French director François Ozon's "Summer 1985" is a youth-based film. Many people don't like it. They even compare it with "Call Me by Your Name", and feel that the second half is a bit jumpy. Take off, in fact, they don't know Ozon well enough.
European movies and Hollywood movies are very different, especially French movies, how can it be possible to make simple and fresh, pure love is beautiful, but it is also impractical. Doubt about love is actually a major theme of Ozon's films. It has been highlighted as early as "Love Appreciation Period". Love is so short from the beginning to the end, and it is so embarrassing at the end. The most emotional thing , Unfortunately, it should be this (not love itself) that produces the desire to create.
The first half of the film is actually not important. The two handsome guys met at the beach. They were attracted to each other and loved each other. It was a matter of course. Because love produces jealousy and accidental tragedy, it can be regarded as a cliché design. The "abnormal" plot after the foreshadowing is estimated to be the focus of Ozon's adaptation of this ancient novel.
The teenager suddenly became crazy and did a series of stupid things, including changing into women's clothes, jumping on the body of his lover in the morgue; keeping his promise and dancing on the grave of his lover... He was stupid and crazy. The state of madness makes the audience feel both outrageous and understandable. People don't frivolously insult young people, and no matter how stupid they are, they can be forgiven. The reason why the youth films made by the self-proclaimed wise Guo Jingming and others are superficial is that they are too shrewd in calculating the teenagers. Those characters are not innocent and stupid, but only have exquisite egoism. They have already become greasy in the skin of teenagers. Uncle, it looks disgusting.
I have said that I disliked Call Me by Your Name very much, and the audience who liked Call Me by Your Name would dislike Midsummer '85 very much, because they can't accept that the teenager hooked up with another at the end of the movie Handsome guys easily forget their last relationship without giving them the hypocritical touch they want. In fact, the point of view expressed by the teenager's monologue at the end of the movie is very reasonable, that is, in love, the object of your crush is only the person you imagined, not the real individual. You put your own preferences into other people's bodies, But you don't know the true heart of this person. In short, love is just an illusion of a person.
"Summer of 1985" makes me very satisfied. It can be said that it is the most successful and authentic work of Ozon in recent years. His last "Thank God" was well-rated and won an award, but I can describe it as a bit of a stick. It's easy to win prizes by chance, but it's not very interesting. Ozon has gone from the niche to the mainstream, and he has won awards again. He has both fame and fortune. I hope he will be more self-willed in his creation in the future.
There is a movie "Wandering Soul" (calling for love in the center of the cemetery) Odete (2005) is somewhat similar to the plot of this film. A man dies, and his boyfriend and girlfriend appear in front of his grave. The two are crazy about love and can't. Self, the man digs the dirt on the grave, and the woman dresses up as gay, trying to get closer to the inner world of the dead ghost. It is estimated that Ou Rong has seen this movie.
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