Knowing a section of his resume is helpful for the appreciation of "Dahe": Jean Renoir resolutely embarked on the road of the military before completing his studies. During World War I, he rushed to the front line with the rank of warrant officer. A few months later, he returned to Paris to recuperate with a right leg injury. He became fascinated by Chaplin's movies. It was during this period that he became interested in movies. In this battle, Renoir suffered a lifelong disability with a lame leg. After he recovered from his injury, he returned to the army to learn how to fly and worked as a short-term scout. After retiring from the army, he came to Canau in the south of France and Marlot on the outskirts of France to make pottery in order to fulfill his father's last wish.
The film is about a soldier with a leg injury who returned to his country and went to his cousin’s house through India. He met three young girls with different personalities and different ways of expressing love. In the end, he decided to leave them, a little bit resentful and regretful. But the girls grew up and the relationship became harmonious, and everything went on, as calm as a river, as if nothing happened. . .
This film reminds me of "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward". How can one describe a person's life? Is it a small stream, a turbulent river, or a turbulent sea? In fact, no matter what in our life, we are drifting, but we all have inadvertently choked, submerged, or even capsized boats, in the journey of love, when freely swimming, In the conquest of the voyage, we are not always the victors, because there is not a day when we are free from wind and rain!
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