After watching so many French films, the new wave movement became modern. Talking to so many people about French movies, from those who understand movies to those who haven't seen them much. . French films seem to have an invisible qualitative rhythm - "esoteric"! And from the audience's point of view, that is - completely incomprehensible!
Not as direct and black and white as Hollywood, French films always make people puzzled about their "intent". At the end, I always feel that good people have become bad people, and bad people have become good people. True or false, good or bad, are all questions that we do not understand and do not need us to think about. The problem is there, like moldy bread on the table, untouched.
"Two Days in Paris" does not completely lack the characteristics of French cinema, and it can be said to be a typical example in terms of whether it is good or bad. There is no shortage of racial/cultural slurs against American men, as well as exposure to the profligate private lives of French women. And at the end of the film, this quarrel seems to have never happened, and life returns to the original track. The war that was doomed to lose both has also turned into the beginning of a beautiful new life~
However, even though this film has revealed many real-life problems For the serious cultural intersection issue, there are easy-to-understand jokes for the audience everywhere in the film, so the low-level jokes of mutual discrimination between races and non-stop scolding among family members have become props to amuse the audience. The characters in the film have to live and die, and the audience is heartless.
Laughing and laughing, the question is, as a French film, it can't be just to make me laugh, right? Even, it can't be really to highlight social problems - racism, right? Too obvious, not very French. Obviously the French film is tenable. There is no doubt that even the filming is too "light", which makes people doubt their IQ and whether they fell asleep in the middle.
"Two Days in Paris", in fact, is not a simple light comedy. There is another reason for saying that it is not made in France: the intention is too obvious. The "intent" here does not refer to the main theme of the film or the characteristics of "black and white". The intention of this film is more like a dissemination and defense of French culture.
Maybe France does often have such problems in the film, and most foreigners who first arrived in France, like the American men in the film, do not understand the French people's behavior, and even feel deeply disgusted. On the one hand, the film explained that seemingly "bad" people in France also have a kind side, and shouted louder that "foreigners (especially old Americans) are also very mixed, just in different places."
A French film that seems to be too low in laughter, in fact, explores very serious issues of ethnic and cultural collisions, enduring and timeless issues. And making it laughable is actually the best way to prevent people from different cultures from being insulted or even sparking disputes.
05/07/13
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