Aaron Renay's first feature film "Hiroshima Mon Amour", through two human feelings past and present, to describe the relationship between man and war. . The story takes place in August 1957, a brief romance between a French filmmaker and a Japanese architect in Hiroshima; it is one of the important New Wave films.
At the beginning of the film, the naked body embraces indulgently, and the whole body flashes with the radioactive dust particles and sweat after the atomic bombing. It is Extreme Close-up. The heroine's thoughts constantly travel back and forth between the memories and the present, with various types and rhythms of background music. The speed of the music, its infiltration and disappearance are all driven by the emotional ups and downs of the heroine. She recalled that during the filming in Hiroshima, she interviewed many Japanese people, people who had seen haiku in the museum, the dull and helpless eyes in the hospital; Hiroshima after the atomic bomb, charred stones, half molten iron, The city that has turned into ruins, the heroine really can't forget these. Through the cross-cutting method of a large number of horror documentary clips interspersed between the various paragraphs of the film, there are also empty mirrors, Still and Tracking Shot to show.
The heroine is a married woman, and the Japanese man is a married man. The story unfolds with their seemingly ordinary one-night stand, and the heroine tells a strange man about her untimely love with a German soldier. In fact, the real war is over, but the scars of war buried deep in memory cannot be healed; a past incident becomes a stumbling block to the development of a new relationship, and the heroine cannot fall in love with the Japanese architect who met in Hiroshima. Life still has to move on, but the mind is entangled between the past and the present time and space. A man and a woman, each with a family, forget everything about kissing and falling in love. It is the feeling of the previous love, but it is entangled by a euphemistic and tragic love story.
During the German occupation, the heroine falls in love with a German soldier and plans to marry. Helpless, the German soldiers wanted to go to Paris because the war was about to end, but they were killed by the French at this time; the heroine was ostracized by society and locked up because her dead lover was the enemy of France. This was her first love. , the fundamental deepest emotion of the human beings destroyed by war. The heroine spoke in confusion, as if back in those days; the Japanese actor slapped her in the face because of jealousy, because his love was crazy and real. The heroine is leaving, and the Japanese actor wants to keep her. She still denounced why she didn't die for her lover back then. Whenever she misses a past relationship, she also thinks of him in Hiroshima now. Painful memories of the past are rekindled on the new love, and the fragments of the old days have changed from obscurity to more recent reminiscences, and they have been resurrected from the dead. Similarly, the new love lives in the haze and becomes the soil of the old love.
"Love in Hiroshima" objectively and directly excavates people's psychological world, beyond the structure of ordinary love stories. The atomic devastation of Hiroshima in World War II is linked to the personal experience of a French woman to demonstrate the theme of critical reality; a metaphor for human love. Aaron Rainay does not follow traditional methods, but adopts bold and novel narrative techniques, smooth editing, thoughtful soundtrack, and beautiful composition, which are integrated into this set of visually stunning works. Of course, the message he wants to convey is also important.
The entire love story is completed in an intermittent narrative, a non-traditional single-angle linear narrative. There are two main story lines in the movie, one is the encounter between a French woman and a Japanese male lead, and this love ended in vain; the other is the story of the first love between a French woman and a German soldier. The two stories are broken down into fragmented fragments and shots, and reassembled with flashbacks, inner monologues, and the rhythm of music.
The current pair of lovers, the heroine and the Japanese man, come from different countries and environments, and live in different cultures, customs, and historical backgrounds, but they are a pair of ordinary people. fate. The truth is to demonstrate a fundamental human psychological and physical perfection—love and lust. When people live in war disasters, they will also seek love and desire; such as the naked body (which is the original human soul) embraced in the terrifying atomic dust, to find joy and liberation, That is a need.
From what I see, this film transcends every era and gives people the opportunity to reflect. Make people have a new experience in dealing with past, present, and future love attitudes.
Another important masterpiece of Alain Resnais, "L'Année dernière à Marienbad", the story takes place in a huge and luxurious hotel, where a group of high-society people live, telling a triangular relationship, the characters. A couple and an imaginary lover.
This movie is like a dream, an unusual thing, everything is hypothetical, "Last Year In" is hypothetical, and so is "Marumba" because there is no such place. What the audience sees in the film seems to be captured by a camcorder placed in the protagonist's mind. It's surrealism with a bit of a dreamlike atmosphere like German Expressionism. (Visible waiters suspended in mid-air; silent hotels, empty rooms; long shadows of a group of people on the road appearing at the same time as the shadowless trees by the road; the same character appears in both scenes at the same time, or There are two concepts of time in one scene; the closed structure of the hotel lobby and the park)
There are constantly voice-over narrations in the film, and the direction of the narration is uncertain. The interpenetration of time and space in "Hiroshima Love" is more complex and layered here, and the past, future, and fantasy are all integrated into one, and it is more fluid.
The source of the film is "imagination", which is the spiritual movement of the spiritual world, which circulates in fantasy, contradiction, frustration, doubt, rejection and so on. Through the heroine's spiritual activities to reflect the mental distress of Western intellectuals at that time, satirize and criticize the decadent behavior of vested interests, and even thoughts, and even the crisis of the entire society. The exploration of the theme of nothingness and decadence has the significance of criticism and reflection.
Like "Hiroshima Love", it uses an anti-traditional narrative technique. Here, it is played more like a game. The logic and contradiction of time and space are presented in a non-linear narrative technique. When close-up of the heroine, in one shot, the background and the space of time change to another group. There are also technical demonstrations to the next level, the fusion of the two scenes of the bar and the bedroom. (The bedroom scene flashes in the long bar scene, and the bedroom scene is continuously inserted into the bar scene, occupying more and more time and space, while the time occupied by the bar scene is correspondingly shorter until it disappears completely. to the bedroom; but suddenly back to the bar with the broken glass)
In my opinion, the film technology mastered by this film has reached a state of perfection, and the appreciation value is also exaggerated. It is a work of art with strong visual appeal.
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