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Arnold 2022-03-25 09:01:15

I saw the director's name in a book by Duras. Last night, I returned from Sanya with my family. Unexpectedly, the plane could not land in Shenzhen and Guangzhou. It landed in Zhuhai and stayed on the plane for a long time. I finished the movie with the sound of air currents and the frolic of the Hong Kong kids next door. It was a pleasant surprise to see Hulot wandering around in the Expo building but always passing by the person he was looking for. It was a pleasant surprise to see the beautiful scenery of the building and the way different people work. It's the same feeling as I am now. .
The movie has three big scenes, the Expo building, the house of an old Hulot friend, and the reception. When watching it, I secretly admired that the talented director's adjustment of the scene was just right. The doors in the lens, the countless large floor-to-ceiling glass windows, the clean and tidy lines in the building, even the warmth of their smiles would be melodious. With a little cold distance, even in a hurry, the pace is very steady (if it is an American, it should be crazy to escape, haha) I like the American girl in the cocktail party very much, she is a bright green in this film, the room When the top collapsed, it was a big deal to lift up a sleeve and sway a song. When a person walks on the streets of a city full of history in Italy, the buildings around him will probably interpret the collision of various contradictions and fusions in different languages. Although everyone in today's society has less and less personal space, there can be more and more happiness and freedom in the heart.
At noon today, I chatted with my cousin who is studying in Rome about this movie. She said that Italian humor is a little slow, and you can't watch it with a fast heart. ""Black Humor" as an aesthetic form belongs to the category of comedy, but it is also a perverted comedy with a tragic color. The emergence of "Black Humor" is related to the turmoil in the United States in the 1960s. Contemporary capitalism The absurdities and "comedy" contradictions of society are not created by writers with their subjective will, they are reflections of that kind of social life." Looking back now, the movie-watching time on the plane last night was very pleasant. The characters, the architecture and the light, everything is clean and tender.

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  • Barbara, Young Tourist: How do you say "drugstore" in French?

    Monsieur Hulot: Drugstore.

  • Monsieur Hulot: [in English, to Barbara] I'll be back.

    Old Woman 1: [in French] What's that mean?

    Old Woman 2: [in French] I've no idea. Can't they use French?