The film "Volver" has two Chinese translations, one is "Return" and the other is "Floating Flowers". The former is a literal translation, while the latter has a thousand twists and turns, entwined with meaning, like the dazzling stare of a movie poster, fragrant and beautiful.
Tu Yan? Only Tu Yan, right? Breathing, breathing, and shivering. In a patriarchal society, women seem to be only helpless floating flowers, drifting with the water and at the mercy of the wind, wasting the fragrance of life in a fetid life. Incest, rape, murder, hiding, death, covetous eyes are always glued to their bodies, and ambiguous smiles appear and disappear on their cheeks. She pushed her husband away from the bed, and what she received was contemptuous insults; she was busy with housework in the kitchen, and the embrace of desire came from behind... Tears flickered in her eyes, flickering in the deep night; The chest cavity hit, trembling violently in the youthful jade body.
I think that the floating flowers must be bright red, and the body of the flowers is surging with hot blood. There are red figures everywhere in the movie, pink stockings, scarlet blood, bright red cars... What does it mean? Warning, red means danger; provocative, red is full of temptation; shame, red is the blood on the cheeks; joy, red brings passion and excitement. Such colors are full of contradictions and are fascinating. How absurd and ironic that men's wounded blood can be women's menstrual blood because they are the same red! Only red can be so entangled, unscrupulously impacting people's retinas and reaching their hearts.
Fortunately, the gorgeous red did not become a vulgar after all. This is not only due to the director's calm and restrained shots, but also because the red of the floating flowers is profound and high-spirited. In the film, the process of cruelty and violence is omitted, and only direct results are given to the audience. The emotional indignation is replaced by rational reflection, so that the thinking brought by the floating flowers will not fall into the whirlpool of emotions.
The floating flowers in the film are also tenacious and full of vitality. From the beginning of the film, a group of women sing in the cemetery, the tune is lively and light. This is a beautiful tribute to death. The inch-haired Augustina said at this time, "Every time I clean my cemetery, I always feel very peaceful. I always come here alone, sit quietly, and forget all my troubles." And she The film finally chose to give the opportunity to treat cancer, just to be worthy of the Raymond family, showing the awe-inspiring dignity of a person and a woman.
The most youthful and innocent little Paula in the film is budding, with a low-cut knitted sweater and short narrow skirt wrapping her aggressive glamour. When encountering her adoptive father's conspiracy, she did not endure it silently, but bravely resisted. Not every floating flower is weak and feeble.
And her mother, Raymonde, the heroine in the film, isn't she resisting in her own way? When she heard the news of the death of her dearest aunt, she was able to hide her grief and deal with her husband's body decisively; when she carried her husband's body, she single-handedly transported a man weighing more than 70 kilograms into the freezer , after she took a breather, she immediately took the restaurant order and threw herself into the busy life; when she was wearing high heels and staggering through the crowd, her slender legs seemed to be unable to support her weight anymore, but she was still trying to go ahead.
Her resistance has the maturity of adults shouldering responsibility, but also the helplessness forced by life. But fortunately, the passion for life is still there. She can still sing at the party "I'm afraid, I'm afraid that the past will face my life again, I'm afraid of the night, full of memories, leading my dreams, but the traveler who is far away will stop his footsteps sooner or later, although there is nothing to do The inability to forget has shattered my distant dreams, and I still have small dreams in my heart, this is the only treasure in my heart!"
Who can't be touched by her? Who can resist this scorching passion? The cry of life?
This film is a world of floating flowers. Every floating flower has her pain, but they are connected and support each other. Between neighbors, between friends, between sisters, between mother and daughter.
Little Paula clings tightly to her mother's arms when she is afraid. Augustina will not forget her mother until her death. After reconciling with her mother, Raymond shows a smile of attachment like a little girl. Every floating flower can be connected with the relationship between mother and daughter, which is a bond that every woman can't let go, primitive and profound. When the floating flowers are connected, the pain can be comforted, the wind and rain can be resisted, and they can live forever.
Last but not least is the song. "Go back! With a haggard face, the snow of time has left traces on my face. Feel it! This is just a moment in life, twenty years of time are just a blink of an eye, fiery eyebrows, chasing you in the dark, Calling you! Live! My unyielding soul, with sweet memories, I weep again."
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