Hands of reality touch the heart

Rating: 9/10 (3 March 2020)

There is no emotional ups and downs of great sorrow and joy in (can't touch). There is no big exciting scene except the ending of two sections of racing. However, the seemingly simple plot leaves a lot of room for rumination. Meredith said in (on the concept of drama and the use of comedy spirit) that the important test standard of a country's civilization is to observe the development of its comedy. From this point of view, the slow creation of a warm narrative and lively humorous language in the film also reflects the height of French civilization to some extent.
In fact, the story of the film is about a pair of abnormal master-slave relationship. From the perspective of literary creation, the narrative structure of (master servant) relationship has always occupied a place in Chinese and foreign comedies. Servants are often indispensable figures reflecting the spirit of comedy, and their wisdom and living ability are often higher than those of the upper class, just like the red lady in the story of the west chamber. In this movie, according to the normal thinking, the servant serving Philip should be as respectful as the other interviewers, but Philip saw the servant's disrespect for himself in this kind of inequality constructed by identity difference, just like the helpless heartache when Derris left and his successor casually said (he took the wrong medicine). Therefore, it was quite to his liking that Derris was careless, because he did not have the rules of others. In his eyes, Philip was not a rich patient, but a friend who could eat, drink and play together. Therefore, he would be unbridled to joke, ridicule Philip's arm, and find prostitutes to comfort his ears.
However, how can two people with different cultural backgrounds produce such friendship? Perhaps, this fate stems from the curiosity of the upper class Philip to the heterogeneous culture. His initial interest in dries is a kind of reckless and strong culture he represents. Therefore, with the help of two people who also need to be changed, the creator refers to two cultures that need to break the gap and communicate with each other. Although the film gives two kinds of cultural exchanges with good results, as Bakhtin said, it is difficult to analyze the truly comic (funny) things, because the negative factors and the positive factors are inseparable in comedy, and it is difficult to draw a clear line between them. From time to time, the film still satirizes the hypocrisy and hypocrisy of the upper class by virtue of dries' humor. In his eyes, those seemingly elegant operas, paintings and symphonies are like a pool of nosebleed sprinkled on the drawing paper.