It is still a betrayal. The composer's husband's betrayal of his wife in "Blue", the betrayal of a French wife to his Polish husband in "White", and the betrayal of himself by the old judge's young love object in "Red", law student Austrian. Gust is betrayed by his girlfriend and Valentine, a Swiss female college student who lives opposite Auguste, cannot stop her boyfriend Michelle in England from being suspicious of her as clues to tell the story. Like many people, I prefer "Red" in the trilogy, its slow rhythm, and its "fraternity" theme. Fraternity is different from ordinary love, it is a special kind of love, because the object of love is all human beings, so it will never be the same as "love" like "love"! This is well reflected in the heroine Valentine. In the first two films, neither Julie, who was bereaved, nor Carol, who lost her wife, went to help the hunchbacked old lady who was struggling to put empty bottles in the bin, but Valentine did. It can be said that the old lady who appeared in all three films is a mirror to measure love, and among all the protagonists, only Valentine changed others and the old judge with his kind heart. It is worth mentioning that the love that the old judge experienced back then was exactly the same as the love that August was suffering, but the fates of the two were not the same.
Fate also becomes another issue explored in the film. Can people control fate? This can be said to be an old and long-standing question. Since ancient times, human beings have tried to change their destiny through methods such as divination. To be sure, there is no evidence that this approach works, at least yet. Valentine is relieved that the suspect in the film, who was acquitted by the old judge's miscarriage of justice, has lived a harmonious and warm family life since then. The case also made the old judge realize that sometimes wrong decisions do not necessarily lead to wrong endings. As a result, the old judge who saw through all this retired and developed a hobby of tapping other people's phones, as he said: here he can clearly determine who is right and who is wrong, far more accurate than the court's determination. Knowing that Valentine was going to England, he called the forecaster who had always been accurate in forecasting the weather to find out what the weather would be like on the day the ship departed. The forecaster smiled and told him that it would be very sunny that day, and he would also go there. , As a result, the heavy rain caused by the strong convective weather that day sank the cruise ship, causing only 7 people to survive the tragedy. It turns out that there are times when the information on the phone is inaccurate, and fate is never at the mercy of humans. When the pictures of the seven survivors are shown on TV, we see Julie wrapped in a blanket, Carol on a stretcher, his wife Dominic, Oliver who was rescued with Julie, and Ollie Gust and Valentine, the face-to-face picture between them seems to indicate that they once knew each other, and the film finally freezes on Valentine's slightly sad expression on the red background. It's surprising how similar the image is to the giant poster she's modeled on the side of the road. Did God have a premonition? Once again, it makes people sigh the impermanence of fate.
The film is handled very cleverly. As early as "White", Jolie has already appeared in the courtroom where Carroll and Dominy are confronting when she goes to find her husband's mistress before his death. The director seems to be telling us that life is actually a stage. Every moment, the people around you are putting on a play of their own, and no one knows that at some point, those who passed by will stage another play together on another stage. Once people have a heart of fraternity, they will have freedom and equality.
Maybe, this is fate, this is life. . .
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