Indifference is gunpowder

Shyann 2022-11-20 11:09:08

It's really an amazingly expressive film, with a gentle temperament and a cohesive plot. It is slowly driven by the plot and gradually wins. One is the luxurious mansion of the aristocracy, and the other is the silence of the bottom market, but it is not as simple as the contradiction of the class. It can be said that the root of the contradiction comes from the dehumanization caused by the social system, and even the alienation of human nature. They don't understand or communicate with each other, they don't want to be in their position, and they don't trust and care about each other. The hidden conflicts are accumulating little by little, and they urgently need to find a breakthrough. Indifference, indifference, you are a gentle accusation, you are an invisible stagger, you are a cold sickle, you are silent despair. The film is an inevitable tragedy caused by a realistic background and accidental coincidence, and it is also a side manifestation of the law of social inhumanity.

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  • Jeanne la postière: They're pathetic. What do they know? They've got it all. Their biggest worry is what color car to buy. Or which cousin stole half the inheritance. I'd be happy with a tenth of what they have. I'd have the life I wanted, instead of just the opposite.

  • Georges Lelievre: [referring, respectively, to Sophie the illiterate maid and Jeanne the nosy postal clerk] What a pair: one can't read at all, and the other reads our mail.