The Dreamers - Don't let dreams be an excuse

Diego 2022-04-18 17:34:53

Under the Eiffel Tower, American Matthew walked quickly into the camera, crossed the road, and started his "Dream of Paris" - here, he will spend a dream time with Frenchmen Leo and Isabelle. They both love movies, and their lives are like movies, even though reality isn't a movie for most of them, yet they are perfectly capable of creating the plot of the movie and then indulging in it.

People who can be addicted are happy, you can see the satisfaction and happiness from the heart in their eyes, they can run wild in the Louvre like the plot in "Outlaw", and then like The plot in the movie sings, dances, and shouts "WE ACCEPT HIM, ONE OF US" as cheerfully as possible. That kind of obsession, even if you walk in the middle of the city, you can indulge wildly. This reminds me of when I was lying on the beach in Sanya not long ago and raised my camera to shoot to the sky, I could see every time they jumped into the camera they were addicted to the feeling of being in the air, the expressions on everyone's faces were the brightest.

Isabelle will also raise a broom to imitate the dance in "Blonde Venus", or Leo imitating the classic action of being assassinated on the street, Isabelle's soft body when dancing to the elegant music, and the female body In the protagonist's clean and pure boudoir, Matthew and Venus have sex with a broken hand... And the last scene in the room, the three childlike innocent faces in the tent, is the best illustration of the above:

Leo Indulged in the movie world since childhood, the so-called conjoined twins made a secluded movie for their own survival, and in this small world, they carried their own peculiar dreams, like two Live like a child who never grows up. Leo said that he would rather go to prison than be a soldier to kill like a fascist. However, he actually had no chance to experience the helplessness and confusion that Matthew said, this knowledge from books and movies. And culture, there is no way to bring direct experience to Leo. These pure book experiences, in the utopian movie world they built, gave them child-like dream space, and they fantasized about all the dreams they could dream of. I think if Leo did go to jail, he would definitely kill himself because he couldn't stand life in prison. A movie is just a movie; talking about cultural peace and revolution behind closed doors is just talk on paper. Therefore, he only knows how to imitate, but cannot create.

Matthew, is the spy of this movie. He came and explored and wandered in it. He experienced love, addiction, fanaticism, and love. Not everyone can become a spy of this movie. Matthew did it. , precisely because he is also a dreamer, and his dream is to walk out of their utopian movie with his beloved Isabelle, so they French kiss desperately in the cinema like lovers... Just as it all begins, a Throwing objects smashed the windows, and the large-scale parade in reality shattered the dreams of the three people. In the end, Matthew left, and he had no choice but to bow his head in the parade crowd and leave.

In the last shot, countless policemen screamed and rushed towards the crowd. Everyone's reality continues. Everyone can run in the Louvre Museum. Everyone who runs is also worthy of respect, but dreams should not be be an excuse.

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Extended Reading
  • Leonor 2022-04-21 09:02:12

    Unforgettable erotica. As well as the portrait of Chairman Mao on the wall.

  • Lucile 2022-04-19 09:01:58

    Erotica in a political context does not understand but moves you

The Dreamers quotes

  • [Matthew has had unprotected sex with Isabelle]

    Matthew: [in the tub, he sees blood]

    Isabelle: Don't be alarmed. It's good news.

    Theo: It only happens once a month.

  • Matthew: In this big, epic movie - everyone is an extra.