Text | Shinobu
One
The style and color scheme of this movie are amazing!
"The Fantastic Life of the Little Building", as a French petty bourgeois film, is very suitable for watching in a leisurely afternoon with milk tea in the bed. Although it seems boring, like a boiling water movie, it does fill the empty space in the heart, like a well-made macaron, there is a kind of fantasy romance beyond boredom.
This film is about a mother and daughter and a mournful and boring daily life, the heroine and the innocent mother from childhood to rely on each other, living a seemingly wanton and free but simple and ordinary life, the two stay up late to chase dramas, play games together, go to the flea market together and so on. Emma, as a mother, was completely devoid of what a mother should have, and was working as a translator into Moldavian, in her own words: it was already a dead prophecy. Her salary was also obvious, so she worked part-time in the restaurant downstairs. Although life is not rich, the house where the mother and daughter live is decorated like a princess's castle.
And the heroine in her colorful life has two important tasks, one is to secretly observe the boy's every move every day, this is not simply observation, she always stares at each other with a telescope, recording the bits and pieces of his life, for this reason, Xiao Lou also uses a big diary to record all his "voyeurism" results, and constantly tells his good friends about the scenes he fantasizes about. The second is to help her "home" hopeless mother to marry out, find spiritual sustenance, and don't let her indulge in game consoles all day.
Xiao Lou saw a stray cat downstairs at home, so he did not hesitate to carry it back home, trying to divert his mother's attention from the game console, but what made Xiao Lou depressed was that this time his mother's attention was all focused on the stray cat. Addicted to petting cats every day can not extricate themselves...
At this time, a dashing musician moves into their apartment building and becomes a new neighbor, and the arrival of this man allows Xiaolou to find a way to lead her mother out of the house. It also allows Xiao Lou to step out of his fantasy time and have the courage to step into a more exciting real world. Subsequently, the mother and daughter duo began to pursue each other's love...
The heroine suddenly bumped her head, and she mistakenly knew the boy she had been voyeuring on, but when she really stood in front of the boy, she was short of breath and nervous to the point of being overwhelmed.
After my mother lost her temper once, she made it clear to the musician, but she kept making mistakes. There is also a strange but cute friendship interaction between Xiao Lou and the girls. This scene is a shadow of each girl's own youth. Dressing up our frustration in candy colors and casually showing it to us, there is a sense of freshness that soaks into the heart.
Two
Real life can't be as romantic as a fairy tale
In the second half of the movie, the mean grandmother appears, so that Xiao Lou's life suddenly returns to reality. But Grandma is also a girl after all, and she disguises herself with a mean appearance to make herself look stronger. On the other hand, when the daughter was young, the matter of leaving her parents to elope with men has been choked in her heart, and she feels that her husband is depressed because of his daughter's ignorance. Therefore, Grandma targeted the mother and daughter everywhere, and even felt that it was a waste of time for Her mother to write novels. Late at night, Xiao Lou came out of the room to see that his mother's novel finally ended in tragedy, and he remembered his grandmother's nagging voice in his ear, and the little universe in the girl's heart finally rebelled, loudly questioning his grandmother, "Do you really hate us so much?" ", leaving a sentence "You are all older to talk to me" after running away from home.
This series of events and Xiao Lou's behavior seem to have brought a great psychological impact to her mother, and her mother's heart began to waver, so she began to revise the end of her novel, in which the protagonist Sidla defeated the curse of the universe, just like the real self crossed the cowardly and obedient side, and at the same time bravely broke into Richard's house and had a substantial relationship with him.
After Xiao Lou returned home, he saw the wall that had been opened, and his mother and Richard came together from the other end, and Xiao Lou vaguely felt that his enthusiasm should be recovered from a strange environment. After a period of spiritual journey, Xiao Lou meets the neighbor boy on the street again, and the boy seems to want to say something to himself, but is hugged and kissed by Xiao Lou. Xiao Lou felt her heart beating for this boy again, and she realized that what she wanted was not only love, but more love for this beautiful world.
The next day back home, Xiao Lou was surprised to find that the mean grandmother was playing with the cat, she reflected on her attitude towards her grandmother, and the grandmother did not continue to mock the mother and daughter, but gently and frankly asked them whether they would visit her in the summer, in fact, the grandmother was also a lonely old man who subconsciously hoped that her daughter would accompany her.
After Grandma left, her mother's love seemed to bring a little energy to Xiao Lou, and she also planned to pursue her own happiness, so she called Mina and her new friends, as well as the girl and the boys to go out. Eight young children began an entertainment game, a kind of magical cs, in the movie can see the game's fantastic CG special effects, the beginning of the film's fantasy set off vividly.
In the game Xiao Lou and the neighbor boy chase and confrontation, shooting each other, there is a sense of girlishness that you chase after me, in the end, after all the boys and girls are paired, the two slowly approach, just like the perfect ending, they kissed, but Xiao Lou suddenly felt that his heart was empty, he and the boy seemed to reach a point of ambiguous criticality, the feelings of the two gradually began to cool down, as if it was different from the scene she had fantasized about before, and sometimes the heart would not beat faster for the boy.
Three
The whole film is spread with French literature and romance
The film has come to an end, although the production cost of the whole film is not very high, but there is no lack of a petty bourgeois film with a complete and interlocking plot. Revealing the sweet scent, it is like a French macaron-like dream, which can fill the gap in the heart.
And its fantasy romance is not limited to the plot, and the writers and directors have bold brain holes: fantasy one is the doll drama created by Xiao Lou and Mina; fantasy two, is a mysterious hiding place called shame box, hiding in it is like escaping from a small planet; fantasy three, is to nail pillows to the wall to vent themselves; fantasy four, is the limited dance that Xiao Lou and his mother dance when they are happy, which they name "Joy Dance", this Indian-style dance seems to really bring joy.
The whole movie uses fantastic lenses to tell the complex and sensitive and rich heart of the little girl, the color of the harmonious girl's heart and dreamy color, there are many places also used to make a handbook creative way to match the inner monologue of the small building. Grab the tail of a fairy tale and speculate about the world in childlike innocence.
The plot looks messy, but it is full of love and affection. Although the house is messy, it is full of the ritual of life. At the same time, it also includes the plot it should have, the contradictions between adolescent children and their friends, the psychology of wanting to do something for their families, and the shy fantasies of love hidden in their hearts. Through a kind of plot and audio-visual outside of life, the director brings the audience into the fantasy life, as if through these plots to recall their own youth, there is a unique empathy. Even if life can't be a fairy tale, it can't be so beautiful, but it doesn't prevent us from retaining a piece of innocence and romance in our hearts forever.