"New Bridge Lovers" is an old film, a classic among romantic films, but it is also one of the few classic love works that can be daunting, because it tells the love story of two desperate people, which is not in the definition of Hollywood. The despair of the two is not the grief and frustration of two gorgeously dressed and elegant people who mourn and cry because they have lost their sweethearts. The despair in "Lovers in the New Bridge" is at the level of life and social reality. It is precisely because the despair is too real that it is scary. "New Bridge Lovers" depicts a profound love, the story has joys and sorrows, love and hate entanglements, fairy tale plots, and a happy and perfect ending, but few people feel envious and yearning after reading it. , and that's what made "Lovers in the New Bridge" a classic.
The plot structure of "Xinqiao Lovers" is very fairy tale, it is the story of a princess and a beggar. The heroine is called Michelle and the hero is called Alex. Michelle is young and beautiful, her father is a wealthy and prestigious colonel, and Alex is a down-and-out tramp who lives on social assistance and scraps. Michelle is a painter who gradually lost her eyesight due to illness. She has only one eye left that can barely see, but this eye will also lose its function soon, leaving Michelle in eternal darkness. Michelle once had an unforgettable lover, a cellist, but her lover has left her, leaving only a broken heart. Michelle ran away from home with a picture book, a beloved cat and a pistol. She wanted to see more of the world before she was completely blind, and wanted to leave this world with her memories after she was completely blind.
Alex lives on the Pont Neuf over the Seine in Paris. Due to being too old, the new bridge was fenced off for renovation. Alex was always plagued by insomnia, unable to fall asleep without strong sleeping pills. Alex also drank heavily and self-harmed. He often swayed in the middle of the road after being drunk, and when he fell on the ground, he kept hitting his forehead on the ground, no matter whether the speeding car would hit him or not. Everyone at the shelter was familiar with Alex, and he was accustomed to his drunkenness, wounds, and bloodstains. The first time Michelle saw Alex was on the main road in the middle of the night. At that time, Michelle was walking alone. When she looked back, she saw that Alex was lying down in the middle of the road, while a car Came quickly, crushed Alex and then sped away. Michelle stood beside Alex in panic. Fortunately, the shelter's car just arrived and carried away Alex, who was covered in blood and unconscious.
Alex didn't die, just a broken foot, and a few days later dragged his plastered foot back to the new bridge. There, Alex saw a woman sleeping with clothes on, with a large picture book on the side. Alex secretly picked up the album and looked at it, and saw his face in a sketch portrait. That woman is Michelle. After Michelle woke up, Alex asked for the portrait sketch, and Michele asked Alex to be a model in exchange for it. As a result, Michele fainted while painting for Alex. Since then, Alex has taken on the responsibility of taking care of Michelle. Alex and Michelle didn't talk much, but Alex knew from the letter Michelle carried that Michelle lived in a high-end residential area, had a lover who played the cello, and knew that Michelle My son's eye disease is so severe that he will no longer be able to paint.
Alex likes Michelle very much, for her, Alex takes a bath; for her, Alex goes to the market to steal fish; for her, Alex sneaks into her home to visit; for her, Alex Arris quarreled with another old tramp on the new bridge; for her, Alex knocked out the patrolman on the river and drove the patrol boat to let her water ski behind; for her, Alex lurked and followed quietly, and Running away from the cello guy in the subway; for her, Alex wrote a note saying, "Someone is in love with you. If you say the sky is white, and someone says the cloud is black, that's in love."
The old tramp on the new bridge kept driving Michelle away, not allowing her to stay on the bridge, until Michelle was in so much pain because of the reluctance to paint and emotionally stated that she wanted to make another copy of a nearby museum before she lost her sight. The paintings were left on the bridge. The old tramp relented and sat down to comfort Michelle, telling her that his wife was very similar to her. It turned out that the old homeless once had a happy family and a loving wife, until after the child died, his wife suddenly left home. When the old homeless man found his wife, he found that his wife was wandering on the streets during the day and perched at the station at night. So the old tramp stayed with his wife and wandered the streets with her until his wife died. After hearing this, Michelle was silent for a long time, thinking that it was because she realized that the homeless also understand love, and realized that behind despair, there is a more desperate state, Michelle finally said: The sky is white. Aris was stunned for a while before he hurriedly said: The cloud is black.
Accompanied by Michelle, Alex no longer lost sleep. The two danced under the fireworks, ran beside the waves, and rested in the grass. The two fascinated people in the cafe with sleeping pills and made a living by stealing wallets. The two are very happy every day and are getting richer financially. But when Michelle planned to move to a decent place together, Alex deliberately let the money box fall into the river, and Alex didn't want to change, he was afraid that Michelle would leave him. Although Michelle's eyesight is getting worse and worse, and she can't see anything closer, Alex doesn't care at all, he is willing to be her walking stick and her guide dog. As long as Michelle was by her side, Alex felt as happy as in heaven.
Unfortunately, the first poster finally appeared in the subway station. It was a tracing notice posted by Michelle's father. It said that Michelle had been missing for more than half a year and was about to become completely blind, but now there is a new treatment method. If treated in time, Michelle's eyesight can be saved. . Michelle didn't see the poster, but Alex did. Alex tore up the poster in the subway station, only to find the aisles covered with the same poster. Alex set fire to all the posters in the aisle one by one, only to find that the same posters were plastered all over the street. Alex spotted a pickup truck that was putting up posters on the street, so he chased after him desperately, and finally caught up when he stopped to put up posters on the side of the road. Without hesitation, Alex set fire to the dozens of stacks behind the pickup, but he didn't expect that when the driver ran back to stop it, the flames of the burning explosion were set on fire.
Alex fled back to the bridge, rushed towards Michelle and hugged her tightly. What Alex did not expect was that, after destroying the poster desperately, Michelle learned the news of looking for her at this moment, in his desperate embrace. Michelle heard it from the radio that Alex picked up from the rubbish heap and gave her. Alex watched Michelle break free from his embrace, and when she saw Michelle jumping excitedly, she could only stand by with her head lowered. Michelle seemed to see Alex's loss, so she didn't mention it again. When Alex woke up in the night, he immediately knew that Michelle had put sleeping pills in his wine. As expected, Michelle had disappeared, and left these words on the wall of the new bridge: I don't love you, I have never loved you, please forget me. Alex didn't know how to forget his love. He took out the pistol that Michelle brought and shot at his open palm, letting the pain in his hand cover up the pain in his heart. Early in the morning, the police came and took away Alex, who was covered in blood. Alex was sentenced to three years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
After Alex spent more than two years in prison, Michelle finally came. Michelle said that she dreamed of Alex, she could not forget Alex, she could only follow her heart. Alex originally didn't want to look at Michelle or talk to her, but he couldn't control himself. He always loved Michelle and waited for her to come. Alex wanted to know why Michelle left him, and why did he come to see him now? Michelle was very frank. She said that when she thought that her eyesight could be restored, she realized the gap in the status of the two, which made her feel that there was no result, and even felt that she had never loved him. But Michelle Mi didn't forget Alex, and she couldn't forget it. Alex asked Michelle not to come to see him in prison, but asked her to meet him on the New Bridge on Christmas Eve in half a year, which is the world that belongs to Alex and Michelle.
Finally arrived at the appointed time, the new bridge had already been renovated, and the bridge was covered with white snow and passing vehicles. At this end of the bridge, Alex saw Michelle get off the car, and the two couldn't wait to meet each other. As a result, Alex slipped and slid all the way to Michelle's feet. The reunion of the two was at Michelle started with a bow and laughter. Alex and Michelle drink wine together and listen to Christmas carols. Michelle was standing under the street lamp smoking and telling jokes, while Alex was lying on the side beam of the bridge, laughing so hard that he seemed to be back in the good old days. But when the bell rang and it was three in the morning, Michelle said that she was going home, that things were complicated and that it would take a little time. Alex was stunned on the spot, he didn't expect Michelle to leave him again. He rushed towards Michelle excitedly, picked her up and jumped into the icy river together. Michelle didn't struggle in the water, neither did Alex, the two just stared at each other. In the end, a passing cargo ship rescued the two. The cargo ship was driven by two elderly couples, who were carrying a load of sand to a distant city, and they said this was their last voyage. Michelle and Alex were sitting at the back of the cabin, looking at the old couple in front of them. Michelle suddenly said, We happen to be going to that city too, can we go with you? After a while, Alex finally understood, and he kept nodding his head. On this Christmas night, Alex and Michelle ran like children on the deck of the cargo ship, happily embracing each other at the bow, Michelle shouted, let Paris die.
When you are most desperate, do you hope to meet a sunny person to take you out of the darkness, or do you hope to meet a more desperate person to accompany you to sink down? For Alex, Michelle is his sunshine, illuminating his night. For Michelle, Alex is her floating board, preventing her from sinking. This was originally a poignant love, and people like to see suffering, because after suffering there will be true love. But the ordeal in "Lovers in New Bridge" is too real and too tragic to be scary. Although the ending was good and happy, people were frightened by Michelle's one-eyed, miserable appearance, by Alex's desperate and frantic self-mutilation, and by the two The real despair was frightened. Alex and Michelle fall in love because of despair, but their love breeds more despair. The life of love on the bridge is hopeless, the days of stealing to make a living are hopeless, and the steps of waiting for blindness are also hopeless. Love is supposed to bring happiness to people, and the appearance of happiness should be similar, but it is not the case. Some happiness is hideous, sad, and dreaded.
Alex's love is very deep, it is a kind of crazy and desperate love, it is a kind of love that can only be given by people who have nothing. However, Alex's mood is unstable, and he self-harms when he moves, and he has no ability to make a normal living. When Michelle wanted to die, she felt that it was easy to love Alex because he could accompany her to sink. But when Michelle wants to live, she finds it difficult to love Alex because he is a man who lives in the dark and cannot walk into the sunlight. When people are unfortunate, they often don't mind being with others who are also unfortunate, but when people are happy, it is difficult to accept that unfortunate people are always side by side. This fact is cruel, but also very real. For a long time, European films have more truth than American films, they are willing to present ugly but real pictures in reality on the screen, and they are also willing to provoke the cruelty that is difficult to face in human nature. "Xinqiao Lovers" is an extremely realistic film, which presents the life of homeless homeless people and their spiritual outlook very completely, but because of this, the happy ending of the film seems out of place, with a kind of rigid feeling .
"Lovers in the New Bridge" is a 1991 film for which Juliet Binoche won the Best Actress Award at the European Film Festival. Juliet Binoche from France, Emma Thompson from the UK, Judy Foster from the US, and Maggie Cheung from Hong Kong are all my favorite actresses. Their common feature is that they are smart and have their own ideas. Although they are not beautiful in appearance, they have their own taste and personality. The outer lines and inner characteristics are the same, not too rigid, but not too soft. In addition, they have a common disadvantage, that is, they are not good at acting comedy, and they are too eye-catching in supporting roles.
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