What did this film say? The friendship between two men, the love of men and women, man and nature... Pick up one of these casual themes, and they can all become the themes of another movie. But in this movie, there are only full of emotions and fragmented plots. It stands to reason that this kind of movie would be ugly, because it is too "quiet", there are no hot action scenes, and the protagonists are taciturn: Enzo played by Jean Renault is the character with the most lines, but with his consistent performance Style, you can’t expect the cold-faced killer in one movie to follow Guo Degang in another movie; the other actor, Jacques Mayor, is not diving, but on the way to diving; not diving on the way, just Smile shyly at the prison heroine and the dolphin, but what about the heroine? Of course, he looked at him affectionately. In addition to them, there are many dolphin actors in the movie, but it is clear that they also belong to the "silent majority". However, when full of emotions are pouring out with the azure water, language is the most surplus.
The beginning of the film is on a small island in Greece. Enzo and Jacques, who were still children, met in order to salvage a coin. The little Enzo is a child and has the demeanor of the big brother of the underworld. And Jacques is a little man who stays with fish more than people. His father made a living by diving. Unfortunately, shortly after his friendship with Enzo began, the two children witnessed the unpredictability and cruelty of the sea at the same time. Time flies, and when he grows up, Enzo has become the world free diving champion. He is conceited, arrogant, and believes that he is the son of the sea and the master of the underwater world; but he knows that only one person can challenge him, and that person is his childhood partner-Jacques Mayor. He wants to find him and compete with him in the arms of the sea.
At this time, Jacques is assisting Professor Lawrence to study the effects of free diving on the human body. In Peru, he met the beautiful Joanna. If there is love at first sight in the world, then this is it. Snow-capped snow-capped mountains, frozen mountain lakes (this is not practical, why do you want to go to snow-capped mountains? But, let it be!), Jacques wearing a bright red diving suit. Joanna couldn't see him, he sank at the bottom of the frozen lake, but his heartbeat was within reach of her. However, meeting means parting, and two people have to separate before they even say a few words.
Enzo found Jacques and invited him to participate in the free diving championships held in Sicily. Joanna, who was in love, came to Sicily to meet Jacques after hearing the news. The two men got better off the court because of her: they held their breath in the swimming pool, and they made a tie, but they almost drowned. Think about it, the world diving champion drowned in a swimming pool! The power of a woman is powerful, believe it! Enzo warns Joanna: Jacques comes from another world. Jacques opened his wallet and showed Joanna a picture of his family, but what Joanna saw was a dolphin.
The next day, the doctor prevented Enzo from participating, thinking that he was not suitable for diving after the hangover. The proud Enzo said before diving: "This sea is mine. I know when I can dive and when I can't." At this time, Jacques took Joanna to visit his dolphin friend, and waited for him to return to the hotel. , What I heard was the news that Enzo broke the world record. After Enzo's celebration party, the three quietly walked out to release a dolphin to the sea. Jacques played with it happily, Joanna, don't you understand? That is the love of this man's life!
Enzo was the champion for only one day, and the sea in Sicily favored Jacques more. On this day, he became the new world champion. That night, after he and Joanna lingered, a beautiful arc was drawn on the wavy sea, and it was the dolphin he released! Jacques couldn't help jumping into the sea to swim with it. The neglected Joanna found out for the first time. Maybe she was not the only one of Jacques. She left Jacques in anger.
Jacques was at a loss for Joanna's departure. It turned out that his world was only the ocean, but now there is one more. It’s great to have Joanna; but it’s not possible to have Joanna without the azure loneliness.
Joanna returned to New York and couldn't help but miss Jacques and called him. Jacques told her the story of the mermaid: "Under the sea, the blue sky has become a memory. You lie in the silence, waiting silently, determined to die for them. Only then will they appear. They approach you and greet you, Test your love for them. If your love is sincere and pure enough, they will be with you and take you away forever." Joanna’s heart was melted by Jacques again, and she left her world. Followed Jacques and came to the embrace of the sea.
Another free diving championship is also the arena of Enzo and Jacques. Enzo is determined to defeat Jacques. He raised the world record (360 feet) held by Jacques to 380 feet, which is almost the limit of free diving. However, Jacques is a good brother of Enzo in life. In the sea, he is a terrible opponent. It can even be said that in the sea, he is just a fish! With a depth of 400 feet and a stay time of 4 minutes and 50 seconds underwater, what else could he not do? Enzo was silent, he didn't believe that the sea would always embrace Jacques tighter.
Greece, their childhood home. As if reincarnation in the dark, they returned to the sea where they started. This time, what they are fighting for is not a coin, but Poseidon's favor. Who is his most beloved son?
Joanna is pregnant, and she tells Jacques the news enthusiastically. But she did not expect that her world is Jacques, and Jacques's world is the sea, the boundless blue and loneliness.
Dr. Lawrence rushed to the scene of the game to stop the game from continuing. According to his research, if anyone tried to break Jacques's record, the only thing waiting for him was death.
Enzo calmly listened to the news that Jacques told him. He believed that Jacques would not lie to him, but he took a deep breath and dived. For what? Defeat Jacques or look for the legendary mermaid? Or just can't refuse the temptation to be embraced by the sea? Nobody knows. When he surfaced again, he was dying. But he said to Jacques: "You are right... there is a better world... please... send me down again." The distraught Jacques took him to the bottom of the sea, where the mermaid took him away. With Enzo, it also cut off his last trace of nostalgia for land.
In the dark night, Joanna cried in pain, "It's dark and cold there, and there is nothing! Look at me, I am real! I love you, I am pregnant!" Jacques gave Joanna a last look. Put the rope of the dive motor into her hand. He asked her to send him away and put him in the embrace of lifelong love with the hand of his lover.
In the gloomy seabed, a dolphin arrived as promised, and Jacques' figure finally melted into the deep blue with it.
I don't know why, I always like to juxtapose this movie with the mountaineering movie. Compared with some action movies, romantic movies and disaster movies that only take the outdoors as the background, I think this movie is an authentic outdoor movie.
The mountains and the sea are the poles of this lonely planet, beautiful and cruel, but also the most attractive areas for human challenge and exploration. They are like virtual and real images reflected in a mirror, reflecting the relationship between humans and nature.
When you ask a person why he is climbing, he will probably say: "Because the mountain is there." If someone asks why Enzo goes diving, I want to replace "mountain" with "sea", which may be his ready answer. .
When Joanna asked Jacques, is it difficult to dive? Jacques stared at the clear sea and said: "Actually, the most difficult thing is below. I must find a reason to let myself rise." I thought, replacing this sentence with a climber, bathed in bright sunshine (maybe Too brilliant), smiled and said, "Actually, the most difficult thing is that I have to find a reason to let myself down." I am afraid that many people will frequently nod their heads and feel sad.
While reading National Geographic magazine some time ago, the editor-in-chief Shan Zhiqiang talked about his understanding of the charm of mountaineering, which is to "break through the biosphere." But why should people pursue this kind of breakthrough? At an altitude of 8000 meters and a depth of 200 meters under the sea, what attracts them so much?
In these two places, thin air and dense sea water completely isolate a person. The groups that can be relied on on land no longer exist, and the inexhaustible social relations, love, affection, friendship, and interests are all cut off by nature, leaving only boundless loneliness.
Humans are afraid of loneliness. In the subconscious, returning to the mother body is the most beautiful state. But as long as a person is born, he is destined to be alone, even if he finds his rib.
In the film, Enzo's girlfriend once persuaded Joanna to have a child. She said: "In the end, you will be alone anyway." However, the company of a child does not relieve loneliness. Both Jacques and Enzo knew that in the deep sea, it was a better world.
In French, "the sea" is homonymous with "mother". Hanging in the deep sea will find the feeling in the womb: warmth, carefree, endless unknowns and endless possibilities, it is an innocent chaos, without self, without him.
When the sea isolates all the ties of the outside world, the individual individual returns to chaos in absolute loneliness. In the chaos, humans and mother nature are no longer separate individuals, nature accepts you, and you return to the origin that gave birth to this planet and become an eternal part of this planet. Only in the arms of nature can human beings completely get rid of the loneliness deep into the bones. Therefore, whether it is 8000 meters high in the sky or 200 meters deep in the sea, we are just trying to relive our old dreams time and time again.
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