In the spare time of the coronavirus epidemic, I re-watched my personal best film "Synonyms" in 2019 (tied with "A Midsummer Nightmare"), and suddenly felt that there are still many good films this year! (smiling bitterly) Rethinking several themes of the film:
Linguistic symbols, human behavior, all these things that build nation-states, are full of meaningless moments that the film proves countless times. The biggest conflict between the male protagonist and "France" is the conflict between life (body, food and drink) and metaphysics (literature, music), and the biggest void in France as a country is that the local elites have a high-rise art culture, while the marginalized people even Not being able to solve basic survival is incompetent as a modern country, and it is also absurd. As a man with a handsome body (for others to consume) and a dream of literature and art, the male protagonist cannot solve the basic problems, so he is forced to face these emptiness. Likewise, learning French and refusing to speak Hebrew put him in a language predicament. For a language, if you look through the dictionary, a word can have countless beautiful synonyms, but the more synonyms, the less meaning they become, and the holes of semantic rhetoric become one after another. French (and even human culture) is in this way. That's what this film is about.
As for the wonderful scheduling of the film, I won't go into details. In one sentence: Next time I meet the main event, I want to hold my iPhone and chase the actors!
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