A story about soul communication.
Transparent glass spheres reflect the ever-changing scene outside the train window.
The marionette show is gorgeous.
The dancer turns into a beautiful butterfly. Like an angel blooming, I miss Veronique who gave his life to singing.
The train moved slowly. The sun spreads out. Elegant shades of golden yellow.
She leaned against the window, smiling lonely and soft.
At the same time and in a different space, there are two women with the same appearance and name, but they do not know each other. They just constantly feel the existence of another self in the depths of their hearts.
Veronique, a high-pitched singer in Krakow, Poland, once said to her father, "I don't feel like I'm alone...because I'm not alone..." She once glimpsed another image of herself in a trance, but the two People never really meet.
Poland's Veronique's physical condition is not suitable for singing, especially the soprano she loves, but she still sings stubbornly until she sings the highest note one day and suddenly falls to her death on the stage; at that moment, Veronique in Paris I felt infinite sadness and loneliness, as if someone had left my life.
Paris. She is a music teacher in an elementary school. She took her students to see a puppet artist's performance, and was deeply moved by the dancer who died of grief because she broke her leg and could no longer dance.
Since then, she has been caught in the pursuit of a mysterious stranger, constantly receiving suggestive gifts from the other party, and she feels that the person in her life who can truly love each other with the soul has appeared. According to a stranger's prompt, Veronique came to the coffee shop next to the train station and found that the puppet artist was waiting for her.
The artist wanted to find inspiration in her, and saw another Veronique photo she accidentally took while traveling in Poland. Looking at the image of her alter ego, she couldn't help crying. The artist made two identical puppets and told Veronique that he was going to do a play called "The Double Life of So-and-So"...
On the outskirts of Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl recognized Kieslowski and walked up to him and told him that she knew that souls do exist since she watched "The Two Lives of Flowers". Kieslowski felt that it was worth making that movie just to make a Parisian girl realize the real existence of the soul.
This splendid work is the beginning of the meticulous carving of Kei's works in his later years. Every shot in the film is exquisite and beautiful. The heroine Elena Jacob (she starred in "Red" a few years later) has a sad beauty of innocence and sensuality, and the photography is extraordinarily sophisticated. He uses a special technique of adding dark brown undertones to give this film a soul-searching theme. The film has a detached dreamy color.
Kieslowski described his film this way: "A typical female film, because women feel things more clearly, have more hunches and intuitions, are more sensitive, and they also see these things. more important."
Most of the footage of the film is processed into a golden tone, which is common in today's French films. "Emily the Angel" and "The Long Marriage Leave" both use golden filters to convey the French mystery. Kieslowski said the necessity of this color treatment, "With it, the world of "Two Lives" tends to be complete and identifiable."
In the film, Presner fictionalized the Old Master The religious music written can be said to be the soul of the film. Composer Prisner participated in the whole process of the film's production, and his grasp of emotions is almost impeccable. The pure and holy female voice cooperates with the Italian words of "Song to Heaven" (the second song) in Dante's "Divine Comedy". Qingyue's sad flute and ensemble run throughout.
I have always believed that there is always another self in the world,
maybe in a place that is only a few streets away from myself,
maybe on the other side of the earth opposite to myself,
but this person always has
two flowers, what a gorgeous name... .
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