It's Hirokazu-eda, Ethan Hawke, and Juliet Binoche. Of course, this fairy lineup is worth watching carefully. The film is like retrieving a pair of wool gloves in the winter grass, giving people a lot of warmth, but if you don't pay attention, you are stabbed by the withered thorns caught in it, and a little bloodstain appears.
Her mother, Fabienne, is a French actress. She is a woman who values her career more than her family. She once slept with the director in order to get the upper hand, took the role of best friend, and won the Caesar Award. But it also indirectly killed his best friend. The daughter, who is close friends with her mother, is also estranged from her to this day. The story begins with the daughter returning to Paris from New York with her husband and young children as her mother publishes a memoir. The mother-daughter reunion soon turns into finger-pointing: the truth will be revealed, all accounts settled, and each other's love and resentment openly confessed.
"Do you love movies, or do you love yourself?"
"I love movies starring me."
Once the mother had stage fright and escaped from the set. The daughter asked the above questions. The mother's answer shows that she still cares about herself after all, but under the guise of art, she uses more aesthetic achievements to nourish her self-esteem.
Ironically, the daughter, who was hurt by her mother's obsession, inherited this obsession. From childhood to adulthood, it is full of judgment. When commenting on her husband, her daughter said, "It's better for him to be a lover than an actor." The mother answered and commented on her later partner with a smile, saying, "His performance as a cook is better than being a lover." Mother and daughter have the same mindset and value system. The bottom of the daughter may also recognize the mother's practice of drawing life energy to support her career. So my husband told the truth after drinking, you brought me and my daughter back to see your mother, it was a competition, and you wanted her to see that you have a happy home, but she didn't. The mother also said that her daughter can't stay by her side all the time, because her daughter gave up her ideal of being an actor and has a knot in her heart. If she keeps watching her acting, it will be bad for her. The saddest thing in the world is that I can't help comparing myself with the people closest to me. But comparing a daughter with a mother, and a son with a father, is the most difficult fate for most people to escape.
The most "warm" part of the film is the reconciliation of mother and daughter. Mother Fabi confessed how much she cared about her daughter, and her role as a best friend was actually out of jealousy. Her best friend was very kind to her daughter, and her daughter liked her and misses her to this day. Mother Fabi felt that her best friend "snatched" her daughter. The daughter realized that she was so important in her mother's heart that she was "almost" about to forgive her. Mother and daughter hug each other deeply.
And at this moment, the little burr in the warm story popped out and stabbed her daughter - the mother suddenly "played", feeling that the true feelings she had just revealed should be left to the studio, to the characters, not " waste" to his daughter. After all, acting is better for her than her daughter.
This warm thorn, the daughter also gave back. When the little granddaughter ran to her grandmother enthusiastically, she said a confession that warmed her heart ("Can you go to outer space? Then you won't die. When I grow up, when you come back, you can see me It's like being an actor.") The audience was just moved, and the next second they found out that this was the "line" that the daughter asked the child to tell her grandmother.
The child asks the mother, what is the truth?
She just smiled meaningfully.
Thinking of the "Sex Book Tycoon" I wrote yesterday , it happens to be the other extreme - Larry and his wife are in the flesh, they have fallen into hell (paralysis/drug addiction/AIDS), and they are dirty, but their relationship is determined Pure to nature, transparent and clean. And "Truth", although embracing and reconciling under the winter sun, is full of scheming and lies (perhaps white lie), and thinking about it is another kind of cruelty - the more harmonious the outside is, the more alienated the heart is.
As for what kind of "truth" you want to see and what kind of life you want to live, it depends on the audience's own choice.
View more about The Truth reviews
