Beautiful schoolgirl Valentine works part-time as a model for an advertising agency outside of her studies.
Diagonally across the street lives a law student, Oyster, who is in love with a girl named Karin who is older than him.
One night, Valentine was driving home after taking a series of ad photos set against red silk. She accidentally bumped a dog on the way, and a card tied around the dog's neck led her to a bungalow house with a yard. The doors were open, as if eager for people to enter, door after door like the owner of the house. Layers of deep inner world, the open door seems to invite people to speak together. Such as finding an owner of a dog an eccentric old man. The old man was very indifferent to the matter, and Valentine took the dog back to his place in a fit of rage.
My boyfriend, Michelle, who is in the UK on business, talks to Valentine on the phone. Whenever the phone rang, she was very excited, but Michelle always asked this question in a distrustful tone, which made people feel very depressed, "I want to be quiet, peaceful and quiet"; boyfriend But on the other end of the phone, he said: "There will never be a peaceful day with me, you go out with other people?" Valentine said: "I'm going to take a bath and I'm undressing", and her boyfriend said: "No one is undressing for you?? "I love you," August said to Karin on the phone.
Under Valentine's careful attention, the injured dog recovered quickly, and one day it ran away. Valentine finds the dog owner's house and unexpectedly finds that this strange old man is tapping someone's phone. "...It's illegal," Valentine said. "But I've worked for many years...I'm a retired judge," the old man replied.
On the radio came the voice of a man talking to his lover. "He lives just across the street. He has a virtuous wife and a lovely daughter. You can go and tell them..." the old judge said.
The old judge looked out the window, with scrutinized eyes, to see how Valentine would react when he was about to meet them. The wife greeted warmly and told the little daughter not to listen to the adults' calls.
What does Valentine see? She sees the not-so-good and helpless under the surface of people's peaceful lives. The daughter knows, and the wife will also know about the husband's extramarital affair, so what should I do? Let it go as long as it can, as if it didn't happen, and escape from this reality.
Valentine was surprised when he found out, and almost fell over when he fled in a panic. Can morality solve the problem? "Did you tell them?" The old judge asked, "No." Valentine felt that she didn't know how to react. She was lost as if she had entered a deserted wilderness. "I came back to ask you not to do this again," Valentine said.
"I've been doing this kind of thing all my life." The old judge's straight eyes seemed to be able to read people's hearts and see the darkness inside. "Have you ever seen a real judge," he said, and he was judging people's hearts. He continued: "I can't judge right or wrong about what I've heard, but at least it's true, more true than in court." Is life really as we see it? Slate bricks with amazing flying feet underneath, all kinds of creepy crawlies. Is the law capable? "Did it set your mind?" asked the old judge.
"There was a boy who ... found out that he was not his father's own, when he was only 15 years old." Valentine recalled his brother, who was recently arrested for drug use.
At this time, the afterglow of the setting sun shot into the dark room. When we understand each other's weaknesses and the weaknesses of others, we see a beautiful light, and the indifference between people is broken. Valentine asks the old judge to pour himself some wine, and their confrontation turns into a conversation. The voice on the phone came again.
"It's never been that long when I look at you and I'm scared," Oster said. "Why?" Karin asked.
"Worrying about whether it will satisfy you in the future?" Augustus, who is not very involved in the world, was disturbed during sex.
The old judge said: "It's just that he can't meet a real woman." In today's real life, people seem to be more open to sex. But who has peace in such a liberal ethic? Karin later threw herself into the arms of a richer, more attractive, presumably successful man. The voice came from the phone again.
"I feel very sad. At ten o'clock, I rolled on the other side and couldn't sleep. The food in the refrigerator was exhausted, so I couldn't go out to the street..." The old lady told her daughter. ... "You will shop for her, so you will feel better" ... The old judge added: "If she died for a few days, no one would know. She has everything she needs, just wants to see her daughter." The old lady was lonely Mo. The relatives were so alienated. The kinship of people in today's society is also about to be lost. People who are greedy are not only financially poor, they are also emotionally poor. Everyone needs genuine care from others. Life is not just about eating and drinking, it is more important to care about the soul. The old judge pointed to a man in a suit and leather shoes in the garden villa on the lawn outside the window who was making a phone call. Said: "He is involved in the Geneva drug trade, I can't help him." ... Kieslowski was anxious about the moral situation of the Polish people, he said: "Moral anxiety films are a choice within our ability for the spread of corruption in the ever-expanding sphere of social life."
A huge advertisement with red silk as a backdrop was displayed on the street, and Valentine's face in the painting was reflected crimson.
The photographer actively pursued Valentine, while she was thinking about Michelle and looking forward to his phone call.
The advertising slogan is "the breath of life". It is true that life is between breaths, and disasters and fortunes happen in the blink of an eye; people cannot control their own lifespan.
Valentine knows that people are imperfect, and sometimes even fragile, but she comforts the broken heart in suffering with enthusiasm, and she has a deep hope for the future of people's conversion and repentance. The old judge was moved by this, and his long-frozen heart was thawed. In order to see Valentine's reaction, he ran to the court and turned himself in.
Augist called Karin, but no one answered. He couldn't bear it any longer, grabbed Karin's window, and saw Karin and another man naked on the bed... Augist's face was shocked and his heart was broken....
Humans are inherently lonely, and there are huge spiritual and emotional voids that need to be filled constantly, so jumping from one person's arms to another person's arms is still unsatisfactory. Can people in this world satisfy our hearts? Shall we not be disappointed? Life seems to be reincarnated, and what happened when the old judge was young is exactly the same as what happened to Auguste. The coincidence of the two indicates a universal event in this era. The "broken ideal of love" today is often referred to as "ideological liberation". The other side is sin and liberation. There are too many factors today that shatter our "ideal of love". How is love possible? For most people today, love is an imagination, and people have no ability to grasp or hold on to it.
There is nothing new under the sun, what happened to the old judge in the past, what happened to Augustus today, who will suffer tomorrow? The old judge told Valentine that he had loved a woman deeply when he was young. Unexpectedly, she bumped into another man's arms at the entrance of the university. That man was very rich... More than ten years later, that man killed many people because of the bean curd slag project, and he was the presiding judge and was convicted...
"She cheated on you, but you still love her deeply" Valentine asked.
"I couldn't get what she needed. I followed them until the day she died unexpectedly. She liked colorful furniture. She was beautiful. I haven't loved any woman since." The old judge could no longer be I love someone, how unlovable people are. The woman I once loved was just like that. There is no "angel" I imagined that I pursued in the world. Love was broken into pieces, and the old judge was long immersed in the darkness of numbness, indifference, and despair. But after all, life cannot be without beauty and without love. Even if love is broken into pieces, you still have to hold the pieces in your hands and put them together little by little. Humans are born with flaws, which is a true portrayal of human self. But this mutilated beauty needs to be pieced together.
Augist decided to go to England to see friends and leave this sad place temporarily.
Valentine finally made up his mind to go to Lunchu to find Michelle by boat.
After a violent storm, the old judge saw bad news from the English-French Channel on TV: the passenger ship bound for the United Kingdom from France unfortunately capsized due to weather problems, and only 6 of the more than 130 people survived.
The survivors walked by in front of the TV camera, and the narrator introduced... "There are two Swiss: 23-year-old student Valentine... Law graduate Auguste..." The red cloth set off their lovely and pathetic The faces, they seem to know each other, but they are unfamiliar.
Only the photography of Valentine's "Breath of Life" commercial appears on the screen. Maybe people who are facing death will be shocked and will think about the ultimate value of the meaning of life. Perhaps after the baptism of "death", they seem to have a new reborn life.
Kieslowski pinned his hopes for pure and flawless love on the "new" couple.
The black subtitles at the end of the film sound classical singing, as if floating down from the dome of the church, with a strong rhythm of religious music, which means that people think: "Where are people going?" The person is peaceful and calm, as if breathing the clean air floating from the sky.
"Red" is like a classic famous painting, which can be watched and pondered over and over again, attracting people to go deeper and deeper, enter and enter again, to experience and experience the destruction of the protagonist's love ideal, the gloom of spirit, and the profound and constant reflection on life. , as well as thinking, exploring and generating hope for truth, beauty, love, and light on human nature.
Kieslowski's often used metaphor, "the breath of life", expresses Kieslowski's worries for Valentine's tomorrow, a beautiful life at this time, with glory, youth, holiness, Healthy, kind, and amiable, but there will be all kinds of temptations and temptations tomorrow, will she be able to get out of these labyrinths, valleys, and quagmire? Can she still be full of beautiful, warm, and holy love? The breath of life is easy to blow, but the breath of life has a hundred styles, a thousand kinds of suffering, and all kinds of helplessness. . .
Kieslowski is not a work that criticizes reality, but a work that criticizes human nature. The love shown in "Red" is not romantic, but serious; not realistic but real; not comedy but drama. It is not a tragic lyricism but a rational excavation; it is not the perfection of love but the imperfection of love; it is not the lightness and pleasure of love but the disgusting grayness of love; it is not the love that comes naturally but the love that cannot be held. These are the director's discussion on the theme of love in "Red".
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