French films have a unique atmosphere, especially literary films, which are highly recognizable and can be classified as a kind of overall cultural temperament; for example, in films from other countries, there will be no police officers who help lift the piano or Play a piece to help check the damage of the piano, and there will be no love discussion either. Night dreams, daytime absences, daydreams, exaggerated fantasies, and connect with reality, creating scenes that are more illusory than dreams and more realistic than reality. The creative details, with the right soundtrack and the superb performance of the leading actor, have a miraculous effect on relieving the rigid head and improving the logic of standard thinking.
The opening of the movie is refreshing. In the personal TV show scene built by cardboard, the hero Stephen uses the way of gourmet kitchen to create a dream in his fantasy. The camera is switched to the splash formation process of hot abstract oil painting, and the confession is skillfully brought from English to French. In just a few sentences, the overall atmosphere changed from cheerful to sad, which shows the ability of the screenwriter and director to grasp emotions. This dream studio is his little world, which appears repeatedly in the movies. Whenever he escapes, complains, and develops whims, his dream studio will start to operate. He is also immersed in it and cannot extricate himself, and gradually, more and more The more serious the impact on his life.
Stephen's experience is similar to that of every young man who goes to work in a big city, but with a little more tragedy. He left Mexico because of the loss of his father and went to Paris to seek refuge with his French mother. He likes to draw illustrations and make small ideas, but the work arranged by his mother is far from the original idea. He met Stephanie, a young literary girl who just moved in next door, and her friend Zooey, two interesting and creative girls. Through getting acquainted, Stephen gradually fell in love with Stephanie, and the plot began. Stephen fled into his dreams every time he was under pressure; however, dreams were sometimes romantic and unreal, and sometimes too real. He couldn't distinguish between real life and dreams, and even made up scenes that broke his heart in his dreams. After all, he couldn't raise the courage and had to choose to leave far away; even in the end, he said goodbye to Stephanie under the persuasion of his mother, Still capricious and naive, he hid in his dreams, weaving his beautiful fantasies, and realizing his ideal love in his dreams.
Every scene in the movie is full of childlike hand-made atmosphere. Those thick stitched fabrics, corrugated cardboard cities, catastrophe science, glass candy paper and messy gizmos will ingeniously transform the minds of young boys into Showing off, showing his childishness and cowardice so endearingly. The director's way of telling the story is purely romantic. It seems like a wild imagination, but there is still logic to follow. Whether it is Freud or any other theories about the subconscious, he can analyze his psychological psychology caused by his childhood trauma. shadow. But what we are watching is a literary film. It is enough to feel the surprise, sadness, joy, and sadness brought by the plot, while savoring the ingenuity in every beautiful picture.
Author: Wan Yongting
Link: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/21992012
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