He has a talent for painting, but his jaw was blown up in the war, and he wears a mask from then on and begins to take revenge on the human world.
He received his father's repentance, hugged and wept with him, but finally jumped down and said goodbye.
He is the protagonist of the French movie "Goodbye to Heaven", Edward, a man who can hardly pronounce a complete note, telling us a sad story.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > war song, leaving a sigh in vain</h1>
French films always have a romantic and gorgeous atmosphere, but under the beautiful lens, cruelty and desolation are no less.
The story takes place during World War I, when German and French fighters are tired of each other across the trenches, and the war is gradually coming to an end. The French lieutenant received an order for an armistice, but the belligerent ordered him to continue fighting. He sent two
The soldiers went out to detectives and shot them from behind, using this as an excuse to provoke a pointless battle.
The war was brutal, the shells were full of shells, the yellow sand was raised, Edward was blown off his jaw, and his comrade Albert was almost buried alive.
The role of lieutenant is also a metaphor for the initiators, sinners who disregard the people for their own interests. But the lieutenant, instead of being punished, made a fortune after the war, married Edward's sister, entered the elite, and rose to high society.
Edward lives in anonymity and struggles with Albert. After the war, like other veterans, they fell to the bottom of society.
And the people represented by the lieutenant did not care about these veterans, they moved their minds on the dead soldiers, built cemeteries, wholesale coffins, cut corners, and made a windfall.
This is really a bitter irony, but also a sadness in the world.
Edward lost his jaw and could not pronounce it, and could only eat liquid food by tube injection. Edward's body and mind suffered a double whammy.
His father had a cold attitude toward him and hated his innate artist temperament, so home was not the home he wanted to return to, and the country was not the country that loved him.
Edward began to make masks for himself, covering his ugly face, and designed revenge on society, and together with Albert, he cheated a lot of wealth by bidding for the Martyrs' Cemetery. This caught the father's attention.
In the end, the son who thought he had long been dead appeared in front of his father again, and the father apologized with tears, edward forgave his father, turned around and jumped into the sky like a bird, saying goodbye to the world.
The end of the war does not in any way mean the rejoicing of the whole society.
In reality, the pain left by the gunshots is extremely powerful, and the birth of a new society is still a painful process. The people who were rich after the Daihatsu war lived a life of drunken gold fans,
For the veterans, but the lack of comfort, the shift of social attention, the pursuit of economic interests, so that the heroes who once stood on the battlefield like bows and arrows after the birds hunted, abandoned in one place, everywhere desolate.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > mask, which is both obscuration and irony</h1>
Worthy of being a genius artist, Edward made masks for himself, each of which is artistic. The actor who plays Edward wears a mask almost the entire time, which is his face, the vehicle for his emotional expression.
For example, the first mask that snakes and stretches like a branch marks the joy and longing for the rest of his life;
For example, a mask that can adjust the curvature of the mouth to express sadness and joy;
For example, the "Zorro" mask when retaliating against society, eye ejaculation, grinning evilly;
For example, after getting a huge amount of money, the lion mask is worn, the nose is wide, the eyes are majestic, and the unkempt mane is made of paper money, implying the mockery of money and the imbalance in the character's heart.
The mask becomes an expression of Edward, a catharsis, and a rhetoric of the film.
Everyone wears a mask, either to deal with the world, or to cover up the ugliness of the heart, or to protect the fragile heart.
The father's mask of indifference, perhaps due to social attributes, he measures his son according to the world's standards, so he snubs and despises Edward, but his heart still loves his son, but such a mask deeply stabs his son;
Lieutenant, wearing a gorgeous mask, gentle and intelligent on the surface, treacherous and vicious on the inside, with no morality to speak of;
The officer who finally released Albert also had to release the "sinner" under the pretext of various mistakes—he still had to maintain the so-called justice of the performance. Sometimes, justice is so hard to say, and the world is not so good.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > beauty and evil under the lens, no lines required</h1>
"Goodbye from Heaven" is a beautiful French film, full of strong romantic atmosphere, the use of the lens is gorgeous and smooth, and the narrative expression is clear and rich.
At the beginning of the movie, the camera follows a communication dog on the battlefield, and a long sequence of shots shows the emptiness and fragmentation of the battlefield, laying the background of the film Xiao Suo;
When filming war scenes, the film uses many subjective shots, and the yellow sand and shells that come to the face seem to be thrown down, so that the audience has a sense of immersion;
The lieutenant of the main villain appeared, and the picture was pitch black, revealing only a red dot and a swirling white smoke, which was the cigarette between his lips. The photography focused on his face with a beam of light, and this small beam of light clamped on a circle of his face in the darkness, as if wearing a mask for him, with thick eyebrows and a fierce look. This expression is in stark contrast to his smile afterwards: in the darkness, he reveals his true face, and the director's intention is obvious.
The lieutenant came to the martyrs' cemetery, he dressed well, drove a luxury car directly into the garden. In order to prevent the dirt from staining his shoes, he stepped on the soldier's stele all the way, and his footsteps were brisk, as if he were kicking and dancing on the stage. This pleasure and carelessness are in stark contrast to the soldiers who died tragically at their feet, portraying the hypocrisy and viciousness of the lieutenant.
The use of a large number of overhead shots in the film gives the viewer a god perspective, and also makes the film have a sad and compassionate feeling:
Either to show the patriarchal oppression in Edward's family, or to express the compassion and helplessness of the characters, or to depict the chaos and panic of the soldiers after the war, or to lament the impermanence and sorrow of the world.
When the camera hangs high, people have a kind of touch, there is a hint of sighing, there are no lines, but good and evil are clear.
There is a line in the movie: "The last one to die is more stupid than the first one to die." ”
If you think about it, it has a deep meaning.
At the beginning of the war, it was always accompanied by blindness and excitement, and it seemed that by shaking his arms, he could achieve his career and succeed in failure. But as the war progressed, the ugliness of human nature was stirred, and the degree of misery was unbearable. Why the war arose became people's reflection. History has played out again and again, are humans smart or stupid animals?
"Goodbye in Heaven" tells a post-war story with a poetic lens, which is as shocking as the war itself.
With the passage of time, we seem to be far away from war, but the truth is that there are still people living in the fear and harm of war, and we are just lucky to live in a peaceful country.
Don't forget history, don't forget the pain, which is also an important reason why we love "Goodbye to Heaven".
-Epilogue-
Revenge and healing are intertwined
Sadness is mixed with a style of black humor
maybe
Only the French can shoot it
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@Chocolate Ann Bean