Why do we watch movies?
Yang Dechang's " triple life " theory is the top of the demand theory, and there are relatively few demanders, which may be limited to the circle of movie fans.
What the average audience needs is a direct feeling (of course, "feeling" is a wide range, covering "triple life").
This includes all aspects of feelings such as happiness, anger, sadness and music, and even touch. The touch is conveyed through close-up of skin and hair, the beauty is expressed by rich and bright colors, or the sense of close-up brought by 3D production.
If you can't get the feeling from watching a movie, it's definitely like chewing wax.
▲ Yang Dechang
Routine commercial films often add a lot of soundtracks, and you can't wait to let your ears rest for a moment.
Action movie duangduangduang adds a lot of special effects, action stars are not injured several times, that is not called dedication;
The violin of the sensational film is pulled up, the close-up is bigger, bigger, and the tears are clearly photographed for me;
In a comedy, the actions and lines are all exaggerated, to be stupid, to be stupid.
But there are also some movies, it is not, but you need to calm down and try to get close to it, try to feel what the characters are suffering.
"Happy Ending," nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year , is one such film.
It's no different from everyday life, and it doesn't tell you its story background, which direction it's going to go in, and what the characters' motivations are.
Let you slowly get information bit by bit in the daily behavior dialogue, so that the story is clear and clear.
▲ "Happy Ending", please pay attention to the record button on the poster
It's like our life.
Many people born into divorced families have experienced:
In the process of chatting with classmates and friends, when the other party does not intend to mention your parents and is surprised that your parents do not live together, he will politely say sorry.
You will smile and show that you don't mind, they have been divorced for a long time and are used to it.
The other party also understood it literally in this way, only you, and only you feel hurt.
It is the pain level of a needle stick. It hurts when you say it doesn't hurt, and it seems hypocritical when you say it hurts.
In the film, when her mother was hospitalized, the little girl Eve (Eve especially had the taste of Ai Hashimoto, the young heroine in "Confession" directed by Tetsuya Nakajima) lived in her father's new home, a home that did not belong to her.
Grandpa asked her: You won't live here forever, will you?
The speaker has no intention, the listener has the heart.
▲Different translations
At this time, there was no soundtrack, but the father came forward to relieve the embarrassment.
But what I said is said, it is undeniable that Eve is now a "homeless" existence.
And this state began as early as when they divorced.
Eve stayed at her father's house and was completely redundant. Facing her stepmother, Anais, was also full of embarrassment.
▲ Aunt Pei's embarrassed yet polite smile
▲ The son of Anais woke up in the middle of the night, and Anais took the child
Even in the second half of the film, at Grandpa's birthday party, Eve congratulates Grandpa.
Grandpa said, "Thank you, but who are you?"
The way the film begins is also special, with Eve's mobile phone taking pictures of the daily life of her divorced mother.
She can tell her mother's next move a second in advance, indicating that she often observes her mother's behavior.
She craves love, so she pays attention.
But the result of attention is not a mother's love.
She knew her mother was depressed, they lacked communication, and they failed even if they tried.
Mother's groans and complaints all day make her act:
Depression pills were given to pet hamsters, and malaria pills were given to mothers.
But in this case, you can't even criticize what Eve did.
Children (in fact, not only children, everyone is) is like a blank sheet of paper. Whatever color the parents paint, he becomes a work of whatever color.
Meanwhile, her mother's extreme online dating behavior makes Eve collapse and attempt suicide.
She tried to find out what her father said: "If you and Anais are separated, will you take me away?"
Father replied:
Unfortunately, it's not just little girls.
The aunt (father's sister, Huppert) had an accident at the factory, followed by her son being beaten;
Grandpa could only live in a wheelchair due to an accident. He couldn't accept such a useless self, and the idea of suicide lingered in his mind for a long time.
But the inconvenience of legs and feet made death a difficult task, and he sought help from a barber and even a little girl.
The ending failed to tell the ending, but dying was a relief to him.
Just like the undercurrents flowing under the calm lake, the director did not give an enlarged emotional lens to all the suffering.
Completely straightforward, the only (if I remember correctly) soundtrack is the song playing on the radio in the scene.
The lyrics are the voices of the people in the film, which assist the narrative of the film.
Maybe you don't like literary films, but if you have the same experience, you will easily feel the emotions it expresses.
If you don't, you might as well take a look at other people's lives.
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