We didn't take it seriously when we were seventeen.
A wonderful evening, go to his lemonade and beer,
Go to his rowdy cafe with bright lights!
The place where we went for a walk and wandered under the green linden tree.
-- "Legend" Rimbaud
"The Beauty of Flowers" is a movie I like very much. I have watched it many times, and some lines can already be memorized. The story is not complicated. It tells the story of a 17-year-old middle-class girl in France, Isabelle, to various middle-aged men. The stories of providing sexual services, shocking themes, and large-scale sex scenes, but director Ou Rong handled them beautifully and delicately, and borrowed a very appropriate evaluation: like a frivolous prose. The movie goes to great lengths to show the details of Isabel's sexual adventures: calling clients, riding the subway, putting on makeup, putting on her mother's silk shirt and high heels, stepping into hotels like a stocky fawn, having sex with different men and taking Take the money on the table. The camera gave Isabel's face a lot of close-ups. This face is very beautiful and charming, but she rarely smiles, always looking sad and miserable, low-pressure youth.
Isabelle is the most important thing I like about this movie. In her, I can see many shadows of myself, the same crazy ideas, obsessed with extreme and morally borderline experiences, but Isabelle is much braver than me , she dares to put her own ideas into practice, which I will never be able to do, she also has too many qualities that I envy, she is not ashamed of her own sexual adventures, she is not ashamed of sex itself, can be with her stepfather, Talking about it lightly with your mother's friends, you can say to your younger brother: There's nothing to be ashamed of, it's just an experience. She is strong enough in her heart and has her own ideas. She is very dissatisfied with her parents' behavior of disposing of the money she earned from prostitution without her consent, and insists on using it to pay for psychological counseling. Her idea is very simple: This is my labor and earned money, and only I can decide what to do with it. What I envy most is her sober attitude towards love, sober is almost cold, she knows what she wants, so when her boyfriend of the same age can't give her, she can drive him away immediately. Isabelle never aggrieved or deceived herself, never indulged in false love, and always pursued what she wanted firmly. This is what I need to study hard at this stage.
Another important part of the film is the relationship between Isabel and the client George, who is the first client Isabel receives and the only client who has traded three times. The first transaction between the two was very common, but they both lied about their age, one because they were too old, the other because they were too young, and the two age when we thought there should be no sexual desire. The second transaction was shortly after the theater encounter, this time it was George serving Isabel. The sex scene was quite beautiful. George buried his head between Isabel's legs and gently caressed her. The camera was aimed at the girl's face. Isabelle closed her eyes and breathed lightly, enjoying and relaxing. It was completely different from Isabelle who was on the beach when she was committed to her German lover, with her eyes wide open and nervous and alienated. This was the first time she was immersed in sex in this film. Among them, not just the object of male gratification. After the end, George gave Isabel 100 euros more. When Isabel took the money and wanted to leave, George held her neck and asked her if she had received many people besides herself. Isabelle bowed. The head didn't answer, what does the director mean by arranging this detail? I tend to understand it as love, and thus the desire to monopolize a person. It's a pity that the possibility of such a relationship ended with George's death. In the third transaction, the two sat down to drink and chat like old friends before the transaction. Isabel showed a rare smile, but unfortunately George died of a heart attack during sex. Isabel fled in a hurry and began to deal with it. Conflict with family.
I don't want to sum up Isabel's feelings for George with a simple Electra complex, and I don't think Isabel likes this interpretation either (when talking to the psychologist, she was asked if her client was the same age as her father, and Isabel was sly "I'm the same age as you"), first of all, compared to inexperienced and rash boys of the same age and other whore clients, George doesn't only care about his own pleasure, he knows how to make Isabelle happy too, and he won't insult his personality. Isabel, what he gave to Isabel was respect and understanding. Although the two had money transactions, their relationship was equal. I think this is what this 17-year-old girl yearns for. Therefore, in addition to projecting the missing father's love on George, the girl has more gratitude. As the relationship deepens, it is not impossible to generate love.
In the process of looking at the development of the relationship between the two, I have always put myself in the role of Isabelle. I am thinking about going to a high-end hotel once a week, enjoying the entertainment brought by this gray-haired old man, and getting a "normal" life What a wonderful thing it was, but everything disappeared with George's death, and a part of the girl's life was forever missing, so when she was crying and missing George in the counseling room, I I also cried with her, such a good person will be difficult to meet in the future.
At the end of the film, George's wife found Isabel. The wife admired the girl's bravery and beauty. They went back to room 6095, where Isabelle and George traded, lying on the bed in memory of their mutual lover. The wife gave the girl 300 euros according to the price. This is the way a girl deals with the world. When she wakes up, her wife is nowhere to be seen, but her understanding has been engraved in the girl's heart, manifested in the imperceptible smile at the corner of the girl's mouth.
This is a complete film about youth, it is about the restlessness of youth, those crazy thoughts, she had no plan for selling her body, she just did it when she thought of it, and she didn't know what she was Time will stop, she can't say she likes it, but every time it's over, she can't help but want to do it again, she has no special purpose, just because she wants to live like this, she is willing to live like this, sex is what she deals with the world Way, she never even took it seriously, as Rimbaud's poem at the beginning says: We don't take it seriously, when we're seventeen.
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