Tomorrow, GO ON! - "Franz" film review

Recommend a movie "Franz"

Tonight my mother highly recommended that I watch a movie "Franz", and she watched it in the afternoon and praised it.

I brushed my phone first, or glanced at the movie casually: at the beginning of the black and white screen, let me think that this movie is so long ago! Am I going to start watching silent films? With doubts, continue to wait and see. The film begins with a depiction of the devastation of Germany and France after World War I. Then a beautiful and melancholy French man, Adrian, went to a lost family in Germany several times, what did he do? Looking at it, I put my phone down. At first, I had been speculating whether this man and Franz, who died on the battlefield, were good friends, but Germany and France were obviously enemies in World War I, and the attitude of the German people to this French man can also be proved. Then I felt more and more that the two of them were not gay, otherwise how could he be so miserable, but when I couldn't help but ask my mother, my mother replied affirmatively, "No!" You read on! "It took a lot of effort for me to guess and look closely, but it was still difficult to guess the mystery." At the same time, the interactive use of black and white and color makes me a little confused. The music is like crying, very suitable for the scene, very suitable for the character's dark and somber mood. Especially when the heroine is reading books or watering flowers in the cemetery, the leaves are blown by the wind, as if there is obviously a feeling of blowing away the depression, but from time to time to pull people back to the lonely space.

After walking through the darkest moments of her life, the heroine finally got on the train to Paris with the encouragement of her family (in fact, two in-laws). Can this trip to Paris really make her get what she wants? Haha, I can't spoil any more.

But after watching this film, I found that the interaction design of black and white and color was really very interesting. Most black and white is reality, and most color is lies. The male protagonist is more and more collapsed in the lie, and the black hole in his heart is getting bigger and bigger; the female protagonist is becoming more and more independent in the letters and lies to his family, and the curtain of life is officially opened. When the male protagonist confessed, he said that "people cannot only live for themselves", so after he walked through the dark moment, he listened to his mother's words, obeyed the arrangements of everyone around him, no longer resisted, and strangled his own heart; the heroine chose to forgive after repentance, and found that "people have to live for themselves", she stayed in Paris, which she has always longed for, in art and beauty, strong and independent, and obeys the choice of the heart. The heroine finally looked at Manet's "Suicide" oil painting and wrote lies again in the letter to her in-laws, but she truly realized her self-redemption and gained independent freedom.

Manet's famous painting "Suicide", originally collected in Zurich, was copied to the Louvre in this film and appeared several times. I didn't understand what the intention was, but then I watched some film reviews and tasted the film again, and then I had an epiphany about the deep intentions of director François Oujon - everyone will make "suicide" choices in their own lives. This suicide does not mean killing our own flesh, but refers to the only journey in life, every time we reach a key intersection, every time we break through ourselves, it is a transformation, we remove one option and choose another option; choosing the right is a sublimation, and choosing the wrong one is equivalent to chronic suicide.

Franz only made a few cameo appearances from start to finish. Before joining the army, he read a poem about autumn to his fiancée Anna, and in the film he read it to the French man Adrian through the mouth of the heroine Anna:

Autumn sound of sorrow / like a violin / Crying / Long and unbearable gloom / Stinging / My heart / Dull / Confused / Bells swinging / The past is like smoke / Reappearing in front of my eyes / My tears fall like rain.

In the beautiful violin music (Tchaikovsky's "Like a Song of The Line"), in the interlacing of black and white color light and shadow, after the end of some suspenseful plots, life will never continue with the nightfall. so，tomorrow，go on！ Tomorrow, goodbye!