Very Apartment L'appartement (1996)
Director: Gilles Mimoni
Writers: Gilles Mimoni
Starring: Vincent Cassel / Monica Bellucci / Romana Pauline / Jean-Philippe Ecofi
Genre: Drama / Romance / Suspense
Country/Region of Production: France / Spain / Italy
Language: French / English / Japanese
Release: 1996-07-27
Runtime: 116 minutes
Also known as: Enchanted Apartment / Apartment Springlight / Lust Apartment / Apartment / The Apartment
Synopsis
Max (Vincent Cassell, Vincent Cassel) and his girlfriend are about to enter the halls of marriage, but he is unexpectedly seen by his missing ex-girlfriend Lisa (Monica Bellucci). Flashbacks: They were once a sweet couple, but they missed the relationship because they didn't hand over a letter to Lisa—a regret that was caused by Lisa's neighbor Alice (Romane Bohringer), who had a crush on Max for a long time, and the letter Max told her to give lisa had been in her hands.
Today, Alice lives in Lisa's old apartment. When Max enters the apartment to look for Lisa, he sees Alice. The two have a relationship, and Alice finally gets the man of her dreams, and repeatedly sets traps for Max and Lisa to pass each other. And Lisa's tragedy is much more than that.
Alice, who got Max, chose to pull away and saw Max and his fiancée hugging each other at the airport, with a complicated smile on her face.
"No life has known the whole course of its life in the long river of time. He didn't know what would happen tomorrow, he had already forgotten what had happened yesterday, and today's life was just a fleeting moment. ”
- [Ancient Rome] Boethius
tale
It begins with Max's quest for his girlfriend Lisa, who did not say goodbye.
Lisa was an unfinished dream of his. Lisa's beauty is shocking and makes people fall in love at first sight. Her capricious personality, her complex dual personality, puzzled Max and fascinated him deeply. But they are always separated by some kind of force in the underworld, and for Max, this kind of love that is close at hand but always misses has an indescribable magic, and he always wants to catch up with it. So we saw his desperate pursuit of Lisa's voice, the distant back, all the debris, the ashes, the traces of life.
People always say, this is love. Go through the test, go through the tribulation, cross the fate, chase all the way, you will get the true love of a lifetime, right?
Lisa's reluctance to leave Marx in pain, a few years later she still only gave him a hurried away figure, everything is like the red high heels on her feet, elusive, dangerous and seductive. And Max's efforts eventually allowed him to shake off the forces that stood in their way. Lisa was very happy to hear from Max on the phone. Just like on snowy days before, she liked to close her eyes and listen to the sound of him stepping on the snow towards her. It was like the footsteps of love.
However, fate is not a test in many cases, but a warning.
If two people are in love, why not look for each other? At first, Lisa and Max just left for no reason, but neither of them tried to find each other. But no one tells you she doesn't love you anymore, no one tells you she left you.
Max once said, "In fact, I wait for a lot of things, wait patiently. "They are all waiting for each other to find each other, and love is lost in repeated waiting."
Although Max followed a figure of Lisa years later, he could only get the smell of the woman, the missing figure, the voice on the phone, and the legs wrapped in stockings around the corner. Finally, their love is just a trance flash in the fog, and they can only listen with their eyes closed and open their hearts to think back. Lisa has her own doom and is inescapable.
"Now": Alice
"This one is even more mysterious and surprising. Although it is very dim, when placed in different lights, it will shine like a star. ”
The person who makes the story confusing is Alice.
Alice is Lisa's neighbor, and a fortuitous incident breaks into Lisa's world. She couldn't help but envy Lisa's beautiful beauty and wonderful stage life. You can't blame Alice, when you meet a woman like Lisa, everyone will want to become her one day and enjoy her free and unforgettable smile like the wind. So Alice did not give Max the letter that Lisa had written when she left, causing a misunderstanding and breaking up a pair of lovers. Saying that she is jealous or unwilling, such a woman always makes people hate, because anyone will have such a thought, but she really did it. Even though it made her uneasy and her conscience condemned, she enjoyed the thrilling adventure.
Alice is a sudden dream in Max's reality. That kind of beauty takes time to precipitate and is unforgettable once discovered. She was the canary who accidentally flew off his shoulder, singing with all her might to make him look down. Pretending to be someone else is always painful, and the little careless lie at the beginning, also true and false, led to having to make up more and more lies later, so much that she hurt her boyfriend who loved her and stabbed herself.
Does she love Max? If love, then why didn't she approach him proactively? Alice could only escape the call of fate and returned to him again and again. Does Max love her? Knowing the truth, he should hate her, shouldn't he? When he complained that Alyssa was a vicious woman, Alice's bland words suddenly stabbed the man's weakness: his love was so fragile and fragile, he only knew how to complain about fate, but he never worked hard for his love, what he fell in love with was only a moment of passion and the feeling of chasing. Max suddenly realized that he had long been attracted to this girl full of lies, sitting on a bench waiting for Lisa with Alice's smile and whispers. So, he once again chased after his self-righteous true love, and this time he must not be able to lose it, right? But he still let Alice go again at the airport, holding his fiancée, looking at Alice's tearful eyes, unable to move.
They are all just a sexual encounter with each other, a dream come true, not worth exchanging for a lifetime of happiness.
"The Future": Muriel
"This piece is simple in shape, but it looks luxurious and simple and extraordinary. The charm of it is that it does not appear frivolous. ”
Muriel is Max's fiancée and the woman who has appeared the least. This is the character that was removed in the Hollywood remake. If you don't look at her, you will easily ignore her. Muriel's appearance is not beautiful enough but also beautiful and virtuous, and the blonde hair and thin face give a fragile feeling. Most of the time Ma knew nothing about Max's pursuit, never asked questions about his inexplicable actions, and believed all his words that were not even clever enough lies. She just silently cared for Max and took care of everything for him.
She has a unique composure, as if convinced that she is the harbor where Max is destined to live. It was a kind of looking back, but the beauty was indifferent in the light. So fate made her appear again and again at the turning point of Max's life, at the airport, and gave Max's arms to her, not any other woman.
Forget what you should forget about the scenery that passes by, and what you don't want to forget is hidden in the depths of your heart. Max was busy all the way, but he was back to square one. But what never existed was necessarily different from what had happened, and Marx changed his hesitant attitude toward love. He found his true love, his destiny, the woman he was going to fight for the rest of his life, though she had always been by his side and never left.
At the beginning of the film, the three sentences of the person who sold the diamond ring seem to foreshadow Max's feelings. Three different rings, all of which look like he likes and loves, but he has to wear them to know which one is right for him.
Many times people always want to speculate on the deep meaning of fate, rejoicing in those unexpected encounters, but in fact "chance seems to be unbridled, but in fact still acts according to their own rules" (Boetheus, "Philosophical Consolation"), you can think that those accidental encounters and love are unpredictable results, or you can think that it is because of the inevitability of countless choices. Like Max's countless chases and waits, he always seems to stop when it's time to chase, and chase when it's time to give up. The debate about fate will never stop, and in the opinion of the will conveyed by the "very apartment", as long as people silently accept it, everything is predestined from the beginning, you just need to experience it, and then suddenly realize.
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