At present, most of the movies I have come into contact with are American Hollywood movies, followed by domestically produced movies with more flavor, then Japanese anime and Korean movies, and occasionally some Thai and Japanese movies. There are relatively few in France and the United Kingdom. American movies have been promoted to China along with the so-called universal values. It has been relatively easy to accept over the years. Thailand, South Korea and India belong to relatively similar cultures, and they are all considered to be the Great Eastern civilization circle. British and French films are so rarely watched that they have become non-mainstream in my eyes. In my impression, only the British "Two Smoking Guns" and the French "Amelie" are very distinctive. This "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life" has forgotten which friend recommended it. Hiding at home on hot weekends and watching shredded pork cakes with fried potatoes and Beijing sauce, there is absolutely no luxury such as red wine and foie gras worthy of French culture.
The film revolves around the life trajectory of a family of five, and is divided into many chapters. Each chapter will focus on one of the protagonists, so it is effortless to understand. The film starts with pictures of the family when they were young, the sweet years of the parents on the beach, the growth of each child, and the feeling is very warm, but French movies are more about the charm, rather than the intense plot and climax, like old wine. , is for tasting, not for drinking.
Big Brother Albert's Independence
The film begins with their dog's life finally coming to an end after being with them for 18 years. In order to end its pain, the eldest brother wants to take it to euthanasia. Compared with other people, Albert is more assertive and decisive. The rest of the family members looked sad and helpless. After moving into his grandfather's free house, he became independent and free from the shackles of his family and indulged in a riotous act, which led him to meet the beautiful future wife next door. For the emotional expectations of his little sister, he came forward to teach the Shaqie who played with his feelings. In order to protect his sister from being hurt, he had an argument with his father and brother in a hurry. On the day of Albert's wedding, his grandfather happened to pass away. In order to argue whether to continue the wedding or to mourn his grandfather, he quarreled with his father, which also cast a shadow on his future family. It seems that marriage life is not very smooth, but it is definitely long. The very handsome
little girl Philol grew up in a
blink of an eye. Several years have passed, and Philol is no longer the innocent little girl who threw her favorite toys in the dog's grave, and she is no longer the one who asks her mother to remind her when she eats. The good girl who washed her hands, her sixteenth birthday was forgotten by everyone, and on that day she decided to dedicate her first night to her boyfriend, just as she said in her diary, but unfortunately she chose the wrong person, when she walked into her boyfriend When the bedroom looked back at the angelic and innocent little girl that day, she was saying goodbye to her past and announcing her own growth to herself and the world. She regrets not choosing her brother's friend Eric. She was very decadent in the following years. If the decadence at the age of sixteen was just to show her personality by wearing ragged pants, then the decadence in the following years was the loss of hope and meaning for life. A lot of the confusion and pain in growing up was revealed by my mother opening her diary. I don't know what her life would have been like if her mother had a car accident when she ran away from home. But glad the sunshine and confidence are back on her face.
The idleness of the second brother Raphael
Raphael is not as tenacious and independent as Albert, and of course not as unlucky as his younger sister. He has a very handsome face, but his academic performance is not very good. When I grew up, I lived with my parents like a ghost, playing TV GAME unkempt every day, but my mother said that I was suffering from procrastination. Later, because I learned a lot of red wine instructions from my grandfather, I went to work as a waiter in a hotel, and then took the job to taste expensive red wine for my father and eldest brother. I can only say that he is very happy living in France. In China, that is a typical old-fashioned family. It is estimated that Shenma jobs are unlikely to be found. His fond memory is a beautiful girl he met at a guitar and electronic music competition. He fell in love with her backstage, and after seeing her performance, it was a hit and miss, but he never met again, and the phone number that the beauty left him The number was actually blown away by the wind on the way back, was blown away by the wind, is there anything more tragic than this? Before attending his eldest brother's wedding 7-8 years later, Raphael fell asleep in his bed, and actually saw the string of phone numbers clearly in his dream. Everything is off.
Mother Mary's Anxiety of Aging
Mary was a beautiful wife when she was young, and in fact, even when the children are older, she still has a charm. She is the most anxious in the family about the children's growth and independence. When the eldest son Albert left the family, she took the trouble to call him to come back for dinner, and even felt sad for the children's growth, and finally decided to let her Life should not be too empty, and go to university to continue studying. She always thought that her daughter was still very young and still the good girl she used to be, but she suddenly found that her daughter had grown up and had an insurmountable gap with herself. The growth of children means the aging of parents. An unintentional sentence in the daughter's diary made her worry about her own aging. She complained that her husband had no feelings for her, she asked strangers to guess her age, she went to the hospital of her eldest son to have plastic surgery, and she once dated a driving instructor, but turned down his invitation in the end. She was involved in a car accident while chasing her daughter who ran away from home, and it was precisely because of her injury that the emotionally divided family was reunited. The mother was the glue and core of the family.
death of father robert
Father Robert doesn't talk much, but a lot of what he says is classic and profound. He was dissatisfied with his father's contempt and neglect of him, and sold the original house without consulting his own opinion. The red wine he bought could never be recognized and praised by his father. His father even calculated the interest on the borrowed money with him, and refused to let him He kept the sealed wine, but when his father died, just in time for his eldest son's wedding, he quarreled with his son and broke up with his grief over the loss of his father. He can light his daughter's cigarettes behind his back. He has said countless times that quitting smoking is fruitless. He tells his two sons how he pursued girls and teased his classmates. He even found his old classmates and his own A deep ditch that cannot be crossed. Smoking and work made his health worse and he eventually left his wife and children. He didn't have a great career and honor. He was just one of the thousands of ordinary fathers. When he died, Mary scatters his ashes into the blue sea, where they used to go when they were young, staying in the car breathing the air squeezed out of the waist pad, recalling his face and face when he was alive. feel.
French movies are like the famous French wines, you need a lot of patience and discernment to get a taste of them. "The First Day of My Life" won't be full of exciting special effects and grand scenes like Hollywood movies, it's a trickle and silent taste, just like our lives, most of the time is dull and boring , even full of pain and confusion, but that's just plain life. You have to face the decision of love and marriage, you also have to go through the rebellion and decadence of adolescence, you have also been full of confusion and loss of confidence in life, and you have also been anxious about aging and disease. But don't forget the happiness in life, watching your children grow up, playing with the woman you love at the beach, attending your son's wedding, after the death of father Robert, the daughter Philol ushered in a new life, she will become a mother Continuing the continuation of the family, these happy moments are the meaning and hope of our lives. Every day will be the first day of the rest of our lives! It's not a particularly good day, but it's not a particularly bad day either, enjoy every day of your life!
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