"All about Lily Chou-Chou".青春電幻物語 日本2001岩井俊二Shunji Iwai
2002 柏林影展C.I.C.A.E. 特別獎、2002 上海電影節評審團特別獎、最佳音樂
2001紐約影展、多倫多影展 、 2002鹿特丹影展、三藩市影展
My reflection about "All about Lily Chou-Chou": part (4) ~by Cheng
In this film, I felt much sympathetic towards the four main characters, even the ringleader Hoshino. Although he bullied others and did so many bad things to his schoolmates, he was generally a bad person, but he was so poor, unhappy and hopeless as well. In this reflection, let us take a look back at Debussy's life.
Debussy abandoned two girls; Gabrielle and Lily. Both had committed suicide because of him. He appeared to be a malevolent guy. But in my opinion, his story is a tragedy. The reason he didn’t marry Gabrielle might have been because he didn’t think she was suited for him or that he was suited for her. When he met Lily, he most likely thought he had met ‘Miss Right’, and married her. But this wasn’t the case. He had fallen for the wrong woman once more. Later he became increasingly irritated by Rosalie's intellectual limitations and lack of musical sensitivity. He got married, but it was helpless, he still felt lonely. (Did he get married again, with Rosalie?) Marriage seemed promise-less in everything.
Debussy and his daughter Chou-Chou
After five years, Debussy met Emma Bardac. He found he met his Miss Right partner finally, although both he and Emma had the obligation of another family. They fell in love with each other and got a baby Chou-Chou later. They loved each other and loved their daughter Chou-Chou very much until Debussy died.
There is a theory that a person connected with two pairs of bodies including a man and a woman, but they sometimes have different opinions, it is inconvenient to go or do something. So the God let them separate apart, just like what we are now. According to this theory, everyone would go to find one's partner to be a couple in the whole life. If one gets the wrong partner, then they would be the unhappy couple, and the other two persons (their original partners) will get the wrong couple, too. So people choose married partner should be more serious.
I think we should be careful to find the other partner of life. It’s easy to hurt a person you ever loved, and if the love comes to an end, don’t blame anyone and anything, just bless each other and keep the beautiful memory in mind. It was ever the wonder time that you ever shared. And go to find your right partner continuously.
There are many students got a boyfriend or girlfriend in my school, they fell in love deeply, and showed us how sweet they were, I thought they absolutely made so sure that they would got together in the whole life, but when they graduated from senior high and entered college or university, more than eighty-five percents of them separated apart. That wasn't the question that was whose fault, just because their views had changed. Our views are always changeable, especially in the teens. Our views jump out from the well and go to the wide world, it is natural for change. It needn't to be too sorry or to hate another partner too much. So one should just devote oneself what one won't regret if separating apart or what happens. I call it "live at this moment".
If we can live at this moment always, we could avoid many regrets. We could cherish every moment that we get. Everything is changeable, every moment is valuable, managing can last things more long, but still couldn’t guarantee constant. When the thing we don’t expect comes, we need to learn to accept. Nobody is perfect, nothing is perfect. We have to accept what happens to ourselves.
To be continued………
