Ideal and reality again? (my biggest contradiction)

Jeanne 2022-04-01 09:01:18

I couldn't help but ask myself a question while watching this film, what's new about this film, we've been talking about idealism and realism, things that change and things that don't change, why do we It happens that this movie is still needed to educate us to continue thinking about these issues. This is exactly the same as the book in this movie "Copy as is", indeed, from many perspectives, the central idea of ​​this movie is just copying people's thinking about things since ancient times, but its existence does not Makes people feel redundant. As the heroine said, what we need is a perspective, not content. Perhaps since ancient times, we have been eager to come to a conclusion on this philosophical issue, but our hearts are hard to let go, and we want to have both. Inner conflict prompts us to keep trying, to be curious, to see if there is something to learn from various perspectives.
The original copy is such a film full of contradictions and put it into Schrödinger's box. It seems that until the end of the film, we have not reached a conclusion, making the audience feel like being poured cold water, every moment. A reminder that we need to embrace the contradictions and changes in our lives. During the viewing process, I was amazed to find how similar my thinking and the male protagonist are. Over the years, I have become accustomed to changes, and even accepted and embraced all the changes in life. Romanticism seems to be a childish existence. , we cannot cling to our past selves and others and pretend that everything is the same. In many ways, this thought gave me great comfort, and I finally felt peace of mind after all these years. But the heroine's point of view is the opposite. She emphasizes that through hard work, we can turn the situation around and bring some things, emotions, and relationships back to the way they were. I am in awe of her courage and persistence. She has her own ideals and is willing to strive for them. And I can't do it. The heroine said in the movie that people become so realistic because they are afraid of being hurt. She is right, accepting reality is the best self-protection.
At this point, I still don't know how to face life. Both of them are right and wrong, and life is not so simple that it can be easily divided into black and white. All lives are copies of this philosophical question, and the film reminds those optimists and pessimists, or realists and idealists, of each other, and reminds us not to rush and not to Think more, enjoy everything in front of you, be sad when you should be sad, be happy when you should be happy, live the life we ​​ought to live.

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  • Misty 2022-04-02 09:01:14

    I also completely melted when Binoche's tears fell, and that was the moment when she was seen as a spectator in other people's narratives. Starting from the perspective of the audience under the stage, and ending with the devastated creator leaving behind a more beautiful scene, accompanied by the sound of the bell, this is a kind of introspection about the appraisal of art works. In addition to the physical mirrors and window frames that appear in the film, the cultural relics in the restaurant, even the nationality and language of mothers, children, newcomers, elderly couples, can be compared one by one and returned to real life to become their own evaluation system and feelings. The copy of the original work is played as a fake, and it is excerpted. Whoever made it, the value of its existence is formed by seeing and being seen. The leafless garden is beautiful, ugly, good, evil, true or bad, and anyone can comment. But it can't match the most important, the fatherly advice of Claude Carrière, the great screenwriter who just passed away this year, to show more practical love to the people in front of him. The retrospective exhibition after a five-year interval has been revisited in the archives, and it is confirmed that it is my favorite Abbas.

  • Paolo 2022-04-04 09:01:07

    Other Abbass, whether "as is" or "copied", come from the most pessimistic cross-sections of life. In just 100 minutes, with the deepening of the dialogue, the subject's perspective constantly shifted, only plain display, no emotional comments, very clever techniques. And the most frustrating thing is that love wrapped in philosophy is still love, and metaphysical pain is still pain.

Certified Copy quotes

  • Elle: I didn't get married to live alone. I'd like to live my life with my husband. Mmm... Is a good husband too much to ask for?

    La patronne du café: Our lives can't be all that bad if all we can complain about is our husbands working too hard. You see, when there's not another woman, we see their job as our rival.

  • James Miller: My family lives their lives and I live my life. They speak their language and I speak mine. That makes sense doesn't it?

    Elle: It makes a lot of sense.