Marguerite Duras: Hiroshima Mon Amour I. Plot Through the dialogue between a French woman and Japanese man—a pair of immoral lovers, the past of the woman is revealed more and more. II. Theme àHiroshima vs. Histoire: international history and personal story This personal story always dominates the necessarily demonstrative Hiroshima story. *How to present? By placing the immoral lovers in Hiroshima, where the name of the place is associated with the atomic bomb in WWⅡ and the sufferings of Japanese people. Emphasizing the background history by making SHE an actress who comes to cast in a movie about peace. àMemory vs. Oblivion/Forgetfulness: the passage of time SHE: Like you, I too have tried with all my might not to forget. Like you, I forgot. Like you, I wanted to have n inconsolable memory, a memory of shadows and stone. SHE:…I’m beginning to forget you. I tremble at the thought of having forgotten so much love… *How to present? By the fear of forgetting the German soldier and the determination of leaving the Japanese man. III. Paradox àWar vs. Peace, Life vs. Death IV. Immoral love àSHE and the German vs. SHE and the Japanese: treason and adultery àExile: love is her country. V. Name àNevers: never/rien, impossibility HE: You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing. HE: Nothing. You know nothing. VI. Style of Duras àPlotless sequences, noncharacters, stylistic effects àBi-film: two stories *Background music: partⅠ and partⅤ
*Why? Feminism: living beyond social expectations
àHiroshima: the place full of traumatic victims of the WWⅡ
àMusical affinities
*Sonata form: exposition, development, recapitulation
àPoetic elements:
為了這份報告,先是迷迷糊糊看完劇本
再來一面看電影一面做筆記,最後找了一大堆書來猛翻
睡都睡不安穩
Marguerite Duras實在是個風格強烈的女人
Alain Resnais則把整個劇本發揮到最極限
連選角都那麼貼近劇本營造出來的感覺
如果不看電影就無法了解這個劇本寫到怎樣精彩的一個地步
關於現在以及過去,同樣瘋狂違背倫理的愛。
Emmanuelle Riva. 誰比她更適合ELLE?
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