this is life

Esmeralda 2022-04-15 09:01:07

A slightly obscure movie, very quiet, a lot of information is hidden in the details, you need to watch it carefully to understand.

She did everything with her own experience, educating students, taking care of her mother, taking care of her daughter and husband, writing books, and the house is always so clean, just like the movie said, to pursue perfection. But she finally failed in life. Her husband left, her mother died, and her child started her own life. She could only cry on the bus. Maybe this is life.

In the most painful time, she also wanted to try to have sex with strangers, but for her, who was shackled by morality, this was obviously unrealistic.

In her most difficult year, only the cat was with her. Even if she lost her family, even if she returned to nature, she could survive and even catch a mouse. At this time, the cat became another her and her Spiritual sustenance, after a year, she regained herself and no longer needed a cat.

When she said that she had gained unprecedented freedom, how happy was it really? After all, freedom was covered with bloody wounds.

At the end the husband obviously wants to come back but is rejected and we have to pay for our actions.

In the film, the daughter crying in the hospital bed is probably also because of her husband's derailment. Bad things will always happen, new wounds will always appear, but we still have to work hard to live, this is life.

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Extended Reading
  • Lucinda 2022-04-06 09:01:07

    Compared with the philosophy of Rohmer, in fact, its jumping editing and free temperament are closer to Piara, taking advantage of the wind without stopping. Of course, compared to the heartless gesture, the warmth and strength may appear to be less deep and powerful, but compared with a woman in her 40s, this trick is undoubtedly more antelope with no trace, and this female director is actually a post-80s generation. I'm curious why this film didn't go to Cannes, it feels like it's going to be in the top ten of the film catalogue.

  • Lottie 2022-04-03 08:01:01

    Huppert played the group of people with the shell of the middle class. They were stuck in their own spiritual world. A bouquet of flowers in the real world and a kiss from a stranger would also frighten them into panic. In the end, there was only family affection. to arouse tenderness in their hearts. The film uses philosophical elements to show the spiritual life of a female professor. She is exhausted while maintaining her sanity.

Things to Come quotes

  • Nathalie Chazeaux: I prefer a text a bit rhapsodic by someone who thinks out of the box over the bland writing of marketing fiends.

  • Nathalie Chazeaux: [quoting Jean-Jacques Rousseau] So long as we desire, we can do without happiness. We expect to achieve it. If happiness fails to come, hope persists, and illusion's charm lasts as long as the passion causing it. Thus, this condition suffices to itself and the anxiety it inflicts is a pleasure which supplants reality, perhaps bettering it. Woe to him who has nothing to desire! He loses everything he owns. We enjoy less what we obtain than what we desire, and are happy only before becoming so.