Jean-Pierre Genet is a film writer with a strong personal style. He combined the experience of life with the details of the film and formed a "hot-inside" visual style. His works not only inherit the traditional characteristics of French films, but also are full of fairy tale atmosphere and strange fantasy, romantic love and realistic poetry. He is a rare director.
I have watched the film "Angels Love Beauty" several times, and I have different ideas every time.
After all, compared with the big scenes, big investment backgrounds and big conflicts at the beginning of Hollywood movies, the audience can immediately immerse themselves in the plot, while French movies are more delicate, natural, simple and connotative.
Angels love beauty, and with their unique romantic French style, fairy-tale atmosphere and strange fantasy, they give people a little fresh feeling, which can not help but make people shine when we sink our hearts to taste.
Classic movies are not only box office, but also have its unique charm, which will not fade with the passage of time.
The film uses fairy-tale grotesque colors, humorous and simple narrative style and relaxed and lively rhythm to lead us into colorful oil paintings, thus exploring the way that Paris girls love beautiful angels. But after three brushes, what impressed me most was a glass gentleman and an unfinished painting that was repeatedly mentioned.
Next, I will tell you a story from Mr. Glass's point of view:
0 1
My name is Hemondufaye, a paranoid and proud old man. They all call me Mr. Glass. I have been living in seclusion for decades.
Because of congenital diseases and fragile bones, all my furniture is padded and I don't like shaking hands.
My favorite thing to do every day, besides being fascinated by my paintings, is to explore the window with a camera and telescope. It's a pity that people living in this building are as lonely as I am, so life is boring.
I can't go out of the outside world, I can only wander in the art world.
One of my favorite paintings is Rehnova's Lunch on the Boat. I have copied a pair every year for 20 years, but I feel that every pair is not perfect, especially the girl with the glass in her hand. I can never draw her well.
Unexpectedly, the arrival of a little angel actually helped me.
Her name is Emily plank, and she is an eccentric girl. Have a pair of big eyes, as clear as children. I have watched her for many days. She has been looking for a man named Bertudo. I watched her go out with great interest every day, but I was disappointed and found nothing in my exploration.
I can't stand it any longer. In fact, it doesn't matter whether she can find someone, or whether her sweetheart is more indifferent to me. Mainly because her pronunciation is wrong and she can't find anyone. This is unbearable for me who pays attention to details. I have to help her find this man.
On this day, when she passed the stairs with a lost face, I opened the door and told her the correct pronunciation. She thanked her with a surprised face. Then I invited her in for a cup of hot cinnamon wine. She said unexpectedly, "I have lived for four years and have never seen you," I said. "This is what I don't want everyone to see."
Then she stared at the unfinished lunch on the boat and said that she liked it very much.
I immediately went over and proudly showed her my baby, neatly folded oil paintings. I told her that I have made a painting every year for 20 years. I think the most difficult thing in painting is to control my eyes. It seems that as soon as I turn around, the people in the painting will deliberately change their expressions.
She praised my painting seriously and looked into her clear eyes. I decided to continue the discussion with her, hoping to add some inspiration.
She looked at my room carefully and stared at the camera I projected on the TV. I quickly explained that it was to look at the time, so that my clock wouldn't have to be wound.
I can't help sharing with her: "The figure I can't animate so far is a girl with a glass cup. She is in the middle, but she looks like an outsider. "
She said, "Maybe she's just different."
Hearing this sentence, I stood up at once. I looked at the cup she picked up and asked her in surprise, "What's the difference?"
She said, "I don't know."
I looked into her eyes and suddenly felt that she was like the glass girl in the painting. I speculatively said, "When she was young, she seldom played with other children. Maybe she never played!" "
At this moment, she suddenly froze with a cup.
Did I speak to her heart and dare not ask more? I immediately told her the address of "No.27 Mufuda Road, Dominica" and invited her to come again next time.
Through the lens, I found that she seemed to be doing something good. I thought, what a kind girl!
02
The second time, she came back soon, and I obviously felt that she seemed to have changed. And brought a large photo album of fragments. She pointed to the image of a man with a fragment and said, "This man has actually appeared 12 times. Strangely, he used a snapshot machine to fax the image of the afterlife, for fear of being forgotten. "
What a naive idea. I said, "What if the dead are afraid of being forgotten? Then the people in these paintings are more original. They have been dead for thousands of years and never worry about being forgotten. "
She suddenly said, "The girl with the cup may be because she is thinking of someone."
I can't help asking, "Is it the man in the picture?"
She replied, "No, I miss the boy I met elsewhere. She has a hunch that they are a bit like each other. "
I asked, "In other words, she would rather imagine a relationship with someone who doesn't exist than pay attention to someone who exists now?"
She replied: "Maybe on the contrary, she is helping others wholeheartedly and solving small defects in life."
Hearing her answer like this, I couldn't help but ask angrily, "What about her? Who will solve the small defects in her life? "
She flashed her big eyes and said, "It is better to care for others wholeheartedly than to feel sorry for herself."
That day, Lucian from the grocery store brought me a gift from a stranger when she replenished my goods. I opened it and found that it was actually a tape. It showed the Tour de France, a clown doing somersaults and a lady playing the guitar. Looking at these pictures, my heart is very complicated.
I guessed at once that it was from Emily. Seeing that I was lonely, she hoped that I could learn about the outside world through tapes.
Soon, the second gift arrived as scheduled. I opened it cheerfully and found that a newborn baby was learning to swim and a disabled person with one leg was tap dancing. These photos brought tears to my eyes. I see, she is telling me that I was born strong, even if I have a disability, I can enjoy myself, integrate into the outside world and do what I like. She has been encouraging me.
03
I am determined to do something for her.
When she came to see me again, I said to her, "I was too hard on the glass girl that day." Did she meet the old boy again? "
She turned around and said with some frustration, "No, to tell the truth, they have different interests."
Seeing that she was a little discouraged and unhappy, I couldn't help cheering her up: "Opportunity is like the Tour de France. After waiting for a long time, it passed at once, so if you want to wait for a good opportunity, you must fly over the obstacles without hesitation. "
That day, she came to discuss the painting with me again. I asked her what she was thinking with a picture, and she said, "She has already thought about it, but she is still thinking about strategy." I couldn't help saying, "She likes to think about strategy best. In fact, she is a little timid, and it is difficult for me to catch her eyes. "
Finally, I decided to help her. I found a good way because I finally saw the boy knocking at her door. It's time to watch the boy go downstairs. I called her at once and gave her my present. I finally looked at the shadow of their embrace on the window, and I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The story is over.
Back to the topic, what is the special significance of this painting?
It is not difficult to see that the director has repeatedly pushed the glass girl in Rehnova's Lunch on the Ship to the audience, which is connected with Emily's inner world. This is not only a metaphorical montage, but also a hidden line to promote the development of the plot.
Metaphorical montage:
According to the development and needs of the plot, a method of directly explaining the theme of the film and the ideological activities of the characters by using scene shots. Such as scenes with different contents or pictures with similar compositions, set off or guide the characters or themes that will appear, so as to achieve the artistic effect of describing the feelings of the characters and expressing the theme of the film.
It shows the complex inner world of an angel who had a miserable childhood but didn't lose his perfect personality when he met love. The film adopts the montage technique of two parallel lines, stringing together every character, enriching the characters and making the film more complete.
Dark line:
Emily's "fragile" glass downstairs has been used for painting all his life. The old man and Emily are talking about the girl's expression in the glass, but they are actually talking about loving a beautiful childhood. This discussion of returning to the theme is a sublimation of Emily's character, low-key but profound.
The girl in Mr. Glass's painting is Emily, but he has never been able to show the girl perfectly. Perhaps this is a metaphor of Emily's character. She can give for others, but she is not bold enough about her own happiness. Fortunately, Mr. Glass's recording finally gave her courage and found true love. Mr. Glass finished the work himself.
Emily in the movie actually replaces us in reality to explore the unknown, experience loneliness, help others and pursue our own happiness, which is what each of us subconsciously wants to do outside the movie.
Moreover, the film is actually a praise for awakening human kindness and conveying love in the heart.
1, from entertaining herself on a blank piece of paper to helping others, Emily's self-salvation stems from the bright light in her life-kindness in nature, which can convey warmth and love.
Emily, who grew up alone, had to entertain herself in the face of her neurotic mother, her indifferent and alienated father and the strange and tense family atmosphere.
A treasure hunt to find childhood memories for the elderly made Emily re-examine the meaning of life. From then on, she helped others solve the small shortcomings in life. When she realized the excitement and sense of accomplishment brought by helping others, she no longer wanted to be the little girl curled up in the corner.
A person will always wake up suddenly because of someone he meets or something he has done in his life, thus enriching his heart.
At the beginning of the film, the characters are introduced through voiceover. The landlady, frustrated painter, old glass man trapped by illness, one-armed delivery man and colleagues in the restaurant all seem to see lonely souls.
Each character has his own unique pastime, closing himself up and immersing himself in his own boring world. At this moment, beautiful big eyes suddenly looked at us through the screen, as if to tell us that an angel is coming.
Next, every time Emily did a good deed, the movie brought us joy with cheerful tunes. At this time, we saw Emily slowly break the barrier in people's hearts with her kindness, and everyone changed.
Emily's awakening is due to her nature, purity and kindness.
From awakening to self-redemption, it was long and hard, and she became herself.
Emily's kindness, like the afternoon sunshine in Paris, brought warmth to Mr. Glass, the grocer, the depressed father and the grieving landlady. She rekindled the hope of life for everyone with a positive and optimistic heart.
2. Emily is the incarnation of an angel, but angels also have their own troubles. The cowardice and lack of courage in nature are inspired by the old glass man in order to harvest himself, which makes us understand that kind people will definitely get the gift of fate at a certain node.
Love is not unilateral, but mutual.
Emily portrayed in the film is not a perfect fairy. She will be troubled and timid, and sometimes she will be timid and afraid if she lacks courage. She would also curl up on the sofa and cry silently. She even said, "I am a little weasel that nobody loves."
When I meet love, I dare not go forward, but I can't help approaching. Even when I arranged a game-like scene and got up the courage to face it, I was interrupted by a passing truck, and my heart instantly became a lost fragment.
Seeing this picture, is it like when each of us first felt what love was? Just like Emily, she will be afraid, hesitant and timid. .......
Fortunately, there is a kind Mr. Glass, an old man who lives alone and is entangled in illness. He supported Emily like a friend. If Emily's helping others is a process of conveying love, then Mr. Glass's feedback is a surprise and a process of sublimating love.
Mr. Glass's kindness makes his feedback the best gift for Emily.
Emily finally succeeded in holding hands with her sweetheart, and the film showed us the beauty of love.
The elements of love not only meet the expectations of the audience, but also make the characters in the film more complete.
You see, how beautiful people are. You change him, he changes her, she changes him. A butterfly can make a hurricane by flapping its wings thousands of miles away.
Finally, Mr. Glass doesn't always draw a picture. The landlady finds the warmth of love. The depressed father goes out to travel, loves beauty and sleeps with his sweetheart.
This is the best interpretation of "good people can be treated gently by the whole world"
3. Realistic thinking: In this lonely wave of times, what we need is an angel like Emily to sow the seeds of warmth and hope for the people who have passed away-love and kindness, so that we can bloom bright and moving flowers in loneliness and sadness.
The film reflects the same symptoms of urbanites in the process of modern urbanization-loneliness and isolation.
Not only in France at that time, but even today, the popular words in a society are loneliness and loneliness, and the relationship between people has been blocked by high walls. The relationship is indifferent, even people who are close to each other can't walk into each other's hearts. A line in the movie Everyone has a hobby was a pastime for the public to cope with loneliness at that time.
How to deal with loneliness, the director is actually sowing the seeds of warmth and hope in the lost crowd with Emily's hand, and blooming bright and moving flowers from loneliness and sadness. This is not lonely repeated chewing, but the perfect combination of theme and emotion.
In the real world, when we rethink, we should not only break the isolation, but also awaken every lonely soul and relive the beauty.
The isolation between people is caused by people themselves. If one day, you can bravely break the isolation and build a bridge for the lonely soul, then the world will be as beautiful as the cheerful accordion sound in the film.
The classic film "Angels Love Beauty" shows the unique skills of director Jean-Pierre Hot in narrative style, emotional grasp, music, color and so on, which meets the aesthetic needs without losing authenticity. It brings us not only temporary warmth, but also revisited after many years, which is still not inferior in awakening the beauty of human nature and conveying the love in our hearts.