A glimpse

Jerel 2021-12-10 08:01:23

Jinghong Glimpse/Gu Yixin The closest thing to the humane spirit is fraternity. And we can be fraternity, because we always show generosity in our eyes. —— Christoph Kieslowski's Preface In the minds of countless fans, the trilogy of "Blue", "White" and "Red" named after the three colors of the French flag can be regarded as a movie in the movie. The three themes of freedom, equality, and fraternity represented by each of the trilogy have reflected on each other countless times, trying to go deep into the deepest part of modern human existence, and finally approaching artistic perfection. Among them, the cold temperament "Blue" depicts the protagonist's freedom of mind and liberation from misery with a profound perspective; the simple "White" is known for its black humor, and explores the unequal factors of people's inferiority in love. ; And "Red" with the theme of "fraternity" is a work that contains both pessimism and hope, and it reveals deep compassion for the suffering of human souls everywhere. In terms of narrative, "Red" breaks through the single-line structure of the previous two parts, putting the stories of the three main characters in a wonderful conversational context. As a result, the human nature propositions involved in the film have reached a breadth that the previous two films failed to reach. What "Red" depicts is a picture of people suffering in a world where the soul is isolated and deeply imprinted, thus conveying a deep allegory of the entire world of information we live in. In the end, the film miraculously brought together the fate of the characters in the entire trilogy, forming a subtle microcosm of the whole of mankind, and instantly frozen the sadness and light of life. Yes, the two coexist, and there is no contradiction. Compared with the first two parts of the trilogy, "Red", as the final piece, has truly achieved a certain kind of perfection based on exquisite narrative and humanity. There is one thing we can't deny about the dialogue in strange context, that is, the beautiful heroine captured the audience's heart from the beginning of the film. Valentin, a female student played by Elaine Jacobs, is a glamorous part-time model. She is attached to her boyfriend Michel in the UK, but because of the separation between the two places, the two can only rely on the phone to maintain their relationship. In a coincidence, she drove a car and injured an abandoned dog on the road. She followed the address on the dog's collar to find the original owner, thus becoming a lone visitor in the home of a strange retired judge. The dialogue narrative structure of the film is thus revealed. In the film, the weak-tempered heroine is a symbol of the pure and bright side of human nature-it might be called the "positive pole of emotion". In sharp contrast is the widowed retired judge-weird, deep, cold, with an unreasonable desire for private voyeurism. What is especially frightening is that his methodical reason remains insensitive to the existence of life. thus, What the judge constitutes is undoubtedly an emotional negative. The strange thing is that this kind of emotional antagonism gives the audience a partial judgment intuitively. It is not until the continuous extension of the discourse environment that the real meaning of the film is gradually revealed. The obvious antagonism between the two has gradually become ambiguous through constant dialogue in strange contexts such as irony, anger, and provocation. Their first conversation was short and pale, ending with the heroine's questioning "If I knocked down your daughter, would you still be indifferent?" and the judge's cold answer ended. In the second unintentional visit, the judge showed his private world and clear and almost cruel analysis in the context of tit-for-tat dialogue, which greatly stimulated the heroine's soul. They had the upper hand in turn, the judge's insight made her painful and in awe, and her hope for humanity also moved the judge. As the film continues to imply, the life tragedy of the judge is slowly presented through the interpretation of Auguste, a young graduate in reality; on the other hand, the young heroine is separated from her lover, and the misunderstanding and harm on the other side of the phone lead to Her own emotions were also tortured. As the two ends of the dialogue, they are in similar stories and are hurt by their loved ones. As a result, the contradiction is resolved, and the opposition between the two poles becomes blurred until it turns into friendship. And the real meaning of the film is beginning to be clear and discernible. Another important subject included in this bipolar dialogue structure is Auguste, a law graduate who happens to live near the heroine. In fact, the reality of the graduate’s story is precisely the reappearance of the old judge’s past. In other words, in the language of the film, his experience and the old judge constitute a complete story — the love of his girlfriend in others. The embrace, especially the scene of witnessing his girlfriend having sex with others, left terrible pain in my heart. What is extremely intriguing is that the clever design of the film divides the two "subjects of dialogue" into three "subjects of behavior" with more vitality in reality. This technique, in addition to avoiding the use of simple reminiscence lenses to reveal the truth of the elderly judges, more indirectly metaphors a deep fact-in this world, human experiences are similar to each other. Our feelings and destiny always make us think we are immortal, but in fact, it is ordinary and connected with each other. It was in this metaphor that laid the foundation of the film's "fraternity" feelings. Allegory about information The allegory revealed in "Red" is sharp. This is an allegory about the information age connected by telephone lines. A set of long shots at the beginning of the film deliberately simulates the rapid transmission of radio waves across the English Channel. After passing, countless vague voices one after another in thousands of information networks-the mode of human life relying on information has been calmly judged. The irony of the film lies in two levels. On the one hand, the cold radio waves arouse the desire to approach and snoop among strangers; on the other hand, it creates a dilemma that isolates people who are truly meaningful to each other, and erodes the real relationship between people. Emotional experience. On the side of the retired judge, the cold-hearted old man fell into the first curse, indulging in the voyeuristic desire for his neighbors all day long, using the eavesdropping system to monitor telephone signals one after another. In the continuous dialogue that was intercepted, human love, human compromise, human loss and misery-all of our lives, have encountered layers of cocoon-like appearances. And under the judge's incontrovertible analysis, the people on the phone seemed to be in endless absurdity, and their respective unfortunate endings had been prejudged. The judge's insight into everything left us with a terrible mental impression and gave birth to an understanding of his misfortune. This is the misfortune of strangers spying on each other needlessly. In terms of the plot, the young graduate August’s girlfriend is also arranged in the judge’s neighbors. The love affair between the two and the graduate’s gentle and compromised character are expressed through the eavesdropped dialogue, which preserves the story. Foreshadowing. With regard to the heroine Valentin, the film shows the fragility of interpersonal feelings under the information network through the fact that her love is gradually disintegrated by cold and tasteless telephone signals. When the boyfriend’s voice on one end of the phone becomes increasingly suspicious and indifferent, its role is not only to promote the transformation of the heroine’s psychology, but also to show a greater degree of opposition in the film. The sympathy of people in dilemmas where their hearts are isolated from each other. In contrast, the emotional changes of the young graduates were also hinted by an unreachable phone call later. In the film, the telephone is a nightmare-like signal, it always arouses our slight fear. Since the film points to the human nature under modern civilization, man and the world he lives in are always divided into two relatively isolated units based on the characteristics of modern civilization, and man seems to be under this opposition. Always in a position of being hurt, whether it is the alienation of the personality or the damage to the soul. In the world shown in the overlapping life "Red", people's experiences are repeated with each other, and the sorrow in life seems to be eternally binding the freedom of the soul. And the author's deep intention is to awaken deep compassion while insight into and show the similar dilemmas of human beings, so as to give the film a bright "fraternity" color. Between characters The overlapping experience echoes and hints at each other with superb techniques in the film's narrative, forming the unique technical charm of "Red". In the tit-for-tat during the second visit, the judge tapped a gay man's phone and angered the pure heroine. Angrily, she immediately came to the home of the eavesdropped, but when she saw the unknowingly pitiful wife and the youngest daughter in the family, she voluntarily gave up revealing the original intention of the judge out of pity. Immediately afterwards, the judge introduced her to a drug lord standing outside the window and talking on a mobile phone. This time the heroine excitedly dialed the drug lord’s phone and said the curse of "go to hell". Thus, after a few simple conversations, the judge revealed the hidden pain in the heroine's heart-it turns out that these two incidents contained her unfortunate experience. Her family is broken, and she herself is the incarnation of the young daughter of the eavesdropper; as for her hatred of the drug lord, it is because her brother is addicted to drugs. In the light of the setting sun, the heroine's line of defense was defeated, she appeared weak and weak, and her hostility towards the judge had also undergone a subtle change. When she drove away, tears were clearly discernible in her eyes. In this group of wonderful conversations, there is an ambiguous intersection between people's experiences-the tragedies of people's lives are so connected. In the film, the greatest overlap of character experiences is reflected in the two male protagonists. August, a law graduate, repeats the nightmare of the retired judge's memory step by step in reality-the lover fell into the arms of another person and died in an unexpected accident. This is a painful story about a broken relationship. The film highlights three moving elements to show the same experience of the two people: one is a pet dog with him; the second is a law textbook that dropped on the ground and brought good luck; and the third is that. Witnessed the dazzling scene of a lover having sex with another man. The trajectories of the two stories gradually coincided with each other amidst numerous hints. Obviously, our eyes are always sympathetic to the graduates who have suffered misfortune. He is one of the two characters whose fate is watched by the camera. When the two people's experiences gradually matched, the audience's sympathy for the unfortunate fate of the young graduates also contributed to the resolution of the conflict between the audience and the judge. What’s more interesting is that Karin, the girl pursued by law graduates, lives near the judge, and the graduate’s apartment is also located on the corner of the street opposite the heroine. The long shots of the film always follow the perspective or behavior of the characters. Move between the windows of two apartments. On the night of bowling, in the video store selling CDs, Valentin and August also happened to be beside each other, but they didn't notice each other. Character in The spatial connection has deepened the sense of overlap between their respective destinies. At the beginning of the film, a part-time model of the heroine is taking a set of photos in the studio. The red curtain blown up by the wind constitutes her background, and the picture is mixed with rose red and orange tones. Under the direction of the photographer, she made different gestures, sometimes joking, sometimes calm, and her handsome profile was pale and moving. Urged by the photographer's inspiration, the heroine looked tired, and gradually, the gloomy eyes glowed with sadness. "Oh, very good...sorrowful, sorrowful again, Think of something sad. "So, with a sad profile, she completed a masterpiece with the meaning of the whole film. In her, we always see the wonderful thing "hope". "Human nature is not bad. They are just powerless. "—She has never given up her kind thoughts. The camera focuses on her fate, and what she has on her always reminds us of the meaning of life. At the fashion show, she is nervous, but it is difficult to conceal her charming look; and When taking care of the injured shepherd dog, she was very gentle and lovely out of compassion for life. In the dialogue system between the heroine and the judge, the bruised shepherd dog acts as an emotional bond. Hostile emotions are accumulated. In the first two conversations, the judge’s reason dominated the superficial situation each time, while the heroine’s counterattack was more emotional. When she left for the first visit, she asked: “If the one being knocked down is Your daughter, are you still indifferent? "The second time, she left a sentence with humiliation and anger: "Did you know?" Your dog is pregnant. "--It was this sentence that caused the judge's heart shock, and also caused his complicated feelings for the heroine, and even caused him to surrender to the court in order to observe the heroine's reaction. The judge's surrender made the heroine the third time The visit has a completely different meaning. For the first time there was an equal dialogue between the two in terms of dominance, and the judge also began to vaguely self-narrate the past emotional experience, and this self-narration contained a certain kind of special His kindness. As mentioned earlier, the ambivalence that originated from the audience towards him began to disappear. In this dialogue, whether it is the setting sun on the top of the hill that the heroine is gazing at, or the light that illuminates the house when the judge replaces the light bulb The dazzling lights are all indirect metaphors—the humanity of the film begins to show. At the end of the film, when the judge was invited to watch the heroine’s last fashion show, he drove through a city intersection and saw it hanging on the shadow wall. The huge poster of —— is the red sad silhouette on it. He is happy for it and smiles gently. In this detail, the contrast between the two basic interpersonal relationships of the film has produced a subtle change, warm Interpersonal care surpassed the cold hostility, prying and resistance. After the performance, they had a final dialogue in which the secret of the judge was revealed. The mutual understanding between them became deeper. There was a faint sadness between the words. At the last moment of parting, the palms of the two touched through the car window, and reached a tacit understanding of the soul. And the graduates at this time are experiencing the torture of betrayal by their lover, this torture. Almost made him cold. He abandoned his shepherd dog at the beach and drove away alone. After a few seconds, he stopped the car abruptly. In the subsequent shots on the ferry, the pet dog appeared in his arms again-it seems that he did not choose to abandon it in the end. At the same time, in the judge's house, the pregnant shepherd has given birth to a litter of puppies. Warm shots began to appear, and the film made its last effort towards the most essential "fraternity". People are stepping out of the shadow of misfortune and approaching the freedom of the soul. For the heroine and young graduates, their lives face the possibility of a new start. At the end of the film, the two protagonists whose fate is deeply concerned by us, Valentin and August, board the same ferry bound for Britain. They set off with their own sorrows. The relationship between the heroine and her boyfriend Michelle was in crisis at both ends of the phone call, which made her feel uneasy about the meeting; the law graduate experienced a painful loss of love-his girlfriend betrayed him, and the love fell to another. A mature and charming man. Moreover, they also took a yacht out to sea on this day. On the ferry, Valentin and August passed by, still indifferent. A storm hit Geneva and its coastline. The heavy rain fell on the city, and the strong wind overturned the cups in the houses. At the intersection of the city streets, the huge red poster titled "Feeling Life" was also slowly removed, and the sad face of the female model became curled up and difficult. Distinguish. In the storm, everything was washed away, and the final chapter of the film arrived. The newspaper reported the bad news of the shipwreck on the ferry, and the judge nervously turned on the TV. This was a shipwreck caused by a storm. The body of the ship lay across the sea. There was also a yacht that encountered the storm together with the ferry. This metaphors the death of Karin, and once again tightened the experience of the graduate and the judge. Close up. (In the judge's narrative, the betrayal of his lover died in an unexpected disaster, which became the brand of pain in his soul.)...The news continues. In this shipwreck, the remaining survivors totaled seven people, and they began to appear in the camera one after another. I saw the first one, a wet, panic-stricken woman. That is the widow of the French composer-the heroine in "Blue" played by Juliet Binoche; the second survivor is the graduate’s rival, and the shots about him are ignored by the picture; appearing on the fifth It is the male protagonist in "Blue", which allows the ending of the characters belonging to "Blue" to be vaguely pointed out. The third and fourth survivors are the Polish husband and the French wife in "White", which seems to imply that they have reunited and lived anew. Thus, the suspenseful scene that appeared at the end of the film "White" was also explained. For the judge in front of the TV at this moment , Is undoubtedly exciting, he is paying attention to the fate of his friend. Of course, the film author’s intentions were clearer. The sixth person among the survivors appeared. He was a law graduate from Geneva and a young judge named Auguste. Valentin, his female student in the same city, was the last of the survivors. The judge showed a deep peace of relief in front of the TV. He watched him affectionately. She was like a frightened bird, her thin body wrapped in a coat. When she passed by the graduates, between the two people who had never met in the whole film, there was a moment of confusion, as if to imply some kind of subtle emotional exchange-maybe some story was Ignored, maybe there is a story about to begin, in short, everything is unknown. The camera moved to Valentin's profile, and a person in a red coat passed by her by chance. The selection of the scene made the final freeze at that moment. The red background, the endless sad face, seem familiar. I know that the miracle has been born. This is a miracle belonging to the entire trilogy. The fate of all the characters is gathered at the last immortal moment of "Red", and the contingency of life is exaggerated to the extreme-what on earth does the author want to say, and what is going on in this world? I think this is the most gentle look down on people's living conditions. Under the unique texture of news footage, all subjective specialties were silently cancelled, and their destiny became the most true and not false thing, evoking the deepest feelings of life experience. When you look at this set of shots, you cannot contain your compassion. You know they are saved. 2008/3/9 Once acquainted. I know that the miracle has been born. This is a miracle belonging to the entire trilogy. The fate of all the characters is gathered in the last immortal moment of "Red", and the contingency of life is exaggerated to the extreme-what on earth does the author want to say, and what is going on in this world? I think this is the most gentle look down on people's living conditions. Under the unique texture of news footage, all subjective specialties were silently cancelled, and their destiny became the most true and not false thing, arousing the deepest feelings of life experience. When you look at this set of shots, you cannot contain your compassion. You know they are saved. 2008/3/9 Once acquainted. I know that the miracle has been born. This is a miracle belonging to the entire trilogy. The fate of all the characters is gathered in the last immortal moment of "Red", and the contingency of life is exaggerated to the extreme-what on earth does the author want to say, and what is going on in this world? I think this is the most gentle overlook of people's living conditions. Under the unique texture of news footage, all subjective specialties were silently cancelled, and their destiny became the most true and not false thing, evoking the deepest feelings of life experience. When you look at this set of shots, you cannot contain your compassion. You know they are saved. 2008/3/9

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Extended Reading
  • Thomas 2021-12-10 08:01:23

    The things of Europeans are always reflected in the details, the red favorite in the trilogy

  • Paris 2022-03-21 09:01:56

    Returning to the solitary melancholy of "Blue," the long takes and cross-montages make the narrative adept and brilliant. It should be the pinnacle of the blue-white-red trilogy. The first shot establishes its status as a masterpiece. The film uses Neo-Baroque to construct an idealized warm space. The motif it explores also departs from the ordinary "love" and turns into a pure "universal love" feeling close to Mozi. Strong saturation of red is the best symbol

Three Colors: Red quotes

  • The Judge: Leave. It's your destiny. You can't live your brother's life for him.

    Valentine: I love him. If only I could help.

    The Judge: You can. Be.

    Valentine: What do you mean?

    The Judge: That's all: be.

  • The Judge: Deciding what is true and what isn't now seems to me...a lack of modesty.

    Valentine: Vanity?

    The Judge: Vanity.