We can't control our destiny after all

Johathan 2022-01-18 08:01:14

"I Lost My Body", I felt a great sense of discomfort when I watched it at the beginning. This year's best French film is like many European literary films. The first thing it brings is the oppressive paradox and extremely vivid. ""Individualism". But this discomfort quickly turned into an immersive resonance. A severed hand went through various adventures on the way to find the owner of the body, and it also unfolded the past of the owner of the body. Everyone in the film The facial expressions are cold or even numb, even though the male protagonist has gone through tragic changes and life blows, no tears have appeared in the mirror. But this severed hand performance is much richer, sad, frightened, gentle, and intoxicated. .. This is a complete and lively life. Is destiny already arranged or is it made up of choices that go against the original intent? The image of the fly is like an annotation to destiny. You can never hold it easily. Fate, the more you want to grasp it, the more accidents you will encounter. You think this is an accident, perhaps this is the destiny you can’t escape. And this severed hand accidentally left the body and left the bondage, but chose Recovering the body and experiencing accidental adventures on the way back to the body. It fulfills the wish of the body owner to take risks, but this adventure is not beautiful at all. It knows that the dream of the body owner is to be an astronaut and take risks As it approaches the end, it bids farewell to the dream of an astronaut. This hand cannot do without the shackles of the body. It is only a helpless individual when it leaves. Except for children, drunks, and animals, it can be perceived by it. In the reinforced concrete city, it is Passers-by who just want to survive. The body owner finally challenged his fate and reached the highest point he could reach. The moment he stood on the tower cart, he finally felt free. But afterwards? Maybe he can’t. Without returning to the crowd, another extremely unlikely ending is that he jumps, but no matter it is frustrating, no one can escape the fate of being stronger than the surface. This is a very mournful film, fortunately It is only an hour, but there are tender scenes in the middle of the minute, and it accurately creates the most empathetic node, which shows "gentle sadness" very poetically. The creator should love "The World in Gap's Eyes", "In the world in Gap's eyes, we are all suffering from terminal cancer." Finally, I recommend the music of this film is great.

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  • Karlie 2022-01-18 08:01:14

    8/10. The two lines of the boy and his hand are parallel, and finding the body by the hand seems to be a symbol of self-searching. The boy got nothing in the end. Life did not go as smoothly as he imagined. He lost his parents and buried his dream of becoming a pianist and astronaut in order to send pizza to a living until he met the girl he liked. In order to get close to the girl, he went to do carpentry (and so on) schoolchildren, and personally cast her dreams. The girl knew that everything was his design and left in anger (the brain circuit here is a bit long, why does the girl dislike what he did so quickly). After that, he accidentally lost a hand while working...Every time a fly appeared, it heralded bad luck. As he said, everything is destined, and real life is an irrational decision, like a crane (or something) that suddenly jumped from the top of a building to a distance-he did it. But that's it. An irrelevant jump is a challenge to his established destiny. The ending is very touching. My own life is nothing more than looking forward to moving away from the routine. It is the only romance I think of, and it is like freedom to escape from imprisonment. 05/09/2019

  • Agustin 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    [Screening at the Busan Film Festival] In recent years, many foreign adult animations have been amazing in both reality and fantasy. And this film is a combination of the two. A flying fly, a severed hand, becomes the main imagery throughout. The story is unremarkable wishful thinking, even a bit cliché. However, the fantasy setting of Broken Hand trying to return to the owner (the delivery boy) during the adventure along the way, and the editing method of flashing back and reviewing the owner's life are ingenious, coupled with the form of 2D style and 3D animation, the film is very brilliant .

I Lost My Body quotes

  • Naoufel: That it must be peaceful to be cut off from the world like that. To see nothing... hear nothing...

  • Naoufel: Do you believe in fate? No, seriously.

    Gabrielle: That everything is written in advance? That we follow a trajectory?

    Naoufel: Yeah

    Gabrielle: And that we can't change anything?

    Naoufel: We think that we can, but we can't. It's an illusion. Unless we do... Something completely unpredictable and irrational. It's the only way to conjure the spell for good.