The film was filled with vulgar dialogue at the beginning, and there were two sentences "I love you" in the three sentences. I rely on. Fortunately, they all sang. Although it feels funny, it finally plays down the nausea caused by Zhibailu. The dissatisfaction with the dialogue continued until Genevieve talked about Guy: "Absence is a funny thing. I feel like Guy left years ago. I look at this photo, and I forget what he really looks like. When I think of him, it's this photo that I see. It's all that I've got left of him." Suddenly some deja vu. Then the beauty sang pitifully: "Why is Guy fading away from me? I should have died for him. Why am I not dead?" The time of love suddenly danced in my mind with the melody of music. Haven't you never kept saying "I love you"? Don’t you know how to live when your love ends? At this moment, can you remember whose face again? Be in awe of Jacques Demy. A good movie knows no borders because the emotions are of the same sex.
Classic shot 1: Long shots of the stations. There was no crying, no tears, the camera just pulled away with the slowly moving train, and the heart tightened. When Guy started painting, he tore his heart apart. The extended line of the platform under the wide angle seemed so lonely for Genevieve, and it was heartbreaking. Every time I ask myself how to place my camera in the future, I should think about this lens.
Classic shot 2: Roland tells Madame about his past (PK 2001: A Space Odyssey). The camera revolves around the corridor, and a man completes his wandering. genius. I'm not afraid of not having money, I'm afraid of not having any brains. Transforming time and space is the specialty of the movie.
Classic shot 3: Ending long shot (PK Les Quatre cents coups)... Maybe it has too many fascinating elements. In retrospect, this ordinary story, in fact, the development of the plot at every moment is unexpected. So that when Genevieve appeared at the end, something suddenly struck him in his heart. Now I think it is the magic of this movie that completely controlled me at that moment, otherwise, how could I let the melody of the music and the movement of the camera manipulate my mood-this is the so-called climax and sublimation. Fully agree with long shots.
It is a sin to mention color only now. The big red and big green may be big vulgar, but here it is just big and elegant. Genevieve's journey from a young girl to a young woman is all on herself: light yellow, pink, blue, deep red, white, flower, gray, and black. And at the end, the sky full of snowflakes and snow-white gas station contrasted with the previous gorgeous colors. Isn't it the best portrayal of her and Guy's once colorful love returning to plain? Ordinary moving is the most overwhelming.
I don’t remember which director said that you can know the quality of a movie by watching the opening scene, but it was a fallacy. The opening scene of the film unfortunately provides a perfect proof of this point of view-a long shot gives an overview of the whole story. The picture is from the peaceful Cherbourg harbour under a head-up view, shaking down ninety degrees and looking down at the ground. Deep down water drops and colorful umbrellas that shuttle through not only try to break the limitation of the screen space, but also use the color of the umbrella-from bright red to black-to outline the development of the plot. After the last row of black umbrellas filed past, the camera panned up and returned to the original harbor scene. The whole process looked like a long time and looked down at the world, saw an ordinary story, and then returned its gaze indifferently. And as part of the scene, the sad and moving music is reminding what kind of love story this is. Space, time, movement, content, sound... This shot is perfect enough to tolerate any language.
Suddenly realized that moving movies do not need earth-shaking stories. "Titanic" spent hundreds of millions and more than three hours without deceiving my tears, but this movie that made me feel vulgar in the beginning completely conquered me after an hour and made me enjoy it. At its mercy. After Amelie, this is also the second movie that made me crazy about Soundtrack. I don't know if the music is played by the violin.
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