemployed is as high as 500,000, and young students are facing the threat of unemployment after graduation. In 1968, all kinds of social contradictions became increasingly acute, with young students as the forerunner, France set off the May storm.
In March, a student movement emerged at the Nonterre branch of the University of Paris, demanding reform of the school's educational system. On May 3, students at the University of Paris went on strike and occupied the university premises in protest at the expulsion of the leader of the student movement by the university authorities. The police closed the Nonterre branch and dispersed a mass gathering at the University of Paris. Students across the country have gone on strike and marched to protest police brutality. In Paris, students erected barricades to confront police. The struggle reached its climax in mid-May. On May 12, workers went on strike in solidarity with the students' struggle, demanding a 40-hour workweek and guaranteed wages of $200 a month. On May 13, students and workers jointly held a general strike and a general strike. More than 200,000 people in Paris flooded the streets, chanting anti-government slogans and conducting large-scale demonstrations. During de Gaulle's visit to Romania from May 14th to 18th, the situation deteriorated greatly. Students occupied schools, workers occupied factories, water, land and air traffic stopped, factories closed, shops closed, and the whole of Paris was paralyzed. School strikes have also swept through more than 90 French provinces, with farmers demanding higher agricultural prices and lower taxes.
De Gaulle hurried back home, backed by the military, negotiated with representatives of trade unions and business owners, and reached an agreement on May 25. The government basically complied with the demands of workers and staff for higher wages and asked workers to return to work. The government promised to reorganize, the Minister of National Education resigned, and education reforms were implemented. On May 30, de Gaulle announced the dissolution of parliament for new elections. On this day, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in the streets of Paris in support of the president's policies. The next day, de Gaulle reshuffled the government. On June 12, the government announced a ban on demonstrations. On June 16, the police entered the University of Paris and arrested key elements of the student movement. The storm subsided in May. Parliamentary elections were held in June, and the de Gaulleists won. De Gaulle reformed to avoid a repeat of the "May Crisis". On October 10, the National Assembly passed laws establishing university autonomy and arranging the participation of university students in higher education. The situation gradually returned to normal.
Even French students are very similar to Chinese students.
Bertolucci said that one of the things the film wants to express is to tell young people today that you should be full of hope (in my opinion, it sounds like a call for young people to rebel...). Of course, 1968 is very different from the 21st century. It was a time when everything was up in the air, and young people believed that if they participated in history, they could change it. And now, it seems that everything is settled: what social system should be, and what economic line should be taken. However, it is difficult to talk about it, and there must be places where people are wronged. China, a young country, is beginning to follow the path that developed countries have taken in the past, and step by step, it is solid, and it seems that they are unbalanced. The current environmental issues and human rights issues are justified by the public, and they can be discussed indefinitely. Of course, young French people will not miss this opportunity to "change history".
Critics are said to have summed up Bertolucci this way: an unreconstructed Latin cavalier, flagrant in his treatment of nubile young actors; always political but never politically correct. ) makes sense. This is the case with "Stealing Incense" and "Dream of Paris" that I have watched so far. The characters in these two films are isolated from society, living their own lives, looking for the ethics and taste of their own lives.
Eva Green's debut. Maybe she and Liv Tyler are lucky. However, their understanding of performance is very similar. They naturally threw themselves into the roles (both virgin roles), and forgot the director's actions and cuts, which resulted in the memorable hair on fire in that scene. The post-processing is also icing on the cake, the gripping slow motion.
I also want to be a movie fan, lying on the ground with my movie fan girlfriend listening to the original music, reading niche books, pretending to be the plot of the movie and letting the other party guess, and punishing the wrong guess.
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