Although she claims to love her work as a philosophy teacher, philosophy is rarely discussed in the film. She was talking about her mother, her marriage, or berating her children for not being stupid. Philosophy only grows in the gaps in her life, and it is not even tenacious: reading books on the subway and bus; discussing classes with students, interrupted by her mother's suicide; reading philosophical works at her mother's funeral, few listeners and irrelevant , dull; talking with Fabian about the relationship between the path of life and philosophical beliefs, wrapped in emotions and marijuana, not serious or in-depth. In her work she inspires young people to start philosophical thinking. For herself, philosophy and life are separate and ineffective for each other. I know what I should know, but I live differently. Her students are getting serious, like Fabien, who writes columns, does online courses, and lives a socialist life (she doesn’t agree with it); her younger students run a website and ask her for articles (she lacks interest, this paragraph is in There is no explanation in the film). Her life is shown as unphilosophical and complicated: buying books for students, talking with the bookstore owner for a long time; cooking for her family, roasting chicken, making mashed potatoes; sending her mother to a nursing home, which is both unbearable and expensive; The cat catches the cat, and perseveres in calling it, as it calls all the other things it has lost. Fabian, who threw herself into socialism, was her counterpart. Fabian's life is shown as: good scenery; good food; full of books, theoretical discussions, playful; peers are united and friendly, mutual respect and mutual assistance; Fabian not only criticized her "bourgeois" style, but also Straight out, he and his partner are not keen on family life. In general, not "middle class", deconstructed family, like "Utopia". From a few words, we learned that she also once got serious: I joined the Communist Party when I was young; I have been to the Soviet Union. But when she saved a house, husband, children, when she became a "middle class", she talked about the past with few words, like contrition, like a joke. She talked to the bookseller, and calmly and simply accepted the decision that the book would not be reprinted due to market reasons, without anger or even the slightest reflection. Two scenes of crying for no reason: herself, in Fabian's bedroom, holding the cat; her daughter, in the ward where she just gave birth, said, can you give me back the baby (holding). Everyone who cried seems to be for no reason, and there seems to be a hundred thousand reasons. It's good that movies have the possibility of being as verbose as real life. And the intertext is also very subtle and complete: the most direct and practical comfort can be obtained only by holding it, no matter what it is. And just like in the face of life, in the face of emotions at this time, philosophy is completely powerless and has no chance to appear.
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