I remember that in a class last year, it was the class of a teacher who I often drew in his class. At that time, I seemed to be secretly drawing and playing below. He suddenly jumped to talk about the incident of a child in the attached middle school jumping off a building and committed suicide not long ago, and also made a remark that the child who can choose to die at this age is genius. At that time, from the bottom of my heart, to be honest, I despised his argument a little bit, and felt that those who chose to commit suicide were themselves disrespectful to life and cowardly. However, after watching the movie "The Elegance of the Hedgehog", I seem to have a little understanding of the teacher's original intention.
An 11-year-old precocious girl, Paloma, is always hiding in her own home because she cannot be understood by her relatives. Because she has seen the emptiness of life and the hypocrisy of human nature, she makes an important decision - to take her own life on the day of her 12th birthday. In the 165 days she was walking towards death, she hoped to use her DV to make a movie about why life is so absurd, because in her opinion, "what matters is not death, nor how many times. It's the moment of death, what are you doing."
This extreme genius girl, not freedom or death, is her portrayal. Because she doesn't want to be a goldfish in the glass like others, she has been struggling all her life in vain. In her opinion, if she can't be her true self and can't find a place to put her soul, she would rather die.
(2) The most important things are invisible to the eyes.
In "The Little Prince", the crystal clear little fox once said this to the little prince. "The most important things are invisible to the eyes." This sentence is absolutely true. Especially when I saw that grumpy, bloated concierge aunt Honey, when she was quiet, alone in a room full of books, immersed in the kingdom of her own thoughts, these words suddenly came to my mind. emerged in.
The smart Baroma explained the mystery in one sentence, she said that Honey reminded her of a hedgehog, "It's covered in thorns, a fortress like a fake, but I think she just pretended to be lazy on purpose, but her heart is as meticulous as a hedgehog. , Sexually likes loneliness, and is beyond elegant."
And he was also able to discover this, as well as the inscrutable Mr. Ozugero. He saw that under the ordinary and even ugly appearance of Honey, the abundant heart. But what about most people? They often do not carefully look at the people around them, and even if they do, they use their eyes, not their minds.
(3)
I don’t want to spoil things for being true to myself, but in the end, it seems that Ha Na’s death gave Paloma a reason to live, the little girl really got a close look at death, “Everything came to an abrupt end, and I can’t see it again. To the one you love, you will never see the one who loves you again."
Paloma said at the end, "What matters is not death, but what we are doing at the moment of death, Honey, before you die What are you doing at that moment? You are ready to fall in love."
Because she didn't want to cause trouble, she just wanted to maintain a normal and typical concierge image in the eyes of ordinary people, Hani pretended to be illiterate, and even if she went out, she always remembered to lock the pile A room full of books; facing Mr. Ozu, who has "wisdom eyes and pearls", even if they have a good impression of each other, the difference in their identities and the level of social status make Ha Ni hesitate to move forward, but the night before her death, she I still chose to be loyal to myself and go to Mr. Ozu's appointment.
How difficult it is to be true to oneself, Baroma just wants to be true to herself, but her various behaviors are even mentally abnormal in the eyes of adults; so she chooses death, although extreme, but Understandably; Honey has always been true to herself, but she takes a safe and compromising way, eating chocolate, drinking tea, and immersing herself in her own spiritual world.
I accidentally saw the director's appearance, a young French girl, and, like Baloma, she has flamboyant curly hair, and a small light of wisdom is revealed under the big glasses.
I even guess that Paloma in this film has the shadow of the director when she was a child. She found more meaning in life in the dead Honey. Freedom, love, creation, blah, blah, blah, so she gave up her 12th birthday plan to have the "Elegance of the Hedgehog" we have today.
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