Threesome in the movie | A youthful death ritual

Chelsea 2022-01-12 08:01:37

The film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum once said, “Godard always cares about poetry, not narrative.” In this French New Wave business card, the plot out of Hollywood narrative convention is a bit improvised and charming trio. There are strange behaviors and motives in our ambiguous emotions. You can't restrain it with a brief summary of the plot, nor can you express the love and loneliness of the three young people.


It's another story of two men and one woman. It's easy and casual to read, and there is a lot of room for imagination. Let me talk about my views.

When I watched this film, I agreed with the male protagonists, ah~~~This girl is really idiot. When I said this, I said it in front of the hostess. Uldir is leaving on a bicycle).



I feel that Uldir is too innocent, still a young girl who thinks of spring, and can't stand the dedicated, serious and cool admiration of the old prodigal son of Arthur. It even feels a little too easy. The first teaser captured the girl's heart. .

Her innocence is also reflected in helping someone she likes to steal money from the household. Afterwards, she wanted to pretend she didn’t know, and she was determined not to betray her lover. I am stupid at home, co-authoring gives people a feeling that I neither want to give up this love (friendship) nor end my past life (I really want to say a word about my silly boy, you can...).

To be honest, watching her in the villa after hearing Arthur Franz came, the pitiful look of Liushen Wuzhu rushing around, the little eyes that were at a loss when being questioned, like a child, so happy before. , But now I have to face the contradictions of acceptance, choice, and resistance in my heart. This is so haggard, why does it become like this?

Arthur should be a living Luthor. There is no money for dry cleaning clothes, and I have to ask Franz for the money for drinks. But he is very good at picking up girls. He is very assertive in character. He loves role-playing especially, but he is obviously right. I don’t have much patience in life, and I don’t care much about the people in front of him. Franz is just a shield to him, and Uldir is just a tool of internal response. From his somewhat sparse bun and wrinkled face, it seems that his age seems to be approaching. He has entered middle age (laughs). Choosing art and choosing to survive is a problem for him. But in life, there is not only the ambivalence in front of him, but also the poetry and the distance. Therefore, it is more in line with Arthur's impatient personality to go to the distance. , He was really disappointed when he started to beat Uldir, a furious little bastard who deserved to be beaten on the wall by his uncle.

Franz is a bit mediocre. He didn’t impress me too much. There are not many cool words. When Arthur stepped on the spot for the first time, he saw that he was a little bit scared. He said that he was mentally confused about dreams and reality, and when he spoke, he always compared reality with the world of books, living in the hometown of Jack London.





They have nothing to do. I don’t know if this has anything to do with the economic crisis of the 1960s in France, but I know they must not like the real society, otherwise they will not be so turbulent. Thinking about the young people who had nothing to do at the time, they could only suppress it. Malu reads the book, and when he is an adult, he still has this virtue. I am embarrassed to refer to them as literary and artistic youths. If you don’t work hard, you can only read countless novels like Godard and write another absurdity. No matter whether it was deliberate or not, it objectively wrote the elegy of older literary and artistic youths at that time. The behavior of the three people is very similar to that of modern young people, full of the meaning of escaping from society.

Uldir didn’t want to be a nurse, saying that he was afraid of the hospital and he had no love (I think he didn’t face the sense of responsibility that an adult should have). In the subway, he faced the incomprehension and fear of the indifferent expression in the society. Fear of her own insignificance and the silent helplessness like the world is a kind of helpless escape or escape from the face of fate. In the movie, external forces have always intervened and forced her to make choices (I think Arthur’s hungry eyes Very compelling huh).


Arthur also escaped. His escape was based on the role. He replaced the imitation with the role and temporarily jumped out of the real life. His imitation was always full of drama (imitating duel, etc.), as well as a cool sense of substitution, just like excitement. Drugs and cardiotonics are used to wipe out the mediocre moments in life, subconsciously analyzing this is an urgent need to change the living environment and living conditions in a short period of time.



Ferenz is addicted to the novel, and he has no opinion. His escape is a catharsis in the text. Longing for the hometown of Jack London is a spiritual escape, which is completely in line with his inaction. They seem to have no goal but seek. Opportunities, China’s strength must learn Chinese, and the United States must learn English. Only they have the least confidence in their situation, let alone hope.



At this point, I think the three of them should hold their heads and cry, and then crying and encouraging each other to escape is naive, because they have to face the moment of saying goodbye to naivety and becoming mature. Thinking of this moment is undoubtedly another time for them not to continue to escape. It is disturbing. Compared with the rich entertainment life of young people, the boring life in their lives must be that they cannot bear the emptiness of life, but they are very boring.

Therefore, the famous one-minute silence in film history is like magnifying the emptiness of nothingness in their lives.
Therefore, this minute is only 36 seconds.
Therefore, it is better to dance instead of patience.

Dance a dance, focusing only on yourself, immersing yourself in your posture, and enjoying the dance of others' eyes.

A forgetfulness about silence.



It can be said that the transition from silence to dancing is the relief from embarrassment to the breakthrough of the relationship, and then the impatience of the Louvre rush, pushing the entire friendship relationship to a classic, 9 minutes and 43 seconds to finish the Louvre, this is not only A new record may be more about running out of a kind of loneliness that can't catch up with our happiness, running out of youth that surpasses others, so we will be more youthful tomorrow, and running out of a new milestone in the history of youth.

I have always been very pessimistic. When I see this running is like a youth death ceremony, they hold their hands arm in arm. When they complete this feat, it is like holding a crazy ritual to save the most in their lives. The beautiful 9 minutes and 43 seconds were put into the altar of time, and then we also knew that everything would never go back.


The essence of this movie lies in the eyes of the actors, of course, with the narration and panning, but the eyes of the three people together are unique, very interesting, and very natural. The feeling of three close-ups looking at each other brought me back to my adolescence. I found the feeling of liking a girl, the feeling of being jealous of someone who likes a girl I like, and why that girl doesn’t like me but always stares at my good friend.

So if you like someone, just stare at her boldly. Just stare at her. You can experience the freshness and excitement (shyness) without thinking about it. Maybe she will still be right in her arms.






The long narration, with the panning of the market and the sad trumpet, is like the sadness of never looking back, and at the same time mixed with them who are not unique.

The feeling that PS Arthur was finally shot (or consecutively) was really ridiculous~ I used my last breath to hold back his exaggerated acting skills, puff haha ​​(after being shot 5 shots, TMD turned three times), background The two watched motionless from a distance, really wondering whether they should laugh or be sad.
PPS remember to goodbye to youth.




Finally, I would like to thank Mr. Li Juice for his polishing and Mr. Agatha’s encouragement. Your encouragement made me feel the meaning of life.

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Extended Reading
  • Tara 2022-03-24 09:03:02

    Shakespeare's note, silence for a minute, three-person waltz, teddy bear or the sadness of bombing the government, the Louvre race record, everyone is lonely, the fluid connection device confession... The allusions to the footless bird in "The True Story" from here?

  • Christina 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Some are like exhaustion, but the editing still gives people infinite surprises. There was a minute of silence that reminded me of Chen Tao. Movies are in Godard's hands, so they can be so free. That's why he said, I'm going to make films that I've never had before, so he's Godard. Wong Kar-wai, Arthur Payne, including Zu and Zhan, are all in Godard, you are so awesome, you are the sun!

Band of Outsiders quotes

  • Franz: [Reading the newspaper to Arthur] She treated me like a butler, said the lumberjack, husband of the vanished countess. The police think it's murder, but Roger says 'It's an elopement.' Futile search in bedroom slippers.

  • Odile: What's your family name, Arthur?

    Arthur: Rimbaud.