In summer, what is the most important thing?
For Sir's profession.
It is to sort out the global high-scoring unpopular variety show for you, and it is to provide you with a list of nine-point films in the first half of the year.
Because of the summer, you have to live well.
However, it is not enough:
In summer, there is one of the most important things.
And it doesn't matter about age, stage.
meet.
Without encounters, there are no stories.
Isn't the movie also a story of encounters?
The seasons in which love occurs frequently in movies are mostly summer.
So this summer, Sir must take out the pressure box baby, or not be uneasy
There is a master who is good at using movies to tell every encounter in the season.
Especially the summer encounter, he talked very seductively.
Hou Mai.
Around his labels, one is more powerful than the other.
Top filmmakers, first-class film critics, French New Wave pioneers, world-recognized masters...
The point is, he's getting more and more trendy.
Popular in recent years, color puzzles, lazy wind, French wear, the necessary green plant white chairs in the homestay, the soft light filter that must be added to the photo...
Even if it was not invented by Hou Mai, it was Hou Mai who used movies to spread to several generations of young people.
Hou Mai's story is also trendy.
Because it is not dead, it is fluid, it can flow from one era to the next.
It is not a deliberately fabricated lonely man and widow, but will only create a love gimmick with material disparities and coincidences of fate;
It is not a fixed setting, a deliberate collocation, but an elegance of people and the world.
Back to "encounters".
Summer is priceless because of encounters.
If you agree.
That's today's film, this story about encounters.
It's sir's best gift of the summer
The story of summer
Summer Tale
01
summer.
Sun, beach, hormones.
It seems that throwing youth into this season will not be wasted, and any stirring can be plated with a layer of sparkling golden light.
One such French summer.
The young male protagonist, Jasper, comes to a seaside town.
The small body of the literary fan, the uninhibited small curly hair, the solitude, the eyes are flickering, do not easily look at others, and do not feel that they are a "good at integration".
He was very literate, with tapes, with guitars, humming a few words and writing a song about the waves and love.
People are in place, the scenery is in place, such a unique youth, it is almost a unique seaside encounter.
Unexpectedly, his summer was extravagant.
Not just one, but three.
The first girl Jasper met was the restaurant waiter, Margot.
She was like a cool breeze blowing inadvertently on the streets of summer.
Relaxed, comfortable and cheerful.
But such a girl, Jasper is too young, may not understand.
You see, he really didn't notice Margot... No different from ordinary people, the eyes did not stay for more than a second.
The second meeting was at the beach.
Margot recognized Jasper at a glance, after all, Jasper was still very good-looking.
The two talk generously, but one side is enthusiastic and the other is unintentional.
You may have experienced this kind of dialogue many times, right?
With some floating information, mask the careful thoughts we are trying to hide
What do you read? Oh I read the math department.
What do you read? I am a Master of Ethnology.
In the dry conversation, the two were natural.
Margot, like a genderless friend, used her naturalness and generosity to quickly become friends with the shy Jasper.
Guitars don't always play love songs.
In just a few days, the two of them were in a state of affairs, uh, good brother.
After a long conversation, Margot knew that Jasper had come to the beach to wait for a girl.
A girl he (thought) liked, but people didn't seem to take him seriously.
The girl broke the appointment and pigeonted him for several days.
As we talked more deeply, Margot found that Jasper didn't just not understand the girl, he seemed to be a little confused about love.
Talking any further, a soul torture will come sooner or later:
"Are you sure you love her?"
Love makes people dizzy, and so does soul torture.
Jasper pondered the contradiction, and Margot hesitated.
New love, began the magic circle.
Seeing that the atmosphere is in place, I can't help but kiss it...
Is this love?
You didn't figure it out, I didn't think it through.
No, Margot doesn't want such love.
Some encounters are a thunderclap on the ground, and some encounters are a mistake at first sight.
But in Hou Mai's films, the encounter is always a breeze that blows inadvertently, silent and light, with a silken temperature, blowing new possibilities.
Sir interjected and asked, is this what you want at first sight?
Under the misty light, two pairs of eyes that sometimes collide and sometimes flee?
The second girl, Su Lan, is undoubtedly more like the kind of boy's dream lover.
It's like a special cocktail for a summer night, sexy and extruded, stimulating the tip of the tongue.
Good boy meets cool girl, what does he usually do?
He would immediately take out his own secret.
Musician Young Jasper, took out a new love song.
This time, the guitar seems to have met a chorus of singing.
Love achieved?
Not so fast.
Su Lan has a good feeling for Jasper, but Su Lan will not easily equate good feelings with love.
Lo and behold, not every encounter has a result, but at least it's an opportunity to get closer.
The third encounter, in fact, is not an encounter, it is just a belated rendezvous.
Jasper waited for the girl Linna, finally came.
If Margot is a pleasant wind on the street, Suran is the intoxicating wine of summer nights.
Then this Lina is a summer dream of tossing and turning.
What is their relationship?
It's a little hard to say —"
Jasper felt that Lina was "like" his girlfriend;
And Lina feels that Jasper is sometimes "fit" to be a boyfriend and sometimes not "fit".
When it doesn't fit?
Just like Lina didn't come to the appointment because she didn't think clearly about whether to determine the relationship;
When is the right time?
It was when she finally came to the beach that she remembered Jasper's virtues—this warm man was more like a warm haven in the bay in the summer.
Well, a bit complicated...
But don't rush to scold anyone.
When love is not proven, it may be like this.
Let Margot say, her formula is simple and can test ten thousand kinds of love:
Love = presence.
You don't feel the presence of the ta, that ta just doesn't love you;
If you feel like you love ta, then... Nor is it love.
All right.
The third encounter seemed like fate, and it was necessary to give each other a path to an answer.
Jasper, who did not know what love was, met three different women.
Who should I choose, you ask? Good question.
Hou Mai cleverly turned this puzzle into a simple travel problem-
Three girls, all want to travel to the tourist resort of Weisong.
Jasper, who should I go with?
Don't ask Sir.
Sir will not say, but where the top good films, Sir does not spoil.
Whoever you go with, it's the best mark of Jasper's summer.
Even if it's not love, it's about growth.
02
What if you look at this film with today's eyes?
Sir is not easy to say.
Movies are seen on station B.
In the barrage, words like this appear from time to time:
Seeing Jasper's face, some people said "sister's dish", and when they saw Jasper's hesitation, they said, "Scumbag".
Even if you don't say this, many people will not be able to help but "betroth" Jasper according to personal preferences.
Many people like Margot with Jasper on the grounds that she doesn't pretend;
Some people also like Su Lan with Jasper, because the personality is unambiguous, and the appearance and hobbies are the most compatible;
Expectant girlfriend Lina? Like Jasper, he was half-hearted and sprayed by netizens not lightly.
These discussions are commonplace for most viewers.
The words sound like reasonable, but according to it, it seems contradictory, whether to look at the face or look at people, what is a, whether the appearance is a good match, or the inner tacit understanding is good...
If sir is allowed to say a word.
Hou Mai's pieces, so look wasted.
The relationship between the characters in most of Hou Mai's films will have an undercurrent of reality.
△ "Afternoon Love", "Claire's Knee"
It's not so much that Houmai is incorrect.
Rather, Hou Mai was more curious about the subtleties of human nature.
Ask a question, you may not be able to answer it -
The background of life is the same, but why are people different?
People will expect the beauty of meeting each other, will hate the outbreak of conflict, these appear, is the difference in life.
But 99% of the time, we are the same, our time will melt into chai rice oil and salt, chicken feathers, chattering daily...
A good director is not so much concerned with "who is right and who is wrong in conflict."
It is better to say why people who want to make similar pictures are different.
For the reasons stated at the beginning.
Houmai's fans are often young people.
Their purpose in looking at Hou Mai is more to understand themselves than to criticize others.
Whether you like Jasper or not, from young to mature, we should all experience "Jasper-like ignorant moments".
We don't always follow "right", sometimes confused, repeatedly, precisely because we can't tell "what is right".
For Jasper, it is right to "keep the contract" and wait for Lina, but When Lina comes, Jasper does not get the relationship he expected, and the strange logic between love and giving makes him even more confused;
For Margot, "keeping distance" from Jasper is correct, but after letting Go of Jasper again and again, she seems to have nothing to gain, and while waiting, time and youth are also passing little by little.
In the shot, the young man has countless small nines and nines, and Jasper who is in it can't see clearly, and Lina can't understand it.
But we can see clearly:
What is it called.
"I noticed you, but you ignored it";
"Although I don't care on the surface, I see every strand of your hair in my heart";
"Although he is alive and well, it is as if heaven and earth are the proof, and all things are the medium";
"When love doesn't come, we are both calm and natural"
Suran took Jasper to her uncle's house, and as soon as she entered the room, she raised her feet and sat on the sofa, reaching out and taking off her shoes at will.
"When love comes, I may not be the daily me"
When they talked about the music and sang the songs, their eyes met, and Su Lan's toes couldn't help but be restless.
Why does Hou Mai know so much about those little psychology when they meet?
Because Hou Mai knew what a real encounter should look like
Every unexpected encounter in reality doesn't happen in a 90-minute movie.
It doesn't have an opening or an end, no one shouts cut, and no one jumps out to accuse right from wrong.
There is no God perspective that allows you to see everything that will happen.
There won't necessarily be a happy ending, or even a "result" you're looking for.
The protagonist of each encounter may not be able to stay awake from beginning to end, and he will have his confusion, his thinking and even psychological repetition, and even inadvertently commit many small misunderstandings.
Ta's heartbeat and ta's heartbreak often follow, without logic and cause and effect...
But these are all true.
Hou Mai said.
"Only by erasing false brilliance can film show the pure state of people and things."
And every film he shoots about encounters, he also tries to respect the "truth".
He would prescribe that the set should be in its natural state, with less technical equipment, with non-professional actors, with accommodation and catering solved on the spot...
In his lens, you can see the real French streets, the young boys and girls of Paris, and even the time is step by step.
An early morning encounter.
Meet at noon.
Farewell at dusk.
In the early days, he made a movie, and the main actors were all ordinary people (both had their own jobs, and filming was part-time).
Therefore, in order to coordinate the time, the film can only be made on weekends. Just procrastinating for half a year, spanning several seasons, just ...
Creates the realism of the passage of time when a group of people meet.
The script is also, first there are characters, and then there is a story.
Hou Mai even often writes the script according to the personality of the actors, pays attention to their way of talking, listens to their lives, and makes the script close to the actors...
(So Jasper, I can't figure out that life is like that haha)
It sounds troublesome, but for HouMai, it is the fastest and most effective.
In this way, his shots often only need to be filmed once, and he rarely gives actors guidance to perform.
In the end, the actor and the real person are one, and the film is one with the world.
The story is one with the truth.
Having said all that, Sir only wants you to understand.
In the world of cinema, it's not just documentaries that are true.
Works that can make our understanding of human nature one millimeter more and one millimeter deeper are close to reality.
It is precisely because it is not a specific "so-and-so" that it reaches all of us.
And encounters and fates are not things made up by movies and literature.
It is just as real, although it may only be 1%.
1% represents its preciousness, and also represents after seeing you clearly and understanding me.
The "real growth" that we inevitably get.
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