long time, the first half, the second half, I finally finished watching this Christmas réveillion on this Christmas night, about the life of a philosophy teacher who is probably the most familiar to me. film.
What runs through the film, in my opinion, is Natalia's contradictory philosophical tendencies.
The conservative and classical husband, although separated in the end, is still the deepest imprint of her life - after all, even if she had radical tendencies and even actions, she had long since returned to the so-called Bourgeois after an accidental attempt (going to the Soviet Union). Classical music is a symbol of life.
During this period of thirty years, it was not forcibly endured, but the result of her self-chosen acceptance; just as she would resolutely leave Fabien after appreciating Fabien's wandering ballads, after the fresh force always attracted her. friends and place of residence.
Therefore, in fact, her separation from her husband was actually her husband's initiative, not an outbreak that she endured to the end after 30 years. (Even if it does have her element in it, because she still finds herself paradoxically leaning towards someone like Fabien who is obviously radial but doesn't give her the stable life she's settled in.)
And Fabien almost reminds me of the Badiou babes The lost Mao Zuo young philosopher, read Foucault, the Frankfurt School, and even Zizek. With a middle-class life far away from the city, I personally participated in the resistance and criticism of capitalism - and even changed the state of life to the extent of uncooperativeness hidden in the mountains. But it's not what I appreciate - maybe I understand too much that Natalie, as a middle school philosophy teacher, all she wants is education and the combination of philosophy, that is, "to let my students learn to think for themselves". Childish ideal.
As for the so-called changing the world, it is often just a pretext and an excuse for men's world war. In the end, it could have been precisely that -- as disturbing as the dizzying dose of marijuana Fabien gave her -- insomnia.
As a woman who also studies philosophy, perhaps she understands very well that insomnia and resistance are too exhausting and not the state required for philosophical thinking in the sense of a philosopher. For philosophy, stable reason is both a bondage and a fundamental limit to maintain its rational state. In other words, yes, I compromise. As Fabien said, the reconciliation and unity of life and thought exists only in the heart, in the thought itself, and I will not wander because of it. For me, philosophy has always been a quiet state and a matter of relaxing the mind.
A few stalks to add (already put on the bullet screen at station B)
One is the little yellow-covered book that Natalia read after her mother's funeral, which is Pascal's "Thoughts" (pensée), and its version is also very French. Classic classiques Garnier.
The second is the passage that Natalie read to his classmates in class after returning to Paris from Fabien's Yamano Residence. The passage about desire/hope/fantasy is more a source of happiness than the actual acquisition of the object of desire. It is a famous passage in Rousseau's philosophical novel julie, ou la nouvelle héloïse as a philosophy subject in the French college entrance examination.
Tant qu'on désire, on peut se passer d'être heureux ; on s'attend à le devenir : si le bonheur ne vient point, l'espoir se prolonge, et le charme de l'illusion dure autant que la passion qui le cause. Ainsi cet état se suffit à lui-même, et l'inquiétude qu'il donne est une sorte de jouissance qui supplée à la réalité, qui vaut mieux peut-être. Malheur à qui n'a plus rien à désirer ! il perd pour ainsi dire tout ce qu'il possède. On jouit moins de ce qu'on obtient que de ce qu'on espère et l'on n'est heureux qu'avant d'être heureux. En effet, l'homme, avide et borné, fait pour tout vouloir et peu obtenir, a reçu du ciel une force consolante qui rapproche de lui tout ce qu'il désire, qui le soumet à son imagination, qui le lui rend présent et sensible,qui le lui livre en quelque sorte et, pour lui rendre cette imaginaire propriété plus douce, le modifie au gré de sa passion. Mais tout ce prestige disparaît devant l'objet même ; rien n'embellit plus cet objet aux yeux du possesseur ; on ne se figure point ce qu'on voit ; l'imagination ne pare plus rien de ce qu'on possède, l'illusion cesse où commence la jouissance.
Remarkably, here finally comes the "future" (l'avenir). I don't know if it can be understood that the so-called future is nothing but the expectation of the present; and conversely, the expectation of the future constitutes the "present" that is truly worth living and gives people happiness.
The third is that Natalie's home should be in the 6th district of Paris near the saint-placide and rennes metro stations, because the road full of Christmas lights to go home on Christmas day is an avenue of rue des rennes in the 6th district of Paris, and finally The high-hanging railway tracks that flashed past are also the characteristics of Line 6 passing through District 6.
Fourth, at the last Christmas réveillon family dinner, the song natalie sang to her little grandson is a traditional French folk song à la claire fontaine, which Shang Wenjie sang the Chinese version of "Dream of the Pontoon Bridge".
In general, apart from the heroine, I still feel a little irritable - although this irritability is accompanied by a slight radical (this may be a state that the director has deliberately portrayed), and it has nothing to do with HUPPERT himself. Rebellious temperament - in other respects, the presentation of the life of a female philosophy teacher in her late 60s is real and rhythmic. In the face of the impact of quiet thoughts and life, what she chooses is to keep Undecided expectations for the future (l'avenir), not like Fabien, must incorporate the future into the actions of the present reality. [I have some reservations about the understanding here, I wrote it late at night, my mind is a bit messy]
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