To all the splendid and suffering times

Monica 2021-12-13 08:01:10

To all the splendid and suffering times. When

watching "Life in the Rose", I feel that PIAF on this screen is
almost a Jesus who can sing for me.
Because the pain she can feel is exactly what I feel,
the breaking she can endure is what I endure,
all the beautiful and painful sounds she can sing are
exactly what I want to sing but cannot sing. .
She is a saint, I think, a saint who believes in love like me.

When PIAF, who
has been unable to sing for many years, listened to half of "No Regrets", he couldn't help but interrupt, surprise and sadly said: "This is my song! This is me!",
I couldn't help but want to stand. Get up, interrupt all the people who are watching movies in the movie theater, and say loudly:
"Look! This is almost my life! This is my song!"
Yes, it's like the prestige in "Where the Map Disappears" Li, I
firmly believe that the Santa Claus who appeared in the midnight TV direct sales program was a man who exhorted him. At
that moment, I also got such a supreme feeling:
I deeply believe in that short, ugly, and unfortunate woman. At this moment, Singing for me alone,
just for the almost stupid belief in our hearts:
love is our only way.

So, she died, died of loss of love, died of loneliness, died of inability to sing,
but the movie does not end with her dying: the
movie infinitely magnifies her last song, which is simply a bleak life. The battle song
is the loud slap in the face of all setbacks,
crushed her, and the road roller that once crushed her to pieces collapsed in the singing.
She was born again, resurrected, and radiated just like Jesus through the singing. Wan Zhang,
because she sings.

I think we love movies just like we love Jesus:
we love someone who suffers for us, we love someone who is more unfortunate than we are,
we love someone who is splendid that is torn apart but cannot be worn away.
Our life is too long,
we feel too much, and it is too plain,
even though our room is our suffering place,
even though we have loved countless individuals (but the pain of losing anyone is no less than the concentrated pain in the movie) ,
We still need a person to stand on the cross, show our pain, sublimated by our pain,
and let us know how precious it is to live, just to live with faith.

During the test and interview, there was a story among our classmates,
a senior boy, when asked by the teachers: "What does the movie mean to you?", he
coldly replied, "The movie is me." Religion."
Now, I suddenly understood this sentence.

To all the splendid and suffering times.



Life is a reciprocating voice. After


writing emotional words, I want to write some rational words for "Life of Roses".

A biopic of a great legendary life, I have seen three kinds:
one is to expand the life axis of this character, and each major event is used as a coordinate point to show them one by one, such as "Wu Qingyuan", and the other
is to intercept a paragraph. The most exciting journey tells us why a great man becomes a great man, such as "Motor Diary",
which does not talk about major events but only talks about the state of life. The historical background is emptied. What is immersed in the human heart, such as "Marian East Varnet.

"Life of Roses" presented me with the fourth type: the
movie still walks through her life from childhood to death in general,
but it is not clear to tell the story in chronological order.
Movies follow not the rhythm of time, but the rhythm of music.
PIAF's life, with different time periods, different themes, like several voices, appears back and forth.
It is not a person who is objectively and calmly reading her biography and sorting out the important events of her life,
but like when a person is dying, all kinds of fragments of life come together and gather into a kaleidoscope,
looking through that small hole. When going out, there are events, feelings, colors, and emotions.
All kinds of things seem to be coming in disorder, just like the taste of our life,
how many things are juxtaposed, overlapped, enlarged, reversed, omitted, confused, blurred, and cannot be reproduced.

Please pay attention to the word "looks like". Nothing in a good movie is messy.
Of course , everything is carefully designed. I tend to be designed by the screenwriter.
Movies are not god-given things created by accident, just as magicians conjure magic instead of magic.
All the joints of "Life in the Rose" are very good: the performance is super, the music is also great, the editing is great, needless to say the director,
but as a screenwriter, what I feel most deeply is: the script is awesome!

Just like the last paragraph of the movie, it is basically composed of several parts:
the various preparations for PIAF’s last stage,
PIAF is about to die, and there is only one nurse beside her, she confided to her her loneliness and pain,
(subordinates in A reminiscence under this section: PIAF once had a daughter, who died)
The fragmentary childhood memories of
PIAF , PIAF received the last visit on the beach, peaceful and wise,
PIAF sang the last time on stage.
These parts do not appear in the order of "12345",
but each part is broken, kneaded together, flashing, impromptu, trance,
Gradually rolling away to the last moment.
Some biopics focus on stories, and some focus on feelings,
but "Life of the Rose" has both.
Therefore, what we see is not a character, a journey, but a whole life.
As you know, life is not a portrait that gradually becomes clear,
but a reciprocating, magical and changeable voice.

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Extended Reading
  • Mireille 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    Great acting, the protagonist who is not beautiful is still not good ╮(╯▽╰)╭ But the movie is really wonderful

  • Marjolaine 2021-12-13 08:01:10

    This film was screened at the French Cultural Center tonight. Marion Cotillard's performance was so perfect that he couldn't help crying several times. Her appearance in the movie reminds me of Duras.

La Vie En Rose quotes

  • Edith Piaf: I can't? Then what's the point of being Edith Piaf?

  • [after hearing "Je ne regrette rien" for the first time]

    Edith Piaf: You're marvelous! This is exactly what I've been waiting for! It's incredible! It's me! That's my life, it's me.