Chapter 27 I will be willing to forgive myself: a summer story, 1996

I will be willing to forgive myself: a summer story, 1996 In Rohmer's films, all the characters are forever chattering and walking.But audiences who are deeply interested in Rohmer's works are full of interest and never get tired of it, and even become addicted to it.After six "moral tales" in the 1960s and 1970s, and six "comedies and proverbs" in the 1980s, Rohmer made four "Tales of Seasons" in the 1990s, with ease.When you see the third "Summer Story", you will not believe that it was written by an old man in his seventies. The story and pictures reveal the news of youth everywhere; but when you think about it, this can only be a story. This is the work of a seventy-year-old man, because behind the story and the picture are the thoughts and feelings of a wise old man.Rohmer himself once said, give his hero a horse, and his film is a Western.I understand privately that this sentence, which seems a bit mysterious at first glance, refers to his film characteristics on the one hand; on the other hand, it means that his protagonists are all adventurers, not in the desert, but between morality and desire.And the researcher Pascal Bonitzer said another sentence: "Just like Johannes in Dreyer's "Odette", because he read too many books by Kierkegaard, he regarded himself as It was Jesus Christ; Rohmer's protagonists also read too much and thought they were someone else."

The structure of "Summer Story" is Rohmer's best and favorite diary style, which records the daily emotional encounters of Gaspar, a boy who came to the seaside for vacation.While waiting for his girlfriend to arrive, he met two other girls with different personalities but equally lovely.The three emotional clues range from loose to compact, full of hesitation, detours, repetitions, and finally break down suddenly.Gaspar's uncertainty transforms any kind of emotion into possibility and impossibility, which is almost the fantasy deep in every man's heart. However, in reality, we are all waiting passively and retreating actively.Our love may be as warm and sad as the "Sailor's Song" sung by Gaspar at the end, and will eventually die with the wind.As a man, it is almost amazing that Rohmer captures the psychology of women. No director (or even a woman) can do it with such kindness and appropriateness.And his camera never blames anyone. In the low-angle view, he always looks at everyone with love and compassion... And for myself, I regard Rohmer's film as a kind of resonance and introspection, and the ambiguity in the film , lies, lust, generally will make me have a sense of substitution.When I wake up, I will be willing to forgive myself.And of course, forgive people like me, men and women.