Before finding a seat, I glanced around, and there were actually several families who brought their children to watch. Maybe because the protagonist was a little boy, I couldn’t help laughing inwardly, “You really don’t know Hou Hsiao-hsien.
” preparations, but was moved by Hou's narrative style. It's a familiar way of taking notes that can start or end at any time. Because this movie is about memory. The red balloons are quite suggestive.
Probably I prefer the combination of such old-fashioned literary methods and movies. There is no exact story, but it just takes us into daily life: on the way home from school, the quarrel between the landlord and the tenant, the international student as a nanny, with children divorced woman.
But these scenes were composed by Hou's calm and sincere shots, interspersed with interpretations of memory. The world of children is different from ours, so SIMON's memories remain in the scene of playing games with his sister one summer. When he saw the red balloon, SONG FANG, a film student, couldn't see it. As for BINOCHE's memories, there is only one paragraph in the film: she took a picture of SIMON and his sister before the divorce.
The red balloon flew close to the window several times, and across the glass, the color changed, which also implied that the memory would appear blurred and sway with the wind because of the distance of time. Hou uses several such similar fragments to highlight the properties of memory.
For the treatment of real life: we see the whole picture after the trivia step by step, Hou hid part of the space of the mother and son's residence, and it was not until the end that he let us know SIMON's room and the overall situation of the house.
The narration is not rushed or slow. As a student, SONG FANG took a DV to film SIMON and his childhood, and Hou recorded the whole story after it, and let it wander with the details. I think, here, what Hou wants to say is that he In fact, it is SONG FANG outside the film, just doing the recording work, just trying to grasp a vague idea.
At the end of the film, the teacher took the primary school students to the museum to visit the painting. The child in the painting ran to pick up a red ball. When the teacher asked whether the painting represented joy or sadness, a boy expressed his opinion like an adult and said: There are some Joy, some sadness.
Hou still couldn't help but define memory, but the definition is not clear. Some joys or some sadness are just like our daily life, even if memory has drawn a distance from us, overlooking our day like a balloon.
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