The French film "Hedgehog Grace" (2009), has been there.
After wiping away the dust for more than two years, I finally picked it up. At this time, the viewer looked like a quiet child. In a noble residential building on the Left Bank of Paris, there lived five families, and the 54-year-old female concierge, Honey, was as lonely as ever and never received any attention. Baroma, a girl under the age of 12, usually likes to hold a DV, catch whoever shoots who, and draw the most interesting pictures in the form of comics. This is her eccentricity, an entertainment way to talk to the world and dissolve loneliness.
After being left out in the cold, Paloma made a bold decision that day: she was going to end her life seven months later, on her 12th birthday. To this end, during these seven months, she used DV to record the most important images in her eyes. First of all, it's her own family—bourgeois's depressed mother and her rude sister, and her sullen father who is a congressman.
And Baroma was repeatedly "rejected and suppressed" at home, which made her have to look for support and comfort. She meets the newly moved Japanese half-old Ozu Grande, an art-loving audio agent. What's more, she has always been very interested in Honey, the concierge, but it's hard to get close. Because Mr. Ozu and because she wanted to help her sister get a letter, she had the opportunity to enter Honey's life. Of course, she did not take the letter for her sister for nothing, and the two sisters reached an exchange agreement.
In the high-class peacock luxury world, Honey is like an indifferent hedgehog, living the life she created. Almost at the same time, Ozu and Baroma entered Honey's rich inner world. Baroma walked into Honey's house for the first time, and she was so excited that she wrote: "She is covered in thorns, a fortress like a fake, but I feel that she is just pretending to be lazy on purpose. As meticulous as a hedgehog, sexually fond of loneliness, and unbelievably elegant. Everyone is a hedgehog in their daily life, but most of them are not elegant."
Ozu saw through Honey's vast inner world, gave her her favorite "Anna Karenina", and invited her to his house to spend Japanese dinner and watch Ozu Yasujiro's movies. From the initial rejection and hesitation to the uneasy acceptance, Ni gained a sense of happiness and existence that she had never had before.
It turns out that fifteen years ago, Honey's husband died of illness, and she has been a widow since then. She thinks she's old and ugly, who cares if she's cold or warm. What's even more interesting is that the ghost elf Baroma has finally found the best shelter. She can't help smacking when she sees the rows of bookshelves in Honey's house. So she drew a picture of Honey taking a book to read and taking a nap by herself, and then shoved the picture into the crack of Honey's door.
Yes, Hani was full of happiness during this time, she had two soulmates at the same time, what more could she ask for.
But God is tricking people, just when she thought she could find her final destination with peace of mind, she was hit by a car because she was bravely rescuing a homeless man on the street...
As Paloma said at the beginning: "Life and death are the most common things in life..." But once it really happened, Paloma said bitterly: "What matters is not death, but the moment when we die. What are you doing? Honey, what were you doing right before you died..."
After speaking, Baroma gently closed the door, as if she was saying goodbye to everything before. She will step into the age of 12 rationally. It turns out that growth is always accompanied by tearing and loss, and always accompanied by the unknown of the next moment.
2012, 9, 23
From the film critic collection "Invisible Movies" published by Haitian Publishing House
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