This film is in the same tune with the director's another masterpiece " Au hasard Balthazar ", and it is also a touching social tune. Bresson described the reality of society as a cold, cruel, unhuman purgatory that only knows how selfish desires are deceived and squeezed. Bresson's consistent cold and realistic style, full of silent accusations of the cruelty and ruthlessness of the world, is not sensational but moves people's hearts. The scene of jumping into the river in the last scene is quiet but has the charm of shouting, which makes the audience have the urge to jump up and shout after the dull pain.
There have been rumors for several years that the trailer for this movie was made by "Jean-Luc Godard", which was also confirmed when he half-reviewed his work recently. The promo is actually a miniature commentary, or a subversion of the film, citing some discordant handovers in the film, and a written comment called "Christian and sadistic."
"Mouchette" itself is a real life, full of religious meaning. Out of caring for the disadvantaged, the director focused the film's attention on Mouchette's life, and selectively described the people around him. The lens still belongs to Bresson's style, simple and concise, clean and neat, does not rely on film skills, does not rely on the individual performance of actors, is completely shaped in the style of the director, and is a film with the identity of the author.
At the beginning of the movie, Mouchette’s mother confessed in front of the camera, “I don’t know what their life is like without me, the burden on my chest is so heavy.” It turns out that Mouchette without a mother has no object to talk to, and cannot be forgiven by society. , Full of fear of life, finally embarked on the road of destruction.
Mouchette’s body is full of human contradictions. In philosophy, contradictions have universality and duality. As a kind of natural existence, human beings have an ideological nature that everything in the world does not have, which determines the person’s dominant position in the world, but it also determines The complexity of the person itself.
Movies are a kind of art, and art must come from life. The most common thing in life is human beings. Movies want to show human life, but because people have thinking and the dual nature of thinking, it is not a simple matter for a movie to show a complete person in a short limited time. At the same time, because the audience is limited by their own quality, the content expressed by the image may not be able to absorb all, so the seemingly simple things in life may not be effectively displayed on the movie screen. But after all, film is a reaction to life in technology. The existence of human thinking limits the thoroughness of film in expressing life, but it is also the source of the development of film thought. Since the beginning of the film, it has continued to accept innovation and progress.
Mouchette has made a substantial exploration of humanity in the film. It not only deeply portrays Mouchette's life and family, but also reveals religious themes based on the teachings of Catholicism.
The "Bible" advocates that "life is evil." It believes that people living in the world must repent of their sins every day. At the same time, the doctrine classifies human crimes into seven categories. Mouchette has committed two kinds of jealousy and lies. Mouchette was bullied by boys outside the school and ridiculed by his classmates inside the school. After school, he used soil to throw away his classmates in the grass after school. This became part of Mouchette's life. Mouchette’s clogs are the one she hates most. Every morning, Mouchette has to make coffee for the whole family and do the housework before he can go to class. The clogs hit the floor of the classroom. The cross talk in the quiet classroom is very loud, attracting classmates. Pay attention to the hatred look with the teacher. Mouchette is jealous of the classmates who wear cloth shoes and cloth shoes. Yasen wanted to blow up the creek in the rainy night. Mouchette not only lied for Yasen, but also lied that he was Yasen's girlfriend after the lie was exposed.
The movie also described Mouchette's life conflicts. First, he was reluctant to wear wooden shoes, but when he went to church on Sunday, he was trampled in puddles while wearing cloth shoes. The second is that he did not fight desperately when he was harassed by Yasen, and the double back hugged Yasen's shoulders. The next day I wanted to tell someone, but when someone asked about it, not only did he perjury Yasen, but he also lied that he was Yasen’s girlfriend. Third, the mother is the backbone of Mouchette's life. It is the mother who gave Mouchette a short-term happiness in the playground. The mother's comfort and teachings knew about Mouchette's life. After the death of his mother, Mouchette was rather calm and went to fight. Milk. I can't explain the reason in words, but I deeply understand the mood of Mouchette living in poverty and discrimination. I understand that the extreme of suffering is rebellion. The most complicated thing in the world is people's thoughts and behaviors.
Mouchette needs to vent his dissatisfaction all the time. When wearing cloth shoes, I deliberately stepped into the water. The school door was still used by classmates. In the bar, I deliberately threw things into the pool. At the house of the old lady who gave me clothes, he whispered insults and put the wooden shoes on the wooden shoes. The soil rubbed against the carpet. She even hugged her skirt when she jumped into the pond and rolled down the high slope.
Mouchette’s death, under the premise of trying, Mouchette rolled down the high slope time and time again, quite like a ritual. Mouchette’s calmness of death was surprising. Her death was suffering from the beginning of the movie. The result of slow accumulation.
Born in a poor family, his father and elder brother were selling bootleg alcohol in the middle of the night. After daybreak, they were outright alcoholics. The mother was sick in bed and needed Mouchette's care, as well as the baby in swaddling clothes. Mouchette was verbally abused and beaten by his father, and went to work in a bar on Sundays, and his father took the money he earned. This is the direct cause of Mouchette's aversion to society.
Secondly, the lack of charity in society, the insults of boys, the ridicules of female classmates and the dissatisfaction of teachers fill the surroundings every day. Mouchette has no friends in life. After school, the female classmate wears perfume and gets on the boys' tram. Mouchette wears the same clothes and wooden shoes every day and goes to school alone. In the game, I often met the man I liked, but was taken away by my father, and there was no chance to meet again. People's indifference, caring words and sympathetic behavior, the desert of society buried the joy of Mouchette's life.
Secondly, Mouchette is eager to be cared by others and hopes to have a friend. However, Adonusan who appeared on a rainy night became Mouchette's care object. She paid her own enthusiasm to the poacher who stretched out her hands in her difficulties, followed Adonusan's arrangements, and took care of the sudden seizure. Crazy, he lied for him and even regarded Adonusan as his imaginary boyfriend. But even so, since that rainy night, the drunk Adonusan has taken possession of Mouchette. Without the help of his mother, Mouchette's life had an insurmountable dilemma under the abuse of other people's "prostitutes".
Finally, with the death of his mother, Mouchette lost the last pillar of survival in the world. His mother once gave Mouchette a short advantage in the game field. When Mouchette needed someone to confide in most, his mother died. The old lady's personal opinion of death at the end of the movie inspired Mouchette's courage. Just like a rabbit with nowhere to escape under the gun of a hunter, Mouchette has nowhere to hide in a society where there is no benevolence, and completes the end of life like a ritual.
