The first takes place in present-day Montreal, where Anthony, a wildly successful DJ, is careful to get between his new love, Ross, and his old love, Caroline. maintain a fragile balance. In addition, he has to take care of his daughter, consider his future and career. Anxious life finally pushed him to the brink of collapse step by step.
The second story takes place in Paris in 1969, and the protagonist is a mother named Jacqueline. Jacqueline has a son who suffers from severe Down syndrome. For his son's illness, Jacqueline almost abandoned all of her own life to concentrate on taking care of him. He did not listen to the advice of his husband and the doctor, and insisted on raising the child in his own way. But his children gradually became interested in the outside world, and his interest eventually hurt his relationship with his mother. (Excerpted from Baidu)
I don’t want to talk too much about the film’s stream of consciousness technique, rhythmic editing, suspenseful plot, and the performance of various complex emotions. After all, I feel the film rather than study it. I like this movie. Although the stories in it have never happened to me, I can deeply feel the inner world of each character. Maybe they have a similar experience of changing directions, or maybe the actors' acting skills are too good. It's the same feeling when PERFECT SENSE...
In the first story, Anthony still loves his wife, but that love can no longer sustain the passion and excitement of life. Instead of guessing which woman he loves, we might as well say that he loves two women at the same time, just Love manifests in different forms. Some people are accustomed to possession, then go to destruction, and finally lose everything. Some people like to wait, and if they don't have it, they will never lose it. Anthony's ex-wife's behavior after the incident happened is something every woman must learn. The heart must be strong enough to take it all, accept it all, and truly bless it. In fact, there is no need to be heartbroken. Of course, this is often a woman who will calmly accept it after many years. When you feel that his name is the same as a passerby, it is just a name and has no special meaning at all, then you are really calm. In fact, it is easy for a woman to forgive a man, as long as he is sure that he really loved her, so we know that many lovers will ask after breaking up: Have you ever loved me? This is really a superfluous sentence. It's just that women want to find a fulcrum to support themselves. As soon as the original man leaves, it seems that there is no one to rely on. Therefore, the sense of security is given to oneself by oneself, and relying on others is the most insecure choice. In the journey of life, there is always a period of time when you need to go and carry it yourself. Don't feel scared, don't feel lonely, it's just the price of growth, especially women. In addition, the performance of Anthony's two children is very real. If I were them, my heart would be as unacceptable as the eldest daughter, but my behavior would be the same as the younger daughter, obediently doing nothing. The reason is very simple. You can't use your own identity to control others, otherwise others will not be happy in the future, and it will be me who will feel guilty.
In the second part of the story, I have to praise Mrs. De's acting skills, and it goes without saying that the child's "acting skills" are pure and natural. It is the most correct decision made by the director to let a real person with Down syndrome perform. The second paragraph is more about maternal love, and whether or not there is a fault in that, she is great. At least she never thought about abandoning her child for a moment. The sacrifice a mother makes for her child may not be felt by her child. When the two children with Down syndrome were unwilling to be separated, and Jacqueline used extremely "bad" means to solve the problem, it not only caused great harm to the children, but she was also in a state of extreme collapse in her own heart, perhaps because of strength It is only the most vulnerable way of expression and the bravest. She is not afraid to exchange love for her child's hatred. To borrow a passage from Long Yingtai: The so-called father-daughter-mother-son just means that the fate between you and them is that you are constantly watching their backs decrease in this life. You stand on this end of the path, watching them gradually disappear where the path turns, and they tell you with their backs: Don't chase.
Various people have various opinions on the connection between the two stories, about the past and present, but the director doesn't seem to care if they are related at all, just a little bit at the end. For the perfect ending, some people like it, some people like it I don't understand, I don't like it very much, but I understand that about love, who doesn't want a perfect ending. Why use resentment to interpret bad things, love can also...
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