"The Child" by the Darney Brothers, another work that reveals the characters at the bottom, how can we not say something about it? Danet's focus on the under-the-radar continues, reaching new heights in this film.
The plot alone is not enough to conquer the audience, nor is it enough to win the Palme d'Or, so why did it win this award? I think it was the emotions of the people revealed in the film that hit the judges, and also hit us who can feel it carefully. The film uses a documentary-like method to shoot the whole process. It can be viewed as a documentary. Due to the strong emotional storm of the characters and the close-up of the environment, if you don’t carefully experience the director’s intentions, you will skip these close-ups of emotions and the environment, and you will feel that the film is nothing special and ordinary. But when another part of the audience watched it, the impact on their hearts was very shocking!
The film opens with Bruno's girlfriend Sonia appearing on the screen with the child in her arms. At the beginning, she talks about the life problems the two face. Sonia is on the phone in the phone booth, and the wind blows her hair, which establishes a sad scene for the film. The keynote is that she is holding her child and waiting for the passing vehicle to cross the road. What she is actually waiting for (face) is the social environment (the vehicle is used as a proxy) to put pressure on her and her boyfriend Bruno. She heads towards the river where Bruno lives. When she walked to the workshop, the wind blew the small branches next to her, and also her hair. The picture kept reminding the audience that these symbols of social pressure (wind) go hand in hand with the heroine. Let’s look at the hero again. The living environment is so bad, the heart of the audience is also cold. Below the house is the river, which, like the wind and vehicles, symbolizes the icy social pressure that tightly oppresses the hero and heroine.
Sonia took the child and sat on a motorcycle driven by a child to find Bruno. The wind blew her messy hair again, and the sad tone in the film began to accumulate slowly. It appeared in three places shortly after the opening of the film. Feng, the Darney brothers used this natural environment to set off the characters' situations. They were quiet but touched the hearts of some audiences. They didn't express the harshness of the environment, but they used symbols to "speak" clearly. Bruno, who is begging from the owner of the car, is found in the traffic, and the vehicle appears again, like the wind, reminding the audience once again that these symbols of social pressure, their relationship with the protagonist is oppressive. Bruno didn't care much about their children, all his attention was on surviving in this harsh social environment, he was engaged in a shady profession of letting children steal and sell things, and improvising along the street. begging. This shows that his way of survival is unstable and floating.
From the playful scenes of Sonia kicking stones at Bruno and the two smoking a cigarette at the riverside habitat, it can be seen that the relationship between the two is close. , although he is laughing, but his heart is bitter, which also shows that both of them are still childish children who love to play. From the brief silence between Bruno and his girlfriend, it can be seen that he does not accept their children. The two rented a car and took their children to play. They played in the car with the only music that appeared in the film. After getting out of the car, they chased and played. The two held the cake in one hand and the other in the other. For a few minutes, the brief intimacy of the two people in front of the river was brewing. At this time, it was an explosion. What Dane wanted to express was the grief of the lower-level people, holding the cake in one hand to indicate that he wanted to survive, and the intimacy expressed that people still have right. Emotional needs, but for the bottom people, survival is the first priority. The intimacy between the two has not reached a deep level, which is not smooth and embarrassing, because the society has not given them a peaceful and comfortable intimacy environment. People are intimidating, it is better to say that the hero and heroine (also the director) are silently accusing the society. The laughter and chasing of the two are just a kind of emotional transfer, a kind of human drama with tears in laughter. "Long Spear": The audience can't help but ask why they don't get a good living environment? I think this scene is the most important part of this film's shock and shock! It is precisely this scene that deeply shook the hearts of the judges before awarding it the Palme d'Or!
Sonia still has a little confidence in life, and plans to register her child with the city government, but Bruno doesn't care. The story develops on two lines at the same time, one is the two of them registering for the child, and the other is Bruno's cell phone ringing many times. The ringtone and the dark activities associated with it remind the audience of the hardships of Bruno's way of life, and explain why he bought the child. The reason is that his life is precarious, how can he afford this child? The film keeps reproducing the scene where the vehicle drives past the male protagonist pushing the stroller. As mentioned above, the metaphor is that the living environment is oppressing the male protagonist, and the mobile phone bell rings many times in the film, expressing that the male protagonist is struggling in life. Live hard, but life is still giving him problems. Under the coercion of the intermediary who brought him after buying the child, Bruno took the child to the speeding car to rob and pay back the money. After the child was caught, Bruno pushed The child's motorcycle was like pushing an empty baby carriage. Only then did he understand the sense of responsibility and take the initiative to surrender, rescue the child, and impress his girlfriend. The two were reconciled, and Bruno, the child, really grew up. The ending scene holding a cry is a tribute to the ending of Bresson's Pickpocket.
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