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 reflections about "All about Lily Chou-Chou" part (2): ~by Cheng
The film names "All about Lily Chou Chou". Lily is the ex-wife of the music composer Debussy; Chou-Chou is the daughter of Debussy. Let us see something about Lily, Chou-Chou and Debussy.
Debussy cohabited with a girl name Gabrielle Dupont for nine years, later he married with Rosalie Texier, a friend of Gabrielle, a fashion model and her nickname was Lily.
Later he became increasingly irritated by Rosalie's intellectual limitations and lack of musical sensitivity. After five years, he met Emma Bardac, the mother of his student and the wife of a banker; he left Lily away and went with Emma.
The next year, their baby whose nickname was Chou-Chou was born, he liked Chou- Chou very much, and composed some music for her (Children's Corner suite was dedicated for Chou-Chou). Finally these two couples divorced, three years later, Debussy married with Emma. They had a quite happy life until he died (about ten years). Unfortunately, Chou-Chou was dead with only fourteen years old by being infected with the diphtheria epidemic.
First Gabrielle was heart-broken, especially Debussy, whom she had cohabited with for nine years, but he abandoned her to marry with Rosalie Texier, a friend of Gabrielle, Gabrielle attempted to suicide herself, her life turned gray from colorful.
Then Lily was depressed, too. She got marriage with Debussy; she did nothing wrong but being abandoned. She changed from kind into hysteria, she also attempted to suicide herself, her life turned gray from colorful, too.
“All the things you hold dear: friends, family, lovers, hurt you the most." Let's come back to the film.
First, Yuichi was bullied by his friend Hoshino; he appreciated Hoshino very much, because he is so excellent in many ways.
Second, Tsuda was followed by his classmate Yuichi, she gave him money to test him, but found that he didn't care about her. He just want to supervised her for money and worked for Hoshino.
Third, Kuno was brought by her classmate Yuichi to the old factory and was raped by Hoshino's subordinates. I think Kuno must had trusted Yuichi very much and still liked Hoshino, but she was raped by those from Hoshino's order. Who could stand being rape by her love’s order?
Fourth, Yuichi found his close network friend "Blue cat" was Hoshino who bullied, abused him and ruined the lives of his classmate Tsuda and his love Kuno. Yuichi was bullied and forced to do many things that he didn't want to do, he didn't dare to resist, he only could find some relief in Lilly’s music and talk to others in the network. "Blue cat" was the only one who understood him, but in reality, he was the hateful one. Yuichi was so desperate.
Nothing is constant. Anything is possible to occur in the next moment. We are heart-broken when the occurred events were not in our expectation. On one hand, we must cherish what we have now; on the other hand, we must learn to accept them, and learn more wisdom to deal with things beyond our expectation.
