The beginning of the film and the following plots used a lot of almost still long shots. These seemingly boring scenes did not affect my interest in the film at all. The atmosphere was tense and suspenseful. The hidden camera shots were the same. The scenes of daily life also greatly stimulated my desire for prying. It is not difficult for people to think of the famous game like "You are looking at the scenery upstairs, and the people downstairs are looking at you in the scenery."
I often turn off the light in the room at night and stand in front of the window looking at the opposite building. There is a room where TV programs are usually broadcast all night. Although I can’t see the content, no matter what programs are on the TV, that The screen is always the same purple, which makes me curious. It makes me wonder about the owner of that room for many nights, what kind of family he has, what kind of life he will be, and whether he will be there too. Look at me upstairs opposite at night. Sometimes, at an unmanned intersection, facing a red light, I always struggle with the question of whether to break or not. At this time, there is always a thought to remind me that the upstairs behind me may be right at this time. There was a three-year-old boy lying on a certain window watching me. The behavior of running a red light might become a role model for this little boy. Such thoughts usually make me stop the steps of the next step. I remember a very sultry noon in the middle of the middle of the year. I arrived in the classroom very early. There was no one in the class. When I was bored, I felt my nose itchy. So I happily started to pick my nose when no one was around. When I was happy, the female classmate who was in love came into the classroom with her eyes facing each other. I still remember the hot air at that time and the regret and despair that filled the air. It sounds like a joke, but this is how we observe and be observed by others every day. I don’t know when we started to pay attention to our own image and other people’s opinions and started a role-playing game. There always seems to be an invisible rule in life that tells us what is right and what is wrong. Whether these hidden systems are a kind of moral restraint, the suppression of human nature, or the self-protection of human instinct, I cannot give a clear answer. Perhaps this is exactly what the director of "Cache" hopes to bring to us through the film Thinking and enlightenment.
There are not many characters involved in the movie. They are all working hard under the system, hypocritical and fragile and worthy of sympathy. The protagonist George is the host of a well-known talk show. His family and Yexing are in full swing. On TV, he is full of eloquence. If he comes to the envy and appreciation of his family and friends, but facing one after another of troubles, he begins to expose his cowardice. Tired and indecisive. When problems hit, he was always at a loss, shitting and evading. After witnessing his childhood playmate cut his throat and committing suicide, he just hid in the bedroom, covered the quilt and pretended that everything had nothing to do with him. There is a scene in which George and his wife Anna came out of the police station and were nearly hit by a black man riding a bicycle. George yelled at him. However, facing the tough attitude of the cyclist, he finally swallowed his breath. This is also the first time in the film that people of different races have tit-for-tat. If the cyclist is replaced by a white person, it is not difficult to imagine that they will probably smile and apologize friendly to each other, wave goodbye, and even give another hug.
When George's boss was talking about the video tape with George, he clearly saw the ridicule on his lips and the gratification of the villain. He verbally said that the video tape was destroyed, but his tone was not convincing enough. The politicians on the TV talked eloquently, as if the savior were just as awe-inspiring as the savior, but they were unspeakably disgusting and disgusting. George’s interviewees and his friends also talked elegantly and wittyly in front of the TV at the party, but it is not difficult to feel the hypocrisy and falsehood of these people. His wife Anna is a very righteous image, calm, wise, virtuous, and virtuous, but the act of crying in Piye’s arms, even though it is still too ambiguous in the romantic and open France, it will inevitably make people suspicious, so that her son Piye Hou peeped into the future, so he ran away from home. While I sneered at these people, I felt that these people are so kind, so real, their lives are exactly the same as ours, and their principles of doing things are so the same as ours. Who has not panicked about the incident of his little secret east window, who has never closed the door and secretly cried like George and Maggie did.
The only thing the director has reservations about in the film is the old man and the child, because I am afraid that only these two people do not care about the worldly vision and opinions, and only they can express their happiness, anger, sorrow and happiness normally, maintaining the most primitive and naive Their nature makes people moved by their pure beauty.
A series of seemingly hostile but true and common candid video tapes, reconnecting two old acquaintances George and Maggie who have not met for decades, we are habitually guessing the photographers of these video tapes and the planners of the conspiracy. Hope to get unexpected answers at the end of the film. When Maggie died and his son found George to face off, the film reached its climax. The audience waited excitedly for the answer to the mystery. However, the dark-skinned guy only emphasized once again that the video has nothing to do with him, leaving George fled in haste. , And his eyes full of anger and hatred. What made the two childhood playmates, because of the hostility between the children and the momentary selfishness of the protagonist, caused George to almost ruin his career and family, and even Maggie cut his throat and committed suicide. The director did not give us an answer. , I can't find a reasonable explanation. The hidden camera is still spying and recording people's every move in the dark, as if the eyes of God, without favoritism, without omission.
There is a scene in the film. In the living room, George and his wife found their son missing. They called around to find out. A news program called Euronews was playing on the TV behind them. The screen was full of war riots and demonstrations. The upper right corner of the screen shows the time in major cities such as New York, as if the same violence and conflicts are happening in every corner of the world at this moment. The background of this news just rightly brought out the tension of the couple at the time, and at the same time raised the thinking of the problem to the height of the whole world and even the whole mankind. There are many plots in the film involving the current affairs of France in a certain period. Although we do not know the situation at that time, it does not affect our understanding and understanding of the film. And from the film, we can strongly feel the director’s racial conflicts and wars. Violent rebuke. In the film, the director did not defend or promote any race or a certain value, but calmly and almost cruelly examined various family and social issues, which caused the audience to think about the system and human nature. This is the official director Michael. Compared with other commercial film directors, Harnik is an artist.
At the end of the film, the scene returned to George's hometown, the beautiful countryside, and the quiet farm. A little boy cried and was squeezed into the car and taken away. I think it should be Maggie in his childhood. The foreground of the lens is a dark barn, and the axe for killing the rooster is still placed on the stake. The light is dark and terrifying. It forms a sharp contrast with the beautiful and bright farm in the distance. It implies the gloomy atmosphere and symbolizes the time. The tension of the situation, and the conspiracy and undercurrents hidden behind the seemingly beautiful and harmonious reality.
At the end, the camera came to the school where George’s youngest son Pierou went to school. The students were walking out of the class. Some were sitting in twos and threes on the steps and chatting. aware. Finally, they left one after another, and the scene returned to calm. At this time, I can’t help thinking about what kind of education these children have received, what kind of values they have received, what kind of family they will return to, what path they will take in the future, and what kind of start they will be. In life, have they ever noticed the ubiquitous gaze, how they would perform their own performances. The curtain has been opened, and everyone will be the protagonist on the stage.
The movie was over, and the room was dark. I suddenly felt a panic of fear and despair. Even though I locked the door and drew the curtains, I still felt as if I was standing naked in full view. Outside this room, whether it is God or Buddha, whether it is moral tradition or superstructure, under their gaze, we have no choice and nowhere to escape.
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