About the Austrian director Michael Haneke, I won't go into details here, please read the article "Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or twice in four years".
The film begins with a little girl standing in front of a white wall performing a physical act, and the kids guessing what it means, that this is a school for the deaf, and the kids are frowning and meditating, and they are mumbling in mute language, "lonely", "hide-and-seek ", "bad people", "bad intentions", "sadness", "imprisonment ", the little girl gently shook her head, and then the title of the film "CODE INCONNU" appeared, the direct translation is the "unknown code", the Chinese translation of the film name "Paris Floating World Painting" is very literary and very apt to the theme of the daily life in Paris.
Anna walked out of the apartment, a boy called out to her, a look is the boyfriend George's brother Jean, she told Jean, his brother went to Kosovo three weeks ago, and has not yet returned to Paris, Jean complained that the combination lock on the door of the apartment can not be opened, Anna apologized, and the two walked and chatted, Jean told Anna that he had had enough of his father, and is not willing to return to the farm, not willing to succeed his father's business as a farmer, and wants to stay in Paris for a long time, but also wants to be a farmer, and he wants to be a farmer. Anna went to buy bread, the two walked and ate while chatting, Anna had an urgent matter to deal with, the apartment key and password to Jean, Jean returned to the apartment alone, the road met a street singing artist group, listen to the music for a while, will eat the bread, when they left, casually the bread wrapper crumpled up into a ball and thrown to the street beggar Maria, the scene coincidentally by a righteous black man Amadou Amadou, a young man, saw the road, stepped forward, tugging Jean theory, the two had an argument, Anna also rushed over, then the police arrived, checking their respective identity cards, found that the female beggar is a Romanian illegal immigrants, and detained Amadou, Amadou can not stand its insults, asked to go to the police station on their own, without the need for escort, the two police officers will be pressed down, and then the black screen, came to a screeching halt.
A set of battlefield photos from the Kosovo war switches like a slideshow, complete with a male voice-over, presumably Georges's, and the last sentence mentions his brother Jean by name.
The black cab driver was driving on the way, received a phone call, learned that his son Amadou was arrested, anxious, anxious, unknowingly speeding up the car, the passenger was reluctant, so the car stopped, the passenger got out and took another cab, the driver said that he did not charge a fee, the passenger got up when he cursed closed the door and left, the black cab driver started the vehicle, rushed to the police station.
In an empty room, Anna stood in the middle of the camera lens, and the director kept asking Anna to show real emotion, not false emotion, and Anna couldn't stand it, and the tears left along her cheeks.
At a dining table, Jean and his father eat, the space cramped, the emotions repressed, the words few, the father finishing his meal and getting up with his plate to leave, to the bathroom, the sound of the toilet flushing.
Maria, a Romanian beggar, was escorted to the plane by two French police officers to be repatriated to her home country, the cabin door closed and two French police officers left.
The mother of Amadou, a young black man, cries about the crimes of the police, the beatings, the humiliations, the home searches, but fails to find a handle, only to be acquitted, and, as a devout Catholic, complains about the failure to be rewarded by mentioning that her own daughter was born mute and is supposed to be the little black girl in Scene 1.
Maria returns to her native Romania, walks with a boy, sandy and with nostalgia in the air, comes to a place that looks like a mine, and clings to her husband in the wind.
Anna is at home ironing, watching TV, drinking red wine, and is filled with worry when she hears the mournful cries of children.
Maria returns to her home and visits her new house in the company of her husband and children, the fruit of her begging on the streets of Paris, but there is still a gap between the family.
The children practice drumming under the guidance of a black teacher.
Georges returns from Kosovo and calls at home in the morning. Shortly afterward, Anna arrives and the two meet after a long absence, locking eyes and smiling at each other.
The father arrives at the farm in a van, pushes a motorcycle off, parks it at the gate, and enters the barn, and a short time later, Jean comes out of the barn, sees the brand new motorcycle, and can't wait to start it up and ride away.
Anna shoots a scene that falls short of the director's requirements for a reshoot.
Jean helps her father work on the farm, feeding hay to the cows.
Anna, Georges and friends have a small get-together, and talking about what it's like to be on the battlefield in Kosovo, Georges says: "It's simple there, life is complicated here!" At this point, Amadou enters the restaurant with his white girlfriend and talks and laughs, after being seated, the two talk about watches, the woman throws her watch into an ashtray, Amadou kisses his girlfriend's wrist affectionately, at which point Anna enters the shot, the camera then moves to return to George's gathering with his friends, Anna points to Amadou and informs George that this is the same man who got Jean in trouble.
In Romania, a man driving along a country road meets Maria, carrying a large bag, and gives her a lift home. On the way, the man asks her what she does in Paris, and Maria, ashamed to talk about her begging, excuses herself by saying that she works as a schoolmistress, and then, arriving at her home, excuses herself and leaves.
Anna enters the apartment and finds a letter on the floor. Anna reads it, makes a phone call, has a glass of wine, and knocks on the door of her neighbor's house to ask about the letter.
Two black men converse, presumably Amadou's family.
Jean's father is reading the letter, "Dear Dad, I'm leaving, please don't look for me. Jean"
Anna and Georges are shopping in the supermarket and start to argue about the letter, Anna thinks Georges doesn't care about her and whenever she meets something, Georges always avoids it. There is a disconnect between the two at this point and the intimacy has cracked.
Maria attends a wedding with her family, and the crowd happily dances a Romanian specialty with big smiles on their faces.
In the living room of the black family, the father is lecturing the children, the family is in disarray, accusing and complaining to each other, complaining that Amadou is dating a white girlfriend and has no time to discipline his brother, the father, who is too noisy in the living room, takes his son to the dining room, where he scrutinizes the details and learns that his son is being blackmailed by a white child named Franco.
George is home alone, drumming on a camera.
George and Jean's father kill all the cows on their farm, lock the barn door, light a cigarette, and look off into the distance, despondent.
The judges in the audience get together to discuss the results of the auditions for the solo acts on stage.
The black family, which continues to argue, learns from the conversation that their father, who drove a cab, has left Paris and returned to Africa to start a new life.
On the subway, Georgie sits in her seat with a camera around her neck, and the person across from the camera feels unnatural, as if the camera is recording her every move.
A sunny day in Romania, Maria, her daughter stood in the yard, a friend told Maria a message, soon, there are snakeheads to arrange for smuggling, has now been put together enough for five people, Maria and the idea of returning to Paris to beg.
George and Anna go back to the countryside to visit their father to discuss Jean, who complains that George has given his brother a good head start, and does not want to suffer in the countryside, preferring the city life.
Maria follows the snakehead's arrangements and smuggles herself back to Paris.
Anna attends the funeral of little Fran?ois and guesses that it was Amadou's father who killed little Fran?ois, thus fleeing Paris and taking refuge in Africa.
Georges shows the photographs, as in a slideshow, which is a congregation of surreptitious filming on the subway, and here it is revealed that in Scene 25, Georges is setting up the filming device, and that the surreptitious filming was carried out in Scene 29.
A picturesque view of farmland under blue skies and white clouds, with a planter coming in from the distance.
On the way to sneak in, everyone is singing and drinking cheerfully, while Maria is worried about the future survival of Paris, the original a friend promised Maria to leave Paris, will sell newspapers to her documents, but unfortunately, at this time, the friend has already left Paris, the documents were given to someone else, Maria missed the opportunity to sell newspapers, and at the same time, because of their own behavior of begging with a great sense of shame, can not help but She can't help but cover her face and weep.
Anna and a male colleague are in a recording studio, dubbing a movie, and are so happy that they can't contain themselves.
Amadou's father has started a new life in Africa.
On the subway, a young North African man verbally harasses Anna, who ignores him and keeps her at a distance. Before she leaves, the young North African man spits in Anna's face, and a North African adult stands up for Anna, who thanks him and weeps.
The children are happily drumming in the square under the direction of a black teacher, with Amadou and his white girlfriend swaying to the beat. The rhythm of the drums runs through scenes 41, 42 and 43, bringing the movie to a climax.
Maria arrives in Paris ready to resume her old job, and realizes that her old begging spot has been taken, so she has to look for another place to beg.
Anna leaves the metro, looking grim, as if determined, and arrives at the door of the apartment, stands in front of the combination lock, enters the code and enters the apartment.
George arrives at the door of the apartment by car, carrying a large bag, ready to enter the apartment, but can not get in, presumably Anna has changed the password, helpless, George went to the phone booth across the street to make a call, no one answered, George stood by the streets of Paris in a daze.
The drums come to a screeching halt, and a dark-haired, deaf-mute boy performs a physical act, still not knowing exactly what it means, and the communication between people is as mysterious as the code.
Haneke used 44 shots to complete the movie, including a few wonderful long shots, which is the most difficult scene 2, scene 17, scene 39, for example, scene 2 is located in the downtown area of Paris, the need to set up the scene in advance, and many times to practice the position, all the need for precise calculations, the accurate deployment of the camera shooting route, repeated the shooting of the twenty-eight times, scene 17 is cleverly conceived, from the Georges, Anna and a few friends get together, the camera without any sense of contradiction with Amadou and white girlfriends into the switch, and then again with the figure of Anna again switch, surprising, although not as much trouble as Scene 2 in the outdoor shooting, the actors need to accurately grasp the position as well as the time to enter the picture is very delicate, without dozens of times of shooting is difficult to get such a good effect, Scene 39 Scene 39 was shot in a fixed position, one shot to the end, and when it was shot, the Paris Metro only allowed shooting from 2:00am to 5:00am, and the actor playing the North African young man was a non-professional actor, making the performance extremely difficult.
Juliette Binoche's acting skills needless to say, the beginning of a group of deaf children to play charades, the children acted extremely natural, but also cleverly the theme of this movie point out, the next scene are to extend the words previously mentioned, the end of the film, the camera back to the beginning of the group of deaf and mute children, a boy instead of the little girl, physical performance, explaining a seemingly good thing, and the film is not a good thing, it's not a good thing. A boy replaces the little girl and performs a physical act to explain a seemingly beautiful thing to everyone. Unfortunately, we don't get to see the other children's guesses, and we need to decipher the meaning for ourselves. Long shots are a test of an actor's skill and the ability of a cast of actors to organize a scene, and you can't make a good long shot without good acting.
The musical highlight of the movie is the drumming music, from the beginning of the practice, to the final climax, very rhythmic drums give the movie a full of infectious, deaf children in the black teacher's guidance, formed a unified rhythm, the children are happy, immersed in the music, although they can't communicate with words, but through the form of music to communicate, and then the drums as the background of scenes 41, 42, 43, and so on, and so on. The background music in 41, 42 and 43 is extremely anxiety-inducing and tense, rendering Maria's helplessness, Anna's sadness and Georges' hopelessness respectively, highlighting the theme of the movie - alienation between people.
Paris as the capital of the arts is famous all over the world, but because of this movie exposed so many problems, racial discrimination, illegal immigrants, law and order chaos, etc., "Paris Floating" after the release of the French media criticized the film is just purely the product of foreigners' imagination, however, this film is the only Haneke first did a research survey of the Parisian Afro-descendants and Romanians It is the only film of Haneke's to have first done research and investigations into the African and Romanian communities in Paris, and as a result was able to provide an unbiased, objective, accurate, and realistic portrayal of daily life in Paris, France.
The discrimination of the French police against people of African and Romanian descent, the accusations and complaints between black family members, the disconnection and alienation between Jean, George and their father, the fragility of the relationship between George and Anna, the indifference of human feelings on the streets of Paris, the urging of Maria's daughter to smuggle her mother across the border to Paris to make a lot of money, and so on through the incomplete stories of several families that intersect with each other but don't know each other, know each other but are Through the incomplete stories of several families, who cross each other but don't know each other, who know each other but can't understand each other, Haneke documents with a cold lens the life in Paris, where human beings are indifferent and family members are alienated.
From beginning to end, there are forty-four scenes, but only a few real communication, from which we can also find flashpoints, one is the communication between the deaf children, the children through riddles to communicate, failed to understand each other, and then practiced drumming, through the form of music to communicate with each other, heart to heart, and ultimately create a magnificent music chapter, and a real communication is the black man Amadou and his white girlfriend, the black man, the black man, the white man, the white man, the white man, the white man, the white man. The love between Amadou and his white girlfriend requires a lot of courage. Amadou's family hates white people and is not used to Amadou dating a white girl, and the white girl's family does not show up, so the movie should be able to show that the gap between white people and black people is very deep, but the two people are able to love each other in spite of the world's prejudices, which is very rare. In order to show how much he cares about Amadou, when his girlfriend hears Amadou's comment that his watch is okay, she doesn't hesitate to throw it away, and Amadou is so moved that he kisses his girlfriend's wrist y, although the scene is small, there is no lack of love. True communication is rare and precious, in the face of the closest relatives, loved ones, confidants, do not let down, and walk and cherish!