"Afternoon with Margaret" by Jean. Directed by Baker, it was released in France on June 2, 2010. The director combines elements such as the original family, psychological trauma, and personal growth, and the film has a warm picture and a strong healing story.
I. Synopsis:
Charman, an obese, vulgar but kind 50-something man, lives in a motorhome next to his mother's garden, usually tends the vegetable garden, hangs out small bars with friends, and sometimes romantically warms up in the nest with his young girlfriend Annette, living a peaceful life.
However, he has an unknown sensitivity and inferiority in his heart.
His mother said he was an accident on July 14 (French National Day) and did not know who his father was; his teachers called him stupid; and his friends mocked him as an illiterate fool.
He craves no more love and approval.
Luckily he had a gentle and kind girlfriend, Annette. His girlfriend wanted a child, but he refused to agree because of his low self-esteem.
It wasn't until that sunny afternoon that Charlemagne met Margaret, 95, elegant and knowledgeable, a retired agronomist who spent almost her entire life traveling the world and reading literature.
Under the influence of Margaret, Charman finally faces his heart, accepts himself, and finds his own story.
Second, open the door to imagination.
"It is hard to imagine that there are no pigeons in the city, no trees and gardens, no birds flying, no leaves falling. In other words, a barren place, where the changing seasons can only be seen in the sky, the arrival of spring can only be judged by the air quality, or from the flower sellers from the outskirts of the city, from the flower baskets in their hands, a spring that can be bought and sold in the market. As Margaret read aloud, Charlemagne closed his eyes and walked into the catastrophe.
In fact, Charman is not unimaginative, but he lacks encouragement in his life.
The look on Charlemagne's talk about the land made Margaret wonder how this tough-looking man had such superior intelligence.
Third, be redeemed in love.
When the mother who had told him, "How could you have given birth to such a thing," causing him infinite pain and inferiority, quietly left one night, Charman, as the book puts it, "wailing in front of his mother like an abandoned dog."
The lawyer told Charman that his mother had worked overtime to secretly buy the house so that he would have a place to live after her death.
He also gave Charman an iron box containing pictures of his parents and the umbilical cord at birth.
Thinking back to when she was young, her mother drove away her boyfriend with a fork in order to protect him, and only then did she realize that the maternal love he longed for had always been there.
As Margaret said to Charman: "If a man does not have enough love in his childhood, then all the good things have yet to be discovered for him, right?" ”
He forgave and let go.
When he learned that Annette was pregnant, he was no longer afraid, but happily hugged her and kissed her.
Fourth, lonely souls can go home with peace of mind.
Between reading and listening, the two people have long been spiritually interdependent.
When Charlemagne learns that Margaret has left the nursing home, he has lost his most precious mother, and he can't bear to lose Margaret, who loves her like a mother.
Finally, with a bang, without any documentation, he sneaked Margaret out of the gloomy, death-scented nursing home and took her on her journey home.
This is an extraordinary encounter, the love between them is healing, understanding, warmth, they communicate spiritually through words, in love, not only love.
In the name of the flower, she lives in the text, wandering in the adjectives, in the verbs of the grass warbler flying. Some people just broke free, but he won with softness. Penetrate me and hit my heart.