The film portrays the real cruelty with a childlike disillusionment
The real world is always cruel, and if you don't compromise with it, you have to accept being hurt by it.
The French film Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962), also translated as Sunday and Siebel, tells the story of pierre, a former French Air Force pilot plagued by amnesia and post-war syndrome, and Siebel, a little girl abandoned by her father.
The film was the first feature film directed by director Sergey Bognon.
Without the many big-name actors, without the dazzling "duang, duang" special effects, without the complex and brain-burning storyline, it won many awards, including the 35th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and the Special Award at the 1962 Venice Film Festival.
The use of light and shadow in the film is also a must in black and white films.
In the film, Bognon took many long shots related to reflections in the water.
One of the episodes is the most memorable:
One Sunday, Pierre and Siebel came to the small river, and a small pebble fell into the river, and the surface of the water rippled, and the circle rippled, and the shadow in the water was first blurred by the shaking of the waves, and gradually regained its clarity.
At this time, Siebel said heartily, "We are home." ”
Although the scene after that is like the swaying of water waves, it is very clear, the sun shines on it, a piece of light and shadow flows, like Monet's painting, beautiful, let people do not know whether the characters in the picture are in the fairyland, or the red dust world.
Those reflections in the water are projections of the real world, but also the opposite, where fate opens a door to dreams, and the bank of the river is a mysterious country between dreams and awakenings, which can only accommodate the warm time of two people.
Pierre and Siebel play happily in the world of light and shadow...
The world of light and shadow has the characteristics of flickering, like a dream on a floating cloud, too delicate and beautiful, and even unbearable to touch.
The most beautiful picture is vaguely disturbing. Who in life has not had a magnificent dream? It's just Pierre and Siebel, who mistakenly believe in the truth, regard the dream as the truth, and indulge in it.
As Robert. In desnos's poem, "I dream of you so much that I may never wake up again." ”
They have long entered the forbidden land of human society, but they are unaware that the future is inevitably dangerous and sad, which makes people worry about it.
In another clip, Siebel takes a blue crystal from Pierre's hand and sees the sky, the tree, and a building shaped like a small pagoda through the crystal.
The sight that Siebel saw through the sapphire crystal was hazy and fantastical, as beautiful as a fairy tale world. The crystal ice is pure and pure, and everything that is observed is clear, and it also implies that two people who have nothing to ask for only want to maintain a simple relationship.
However, things that are too good can even attract God's envy.
So the Bible says, "Stop here, and do not tempt the Lord your God until this end." ”
The scene in the visible crystal is difficult to last, like the soap bubble blown out by a child, even if it is full of light, with a nostalgic gentle breath, it will burst at any time, and then disappear with the vague laughter and hazy heart of Pierre and Siebel.
At the end of the film, it is Christmas, Pierre is misunderstood and killed by the police, and the comatose Siebel wakes up to find Pierre dead.
The policeman asked her what her name was, and she cried desperately: "I will never have a name again, I am nothing!" In the snow, the little girl seemed to have shed a lifetime of tears.
Whenever I see this, my heart hurts like a crushed flower. Watch as a crystal clear world, like an earthquake city, is destroyed in an instant.
The true feelings disappear like a dream, and beyond that, it is still a filthy human world of human desire and hue.
Black-and-white film always has a special texture. Compared with color movies and our colorful real world, this texture gives people a long-lost reality.
The film cleverly uses the chiaroscuro formed by light and shadow to create a visual tension in the picture, creating a pure scene like a dream world.
It uses poetic expression and emotional rendering to restore the mourning emitted by the characters themselves, portray the deep core of the story, and has the artistic appeal that shakes people's hearts.
"Flowers And Warblers Cry Spring" is a touching work that will make people slow down and quietly appreciate, that frame of exquisite pictures, like a piece of immaculate dreams, people can't help but want to carefully collect in the softest place in the heart, careful care, always thinking back.
Since human beings are born in the world of Shaiva, many things are not satisfactory, how fortunate we are, everyone has their own beautiful dreams, presumably it is the Buddha's compassion for our suffering in the worldly world, the compassion given, let us in the arduous way of life, with the guidance and support of dreams, without regret to endure pain and loneliness, bravely forward.
As Bao Huiyi said: "I know that I am barren, except that I believe that this life is not the end." "The past is over, the coming days can be expected, and the hope is exciting.
Author | Old Forest
Bilingual translation of English and Portuguese. He has worked permanently in the Netherlands, the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka and other countries.