We got married when we were seventy

Graciela 2022-01-04 08:01:07

As a French movie lover, it is strange to watch "The Science of Sleep" so late. This film, as always, exudes a light cheese fragrance, which makes the good ones intoxicated. Whether it is Freud or French humor, "Science Sleep" can satisfy moviegoers with various purposes.

A certain girlfriend recommended me to watch this film for a long time. However, firstly, her movie recommendations are not always that reliable (for example, she has a preference for Soviet black and white movies). Secondly, I wonder if Vic, who likes Doraemon's super-length comic drama, can bear to accompany him. I finished watching this French literary film. So the movie-watching plan has been postponed repeatedly.

After reading a few GB of "The Adventures of Tintin" yesterday, I thought it might be time for us to explore "Science Sleep" with the European humorous aftertaste. However, it turns out that this distorted film, which is much looser in narrative structure than Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain), can only make Vic, who is confused, look forward to playing once a week. Leave me intoxicated and unable to extricate myself.

I have to say that the attractiveness of a French woman is not her appearance. Stephane fell in love with Zoe at first sight, wasn't she smiling like a flower? But as at the end he was forced to ask "Why me?" by Stephanie for the reason: You are different. You are different. Zoe is just an ordinary girl. Since she was easily molested by a Stephane colleague, he has been disappointed because she is no different from all the girls who laugh and indulge in bars.

Stephanie is different. She has a soft voice, she has the tenderness of bowing her head, she has occasional tears and a wide-framed mirror that conceals red eyes. She uses her hands to create trivial and small cute things. She doesn't discriminate against defective things but loves (Little Bouma). When Stephane created floating clouds with her, he fell in love with her: everything has its own vibration frequency. When he found the string into the water scale that made the cotton cloud hover, his heart trembled for Stephanie. Bar.

How can I distinguish the boundary between real life and dream? Those scenes of Martine doing a blow job for Stephane in the cellophane bathtub, the scenes of little people dancing on the giant printer, those scenes with paper carts and paper houses, are they all Stephane's dreams? But why did Stephanie see the naked Stephane and his letter asking for Zoe's phone number? If they are facts, why has Stephanie never received his album-sized apology? I don’t know if I’m willing to distinguish between dream and reality. After all, I can’t bear to break the most beautiful ending in the world:

I also want to ride a cloth horse with a white mane through the vast wilderness with my beloved. Climbing on the boat with white branches, swimming in the ocean of blue and white cellophane, with cotton clouds floating above her head...

Stephane's mother told her new lover that Stephane had suffered from this strange disease since he was a child, and he could not tell. In a clear dream, outside the dream. I thought, maybe he doesn't want to wake up, the earth is too unsafe, so many people are clamoring to return to Mars, and they can escape all the skin damage in their sleep, so why not?

However, if you dream for a long time, the dream becomes real life, and real life becomes a dream; just like a college student preparing to go abroad, he has been carrying the red book for a long time, and there is less time to do scientific research, as if GRE is A compulsory course, writing paper is just a hobby.

Therefore, the most serious injury to Stephane was in his dreams: He dreamed of his layout until his hands became as big as elephant ears; he dreamed that he rashly wrote that bad letter to Stephanie; he dreamed Seeing himself going skiing with Stephanie, he was humiliated by his colleagues telling lascivious jokes and shattered her toes; he dreamed that Stephanie, like Zoe, fell in love with a man in a bar, danced and frowned...

"Please stop playing with me!" Stephane complained to a closed door. He broke his blood for love, but couldn't see the truth of his cowardice. All Stephanie’s refusal and betrayal of him are hallucinations that he rehearsed alone; he finally (in a dream) mustered up the courage to convince himself to hide in the dark and wait for Stephanie to give Stephanie a kiss, but retreated to Stephanie’s in reality. Covering his face on the crib: "Can you pretend not to see me?"

All dreams are his subconscious. The subconscious mind told him that he longed for Stephanie. She was the heroine who sat on the bench when he was old and recalled the young absurdity. She was the woman who was assigned to the world through the chaotic system to be able to communicate through the telepathy, but he was afraid Rejected, he fears betrayal, he fears loss. So he struggled in the dark one-man show, hurting and hurting others.

Stephanie's affection for him was extinguished by the letter "Please tell me Zoe's phone number". But she has penetrated the past and the future between herself and Stephane like a nail through the wall. She was afraid of being hurt, and she thought that he was hiding his real residence because of his avoidance of himself, and his later attention to himself was only to find Zoe through her. When one door opened, the other closed. When both doors were ajar, Stephane finally faced his dream fear in the real world:

"Stephanie doesn't love you... Her kiss is between your cheek and mouth. That is what she did to you. Need... She didn't wait for you at the dating place at all, she lied to you, she had fallen in love with someone a

long time ago..." Just after another corner, he can see Stephanie's slender figure through the half-floor windows of the coffee shop. He went and fled.

He cursed her for deceiving himself, knocking and ramming the door of the room with no one behind until he lost consciousness in the blood.

"I'm a lowly drug dealer... so she dumped me... she let me go... I finally... finally got nowhere..."

Stephane chose the way he wanted to end the pain: he was flying back to Mexico. His mother said, you can't just leave without saying goodbye. So he reluctantly knocked on Stephanie's door.

They quarreled. They had quarreled before. Stephane accuses Stephanie too much: What about the forests you made? Where's the boat? You didn't finish it at all, did you? You never finished anything at all? Stephanie cried and yelled: You are talking nonsense, I will show you, you are all nonsense.

Stephane saw the finished two-story wooden bed in her bedroom. He climbed onto the bed that made him tremble with jealousy, and curled up in a baby-like posture. At this time, he saw the white boat with three white trees growing on it. He stretched out his trembling fingers and gently flicked the white leaves: the trees that she promised to call him when he was ready to take pictures when he fell in love with Stephanie for the first time.

They are quiet. They have also been quiet before. Stephanie refused Stephane to be her boyfriend (the "Zoe phone call" incident had not been clarified at that time). After a while, Stephane asked her again: Will you marry me when we are seventy? You know... You have nothing to lose then, anyway... Then, did Stephanie show an imperceptible smile? I'm not sure, but I'm sure she said: Okay.

Stephanie gently called Stephane's name and climbed onto the wooden bed, slowly lying down behind him, gently stroking his soft and tousled hair. Is he asleep again? Stephanie just accused him: You can put the whole world to sleep... You have too serious a reality-distorting problem!

But this time, Stephane didn't use English to conceal his shyness, or use dirty words to disguise his anxiety. In his world, Stephanie also rubbed his hair gently, and they rode on the slowly moving cloth. The horse, heading to the cellophane ocean, leaped into the white boat with white trees, and sailed to the depths of the white cotton cloud hidden by layers...

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Extended Reading
  • Gracie 2022-04-24 07:01:15

    Four and a half stars

  • Libby 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    The little boring scenes are not pretty and a bit rough”

The Science of Sleep quotes

  • Stephane: [Zoe is dancing flirtaciously with Guy] Does she always dance like that?

    Stéphanie: Yeah.

    Stephane: I mean, is it always like that? Or just when shes been drinking?

    Stéphanie: Do you have a problem with it?

    Stephane: No, I just can't imagine how anyone would end up doing that with Guy.

  • Serge: It's one thing to be called fags, but to be called dykes is unacceptable.