When it comes to French films, it always seems to be shrouded in a romantic rose, and "The Housewife" directed by Sammière BenChetri is romantic loneliness, very literary and warm, and this film was nominated for the best adapted screenplay at the 41st César Film Awards in France.
The story revolves around a dilapidated apartment in France, where all kinds of people live, but also full of all kinds of loneliness.
Stills from "The Housewife of hearts"
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(I) Old Man Stecovitz, who lives alone: Being alone is not necessarily lonely, and sometimes loneliness comes from the crowd
1, Escape social, escape loneliness
The story begins when the apartment needs to be replaced with a new elevator, and all the residents of the apartment are gathered together to discuss the cost of replacing the elevator. Only an old man named Sturkowitz objected, because he never used the elevator when he lived on the second floor. So he was naturally excluded, and he was not allowed to take the new elevator without paying the fee.
In this group, he is understood but not accepted. When its rationalization appeal affects the interests of others, emotions appear superfluous in this apartment, and there is unspeakable indifference between neighbors and people. True loneliness is not being alone, but being alone when the crowd is excluded.
However, the accident occurred one day not long after, when St.Kovitz was practicing cycling on fitness equipment at home, a sudden illness caused him to faint while exercising, and he was found the next day and sent to the hospital for treatment. As a result, he fell into a disability of lower limb paralysis and had to rely on a wheelchair to travel. Therefore, even if he lives on the second floor, he has to rely on the elevator.
However, because of the previous agreement, he did not have the right to use the elevator. So he began a long game, wrestling wits with the residents of the apartment, recording and cleverly avoiding the time when others used the elevator, so as not to be discovered by himself quietly taking the elevator. Living alone, he had to choose to travel every night to buy snacks at the hospital vending machine, and only this time could he go out and take a breath.
Sturkowitz
His socialization is about avoiding his neighbors and escaping from the crowds before he can get a respite. Every day, he spied the comings and goings of residents through the cracks in the door, secretly observing and recording the travel time of others, rather than direct contact and communication with others, and did not say hello and chat or anything.
They are just individuals living in the same building, without any emotional connection to each other, and there is a huge gap between them and people that cannot be crossed. When socialization itself becomes loneliness, the act of escaping socialization instead withdraws from loneliness.
2. Seek understanding, desperately
Perhaps because he had been alone for too long, when Stecovitz wandered downstairs in a wheelchair to the hospital, he met the hospital nurse, "Where are you going?" This time can't just go out like this. Despite the humanitarian care she had given to her by mistakenly believing that he was a patient at the hospital, Sturkowitz was warmed by this sudden concern. He pretends to be a lost photographer, making the encounter seem less awkward, trying to establish a new connection with the world, and putting his loneliness and unbearable depression in the deepest place.
Then every night, he would drive a wheelchair downstairs to the hospital and have a few brief conversations with the nurses. The nurse would smoke and rest for an hour every night downstairs in the hospital, and in the daily small talk of meetings, a romantic feeling arose between the two.
Stecovitz and nurse
Nurses who live in stagnant waters have always longed to go out into the world, which is somewhat similar to Stecovitz, who is locked up in the house every day. When he dragged his disabled legs and walked all night to see her, confiding his unsightly and lies to her, the nurse laughed and cried. They finally reconciled with each other. Human sorrow and joy may not be the same, but sincerity is already the best language. When you meet a soul who understands and recognizes each other, you also have the courage to open up everything, which is the charm of life and the goodwill of life.
(II) Boy Charlie and actress Jenny: Loneliness is the background of life, and understanding is the dialogue of the soul
In the apartment lived a teenage boy, Charlie, who went out alone every day and came home alone until one day he moved across from him with a new neighbor, Jenny Mel, who was a passing actress.
The two met because of the repair of the elevator door, and then by chance, they chatted and watched a movie together, and although the age difference between the two was very large, it was very natural to get along. Having seen each other's embarrassment, hearing each other's heartache, not being friends but better than friends, this year-old friendship is a dialogue between two lonely souls.
Charlie and actress Jenny Mel Boy
(III) American astronauts and old French women: Life will have unexpected warmth, so that loneliness has nowhere to hide
At the same time, an old woman also lives alone in the apartment, her son is serving a prison sentence, she in addition to life, chasing drama is to visit the prison. Until one day, an astronaut accidentally broke into her home, and she seemed to see her son and give him motherly love.
American astronaut McKenzie had been alone in the confined space of the spacecraft, working out alone and listening to music, without any expression on his face. When he landed unexpectedly in a French home, he had to communicate with Arab women with words, gestures, paintings, and even expressions.
There is no deliberate attempt to please anyone between the two, but they just let down their guard and get along in the most authentic way, and what they get is the most simple and primitive beauty of human beings, the purest and warm care, the most comfortable and happy to get along, and the loneliness in their hearts is inadvertently occupied by beauty.
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1. Strange sound
The connection between the three stories in the film is a strange sound, and everyone hears that voice, but no one knows what it is.
The nurse went to the night shift and every night she heard that strange voice, "What sound?" It was like crying. Like a child. It's like a child crying. "The nurse's heart is sensitive and fragile, professional or character, she is more sensitive to people's pain and sorrow, and her heart is compassionate and sad.
The Arab woman also heard the voice, and she said, "God knows, maybe a ghost, a devil." Then the woman went out and went to visit her son in prison. Loneliness is a mysterious thing that cannot be dispelled around her, and she is longing for redemption and forgiveness for the children she is not around. The Arab woman always reciprocated with the greatest kindness to life, a pious and kind soul, and even so, loneliness would still strike. Born as a human being, she has all kinds of loneliness as companions, but she can use good ways to neutralize and find a corner of peace of mind in the boundless loneliness.
The actress also heard strange voices when playing with boys, and the boy said, "It's always been there." "It's like crying." "It's a tiger." "Tiger?" "I heard that the circus came here, and the tiger ran away." In the feelings of the actress may be crying, her emotions have always been low, losing her good partner and lover Anthony, facing the downhill road of her acting career, there are many helplessness and sorrow in her heart. She has been stubborn not to cry, hiding her vulnerability, living as if she didn't care, in fact, she can't bear more in her heart. Some loneliness cannot be talked about, and time can only be digested.
Boy and actress
And the boy Charlie, since childhood has been very lacking in love, his mother just sent him a life, he has always lived alone, and like a child. Like an adult, in an awkward age and a dilemma. The circus is synonymous with joy and joy, and the tigers in the circus run away, funny and sad. It's the same as his state of life. Longing for happiness and love, but never having happiness and love, but still buried in the heart of the desire for love and happiness. Lonely people will be accustomed to being indestructible adults during the day, and only at night can they be the little child who longs to be hugged and accompanied.
The Buddha said, "What you have in your heart, what you see is what you see." The same is true of sound, what a person can relate to from an unknown voice is often a reflection and portrayal of the human heart. The strange sounds in the film can not only cause the audience to suspense and string the story together, but also symbolize the loneliness everywhere, pulling people's nerves in any way, making people numb or restless. Exploring how to get rid of this loneliness has even more significance.
2. Two men who are "doing nothing"
There are two interesting men in the film who are always idle, either leaning on the door frame or smoking on the roof without saying a word. The settings of these two characters have different meanings.
Two men who have nothing to do
First, the two are themselves a symbol of loneliness, the two of them always appear together, but each has the appearance of a heart, there is no conversation and interaction with each other, and they seem to travel together. It represents the vast majority of superficial, superficial, and seemingly detached relationships and cooperative relationships in society.
Second, the two are another clue strung together in the film, the two men because they often "do nothing" near the apartment, they have been with Charlie in front of the door, and the astronauts have met on the roof. The two associate the characters of several stories as a testimony, a testimony of their own loneliness under the same sky. They are in the loneliness of others, alone in their own loneliness, they are insiders who seem to be out of the ordinary. From a bystander's point of view, look directly at the alienation between people and people.
3. Peeping
Old men peeping through the cracks in the door as neighbors use elevator time, boys peeking through the cat's eyes at the figure of actresses at the door of their homes, Arab women visiting prisons, and everyone clinging to their own small space, in a way that hides themselves, silently paying attention to everything around them. It's not a loss of interest and curiosity about the outside world, but a long-term backlog of loneliness, not knowing how to start a new social life. This is a lonely mentality, but also the helplessness and heartache of modern people.
Neighbors seen from the cat's eye
4. Film Title: "The Tenant of hearts"
The film is called "The Tenant of hearts", and the story takes place in an extremely dilapidated apartment, and the residents of the apartment are strange to each other. And these six lonely people, however, were unexpectedly warmed by strangers and opened their hearts. To them, the apartment is just a dwelling, a living hermit shell, and they are alone when they are in it. The strangers I met by chance brought that kind of warm and intimate touch.
Although the story is warm, the film is still lonely. Tenants are guests who may leave at any time, each with their own life. Even people who communicate with each other have a day to run to a new life. Actresses find suitable roles to move away, astronauts return to their home countries, and old people and nurses have their own new lives.
They are just passers-by who accompany each other for a ride, which makes it even more sad. It's beautiful and lonely, and life is like that.
Richard Yates said: "I think the so-called loneliness is the person you are facing, and his emotions and your own emotions are not on the same frequency. "Everyone has their own past, three views and emotions, and can be put in the heart by another person, and can be understood by another person, which is the meaning of the appearance of the heart tenant." That is, there is a possibility of life, turning decay into magic, one plus one will be greater than two, and one person's loneliness can be changed by the appearance of a certain person.
"The Tenant of hearts"
The French name of the film is "asphalte", the word "asphalte" in French means "asphalt, asphalt, asphalt mixture", throughout the film, there is a particular highlight of the "asphalt" detail, that is, the old man on the way to see the nurse, he dragged his disabled leg all night until dawn, saw a high pile of asphalt mixture in front of him blocking the road.
He endured not only physical fatigue and pain, but also inner guilt, anxiety and anxiety. If a person wants to defeat loneliness and overcome himself, he must face many unknown difficulties, and after walking the farthest road and the darkest night, he may collide with the sun, and may be able to stand side by side with a warm person.
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The director said, "It's about people losing their ability to communicate verbally and gradually getting it back. ”
Although loneliness varies from person to person, loneliness is generally similar. From the difficulty of opening their mouths, the inability to open their mouths to the lack of need to open their mouths, people are increasingly accustomed to closing themselves off. However, loneliness has a magnetic field, and when two equally lonely souls meet, loneliness, although it cannot be shared, is always connected.
In the beginning, it was six people each living a life of life. Single old men are ostracized and isolated by their neighbors, and nurses are breathless in a life that repeats monotonously day after day. The encounter between the two made him have the strength to go out and stand up, and life became something to look forward to; and for the nurse, she also opened an outlet for life, from a dispensable member of the hospital to his indispensable existence, this kind of being seen and cherished, helping the nurse to regain self-confidence from scratch and face life with a smile.
And the boy Charlie, who lacks maternal love, feels a warmth similar to maternal love from her because she knows the actress; the actress also learns to accept her new self with the help of the boy, and no longer indulges in the anxiety of not being able to play some roles because of age.
The astronaut suddenly landed in a foreign country, and was treated with kindness by the Arab woman as her own, giving him the warmth of his home, and the woman saw the shadow of her son in him, and was able to dispel the longing for the child and the loneliness alone. The two people do not understand the language, most of the time is body language to communicate, get along is particularly harmonious and interesting, better than the warmth and harmony of the general mother and child.
Loneliness can melt, and the best path is heart-to-heart communication.
The language and picture of the film "Heart Tenant" are very concise, the tone of the whole film is very calm, and there is no deliberate rendering of emotions, and the sense of loneliness is shown through short dialogue and jumping pictures, fast camera conversion, not branches, very concise. At the same time, under the setting of a small amount of explanation, a large amount of blank space is left, which is thought-provoking and has a very afterglow. Overall, this film is a typical French romance and French brain hole, with a distinct style, literature and warmth.
The director tries to open up the spiritual wall between people and people through such a film. Only by coming out of your own world, opening your heart to face your own life, listening to the voices of others, and learning to embrace the loneliness of life can you truly reconcile with yourself.
Loneliness is the norm of life, but it is not the only form, love and warmth can change everything.
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