I long to have no more motherland. I will teach My children to be fierce, insensitive, clever, and to love the motherland of others with the utmost.
This is a line from the heroine of Duras's "Love in Hiroshima", if you do not understand the background and storyline of the story at all, you will probably have a creepy feeling after seeing this passage. This sentence is sharp and full of hatred, like a knife, like a musket, even like an atomic bomb. And the heroine's hatred for the "motherland" in the story also stems from this, from the artillery fire, from the war, from an atomic bomb that blooms like a mushroom cloud in the sky.
"Love of Hiroshima" is a very old film, released in France in 1959, and has since received unanimous praise and attention from audiences all over the world. In terms of expression and artistic technique, many people think that he is a beginning of modern cinema. However, the creation of this new form is inseparable from the ideas that the work itself wants to express, new and unique ideas. Duras said that at the very beginning of the film, I want the infamous mushroom cloud to roll and rise, he must be majestic, huge, and grow very slowly, and with this mushroom cloud rising, is a pair of naked shoulders that gradually appear in front of the audience, only the shoulders, they are tightly hugging each other, which is stained with ash, rain, dew and sweat, let people imagine.
When such a picture is presented on the screen, it is bound to give the audience a strong sense of contradiction, both feeling fresh and soaring desire. I feel that the thoughts and emotions that Dulles wants to express are already expressed quite fully and thoroughly in the scene at the beginning of the plot. Every little detail has a point of view she wants to express strongly.
The heroine of "Love in Hiroshima" --- a French actress (as always, in Dulles's work, there are few names, she or he, man or woman, has always been called so) After encountering a Japanese man and reveling with passion, a mine-like past buried in her heart exploded after a momentary emotional touch, so he wandered between past pain and current love. After repeatedly going in and out of the hotel's door, she finally confided in a Japanese man in a café. Also in Hiroshima, Hiroshima in 1957, she fell in love with an enemy fighter in the midst of war, and on the day the two agreed to abscond, the soldier was killed by a bullet. A woman's love is destroyed in an instant, carrying the destruction of the punishment of falling in love with an enemy country.
War, what exactly is it? Why is it destroying people in the name of preserving them? Years later, the French woman still remembers the dead lover, the passionate and painful years, still unable to understand and let go of the hatred of the war of the years, she finally said, "I long for no more motherland." I will teach My children to be fierce, insensitive, clever, and to love the motherland of others with the utmost. ”