This is the inner monologue of Hani's last moment in life. Just look at the sentence structure and content, and you might think that it is the last sentence of the heroine in the literary film writing to the lover. And Hani, she is just the concierge of a luxury apartment building in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, a 54-year-old old and sloppy woman who has never been shopping for many years. She hates the contempt of her figure by the sales lady when she is fitting, how much She has never been to restaurants for many years, and she does not have a decent dress enough to step into those elegantly lit restaurants. Every morning she starts to work at eight o'clock in the morning, collecting garbage, cleaning cigarette butts on carpet mats, mopping floors and stairs, sending and receiving letters, doing endless trivial tasks.
However, in addition to the simple and even poor life in the eyes of outsiders, she also lives in another world of her own with another attitude. In the warm afternoon, she boiled water to make tea and drank it with dark chocolate, and changed the way of chewing to enjoy different tastes. She reads Tanizaki Junichiro's book. She has a lazy fat cat. In fact, she is an out-and-out literary lover. There is a light blue door that is always closed. There are high bookshelves on all sides of the room. She likes to close the door and enjoy the corner of the book exclusively. She occasionally casually uttered sentences and characters in literary works, but she tried her best to avoid this situation. She wanted to try her best to play the humble role of porter and find a safe corner like this to hide, just like the title of the film. Like a hedgehog, guarding her inner world carefully, for fear that the only precious and soft corner of this world for her will be disturbed and destroyed by others.
Hani’s neighbors are typical representatives of the wealthy class. In this building, everyone walks along with the fixed thinking mode and lifestyle of the rich. Except for two people, Hani the concierge and the eleven-year-old girl Ba Loma. Hani has her own powerful inner world and spiritual power, so she has seen these people's faces with philosophical insights. Baroma lives in a wealthy family. Although she is young, she is sensitive and rich in her heart. She is bored with her mother. Endless mental depression, fed up with not being able to understand her family, and the future she is about to face: what kind of person she will become. A deep sense of contradiction exists in her heart. On the one hand, living in such a family, she feels that she is destined to escape this lifestyle, but she strongly wants to get rid of it, so she decided on her twelfth birthday. Shi committed suicide, and in this way completely escaped the unresolved contradictions and inescapable loneliness at her age.
Hani holds the camera used to photograph details of life every day. Its function is just like the camera used by the little boy in the Taiwanese movie "Yi Yi" to photograph the back of an adult. It is a way for juveniles to view the world. Hani filmed the chattering, laughter and false flattery of the adults at the table at the party, and then lowered the camera to take pictures of the small movements of the people under the table. With the sensitivity that does not match her age, she has also seen through this hypocritical lifestyle and the empty thoughts of adults. So she is regarded as a little monster in the family, a problem girl. In such a confined building, two sensitive and rich literary women, an old and a young, met and knew each other. Baloma accidentally discovered Hani's true face, and she began to curiously pay attention to and approach this alien like her. In fact, this kind of year-long love and appreciation between the two of them is too idealistic, just as the name of a bean listed in this movie is "just the emotion that exists in the movie."
The Japanese Mr. Ozu moved into the apartment and changed Hani's life. When they first met, they had a good feeling for each other because they accidentally uttered the sentences in "Anna Karenina". The strong magnetic fields of the two art lovers attracted each other. Hani and Ozu, one rich and one poor, one sloppy and one elegant foreigner, had a purely literary love. Hani changed her sloppy image for him, and she was so elegant that her neighbors could not recognize her. Ozu carefully cooked Japanese food for her, gave her dresses, shoes and shawls, and had tea and tea together to watch movies and videos (Ozu actually has such a good audio-visual room! Envy!) What Ozu brings to her is more than just a little warmth and hope in her life. , It is the respect and understanding that she has never received in her entire life. He successfully entered her hidden, rich and soft inner world, and appreciated her unique beauty and unique insights. How splendid Hani was during these days, so when she was knocked down, she did not feel sad or reluctant, she was content that her life ended at this time. What she thought of were two people who care about her and understand her: Ozu and Baroma. She said to Ozu: "My heart is like a little cat curled up in a ball, and I want to have the last glass of sake with you." She said to Baroma: "I hope your future matches your expectations."
Throughout the play. The two heroines, Hani and Baromar, two out-of-pocket literary women, one big and one small, seem to represent the two extremes that appear in the struggle between literary women and the world: dead end and lonely death. Baromar cannot be strong enough to reconcile with this world like Hani, secretly hides, and slowly builds her inner world, so all she thinks about is suicide, end life, escape, and liberation. And Hani, she is calm and mature enough, she pretends to be what the world needs, and then chooses to live a lonely life (if there is no Ozu and accidental death, she will definitely be like this). And more literary and artistic women are probably still flattened by the years. A youth in literary and art, leaving some to middle age, and finally living an ordinary life, just like the review of "Li Chun" I wrote before, Wang Cailing was still Choosing to be an ordinary person, but her pursuits and dreams exist in her life, like one immortal spring after another.
Baromar drew grids full of countdown countdowns, and scribbled in a little man every day. The grids on her last birthday were painted in black, which represented end and death like "The End".
Did she commit suicide? It is not mentioned in the movie.
I don't think she has. Because she had announced that she would be a concierge when she grew up, just like Hani.
Well, I hope you, and all of you, can find a way to reconcile with this world.
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