" I still remember the excitement and excitement of the novel "The Dreamer", but it is not how the novel is written exquisitely, but that the 1968 in the novel coincides with what I imagined. I knew that it was basically my imagination, but I was very happy because someone had the same beautiful imagination as myself. In Bertolucci's hands, this story has turned into a blood-colored diamond that looks as hot as fire, but feels as cold as ice. In the cold light, it contains a generation's cautiousness and prudence towards their youth. Crazy miss.
The first shot of the film, after passing through the towers of Paris, falls on a young man, Matthew, an American young man who came to France to study, rather than that he came to study in Paris to make a film. rat. "Only French people in the world can put movies in the palace." In this movie palace, he sat greedily at the front of the theater seat, enjoying the movie's light and sound before it was "polluted" by other people. With its own light and shadow world. The sudden closure of the "palace" allowed him to meet a pair of French twin brothers and sisters who were also film mice. In fact, it is an acquaintance, it is better to say that Bertolucci asked Matthew to be a bystander instead of himself, or the narrator is more accurate. No matter how hard Matthew tries to fit into Theo and Isabella's life; together they traverse the Louvre and set a new record imitating The Outlaws, they guess the movie day and night, punish and be punished, they Movies, revolutions, sex, and even Isabella's first time were given to Matthew, who was still just a passer-by in their lives. So at the end of the film, after the riots in Paris shattered their extravagant lives of isolation, on the streets where students and police confronted, Matthew's last look into Theo and Isabella's eyes is nothing but a plea to continue friendship and Their disappointment was filled with a bit of resentment; perhaps it was the attitude of Theo and Isabella towards them, or the revolution that woke him from his dream. In a sense, "Dream of Paris", like "The Last Emperor", is not only the vicissitudes and ruthless changes of an era, but also the history of a person, the history of a person's loneliness.
Eva Green in Bertolucci's lens is beautiful. She slowly undresses to the singing of Giannis Joplin, she fascinates our eyes in the dark with the image of Venus with a broken arm, as if Bertolucci's camera is enchanted and infatuated She, or rather, flirts with her. In fact, how can Bertolucci only be obsessed with Eva Green, he is actually using the camera to flirt with youth, maybe because of this, even if it is three young people looking for food in filthy garbage, even if it is brother and sister incest , even if the three of them sleep together in the blood-stained bathtub, we will not feel dirty and wretched, but will have inexplicable pity and resonance because of the oil painting-like composition and dream-like colors.
At the end of the film, Theo and Isabella walked into the torrent of the May Revolution. Along with Piaf's "No, I Have No Regrets", this memory of youth and dreams was frozen in the scene where the police rushed to the parade crowd. in black and white screen. In the novel, Matthew died, and Theo and Isabella watched Truffaut's "Stolen Kiss" in tears in the reopened "palace", and probably only they themselves knew what the tears contained. For Bertolucci, remembering his sweet and rough youth when he is old will not be cruel enough to admit its meaninglessness, even knowing that it is the last time before the golden age of dreams and passion comes to an end. A ray of flying clouds will also ignore its shortness and futility because of its beauty; just like Isabella wants to use gas to end the three young lives, she should also be nostalgic for such an "absolutely free life" Yes, but in the end, he was caught up in the whirlpool of history by the world outside the window. The fate and joys and sorrows of individuals are nothing but bubbles in the face of history.
There are many reappearances of old films in the movie. My favorite is Eva Green imitating the appearance of Garbo when she said goodbye to her lover in "The Queen of Sweden". To see the senseless, alienated and unruly belonging to 1968 is like we can see such a movie 40 years later, but never see another 1968.
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