The narrative unfolds as Wenders (who serves as executive director out of reverence and sympathy for the master) accustomed to the all-knowing angelic brooding "director" lands in a plane from the clouds. The film consists of four stories (episodes), independent of each other, as well as two small passage-like episodes. "Four" is really a magical number, and there are four main characters in the Four Seasons, the Quartet, the Four Quartets, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. The four stories reflect the four sides of human love life, like colored fragments in a kaleidoscope, reflecting, refracting, and reflecting multiple times, presenting a fickle, cloud-like misty and fleeting scene. As the "director" who acts as a series (or even a character) in a movie puts it, every image hides another image, and so on and so forth, endlessly. Movies only show us the superficial story, and the meaning behind it is elusive, leaving us viewers, who will have similar or different interpretations based on our different individual experiences. What we see are some unrelated stories, stories caused by encounters on specific occasions, but behind these appearances there are human factors, ethics, conventions, conflicts, tensions and contradictions, until the profound meaning of existence Han.
The encounter of people who are random individuals is a very accidental event, unpredictable and predictable like a cloud. In the first story "Impossible Love", the young and handsome engineer (who looks a bit like another Michelangelo's "David") and the female teacher Carmen (what an interesting name, but not at all similar in character) ) met in the pretty arcade (loggia) of Ferrara, only because of a heavy fog. The two lived in the same hotel opposite the door, but they were at peace with each other. They were both moved and waited, but they didn't move. Fate postponed their reunion for a few years. It was after a movie. In Carmen's apartment, after loosening the robe, he just let his fingertips run over her skin (about 0.5 centimeters away), and then, under her expectant gaze, put on his clothes and walked out. door. Although she loves her deeply, her self-esteem and the excessive dullness of this small town prevent what should have happened. But this pure love story makes people feel beautiful and fascinated, but also a little confused. Carmen said more than once that she wanted to hear people talking, not just sounds, and the place was too silent. Sure enough, women are listening types, and they feel that hearing in particular is very important to them. However, men are often ashamed or neglected to express their emotions because of unnecessary pride, face, or shyness, even if they say a few words of compliment or even flirtation that are not difficult to express. So many beautiful marriages have become as beautiful and unreachable as the clouds in the sky.
The "director" played by John Malkovich plays the role of a chorus in ancient Greek dramas, using narration (chorus) to promote the story, string together the plot, and trigger thinking. More than that, in the second paragraph of "Girls and Sins", he was involuntarily attracted by the sales girl (Sophie Marceau) by the beautiful harbor, until the cloud and rain happened. However, what really attracted his director's sixth sense was her mysterious, unusual eyes (yes, those eyes once fascinated me, a college student twenty years ago), and it was the story hidden behind the eyes. A man's experience of killing his father, and it is twelve swords! For the "director", this is unbelievable and yet another kind of truth, the evil of human nature behind the crime (according to the ancient Greeks, politics is precisely the human craft of taming human evil and making human talent appear), in this story In it, sin and sex are dizzyingly intertwined, with no doubt apocalyptic significance and the shuddering feeling of standing on a cloud.
The third paragraph, "Don't Come to Me", was ingeniously split into two parts, with the fourth paragraph inserted in the middle. A young italian woman seduces a married man in a tavern with a story (about soul and walking speed), so the man turns between the two women, and finally his wife can't stand it and runs away with all the furniture , but because of the rental advertisement, he met another married man (Jean Reno), who was also abandoned by his wife, who also took away all the furniture (is it a woman who is more interested in the furniture she lived with? Can't give up, compared to a man?), leaving only a large empty house, what will happen to two people who sympathize with each other? do not know. The movie leaves room for reverie. This story reveals the instability of marriage, the temptation that exists for many people, then passion and commitment, freedom and responsibility, these are definitely not easy problems, nor simple dichotomous value judgments can solve.
The fourth paragraph, "The Dirty Body," is about the dislocation of worldly love and divine love. On a rainy night, a young man and a woman met on the street. The boy was attracted by the beauty and serenity of the girl (played by Irina Jacobs, who I like) (believed that she was in love, but she did not deny it), talked to her, accompany her Go to church, take her home, and when he finally shows her love (the girl also has a crush on him), only to be told that the girl is going to be a nun tomorrow. It turned out that the peace he felt in the girl was because of his love for God. Such wrong love often occurs in life (of course it is not necessarily the love of God). For example, A loves B, but B loves C, but also has a good impression on A. So, if the purpose is marriage, this becomes an either-or multiple-choice question. This choice is irreversible, and without a rehearsal, it is difficult to make judgments of value and consequences in advance. What I want to talk about more is the love between God and humans. According to the religious point of view, human love is the sympathy and mutual support of sinful occasional individuals, not great love, but a fragment of love. God uses the sacrifice of his only son to atone for the sins of the world, which is the real great love, but for the common people in the mortal world, while feeling the aura of great love, cherish the little love that embraces the mortal world, those whispering fragments of love, It is the true consolation of all those who lack life.
"Love is the life people imagine." (L'amour, c'est vivre dans l'imagination de quelqu'un.
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