The two French films I watched recently, "Café de Flore" and "Lawrence on Two Sides", both follow the same narrative pattern: after the key clues of the main film are given at the beginning of the film, the temporal and spatial order of the entire story is disrupted, and then Start the narrative in the tone of someone telling a story. Such a narrative method will allow you to complete the puzzle while looking for clues like a puzzle during the viewing process. You may be tired from fighting, and if the environment is more comfortable, you may fall asleep on the carpet. Of course, you may also survive the messy, lengthy, and trivial foreshadowing of the first twenty or thirty minutes, or even forty or fifty minutes, from the fragmented clues, a little puzzle, and within ten minutes of the end of the film, put together Come up with a complete story. Under the disorder of time, its viewing experience is not good, but this is what makes it charming. Is "Flower God Cafe" a story about a past life triggering this life, or a story about a past life conceived in this life? Because of the narrative method of disordered time and space, this question is worth thinking about. I read a lot of comments saying that this TM is an old-fashioned past and present story! No~ the film doesn't even give a conclusion about whether there is a previous life in the world. Jacqueline (Vanessa Paradis) It remains to be seen whether the story of Anthony and his son with Down syndrome or the love-hate relationship between the three of them is real. Let me mention a few possibilities first: 1. Believe in the existence of past lives. I believe it means the existence of metaphysics, the medium's words are credible, the encounter between Anthony and his ex-wife, and the encounter with his current girlfriend are all the cause of the previous life. Then it is also possible that the best friend beside the ex-wife was the middle-aged man who had been helping Jacqueline and her son in her previous life. Based on this premise, the conclusion is that because of the entanglements and sins of the past life, there is pain and letting go in this life. 2. Do not believe in the existence of past lives. Without the words of the past life, the medium's words cannot be trusted, so it is very likely that the stories about Jacqueline and her son are all fictional. It is a story constructed by the ex-wife in order to get rid of the mental pain after breaking up with Anthony, and it is a story constructed by her drug-addicted fantasies. Fantasy, the purpose is to make yourself in real life less painful. Third, there is another possibility. A love triangle is Jacqueline's fantasy. Remember the scene when Anthony went to the airport and shuttled through a hall full of congenitally mentally handicapped people? This scene appears twice, and the information given each time is extremely sufficient and abrupt, and it is obviously a hint. So can we guess that Jacqueline, who has been fighting against fate to take care of her son with Down syndrome, imagined a more perfect son's life when she was looking for a power higher than human beings and life. In the play, she When she was woken up by her son in a dream, she said she dreamed that he had become a very attractive playboy. Does this also prove to the side that there is a story that may be Anthony's love triangle that she imagined? She even projected a part of her consciousness onto her ex-wife, so her ex-wife would unconsciously show a charitable smile when she saw a strange congenitally retarded child. In that world she imagined, she had conceived a decent pair of loving parents for her son (Anthony's parents were very much like the parents of a little blond girl), and even imagined that her son, who had devoted all her energy, had left her in love with someone else She did, fantasizing that she would forgive and attend his wedding in person. However, in reality, she couldn't bear the possibility of her son falling in love with someone else, so the car crashed and killed three people. Because there are enough details and the time and space are in disorder, the viewer can intercept every hypothesis from it and spell out one logically consistent story after another. As for the original state of the entire puzzle, I guess the director's own explanation Nor can it satisfy the conjectures of all viewers. When she was in power, she imagined a more perfect life for her son, and when she was woken up in a dream by her son, she said she dreamed that he had become a very attractive playboy. Does this also prove to the side that there is a story that may be Anthony's love triangle that she imagined? She even projected a part of her consciousness onto her ex-wife, so her ex-wife would unconsciously show a charitable smile when she saw a strange congenitally retarded child. In that world she imagined, she had conceived a decent pair of loving parents for her son (Anthony's parents were very much like the parents of a little blond girl), and even imagined that her son, who had devoted all her energy, had left her in love with someone else She did, fantasizing that she would forgive and attend his wedding in person. However, in reality, she couldn't bear the possibility of her son falling in love with someone else, so the car crashed and killed three people. Because there are enough details and the time and space are in disorder, the viewer can intercept every hypothesis from it and spell out one logically consistent story after another. As for the original state of the entire puzzle, I guess the director's own explanation Nor can it satisfy the conjectures of all viewers. When she was in power, she imagined a more perfect life for her son, and when she was woken up in a dream by her son, she said she dreamed that he had become a very attractive playboy. Does this also prove to the side that there is a story that may be Anthony's love triangle that she imagined? She even projected a part of her consciousness onto her ex-wife, so her ex-wife would unconsciously show a charitable smile when she saw a strange congenitally retarded child. In that world she imagined, she had conceived a decent pair of loving parents for her son (Anthony's parents were very much like the parents of a little blond girl), and even imagined that her son, who had devoted all her energy, had left her in love with someone else She did, fantasizing that she would forgive and attend his wedding in person. However, in reality, she couldn't bear the possibility of her son falling in love with someone else, so the car crashed and killed three people. Because there are enough details and the time and space are in disorder, the viewer can intercept every hypothesis from it and spell out one logically consistent story after another. As for the original state of the entire puzzle, I guess the director's own explanation Nor can it satisfy the conjectures of all viewers.
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