Infatuated people are crazy, and confused people are confused because of it.

Mae 2022-04-11 09:01:07

For me, this is really a movie that is difficult to fully accept. It's not that the movie is bad, but the interpretation of life that the story wants to express, which seems to be too theoretical.
Theory, I don't know if I can use this word, but it is like an abstract concept that cannot be fully understood at once.
Maybe it’s because I don’t have a deep understanding of philosophy, or I don’t know much about French culture. Although I know that the movie talks about life, love, marriage, and many, many helpless fates, I still can’t understand the true meaning expressed in it. .
I really want to deeply understand the profound meaning of each dialogue in the film, as well as some of the philosophical ideas that Mr. Huppert mentioned in several lectures, but really, I don't have any understanding of philosophy, which is very important for this film. Film language that can only stay at the bottom level.
If you want to understand this movie, you must go through all kinds of ups and downs in life before you can look down on the world.
Maybe when you can understand this movie, you will understand the world and fate!

Since you can't talk about philosophy like a thinker, can you at least talk about life like an ordinary person?
In the eyes of scholars, life is not just life, but the pursuit of soul and body baptism in life.
I yearn for the environment in which they live, where I can pick up a book and watch their living conditions in the sun for an afternoon.



Some very common and subtle passages in the film are Mr. Huppert picking up a book, or choosing a meadow, or finding a river, or a place to live on a sunny day, and then reading, thinking, and meditating. .
Of course, yearning is just yearning. When I can really have such an environment, I may just sleep with a book on my pillow for an afternoon more often.
This is the difference between a real thinker and a lifer. Thinkers will know that they want to read and want to read books, not only to let themselves be poetic and literary, but to find an answer, to find who they are, what they should do, and what their responsibilities are. And life home reading, maybe just for pleasure, to kill, maybe to be more active.
Mr. Huppert gave three lectures in the film, once on the grass, once in the church, and once in the class. The three times were in different living environments and states.
The first time was the student strike movement, and what she faced was the interference of radical students on the opening of the class; the second time was the multiple blows of the death of her mother, her husband cheating, and her career failure; the third time she got used to herself and walked out. Shadow became a grandmother.
What impressed me the most in these three lectures was the change in Ms. Huppert's appearance, the change in her tone, and the change in her calmness towards life.
As for the content of the lecture, I dare not touch it at all, because even if I read it again and again, I still cannot understand it deeply.
I'm curious how she got out of the shadows after losing her relatives, losing her lover, and her career failure, because she still faces life calmly, without crying or making trouble, thinking about suicide or running away, and without hysteria.
Just watching her cry occasionally holding Pandora, and occasionally crying when she is alone on the bus, the director doesn't give much, and the next picture sees a strong woman.
What made me feel the most uncomfortable was the last scene, the last conversation between Mr. Huppert and her husband. They talked about what to eat in the evening, how to spend Christmas, and the most lifelike things like in the past. Maybe the husband wanted to stay. Christmas, but Mr. Huppert said: The children are coming, you are almost leaving.
Sour, what I felt at that moment was sour.
Not because of pity for her husband's sourness, but how much effort a woman has to go through to treat a man who has lived with her for twenty years so calmly?


strong woman?
It seems to be out of the idea of ​​​​the essence of the film.
Of course, the movie is not just about a woman's self-cultivation, there may be more things about the meaning of life and the value of life.
But reading more is definitely useful, and every book will make people grow and become enlightened.
If the strong teacher Huppert is not influenced by so much culture and philosophy, can he really get out of so many shadows and setbacks?
It should be difficult.
So read more, think more, watch more, think more, and at a certain stage, you will find yourself able to look at every unsatisfactory experience and every negative attitude in life with such relief.
The death of a loved one is a stage that people must go through. A lover's derailment means that they have lost their mutual support. A failure in your career is a test of your courage to deal with setbacks. The turbulence in the world is just a whitewash on your life.
So look at it lightly, is it more exciting than being paranoid and irrational and going crazy for others to see?

Looking at professional people's interpretation of "Future Things", as well as their understanding of life and life, the elaboration and interpretation of the thinkers and philosophical theories involved in the film... I am ashamed of myself!
I can only superficially see the superficial things in the film, which is my yearning for the literati life in the film.

Philosophy is a magical thing, the obsessed people are crazy, the confused people are confused because of it.

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  • Kacey 2022-04-03 08:01:01

    Top 10 of the year! Fairy Huppert is as easy as drinking water when she plays such a role. What's interesting is that this film is easy to project on myself. If I get to Huppert's age, I don't have the fairy spirit like her, I don't have philosophy to support me, and I don't have a handsome French student. A family accident, how do I deal with it? This movie is so depressing....

  • Stephon 2022-04-07 09:01:06

    First thought after reading it: I want to watch it again.

Things to Come quotes

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