The film takes more than two hours to review Edith Piaf's short and turbulent life. Edith Piaf is the most famous pop singer in French history, a national treasure of France, known as the "Little Lark". The "Rose Life" sung by him spread from the phonographs of ordinary people in the 1950s and 1960s to the battlefield of World War II filled with gunpowder. It is still widely circulated and loved, and is a classic among French pop songs.
These simple introductions are not enough for the audience to learn more about this legendary female singer. Especially as a Chinese audience, perhaps we have only heard the song "Life of the Rose", but we know very little about its singer Edith Piaf. The lyrical music, beautiful French lyrics, and a strong and sad female voice bring the most intense local atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s, but more is the endless sadness in the song.
How can a woman's life be called a rose-like life? When I saw Edith Piaf, I remembered so many beautiful women who died young in this world. They are angels in people's hearts, goddesses in warriors' hearts. They have beautiful faces or beautiful voices, but they all have the same ending. They are delicate roses, but after a short period of gorgeous bloom, they ushered in a rapid withering, leaving only infinite heartache and regrets for those who love them.
In two hours, the most classic songs in Edith Piaf's singing career echoed, the non-linear way of story progression, and the interlude method showed the life fragments and important events of Edith Piaf's life piecemeal. The casually swaying lens captures every bit of life of this arrogant and strong woman like a "little lark" in the most casual way. Her delicate and sexy lips, her blue eyes, every moment of her happy heartbreak and anger. Under the foreshadowing of its classic songs, it unfolds vividly and truly. No matter who she is, for a moment, I suddenly forgot that she was the famous French female singer, but just an ordinary woman who lived and died for love, the purest and simplest woman.
How much I like this movie is not because I am a fanatical follower of Edith Piaf, I didn't know who Edith Piaf was before, I just heard the song "La Viejo". But that's how I fell madly in love with this movie, in the way it tells the story, in the scenes that follow the characters, in the director's ruthless way of expressing, in love with those wonderful things. song, and finally fell in love with Edith Piaf, this eccentric and brave woman.
So, I guess the story begins the night before Edith Piaf died. Perhaps too many people dislike the film's messy storytelling. Ten minutes ago, she was a taciturn nine-year-old girl, and in an instant she was an old woman hunched over in a reclining chair. It also reverberated to the beautiful music of Edith Piaf when she came out on stage, and then she saw the needles she injected with drugs and blood on the cotton. These unreasonable connection methods will make it difficult for people to adapt for a while. After all, most biopics use direct narratives or flashbacks, and people like to watch the complete process of celebrities from birth to death, rather than fragmentary fragments.
It is this messy way of narration that makes the film very real. Rather than telling the life of Edith Piaf objectively, it is better to say that it was the night before Edith Piaf died, that she was approaching the end of her life, and she was lying on countless days during the day. Memories of a past life in a garden lounger. Fragmented memories like shards of glass, Edith Piaf tried hard to recall, the happiest moments, the most desperate moments. The memory fragments picked up at random cut through Edith Piaf's heart because of their sharpness. It is no longer possible to piece together the complete memory of 47 years, and it has become the most fragmented fragment.
So, I prefer to believe that we are seeing memories in Edith Piaf's brain. One time it was the prostitute who took care of her as a child, the next time it was the juggler in her father's circus who would breathe fire with her mouth, and the next time it was the nervousness of singing for the first time in her life... I gradually recalled that the most loyal love My best friend, the bistro on the streets of Paris, the lawlessness of my youth, the night sky of New York City on the night I met the man I loved the most... It is the live performances of countless performances and the songs sung, it is the way to become famous The bitterness and hard work of the road... is the unexpected early death of the first child, and the day when the plane of the man I love most crashes.
In the 47 years of life, there are too many things that this woman doesn't want to recall and remember in the end. Therefore, from the life of Edith Piaf wandering the streets when she was a child, she slowly saw the two most desperate moments in her life, the departure of her lover and the early death of her child. The most painful memories are always reluctant to remember, every time I remember it is a pain like a knife. So, towards the end of the film, we learn that Edith Piaf had a child when he was young.
"Without love, we are nothing." Edith Piaf said, indeed leaving behind the singer's identity, she is just a simple woman. I have loved a man deeply, been full of hope for him, and happily knitted a sweater for him. It was the woman who was disheartened and fell to the bottom of despair because of the unexpected death of a man. When I woke up in the morning, it was the arrival of a man and a kiss, the hot coffee that had been prepared for him, the hug I couldn't wait, and a watch was prepared for him as a gift, but I couldn't find it. She became anxious, and then learned that he had died in a plane crash, could never come to see her again, and returned to the bedroom without the man in bed. It turned out that the arrival of the man was just a dream that he missed too much, and the fact that the man died in the plane crash was the cruelest reality. The arrangement of the scene was so brutal that Edith Piaf began to howl with grief and her face was severely contorted. In just a moment, tears flowed down, who can have the courage to bear such sadness.
Edith Piaf's untimely death was due in large part to the death of a man. Without hope, without love, Edith Piaf is really nothing. Losing the beauty in love leaves behind a more serious addiction to alcohol and drugs. A rose that blooms beautifully and eventually withers. Only one classic song after another is left, so that people can reminisce about this woman's singing and remember the time that has passed.
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