Deciphering the city

Angelita 2022-03-21 09:03:07






The director of the commentary

presents a fascinating poem about the emotional relationship between people through the dreams and disappointments of different characters. ——LizBeardsworth (Empire Magazine)



As Paris on the silver screen is so common, the director and cameraman put the camera in a carefully chosen location, connecting the city’s old and new, ground and top, outsiders and locals resident. ——Boydvan Hoeij (“European Film Network”




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interprets a city, how to interpret a city from a special perspective

? Paris, this romantic capital has never lacked a person to interpret it. I once walked the Champs Elysees, I once looked up at the Eiffel Tower, I once wrote "In Paris, you need to be careful, because you may accidentally step on romance." I read a corner of Paris, not knowing that the people of Paris have become unique in the eyes of a dying patient.

Beautiful. Interpreting, the professor said: "When I see that gorgeous girl, I feel beautiful is a terrible thing. Plus young, it's not fair... and then I thought, why is she so beautiful? And other people can't say Ugly...but very mediocre, completely ignored." Paris is full of beauty, everyone loves beauty, but having beauty also has special attention, attracting...whatever you give, you must lose something. The beauty of Paris also makes it full of glitz.

Crazy interpretation, a professor fell in love with a student; a girl fell in love with a group of men; a dying man fell in love with drinking; a stowaways fell in love with a flashy city ..."You are aware of the existence of the unconscious" When a psychiatrist said this line, I really understood a city where material civilization has developed to the extreme, and the people living there are either lunatics or geniuses.

In a vain interpretation, Paris is synonymous with romance, and romance is also an important culprit of chaos. Is it possible for man to conquer desire? It is possible in two cases. First, the wall of death blocks desire; second, the window of memory blocks desire. Like a drunk person dancing, the dance of life is fantasy or reality, is it wasted, or is it protection, or is it revenge? Death made him uniquely see the waste of modern people in this city, but at the same time, if he was allowed to choose again, he also admitted that "life in Paris should be free and carefree."

The interpretation of death, death is not terrible, what is terrible is Farewell before death. If everything is dark around you, that's a relief, but there is always something in life that you can't bear. It's like a lovelorn, you never know when that amorous life will break up with you. "I was like being hanged, no script, no goodbye, no goodbye...but we will meet again." No matter how terrible death is, for the lover of life, she has loved us, and in any case, she should say: "Thank you."

Paris The interpretation, "This is Paris, no one is happy, we whine about her, but love her at the same time. People don't know how lucky they are, walking, breathing, running, arguing, being late, they are born for the blessing In fact, life in Paris should be free and carefree.”

When interpreting a city, the most ordinary perspectives are used, but in the observation of special people, all the ordinary are connected to become special. The critically ill, the stowaways, the infatuated, the servants, the mad, the flashy, the families who live in peace, the workers in the vegetable market, the taxi drivers...Because of Paris, these people are connected, because of these people, so Paris is Paris.

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Paris quotes

  • Élise: [in French] You're all alone here? What do you do all day?

    Pierre: [in French] Watch other people live. Wonder who they are, where they go? They become hereoes in my little stories.

  • Pierre: [discussing his nieces and nephew] We've gotta be honest and say I'm gonna croak.

    Élise: That's not certain.

    Pierre: Then it'll be a nice surprise, if it's not true.