I love you, my Quebec Yankees
——Remembering "Spy League"
Last night, because the phone did not have enough memory to clean the cache, when looking through the video software, I chose a movie with a bad name that was previously cached - "Spy League". I thought it was an ordinary spy movie, but I didn't expect to have two brushes and three brushes (true incense) after watching it, and I had a slight feeling in my heart and looked forward to sharing it with you.
The League of Spies is an action romance film produced by Paramount Pictures in the United States, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. Set against the backdrop of World War II, it tells the story of British agent Max and French spy Marianne who fell in love during the mission to assassinate the German ambassador, thus staging a heart-wrenching love story.
To be honest, the beginning of the film didn't appeal to me. The sun is high and the sky is full of yellow sand, and a man dressed in the west lands here with a parachute on his back, hiking among the endless sand dunes. This first impression did not intriguate me at all, but almost closed it. Perhaps in that case, today there will be less of a perception and less of a heart-to-heart peace.
The man who landed in French Morocco in 1942 was the British agent Max, who, with the help of his comrades-in-arms, joined the French spy Marianne, pretending to be a couple, on a mission to assassinate the German ambassador.
Marianne had earlier been lurking in Casablanca, mingling in German social circles, while Max was her husband, a miner who developed phosphate mines. The two, who had never met before, recognized each other at a glance and kissed each other in front of everyone.
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The two talked for the first time on the way back home, and when Max lit a cigarette, Marianne said that usually before her husband smoked, he would light a cigarette for his wife. Max handed the cigarette he had taken a sip to Marianne and twisted the cigarette he handed him in a cloud of mist, and the cigarette was accompanied by beauty. It was the first time the two of them had smoked a cigarette together.
The first two people seize the time to get acquainted with each other, marianne laughs at the male protagonist's Quebec accent while correcting his pronunciation, because in this chaotic war years, the slightest mistake will make everyone lose their lives.
Returning to the apartment at night also follows the custom of Casablanca, where the husband goes to the roof to spend the night after performing the conjugal ceremony. On the first night, Marianne ran to the roof to have a long conversation with Max, explaining that because she had been living alone, her husband had to go home and should behave in a difficult way, and at the same time, to dispel the suspicions of the neighbor's German officer's wife. The two talked about their plans after the war on the roof, and Max talked about it for the first time in front of a woman, and he imagined it very well, expecting that after the war he would be able to build a ranch on the outskirts of Medicine Hat and live a natural life without stress. Marianne, on the other hand, acted a little hard to believe, because the war was so cruel that she didn't think such a beautiful thing could happen.
At the end of the conversation, in order to satisfy the voyeurism of her neighbor's German wife, Marianne kissed Max for the second time, this time from the forehead she kissed when she first went to the roof to the forehead she kissed. He felt that this woman was very deep in the play, making it difficult for him to distinguish between true and false.
Max would resolutely and decisively kill the German officers he posed a potential threat to, while Marianne wandered around the German social circle like a fish. The two people continue to run into each other and gradually enter a better situation.
On the rooftop platform, Max asks Marianne about her previous mission failures, and she answers that the superior V department doesn't care if they live or die, Marianne's group is completely destroyed, and she runs away from the battlefield alone. At this point, she choked up a little. Max hugged her under the pretext that her neighbor's German lady was snooping, trying to comfort her sadness that she had been abandoned by the superior V department. I think that in the process of talking again and again, both of them have an inseparable friendship with each other.
In the countryside, Max tests Marianne's combat skills, while she questions his investigation of dangers, and the two have their first argument.
Marianne also set up a temptation to test Max, whose mental code has always restrained himself from sinking, but I think he can't forget it when Max embraces her on the terrace under the pretense of the neighbor's German officer's wife.
On the last night before the mission, Marianne was restless, Max took her out of town to watch the sunrise, and the two once again had a long talk. Max talks about the green, beautiful suburb of Medicine Hat and asks Marianne where she plans to go after the war, and Marianne replies in frustration that it doesn't matter where she goes. Full of sad words, even I have some pity. But her last words, "If we die tomorrow, no one will know about us, is the final step in breaking the defenses of his mind." The two fell into a fascination with the yellow sand.
The war had left them with too much to lose, but at this moment she was by her side, and he was ready to die.
An assassination that goes so smoothly that it is somewhat unbelievable, and it is the most perfect equality in love.
"Go with me to London. And I went to London and became my wife. The two sentences struck Marianne's heart harder and harder, and she fell in love with him, and in this beautiful Casablanca, she also wanted to be obsessed with him for the rest of her life.
Max returned to England first, and the damn identity check made him wait for the damn three weeks. Yes, he called it "damned", he wanted to be with her, and the moment of separation was like three autumns, let alone three long weeks, twenty-one long days.
He wanted to be with her, putting aside the chief's sentence that "the marriage that was formed on a mission will not have a good result", leaving everything aside, he just wanted to wait for her, wait for her to come to him step by step.
Marianne, who has always loved sociability, was silent at the wedding, and her eyes could not take away her affection for Max. She finally came to England and started her new life, a life full of love with him.
In the dark of the night, Marianne gives max a daughter, Anna, the fusion of the two people's bones and blood, and his true connection with her.
Their year in Hampstead was so good, so good that I wanted it to pause in this moment. But the reality is so cruel.
The second half of the film is really bad, full of too much involuntariness.
The V Department's suspicion of Marianne, and the organization's pursuit of her, made Marianne's true identity, a German spy, surfaced.
Max didn't want to believe Marianne was, but became suspicious of her. The second time Max smokes in front of Marianne in the film, Marianne again mentions in front of him that her husband will light a cigarette for his wife before smoking, but at this time, Max opens the cigarette box and lets Marianne choose it herself, instead of handing the cigarette in her mouth to his beloved woman.
He was really not good at lying to her, and from the moment he walked in the door Marianne knew that no one could understand better than this woman who loved him deeply.
The reminders of old colleagues at the party, the warnings of their superiors, made Max go from hell to heaven and from heaven to hell.
At the party, Max asks a man with a pipe who has been in contact with Marianne for a long time, and Marianne understands that they have suspected each other.
But the moment a plane crashed into their home with its roof attached, the moment of disaster, he was still protecting the two women he loved most in his heart— his wife and daughter.
In order to thoroughly investigate Marianne's identity, Max tore up one wedding photo after another for people who had seen the French spy Marianne to identify whether the two Marianne were one person. Maybe fate is like this wedding photo, broken and can't be closed.
Max himself went to thoroughly investigate her identity, risked his life from England to Dieppe, and lost so many lives for that one answer, but at the last moment, the edifice of his heart collapsed.
Max returns home, sleepless all night, waiting for Marianne to get up and rushing into an empty bar to force her to play the piano, because the real Marianne played marseille march in a 1941 café full of German Nazis, while his wife couldn't play the piano.
He wanted her to play it, so that she would prove her innocence, and he was afraid that she would be able to play it, so that he would prove that he blamed her.
Forced by Max, Marianne admits that she is not a real French spy, Marianne, but a German agent with a similar figure. But Marianne had fallen in love with Max as early as Casablanca, and she thought that she would be free when she came to England, and that she would live a peaceful and happy life, and that the Germans would not find her again, would not force her to do missions, but they still found her, threatened them with their daughter Anna, and had to help them steal her husband's intelligence.
Max didn't care if Marianne was French or German, because he loved her. But Marianne sent the fake message that the V department used to test whether she was a spy, which meant that Max had to execute Marianne himself.
Max didn't want to, it was the woman he loved most in his life, the woman who gave birth to him, the woman who had fought with him, the woman who melted the ice in his heart with love.
Max gave his plan to Marianne, and he decided to take her and the child away from all this struggle, just to maintain the happiness of their little family.
Max killed everyone who threatened Marianne, and he couldn't tolerate the treasure in his hand that he never knew about.
After solving everything, they rushed to the air base, Max desperately lit fire for the plane, but the heavy rain increased the difficulty, the rain became heavier and heavier, pounding the glass densely, like thousands of silver needles piercing into the tip of the heart, at the last moment of the fire, Max's superiors came. From disappointment to hope to despair, everything was too fast.
Max reiterates over and over again in front of her boss for Marianne that she is coerced into not willingly, she is also involuntarily, Max is a little hysterical, but it is the person he loves the most, and he really does not want to lose her.
For her, he could give up the whole world.
However, Marianne had already foreseen this ending, and she did not want the man to ask for forgiveness for herself again, so she opened her lips and said two words softly, saying goodbye to her dear husband.
The subtitle translation is "That's enough, I love you." ”
The real translation is "I love you, my Quebec yankee." ”
You've done enough for me, and I've learned you love me, and that's enough, my Quebec Yankees.
Turn around resolutely, and look at it more than once. After all, it was for him, drinking bullets and committing suicide.
At the moment when Marianne fell, Max was still a little stunned, unable to believe that his beloved had just left. He took off his trench coat and draped it over her, wiped away the tears that blended with the rain, and caressed the corpse in mourning.
The film concludes with Marianne's letter written on the night Max thoroughly investigates her identity and bids farewell to her beloved husband and daughter. Max and Anna, as she wished, went after the war to the outskirts of Medicine Hat, where they had dreamed of, and lived the happy life that Marianne had hoped for.
The story ends abruptly, but the depression in the chest goes up together.
The film's mainland translation name is "Spy Alliance", the original English name is "ALLIED", which means alliance, and my favorite is the Taiwanese translation of the name "Flounder Alliance".
"Flounder" is homophonous with "spy", and flounder seems to refer to Max and Marianne.
Although as a war film, a larger space depicts the love of the two people, but it still makes people feel the cruelty of war. For example, if the fake message is not sent, the daughter Anna of the two will be killed by the German nanny, and if it is sent, Max will have to execute Marianne himself. For example, the crash that flew by the roof at the party, the bombed hospital and the patients who could not be transferred all indicted the ruthlessness of war.
I am still trapped in max and Marianne's true love affair, but I sincerely hope that they will finally leave England together and live in the post-war peacetime era. Forget it, let them live in good hope.
By the way, the film's global promotion song is "Give You My World" sung by Zhang Jie, interested friends can go and listen to it.