In recent years, French films have a bit of a "warm-up" feeling,
At the Awards at Cannes and the Oscars, occasionally several best foreign language (French) films of different genres come to the fore.
For example, "Adele's Life", the beauty of same-sex love and the insurmountable gap between reality;
Or "Portrait of a Burning Woman", creating a love story of exquisite oil painting texture, elegant classical beauty,
There is both the patience and tenderness of women, and the terrifying waves between eye contact;
Obviously, it is the same-sex theme that has been "flooded" in the past two years, and the French can shoot such a noble feeling.
And "Les Misérables" is another face to the once "flowing feast",
Eiffel Tower, Champs Elysées and the banks of the Seine, the golden sunlight through the leaves reveals the romance of the shade;
In those riotous neighborhoods are the riots of mass beatings, evil and people of color.
Hugo's Les Misérables resonates with Paris today, but the contradictions and conflicts have changed from religious classes to incomprehension between different races.
From chansons to movies, from literature to dress styles, French endorsements have always been romantic and lazy;
In fact, in the romantic style, those problems in reality, French films always hit the hit,
French romance is not a sense of fluctuating suspension, but a courage to still love life after facing the truth of life,
And after being exposed to the beauty of fantasy and floating clouds, it is still necessary to fall into the reality level of truth,
This also makes the French romance even deeper.
Today, the French movie that Hong Yan Xiu wants to introduce to you is called "Perfect Man".
The film is very poor in the suspense and art, fantasy and reality, two opposites combined,
There is both a sense of fanaticism about literature and art, as well as the sin and suspense of running wild in the night, which is very observable.
Matthew was a low-level French youth who aspired to become a writer.
Contrary to his wishes, the 25-year-old did not show any dazzling talent in writing, and he could only make ends meet with the income from working in a moving company.
By chance, Matthew finds an unpublished manuscript in the house of an elderly man who lives alone.
This is an old man who fought in the Algerian war, a rich war notebook,
After a fierce psychological struggle, Matthew decided to send the manuscript to the publisher in his own name.
Who knew that the manuscript was accepted by the publisher on the same day, and Matthew suddenly became a hot literary star in France.
The sudden fame and fortune overwhelmed Matthew's mind,
The female university teacher who once looked up to her has now become her sweetheart.
After crossing the class, he is not adapted to the literary circle and his girlfriend's rich family, he not only has to find ways to keep his secrets, but also has to deal with the perfect mask.
The writer's setting is neither a superhero, nor a spy cop, nor an exciting "action scene".
But the writer is a movie character that famous directors and screenwriters love to create.
What famous director has not directed one or two extremely brilliant writer roles?
Roman Polanski's "True Adaptation",
The sexiest woman in France, caught in the brain-burning story of the bottleneck of creation and entanglement with split personality,
Kubrick's "The Shining",
Crazy and terrifying writer, directly became the most classic and highest-scoring horror movie in film history,
The Coen Brothers' "Barton Fink,"
An eccentric writer with glasses and a misfit suit, like a clown in Vanity Fair, imagines an entire world in his mind.
Nolan's debut work "Follow" uses strange and literary black and white images,
Through the mouth of a young loser, a heartfelt truth was told:
"Every idle young man in his twenties wants to be a writer."
Writing is the way to let ordinary people fight back against the lowest cost of life, and the origin of suffering can be the source of writing, as long as there is talent, you can become the most dazzling one in the crowd.
Our protagonist Matthew is also a young man in nolan's twenties who has nothing to do and wants to become a writer.
Single, with average family conditions, can only be a mover, and what is even more tragic is that he has neither the "madness" of the young man in "Follow", nor the talent to create.
All he receives every day is a rejection
Standing at the door of a university classroom dressed in a gray moving company,
Watching the young noble and elegant female professor teaching is simply the look of the bottom to the upper level.
Don't watch the French movie "Romance",
But whether it is the ordinary male protagonist who crosses the second life in "Falling in Love with You Again" to sign the player's wife, or the mover Matthew in "Perfect Man" looks up to the rich family,
They all have a strong smell of real class display
There is no good origin, no rich experience, no talent, and even the day-to-day effort is not recognized,
But God gave him a dangerous opportunity to become famous in one fell swoop.
Money and fame followed, and even the once unattainable goddess was impressed by herself.
Next to the sea castle, which is secretly but extremely luxurious in southern France, he meets his girlfriend's high-society parents, who talk elegantly, have great taste and knowledge,
The young writer who became famous in one fell swoop was extremely respected, and the father of the heroine said:
"We appreciate you, you are not based on genetic possessions, but on your own talents."
The heroine also has a green plum bamboo horse who grew up together and is looking forward to the tiger to come to the home for a vacation.
The image of an elite white youth with good birth and super taste,
The direct gift to the heroine's father is the first original hardcover book, and Matthew can only put the pocket book in the kraft paper bag in his pocket.
Even if the "talented" writer is amazing, it is still an unshakable inferiority complex and an insurmountable class gap.
He did not have the arrogance and self-confidence of a humble but talented person, nor did he have the family background and academic cultivation of the second generation of elites.
And a question from his girlfriend Qingmei Zhuma is extremely fatal:
"My father used to be a soldier in Algeria and knew a lot about war. I'm curious, you haven't been to Algeria, how can you write a war novel? ”
Matthew's answer was simply, "I did a lot of research.",
When a fake "perfect man" meets a real elite, it really is, just saying a word can't hide a lie.
In such a knowledgeable and magnificent literary and artistic home, Matthew was at a loss,
It seems that the next second will expose the illusion of this talented "perfect man",
In addition to various practical problems, the metaphors of various blank spaces in French films are also very substitutionary.
Matthew anonymously showed his unspicious novels to his knowledgeable girlfriend, who of course felt that this was a second-rate work.
The drama between the girlfriend in the sun and Matthew standing in the shade of the tree is very interesting, and Matthew's eyes are full of unconfidence.
And the learned girlfriend seems to have a hint of skepticism, and a little bit from the work to the disdain for Matthew.
Matthew stood outside the window, watching the scene of the rich and learned upper class family chatting,
This rising star who shocked the literary world has become an outsider, even if it is a writer with extraordinary talent, who has completed the counterattack in one book, he is also eager for this kind of high society with great achievements.
Besides, Matthew is a "perfect man" who doesn't exist in the first place?
The next "perfect man" Matthew began to lie again, the publisher came to urge the manuscript, he had no inspiration and did not have a second novel to copy for himself.
He actually smashed his head and bled, and smashed the laptop, pretending to be robbed and delaying time.
The veteran's friend mysteriously appears at the signing party and begins to blackmail and intimidate himself,
Matthew actually started the idea of the famous gun collected by his girlfriend's father, made a sealing fee, and was discovered by his girlfriend's green plum bamboo horse, he actually killed people for secrets.......
So in the silent, isolated seaside castle in the desperate night, Matthew dragged the body and set up a motorboat to throw the body into the sea...
How ironic, God did not give him talent and origin, but gave him a dangerous opportunity,
And because of this opportunity, he kept lying, lying, and had the experience of a non-talented writer.
After that night, he finally came to his own mind and created a new novel based on his own experience, "Fraud".
From epic war novels to "spinning" (readers don't know) crime novels, this time Matthew really became a genius writer,
And the best existence of the "perfect man" is that it does not exist, for the secret that he desperately wants to protect, he kills the only veteran comrade who knows his secret.
Matthew, on the other hand, became the gray, unnoticed mover who began.
The powerfulness of French films often lies in the ending, and the ending can often bring the whole film to a deep philosophical level.
For example, in "Adele's Life", when we meet again, there is no love, only the childlike crying and speechlessness of the circle gap that cannot be crossed.
For example, "Portrait of a Burning Woman" accompanied by the symphony of the four seasons makes the audience shake the soul of the unforgettable love.
And in "Perfect Man", a lie begins, and a hundred lies are used to round the lie.
How to maintain the image of a "perfect man", can only let him die, forever living in the memory of the world and lovers,
The real porter can only stand outside the bookstore in the dark of night, looking at his own black-and-white photos in the window and the novel "Fraud" written by his own hand.
The "perfect man" cannot exist, if you want him to exist, you can only "kill him" with your own hands and let him live forever in the past...