2015.08.07
Author/Su Xiaoyang Pami
recently caught a cold and lay in bed this afternoon with a groggy head. With 22 days left, the first summer of freshman year is over. But the sound of cicadas outside the window when I fell asleep at night kept reminding me that the summer here is still very long.
Hunan seems to have always only had winter and summer, not spring and autumn. Most of the summer vacation has been fulfilling and boring. I learned to draw in the morning, learn to swim in the afternoon, occasionally skip classes, read and write occasionally, and get together with my high school friends. I have to admit, we are all far away. Some are arranged by the school to do internships; some go to the city where their parents work for the summer vacation; some high schools originally came from smaller towns to study, so it would take several hours by car to go home during the summer vacation; more Man, working on summer vacation.
I remember when we were young and frivolous at that time, we all fantasized about how proud and uninhibited our university would be. We fantasize about traveling around, seeing different people and seeing different scenery; we agreed with each other that we should get together and keep in touch with each other after college; we thought that there were few classes in college, so we could just skip classes; the college had handsome seniors and beautiful Senior sister has a vigorous love waiting for me. I can get rid of my school uniform and wear all kinds of beautiful clothes. I can learn makeup, skin care, nails and hair perm without worrying about my parents' complexion. I can escape my parents' control and learn how to manage my own money... In short , the summer vacation of the third year of high school, it was really a summer full of fantasy.
The film "Summer in Provence" is, for me, an unbelievably beautiful dream.
The film tells the story of Paul, an old man living in the countryside of southern France, who suddenly welcomed three uninvited guests during a summer vacation - his granddaughter and grandchildren from Paris. The years of estrangement between Paul and his daughter and the ideological differences with the children made them The relationship between them is full of contradictions. The rebelliousness in youth and Paul's tough education method continue to collide, but at the end they show a different warmth. Unconsciously, the relationship between Paul and his grandson grew stronger and stronger, which made Paul the happiest summer in his life.
At first, my impression of Provence was the endless purple lavender flower field, the Zi Ling riding a bicycle through the turning streets of Provence in "Seeing a Dream Again" and greeting everyone with sunflowers, and there are always lovers on the street enthusiastically. Kiss... If Provence in my initial impression is gorgeous and elegant, then Provence in "Summer in Provence" is kind and warm, with a large sun shining on the green but dry grass, olive trees with the wind While moving, the people of the town work during the day and sing at night. The most simple family, love and friendship are staged here, shining in the golden sunshine of summer.
The beginning of the film is a picture of Little Theo (Paul's little grandson, blond hair, blue eyes, very cute, but unfortunately can't speak) sleeping on the train, the warm sunlight falls on his face , In the alternating light and shadow outside the window, Little Theo woke up and fell asleep. With the music of "The Sound of Silence", everything seemed so peaceful and harmonious. The tranquility was not broken until the camera switched to the car window, and the anger and disdain in the lips and eyes of the grandmother and the older brothers and sisters kept opening and closing. The older brother (Adrian) and the older sister (Lea) were apparently taken by their grandmother to the Provence countryside for a summer vacation full of dissatisfaction, thinking they could be alone in Paris rather than a backcountry without any entertainment, and where they lived from The grandfather, who had never met, didn't even know they were coming. Sure enough, Grandpa Paul was not very happy when he saw his grandson and granddaughters when he was picking up the station at the station. He grabbed the luggage bag in Grandma's hand and walked in front of them without saying a word.
Followed by the brisk and slightly hippie music of "In the summertime", in the distant view Paul's red van passes through the golden grass lit by the sun, the trees swaying high or low on both sides of the road , the mountains in the distance are continuous, the car bypasses the mountain road and drives into the country road, the green tree shadows flashing outside the car window are mixed with the sunlight, although the expression of the people in the car is not very good, the whole scene seems to be stained A touch of gold, like a childhood summer afternoon, the sun is warm and the breeze is just right. I just love the view to death.
However, as soon as he arrived at Paul's house, he and his grandchildren began to have a verbal conflict. Paul was dissatisfied that his daughter had not contacted him for 17 years, and now he sent the children at random time without mentioning a word before. Adrian and Leia is dissatisfied and surprised that there are no entertainment venues here, the communication conditions are extremely poor, and Paul's backward lifestyle - he doesn't use mobile phones and doesn't watch TV! And from Paul's words and deeds, it really doesn't look like they're welcome at all.
After getting along, Paul was dissatisfied with Leia's stud earrings everywhere and dressed up like bin Laden with a headscarf. He didn't understand why Adrian always spent a lot of time on the computer with his computer and hated his grandchildren. They are too lazy to work and rest, while Leia and Adrian think he is a "bumper" with a backward lifestyle, and especially hate that Paul keeps asking them to play by their own rules and constantly emphasizes "this is in my house".
One day, Leia stumbled upon the map of her grandmother's room with red lines and red pushpins marking her and her grandfather's travels when they were young.
"Greece-Istanbul-Tehran-Peshawar-Mumbai-Goa, how did you get there? Did you hitch a ride?" Leya asked in surprise.
"No, riding the Victory, I mean riding a motorcycle." Grandma replied with a smile, and took out old photos of them traveling around with a group of friends when they were young, which surprised the children! I didn't expect that my grandparents would have such a cool youth as "travelling around with friends on a motorcycle"!
So, under a big tree with luxuriant branches, the children sat in a row and looked at the old photos of grandfather and grandmother on the wooden table when they were young on road trips. The children were pleasantly surprised to find that grandfather liked John when he was young. • Lennon, and there is a photo of my grandmother dressed as Janis Joplin (a famous American rock singer in the 1960s), and my grandmother once stopped a car with friends on the side of the road in the suburbs, and was a guest at the monk's house in Shaolin Temple , been to the Taj Mahal in India...until grandma urged them to have lunch.
And on a sunny afternoon, friends who traveled with Paul on a motorcycle when he was young came unexpectedly and gave him and his grandmother a huge surprise. Although they are no longer young, they still love each other. Life is full of enthusiasm.
So, in the summer, in the evening, cicadas chirped, a group of old friends sat under the old tree, told about their lives after being separated from each other, and sang the old songs they loved to sing when they were young. Until the night was getting late, they played guitar, drank small wine, talked about the first acquaintance, talked about the absurdity at the beginning, talked about the later parting, talked about the lost youth, and talked about the light sadness. This is a hug that can be touched no matter how long we are apart, looking back again. This kind of friendship is that no matter where you are, there is still a common direction in your heart. You can sing a common song while chatting, laughing and laughing without scruples talking about past injuries.
This is the friendship that "Summer in Provence" taught me - a true friend, the one that I can refuse the cigarette you handed me, the one who can talk about my past injuries, the one that I can feel your loss and sing in time Start a gentle song, even if you are not around, you are still in your heart.
During a market outing, Leia met Thiago, a pizza boy, and Adrian fell in love with Margarie, a mature woman in the town at first sight. The love in youth is quietly fermenting in the golden air of this summer. However, everything didn't seem to go so smoothly.
At the Running of the Bulls festival, the pizza boy Thiago rode a white horse to wink at Leia. At the later classical music dance, he invited her to dance and kissed her. Sweet love grew in Leia's heart. Thiago His appearance was so unexpected, and his enthusiasm inspired her yearning for love. He took her up the highest hill in the city, showed her the large Egalien hills, and said that he and his boys had ridden around them on white horses, like all teenagers in love show off to their lovers; She frolics, makes her try a cigarette, kisses her, hugs her, and he takes funny selfies with her, gives her rings and promises, and says sweet love words. Thiago fulfilled all Leia's beautiful fantasies about love, and he brought her a whole new world. Although Paul has been obstructing her and Thiago's relationship, she has never cared. And Adrian has always been in a state of unrequited love for Margaret, and he used to play with other girls to cover up his love for Margaret. I've heard a saying once: "True love is timid in boys, bold in girls." This is perhaps the best explanation for Adrian's state. He would only deliberately go to Ma Jiali to buy a lot of ice cream, peek at Ma Jiali's figure in the crowd, secretly get angry when Ma Jiali was intimately dealing with other men, but he never dared to take the initiative to mention his slightest love. , although the love scene master Margaret has already seen through his heart.
Until Adrian accidentally saw the intimate embrace of Thiago and Margaret, which made both Leia and Adrian very depressed and annoyed. Leia started not answering Adrian's phone calls or replying to his text messages, but would silently look at the old photos and shed tears. Adrian also began to gradually and deliberately alienate Margaret.
Until at a bullfighting performance, Thiago deliberately jumped into the audience as a performer and put on his bracelet for Leia. After the performance, it was explained to her that Margaret was just her own sister. So, at a cocktail party, Thiago invited Leia again and introduced her to his friends. However, Leia's exposed dress and style at the dance angered Paul again, and he was arguing with Leia. Zhongyi slapped Leia in excitement and pushed Thiago to the ground, so angry that Leia took Thiago and left the reception directly, and called her grandmother and said, "I'm with Thiago, after a few moments. I'll go back again." "It's him, I'm sure he's the right person."
Maybe in the hormonal flood of youth, a girl who falls in love doesn't need to think, she only knows that it's him, and that's it. And Thiago did secretly let Leia take psychedelic drugs.
In fact, Thiago made a living by selling caffeine, psychedelics, amphetamines and other things that make people hilarious. After Paul knew about it, he used the positioning system provided by Adrian and resolutely rode the original motorcycle to find it. Leia. Wearing a denim jacket and carrying a long gun, when he saw Thiago and pointed the gun at him and yelled, "Get off your motorcycle, don't let me see you again!" It was really cool! Although his physical condition is not very good at this time.
After Leia woke up, she lost news of Thiago. She was lost, melancholy, and said that she would never believe in love again.
And Paul told Leia: "The road to love sometimes has twists and turns. It's the same for you and me. That's how you have to believe in love. Life is more twists and turns than we think."
And in Little Theo In the world, everything is much simpler. Maybe for him, it was just an ordinary vacation to the country. He couldn't speak or hear, so he didn't feel the conflict between his grandfather and his older brothers and sisters too much. When he snatched the luggage bag, he instinctively hid in his grandmother's arms, his little eyes were full of puzzlement, but he didn't have the slightest resentment. As soon as he came to his grandfather's house, Little Theo was welcomed by Goya (a dog of Paul's family), although the little guy seemed a little afraid of dogs, when his sister had lunch, he told his brother in sign language, "The spiders here are so big. ”, and then when he saw that the lunch was beef stewed with eggplant, he waved his small hand and pouted to express his reluctance to eat it, because he recently learned that the meat was obtained by slaughtering animals. big horns and bully the calf with big horns" and served him beef, Theo opened his big blue eyes after listening to his explanation, and then hesitated for a while looking at the beef on the plate, He began to eat, although still a little reluctant. And Leia is a localized vegetarian and an environmentalist, so she doesn't eat beef, she only eats sliced vegetables, and it must be local vegetables, Adrian is not used to the garlic in the beef bones, they The first lunch broke up, and Little Theo didn't notice much, just mentioned his father who would tell him stories during his nap.
第二天，当保罗在喂鸡时发现小西奥在偷偷地看着他，保罗把他叫到身边，给他看母鸡下的蛋，小西奥显得惊喜极了；保罗还给西奥看自己养的小兔子，小西奥不禁紧张又温柔地抚摸着这个可爱的小生命；接着，保罗带着西奥给果园浇水，西奥采来了一篮杏子，保罗告诉他“吃完杏子后不能马上喝水，不然会坏肚子，会吐的”。这时果园外响起了汽车鸣喇叭的声音，原来是外婆要带哥哥姐姐去小镇上看奔牛节，问西奥要不要一起去。而西奥则牵起了保罗的手，示意自己想和外公在一起。
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这是整部电影第一个让我温暖到心里的瞬间，当西奥牵起保罗手的那一刻，保罗先是楞了一下，然后马上告诉西奥：“等我们收拾完花园，我带你去看，好么？”说着说着，表情从僵硬变到微笑，而当小西奥笑着点头表示同意时，保罗的笑容更大了，他对外婆说：“你去吧！”从那声音里我听到了欢喜和骄傲，和女儿失和多年，不善表达的保罗已经太久没有感受到来自于孩子的依恋了。
在这个夏天的最后，保罗和孩子们的感情已经越来越深。当阿德里安邀请保罗去巴黎看他时，他说：“在巴黎的人都说‘这个城市太棒了，我都看不到时间是怎么过去的’，但我看得到时间变幻，我看得到时间是如何流逝的，早上，晨光微蓝；大中午，夜晚的阿尔卑斯山，天空如丝绸一般。在巴黎，早上吃饭，晚上睡觉，什么都看不到，我管这叫被愚弄的生活。”
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When I write this, it is actually September 3, 2015. I have watched and watched the movie "Summer in Provence". Every time I watch it, I have a new feeling. Every time I watch it, I can feel it. a new depth. Many of the lines in it reveal simple and profound truths in life. The most profound of them, I think, was when Paul knew that the oil from his 20-year-old olive tree had won the 2013 Gold Olive Oil Medal, and he said a proverb at the celebratory reception: "You are in something If you are successful, there will be people who will oppose you, some people who want to do the same thing as you, some people who want to do the opposite of you, and a category, especially those who do nothing." The
film In the end, Paul sent his three children home to meet his daughter. At this time, they all put down their armors and finally smiled at their closest relatives.
This summer, thanks for meeting "Summer in Provence".
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