The first time I saw "Lovers of The New Bridge" was about seven years ago, and I asked a boy if he could recommend me a love movie.
He thought about it, asked me to watch this one, and said you should like it. I don't remember what it felt like to watch it, and the storyline faded away, but over the years, whenever someone asked me about the best romance in my heart, this movie would pop up in my mind from time to time.
Recently, I turned it over and looked at it again. The magic of "Lovers of The New Bridge" is that it is very special, it is difficult for you to let go, the movie experience is actually not beautiful, it is too real to show the most primitive impulse part of love, like dissecting a love specimen on the operating table, nakedly tearing it open for you to see. Oh, this is the truth of love, cruel and selfish, it is not good at all.
And this kind of love happens to an ugly tramp who is hopelessly in love with a wandering female artist, as primitive as an animal, without a decent date, without earth-shattering vows, and even without flowers and gifts, such love seems to be difficult to gain the love of the public.
If I had to recommend this movie in one sentence, I think it should be the movie that is closest to the essence of love.
Michel, a rich woman played by Juliet Binoche, is abandoned by her lover, suffers from a rare eye disease, and despairs of life, she begins to self-exile and goes out wandering, Alex is a homeless man living at the bottom of Paris.
At the beginning of the film, the male and female protagonists meet for the first time, Alex is overly drunk lying on the road, a speeding bridge car presses over his ankles, and the heroine just passes by and sees the male protagonist's dead fish eyes and mouth held up by pain.
Soon the police arrived and dragged Alex to the shelter like a dead body, followed by a large number of scenes that caused extreme physical discomfort, deformed and sick bodies, verbal and shoving, dirty crowding, and the breath of despair filled the chest and made people feel suffocated and breathless.
This is the daily routine of Alex's life, lowly, humble, dispossessed, walking dead, devoid of dignity and warmth.
When he returned to The New Bridge and saw the heroine sleeping on his turf, he saw a portrait of her own face in the picture clip she carried with her. No one had ever paid attention to him, his life seemed to have a glimmer of light in an instant, and Micheal's appearance was the bright hope of his chaotic life.
He fell madly in love with Michel, regarded it as a treasure, and took her in against the old beggar.
He wanted to know everything about her, he flipped through her notes, secretly found her former residence, tracked down and prevented her from seeing her old lover, when her guide dog was blind when Michelle's eyesight was weak and invisible, thought That Michelle had left drunk and smashed the bottle to scratch his belly and hurt himself, after seeing the Micheal family's overwhelming search notices, setting fire to all the posters in the subway, and after seeing Michel leave on the wall leaving "I never loved you, forgot me". Shot himself on the line and broke his ring finger.
The film's two are reunited at New Bridge, and when the bell rings at three o'clock in the morning, Micheal hesitates to leave, Alex can't bear the heartbreak and waiting again, rushes to hug Michel and fall into the bottom of the Seine.
Is this love? Isn't love tolerance, isn't it fulfillment? Isn't love giving and sacrificing? There is another side to cuteness, extreme selfishness, possessiveness, jealousy, and neurotic gain and loss.
Alex had nothing to lose but Michel, he just wanted to keep her. I love you, so I hope you go to a happier place, I love you, I hope you have a better life than I have, and in Alex's opinion, these are simply bullshit.
I love you, so I don't want you to be happy, this is not a curse, but only the happiness I give you is a rose, and in a world without my participation, your happiness is a stinger.
When did Micheal develop feelings for Alex? I think it must have been the night Michelle and Alex were drinking.
The two of them lay on the ground laughing wildly, and the laughter was strange, and I couldn't tell whether it was laughing or crying, whether it was painful catharsis after intoxication or self-indulgence.
At this time, the fireworks in the city were lit, and Micheal took out the pistol in his luggage, a total of 15 rounds, each firing 7 shots in the air, and all his emotions were cathartic at this moment.
The music began, Micheal and Alex ran and danced without emotion, the film broke through the cold and decadent tone that had been laid, bright and bright, on the Fire Tree Honeysuckle Saina River Alex rode a motorboat and pulled michelle at great speed, and the two people who were abandoned by the world reveled as if no one was there.
Love happened thrillingly.
The lover's heart is the most uncertain, and the most annoying and painful, I love you, let me know that you also love me.
Alex wrote in Michel's notebook that if you love someone, tell him: "The sky is white." If the man were me, I would reply, "But the clouds are black." "That way we know we love each other.
At this point, Michel did not know that he had unconsciously fallen in love with the tramp, and Micheal, who was seeking light in order to cure his eyes, left Alex, but two years later, Micheal returned to him.
She said: "The person who appeared in the dream should go to see him when he woke up. ”
Love turns out to be so simple.
This is a very dramatic and exaggerated movie, no one in life can completely leave reality behind, across the huge gap of class, such a fierce love is destined to tend to flat and broken, but the movie intercepts the most colorful part of love, and pushes the madness in love to the extreme.
It is not beautiful, but it has a different kind of extreme beauty, and in this sense it is enough to be called a work of art.
We may not encounter such crazy love in our lives, but the mood of our lovers, the bravery of just wanting to give everything regardless of the future, may be the most extreme romance in our ordinary lives.
I can't be everyone's hero, but can I just be your hero?
It is worth mentioning that at the end of the film, the male and female protagonists are rescued by a sand carrier bound for the Atlantic Ocean, and when the ending song sounds, the male and female protagonists run to the stern of the ship and open their arms to the wind, this shot is almost copied and imitated in the "Titanic" that swept the world a few years later, which is also a tribute.
About the author: Julia, with a warm emotional beauty to share, focusing on the growth of women's minds. There is nothing better in this world than love, I believe what I see, I record what I believe, and I want to warm you through words.