inner softness

Kristy 2022-04-21 09:03:23

My name is Honey, I'm 54 years old, and I've been a concierge in Paris for 27 years. I was a widow, short, ugly, fat, with calloused feet, and sometimes woke up in the morning with a mouth that smelled like a mammoth. I never went to school, I was always poor, unremarkable, insignificant. I live alone with only a fat lazy cat with me. This cat has only one characteristic, when it is in a bad mood, its paws will smell bad. I'm not amiable, but I'm polite; I'm not likable, but people put up with me because I'm exactly what everyone thinks of as a porter: old and ugly, grumpy, clingy In front of the TV, on a throw pillow with a knitted pillowcase, there is a fat cat purring, and the smell of assorted casserole is overflowing.

This is a passage that Baloma begged Honey to take with the camera. Honey is always expressionless, and her eyes are indifferent to the secular world. Baloma giggled and laughed. A girl who rarely talks, her mind is as empty as a mirror, she is like a detached angel, looking at the busy people in the world with contempt, she criticizes this superficial society, and uses a small camera to deliberately create a relationship between her and the outside world. In the interval, she explained everything around her in a language that she could only hear and understand.

Loneliness is a kind of destiny, but some people avoid it, and some people pursue it. I think the reason why this movie is called "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" is because the protagonists, Honey, who is over fifty years old, and Baloma, who is just at a young age, deeply hide the shadow of loneliness in their hearts, and they are all like a hedgehog. , Sharp on the outside and fragile on the inside, because of his disapproval of the world, he packaged himself as indifferent to avoid being hunted. But deep down, they are richer than anyone else, they have sharp ideas, and they also have sensitivity and conceit that outsiders are not easily aware of. , came together.

Mr. Ozuguro has a prominent family background, but he has no arrogance and conceit of the nobles at all. When he first saw Hani, he was deeply attracted by the cold and warm words quoted by Hani - most of the happy people are similar. , the unfortunate people are different - is a classic sentence in "Anna Karena". At that moment, Mr. Ozu Grand decided that the sloppy, indifferent and indifferent woman in front of him was the heroine in his heart.

Honey was always full of apprehension and unease in her heart. She was extremely inferior and self-abandoned, and she kept hesitating and choosing on the courtship road full of warmth and romance that Mr. Grand laid out for her, and almost ran away. In the end, she finally mustered up the courage to be brave enough to love, but was hit by a van from a dry cleaner while standing on the side of the road in order to help an insane beggar. Ozugran put his coat over the slowly dying Honey. Remember Baroma once said that what matters is not death, nor when, but what you are doing when you die. If it was in the past, she would not mind too much about life and death. After all, she has spent most of her life lazily and has no love for life, but Mr. Ozu Grand suddenly appeared in her life, bringing her all possible care and passion, She had opened her heart to love, but fate suddenly turned a corner and made an unacceptable joke. The last bit of rights is still taken away, and this ending really makes me sad.

And Baroma, from a wealthy family, but at the age of eleven, she began planning to commit suicide on her twelfth birthday six months ago. She secretly stole an antidepressant from her mother's bedside table every day, and said to the camera, I am so lucky and rich, but I know my destiny is doomed to spend in a goldfish bowl, I will not be like adults I'm content to spend my time in a goldfish bowl, so I'm ready to kill myself. A very profound passage, the surprise came from the mouth of a child. The author expresses his thoughts through the mouth of a child in many places, deeply expressing the author's views on many disturbances and affairs in the world. The two heroines in the film, one old and one young, both have their own analysis and understanding of art and life. They are not willing to live indifferently, but they are tired of compromising in the face of huge social oppression. This also seems to represent the inner contradiction and struggle of the author.

We have all been lonely and frustrated. The relatives who used to be with us day and night are no longer there. The vigorous people who once loved don’t love anymore. The friends who used to be frivolous and frivolous and promised to travel around the world are now alone. The goal that I strive for in my own life is now light and cloudless, and I can no longer raise my passion. We just reluctantly console ourselves, let it be, let it go with the wind. Those faces and oaths turned into a circle of light and faded away.

It's just that those people and things that I missed will only be remembered in the middle of an occasional lonely night, and later, it will be difficult to remember. When we gradually don't even feel lonely, the devil in our hearts will suddenly rise up and devour all the passion.

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  • Adrienne 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    I like that very ordinary and down-to-earth concierge, I like that elegant old Japanese man, I really think that child is a little annoying

  • Guido 2022-04-23 07:04:20

    He expresses this delicate feeling very aptly, without being overly eccentric or too witty. Although he feels that the progress of everyone's relationship is still a bit fast, he also believes in this kind of "electricity and flint" friendship - a password for On the Internet, the closed world is opened, and "you are such a person" can be recognized in the vast sea of ​​people. The lens is beautiful, and the suspense and foreshadowing are well done. Although there is a tendency to label the middle class, the perspective of "young people" can also be understood. The spiritual world supported by books, sometimes I forget about its abundant space, the small three-dimensional paper art is really a hit, people who like pop-up books so much can't stand it. "She didn't even recognize me," hurts my heart, but I've come to the point where I have a special empathy for this kind of loneliness.

The Hedgehog quotes

  • Paloma Josse: Planning to die doesn't mean I let myself go like a rotten vegetable. What matters isn't the fact of dying or when you die. It's what you're doing at that precise moment.

  • Renée Michel: Happy families are all alike.

    Kakuro Ozu: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

    [Quoting from Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina']