When it comes to the term "good dream one-day tour", I believe most Chinese people are familiar with it. From "Stubborn Lord" to "Party A and Party B" to "Private Customization", we can always see this kind of idea on the big screen in China. Their stories seem to be similar: consumers want to make up for their life's shortcomings through a certain situation reappearance, the organizers try their best to restore the scene to cooperate with the performance, the end of the story is often the consumer and the organizer are spiritually sublimated.
Therefore, when watching the French film "A Day Trip to Good Dreams", I watched it more or less with a bit of disdain. After all, we have seen a lot of this trick, can he still play any new tricks for the Frenchman?
Facts have proved that the French who is best at playing romance in the world has really played a new trick on this subject.
The beginning part of the film is the same as the routine we are familiar with. The protagonist Victor was an excellent satirical cartoonist when he was young. However, the advent of the Internet era made him useless. He was unwilling to follow the trend of the times and was gradually caught by everything around him. Abandoned, and those common "middle-aged crises" also surfaced in this old man, even his own wife would rather wear a VR device to sleep than sleep with him.
After a quarrel, Victor was kicked out of the house by his wife. Lost and lost, he found the "Good Memories Company" founded by his son and his friends, and wanted to restore his first meeting with his wife in 1974. Time scene, reminiscing and searching for the feeling of love.
The story here can be said to be the same as the traditional "good dream one-day tour" story routine, but everything behind has become complicated. On the one hand, Victor himself has fallen into a contradiction between reappearance and true love; on the other hand, It is the love-hate entanglement between the director of "Good Memories Company" and his girlfriend who is an actor. The two sets of character stories are interspersed with entanglements, which finally brings us a completely different story experience.
Different from the development of multiple stories in these domestic movies of the same theme, the film "Good Dreams One Day Tour" has always focused on telling the story of Victor. And this story always revolves around one word, that is "love".
In the first stage of the film, Victor is a person who no longer believes in love at all. He told the staff that the person who made his heart move has been dead for many years, and after entering the scene, he has been constantly provoking the actors. At this time, he seems to be the sober person in a crazy banquet. What he didn't want was love, he just wanted to reminisce about the feelings he felt when he was young.
After the film entered the second stage, Victor changed. He began to believe in love. Not only did he believe in love again, he was still lost in this belief. In the end, whether it was Victor himself or our audience. He felt that he had changed from "love" his wife in his youth to "love" the actress who played the role of his wife in his youth, so he couldn't help sighing, "Huh, scumbag."
In the last part of the film, Victor ushered in another change. This time he didn't seem to believe in love anymore, but unlike the first stage, he was more open this time. He accepted his wife's derailment frankly, and when returning to the original scene with his wife, he also showed the excitement and happiness of the two when they first met, but when the wife dropped the scarf and walked out of the cafe according to the scene of the year At the time, Victor didn't rush to pick it up. Instead, he lit a cigarette first, as if he saw the young actress again, and then suddenly came to his senses. As if waking up from a big dream, he laughed at himself, then extinguished the cigarette and shouted "checkout".
I think this is the highlight of this movie. Will the last Victor pick up the scarf to chase his wife again? It has become an eternal mystery, and this open ending also fits well. The theme of the film is "What is love?" Or "What is it that you love each other?"
In this movie, Victor’s role growth is a bit like the classic Chinese philosophy of " seeing the mountain is the mountain-seeing the mountain is not the mountain-seeing the mountain or the mountain ". He was abandoned because he was out of touch with the times at the beginning. Love will never exist for him, but the reunion with the past and the in-depth communication with the actress made him have a certain illusion, and this illusion of "I can do it" gave him motivation, let He smashed the hard shell of his heart to get in touch with the world more openly. In the end, this open mind made him wake up to his illusion. His transformation brought his wife back to his side, and he was not obsessed with that woman. Actor, but, is all this in the end a function of love?
Victor doesn't know, and we don't even know.
This is the magic of this movie. It shows us the diversity of love through the story of Victor alone traveling through a time machine, but it fails to give us an exact answer, because love is a human emotion. The product, and the human being, is itself a complex and contradictory combination.
We can look at Victor’s wife again. She had a strong dislike of Victor in the early stage of the film, and she felt disgusting at a second glance. Therefore, if she cheated on Victor’s friends, it seems that this man is her ideal type of love. However, when the two turned from cheating to cohabitation, the sweet love was instantly broken by the behavior of a man sleeping and snoring, and when the wife saw Victor, who had a shaved beard and more open mind, the spark of love in her heart was once again It was ignited, and even the eyes of Victor in the cafe were shining at the end. So, what can all these changes in behavior show? Does it mean that this woman is an unfaithful slut? Obviously not.
And the last easter egg of the film is the intense kiss of the director and actress. What they show in the whole film is a kind of vigorous love. This kind of vigorous and desperate love belonging to young people seems to be a certain kind of love. The typical paradigm, but in this film, we can only think of a kind of ending to this love, that is, they may also be destined to embark on the road of Victor and his wife.
I think I probably know why the French are able to play with this theme which is almost a prescribed format. As the most romantic group in the world, their understanding of love is much more open than us, so in this film In the movie, they can show us the diversity and changes of love through the story of a couple.
Humans are animals with complex emotions. Our emotions for everything in the world are not immutable, and this complex emotion makes the seemingly simple vocabulary of "love" extremely complicated. What is love, everyone There is an answer of its own, and this answer is constantly changing as we grow, and eventually becomes a mystery that surrounds us all our lives, haunts us, and makes us inseparable from and insoluble throughout our lives.
After watching this movie, my mind is full of a song, which is the song "The Proverbs of Love" sung by Teresa Teng. A line in the song seems to better reflect the theme of the film.
"Love is something no one can understand"
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