' muttering in old age, the flash of thoughts brings back childhood... Interrupted and interspersed with the emotional journey of adulthood, it is really a sensitive child who has lost a lot.
Do you, remember the days when you needed to lie in a soft shaker in the nursery? If there is a raging fire in the nursery at this time, because of the instinct of survival, you will cry a lot, then when your memories of childhood germinate, middle-aged memories faded, and memories deepened in old age, will you? Still remember the fire of infancy? What's even more terrifying is that the protagonist of the story is not only experiencing the fire. At the moment of crisis, a woman rushed into the hot scene and resolutely hugged him. In an instant, he stopped crying, and he should have felt something coming from the palm of his hand. Warm, but looking at each other for a second, decided his tragic and failed life, the angelic woman put him back in the cradle, turned around and picked up the same crying life next to him, and rushed out desperately. He witnessed this scene, remembered the face of the mother, even the name of the lucky one, and since then he believed that she was his mother, and he stole her...
So the whole childhood unfolds in the constant competition between the protagonist Thomas (nicknamed Toto) and the lucky neighbor boy Alfred who was rescued by his mother first. Alfred's family is a big family, very rich, and although Toto's parents are not rich, they have given him the warmest family environment. The song "la boum" that runs through the beginning and end of the film is full of jumping and cheerful warmth, from his father The amiable face spit out from the lips, matched with the delightful trumpet of his curly-haired sister, came to the mind of old Thomas from time to time. One day, Alfred's birthday was also Toto's birthday. The rich man got a tiny car as a birthday present. It was really manageable. Toto was jealous and had a conflict with his neighbor for the first time. He told him clearly, His parents belonged to him, and he was a thief, of course alfred, who was confused and disturbed, was very unhappy and pushed toto away. Although Toto has the shadow of the nursery in his memory, if his warm family lives in peace, he will be happier than alfred, I think so...
Of course, the movie is meaningless if it develops like this , Besides, there is also the mystification of the title. Sure enough, on another night of pouring rain, Toto witnessed his amiable father, entrusted by his neighbor, Mr. Kant (Alfred's father), fly a plane to deliver a shipment. That night, the pair of military toys on the bookshelf fell down one by one. This is the beginning of the tragedy... The father is gone, a woman is dragging three children, the youngest is a mentally handicapped child, go to find Kant reasoned, but was shamelessly humiliated in person, and then kicked out. This undoubtedly deepens Toto's hatred, but the strange thing is that he doesn't hate kant, he hates the alfred that he thinks has taken away everything that belongs to him, but at least he is innocent in this matter, in fact, when the fire started , it wasn't his fault that Mrs. Kant finally hugged him. Toto often fantasizes about being an agent on TV, fighting for what he deserves, and alfred naturally becomes a constant target...
In addition to a father who can sing, he also has a lovely sister who can play the trumpet. The sister and brother formed an alliance to live well for the rich neighbors. Even if the mother forced to leave the house because of life, they still carefully And they stayed secretly, but even so, it made Toto feel the biggest failure. The lovely sister seemed to give up their original intention and had a private meeting with alfred at home. The little lover still held a pure white flower in his hand. Rose, Toto was angry, and even rudely pushed the sister who was waiting to be explained out of the room and slammed the door. So it was still one night, and my sister, Alice, shouted exhaustedly, "Are you asking me to do this? Well, I'll do it now." It's alfred's warehouse. Toto heard and called out his sister's name loudly. At this time, he should regret his attitude towards his sister, otherwise he would not fall in love with a woman who looks exactly like Alice when he became an adult. Both times he lost what he "deserved" in the fire.
The heaviest part of childhood is finally over, and the old Thomas struggles to get a gun to get revenge, to end it all, but when the cheerful dad and the equally cheerful sister sing and play the trumpet He changed his mind when the scene resurfaced on the back of a truck in front of his hitchhiker. He still came to alfred's house. He had been wandering here for many years, for women and hatred, and finally he stepped into the house, locked his old friend in the room, put on his old friend's clothes, carefully Tie his tie and brush his hair, this is his life, an old-fashioned gentleman, he paced up to the stairs with emotion, looking up at the portrait of Mr. Kant, also well-dressed hanging on the wall, and murmured : "kant, my father..."
His stolen life is back, then he has to take the fate of alfred responsibly, there really is an agent, maybe not, hiding in the bushes outside the window , gave him the shot I heard at the beginning of the film, he died, what would he think, just the repeated scenes of the deceased's clothes being torn by scissors in the film seem to indicate that the name is not straight. Toto is a sensitive child and a persistent child...
By the way, I watched an exclusive interview with the curator of the French Film Archive in the "People" column of cctv, and mentioned the concept of "author's film", which made me feel that this film can also be classified as an author's film, and what I want to express is too strong... This film has a strong behind-the-scenes production group, co-produced by France, Germany and Belgium. Although it is a bit mysterious, it is still worth watching.
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