Tears come when the music

Shaun 2022-12-28 13:18:35

I didn't know much about the Darnay brothers before. For me, it wasn't the title produced by Darnay that attracted me to this slow story, nor the increasingly box-office appeal of Ceci Di France. , but the excellent acting skills of the little boy and the following:

After reading it, I checked the film review materials and so on, and then I realized that for Dane, the use of the soundtrack this time was a big breakthrough...

There are 4 soundtracks in the film, all of which are The same key, from Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto "Emperor", used just right, to the point of tears, making people choked up, just like my title.

If you look closely, you will find that the four soundtracks are composed of two scenes, which are very interesting, and of course include excellent long shots, so I will talk about the feelings very amateurishly.
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one stillness

Get straight to the point. Cyril, an 11-year-old boy, explained that he was a child left in the shelter by his father in a few actions and conversations, but Cyril did not want to believe that his father abandoned him, so the search for his father began... Just a few minutes later, two counselors stopped him When he went out, the boy resisted them. At this time, the soundtrack sounded for the first time. The paranoid boy wanted to get rid of it, kicking his feet, just to find his father...
Then the scene changed, Cyril lay quietly beside the pillow, gave dozens of seconds of The close-up, the contrast between these two sets of scenes is very different, and I can't help but think of the unhappy things I encountered in the past. After a lot of struggle, I finally had to lie in bed and sob silently... Many of us can understand his feelings. Rarely has a movie got me into it so quickly, and the Darney brothers only took a few minutes.
Cyril is a child with a complex personality, and this passage highlights the helplessness behind the obsession.
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The second time,

Cyril met a kind-hearted hairdresser, and she took it in The boy got married, and the two went to the store to find his father. When they parted, the boy called his father and naively thought he would call on the weekend, but his father didn't want to see him at all. Facing the boy and telling the truth, "Don't come again, I don't want to see you"... The boy was in the car, from meditating to turning to self-mutilation, but he didn't cry, the barber held him in his arms, and the soundtrack played for the second time , more tragic... How quiet was that moment, and the mother's love flooded with the music.
After that, when the camera turned, the little boy clearly saw his slightly stubborn face and the scars on his face when he was riding the bicycle. He was holding it and taking a long lens to see it distressed... That bicycle, someone told Cyril that his father sold it to him. If the child does not believe it, he is always so simple and only believes that his father loves him. Later, when he learns the truth, he still treats the bicycle as a baby...
The scene of this soundtrack reveals that Cyril has an extreme personality but is eager to care.
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The third time, one slow and one fast

, Cyril later learned badly from the neighbors and stole it Other people's money, then go to Dad's shop, want to give him all the money, because knowing that his father abandoned him because he had no money, what a pure motive~Cyril said "I won't tell the police" Dad said "you do this It's gonna hurt me." Look how humble this selfish father is compared to the boy.
"I won't say it"
"Shut up, climb up, jump!"
Bang
"Are you okay?"
"It's okay"
"Don't come back again!"
This is the last dialogue between father and son in the movie. There is only one wall between them, what more wall? Some cruel, more cruel to come.
The boy slowly dragged the car to the road, the soundtrack sounded for the third time, accompanied by a lonely back shot, and the boy rode the bike, the faster he rode... The long shot of Cyril racing his bike in the middle of the night was very impressive, more than 60 In seconds, you can already see the injustice and strength in the child's eyes. This is n times more cruel than the father's cold violence. It's like encountering a sad thing, and you can forget it if you keep busy. This is too difficult for a child. How powerful, the boy's inner forbearance can be seen, and there is no need to describe it too much.
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the 4th time, I ended up

having Cyril put a The boy pushes him up the tree, and the boy at the end starts to take revenge, this time he pushes Cyril up the tree, and then, our lovely hero is shot down by a stone, when the boy and his father are discussing how to lie to get rid of the crime, Cyril wakes up and goes along with him. A phone rang. Perhaps the driving force that prompted him to wake up was that he thought his father had called, but he didn't look at his cell phone. In the days when he was abandoned by his father, he learned to be strong and continue to live, not for his father and himself, he refused the help of his father and son, his expression changed The face innocently said "no need" with a firm tone, and then silently picked up the bicycle that fell to the ground, stepped on the pedals, went straight, and turned for the last time. Nothing shows Cyril's incredible willpower more than a clean ending.
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Being so young but being forced by life to be so strong... How to make a child bear all this? It is unknown; what kind of world will the boy encounter at the final corner? It is conceivable; in this story, does the man find some shadow of his own growth? Don't ask or know.

The Darney brothers describe the story very objectively, the soundtrack is "alive" and the long shots are "eyes-on". Cruel and tender.
There are such young people in the world who are so simple and complex, so fragile, so strong, so distressing and so respectful...

Life is already so dreadful, why should some things be taken seriously?

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