More than two hundred years ago, Thoreau, a 27-year-old Harvard high school student, moved to Walden Lake, not far from home, where he lived alone for two years, and wrote the famous essay "Walden" that he saw, heard, and thought, leaving a spiritual wealth for future generations of hermits to learn from. At the same time, his behavior has also attracted a lot of discussion from nearby villagers, and he is regarded as "idle".
In the French film "Easy and Free", Sebastian, a 29-year-old doctor of classical literature, faces the same accusations as Thoreau, who feels that reality is too boring and just wants to lie in bed and have all kinds of dreams. Dad asked him, "Are you going to do nothing in your life?" Serena said confidently, "Yes." "Such waste wood will certainly be persuaded by relatives and friends in China, and in France, the same is true."
So Cyr moved into the house rented by his friend Anna, and another roommate, Bruno, in a threesome, must have a light bulb. Bruno, bearded and lewd, likes Anna, always imagines that Anna is also madly obsessed with himself, he often peeks at Anna's diary, and dresses himself according to the image of the man depicted in the diary. Anna knew that Bruno was peeking into her diary, so she deliberately wrote in the diary that "shaving legs" and "wearing leather pants" men are the sexiest, and then teased Bruno, in fact she liked the little Cyr. But Xiao Sai, he never liked anyone, and he didn't bother to fall in love.
Every day, Anna and Bruno go out to work, and Sergeuse is at home flipping comics, watching movies, improvising, hanging out on the street, or applying for a minimum guarantee, and with the security deposit he can never work.
Anna couldn't help it at first, and she and Serge had a debate that life was a battle and that we had to keep pursuing, and Serge said that he pursued Epicurus hedonism and was content with the status quo.
Soon after the old classmates gathered to gossip, some had given birth to triplets, some taught at the university, some were startup owners, everyone looked at Xiao Sai, Xiao Sai said he didn't want to do anything, they began to criticize him for abusing taxpayer money.
Even passers-by did not let go of Xiao Sai, he sat on a park chair reading a book, and a woman angrily asked Xiao Sai why he sat on a bench all day, how could he be so leisurely? It's really jealous, passers-by are watching, and the number of small plugs should not mock the busy people with a leisurely attitude.
Xiao Sai had to go to a TV station to check the data transmission, watch some old news on the screen, and often doze off. One day, he suddenly fell in love with the female anchor while watching a 2006 news story, "This is the first time, I am in love." "Masturbating to her, the boss pushed the door in, and as a result, Xiao Sai was fired.
The happy time of the threesome is soon over, Anna brings back her new boyfriend, and The indifferent, heartbroken Bruno is leaving. Before leaving, he said: "I want a job and a woman I like, and have my own apartment. At this time, Xiao Sai was vaguely sad.
Then, Anna was ready to get engaged to her boyfriend, she also confessed to Xiao Sai, all the time, she was attracted by his handsome appearance and lazy and free temperament, but later she found that Xiao Sai seemed to live a life of arbitrariness in escape, fear, he was afraid of failure, so he did not even have the courage to try, and finally Anna dropped a sentence: "You think the best way not to die is not to be born, you have never lived." "Leave a confused little plug slowly reminiscing.
The successive departures of friends have gradually awakened to Xiao Sai, who used to be an island of his own, and now he feels others, has the desire to need and be needed, and is ignited with the desire to pursue.
At the end of the film, Xiao Sai went to the mall to sell beds, used his rich personal experience to sell to customers, performed well, and met the dream lover - the female anchor, the two hit it off, got married and had children, had a successful career, and lived a happy life in the secular sense.
The mediocre ending of "Easy and Free" dissolves the meaning of life that "likes to be bored, like to waste time, like to pause, and like to wait", because the audience expects Xiao Seneng Buddha to the end, lazy to home, did not expect that he still chose to work hard and struggle, but it is also the only way to grow.
How can life be idle? Rousseau said that the meaning of one's work is to rest. In other words, if there is no work, then the rest is not so rare, there is something to do to have sustenance, some people are attached to big things, some people spend time in trivial matters, some people retreat, some people are pragmatic, retreat is empty for a long time, pragmatic for a long time tired, virtual and real complement each other, life is harmonious.
"Easy and Free" is a fun movie, with bright tones, scene jumps, narration and brisk melodies reminiscent of Angel Amelie, and their joyful views on life and tolerance for the quirks of others are all in the same vein.
The scene where Serena, Anna and Bruno dance together pays homage to Godard's Outlaws.
The footage of Xiao Sai throwing coins at the beggar on the street alludes to the novel "The Moon and Sixpence".
The most symbolic is the scene of Xiao Sai crossing the crowd, every time he goes out, he will meet a large wave of office workers, they flock to them, Xiao Sai had to go against the current with difficulty, such as four or five times, until finally, Xiao Sai and the flow of people are moving in the same direction, he feels very comfortable.
This is also what the director wants to express, sometimes we need the courage to go against the current, sometimes we need the awareness to go with the trend.