The Ending
I had a hard time with the ending and the first part of the movie where the cement is showed and Julian as a young boy is talking. Yes he does say "you must never play, even if your best friend wants you to. That’s burying yourself in a block of cement" but it's his voice as a child and at the end of the movie he says "Sophie is my best friend" as a child again. I think that was put in too say that he was willing to do anything for her- to show his commitment to the game (love) . When the cement with Julian/Sophie is showed Julian says "and that's how we won the game, together. Deep in concrete we finally shared our childhood dream, the dream of endless love". Maybe the elderly people are the “endless” love. They have died but their souls are together in love. That could explain the display of scenes in the movie like when their kissing as kids, teens, adults, and elderly people. The story of Julian and Sophie ends in a grand finale in which love and death appear to be unified, its a anothor test of love and of the game. Their goal is to be together forever and have happiness without end.
They were still in love and always would be in love with each other. They had tormented each other throughout their young, teen and adult lives. To be sure that they would never be without each other they had to kill themselves. I do believe so in a way. As you watch the movie you see that the harder one plays the harder it is to communicate one's emotions.
Understanding The Characters
Yann Samuell took a risk in making this film as it would have been very easy, had he made the slightest mistake, for the audience to get increasingly frustrated with the characters whom we can tell from the beginning are paving a road for themselves to self destruction. This, however, is not the case. Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard are so endearing in their portrayals of Julian and Sophie that we find ourselves quickly taken in by their games. They are so fragile as characters that we are not able to reprimand them for their actions, as the rest of the world around them does, but only want to shield them from the world. For it does not take very long to realize that the dares they set themselves do not stem from impertinence (which is what you first think) but because, as young children, this complicity was the only way they could isolate themselves from the things that were happening (Julian's mother dying and Sophie's poverty) and express their feelings for each other. As they get older, their reluctance to cease these games is due to their fear that if they do stop they will lose the naivety and the principle that their relationship was first based on and in doing so will also lose each other. No matter how much they hurt themselves through these childish games, they continue to accept each other's dares which, above all, are a sign of commitment to each other.
Review
This movie is brilliant, breathtaking, and amazing. You really have to watch it more than once. The fist time to see what happens and the second to appreciate the wonder of this film and understand the characters. Third and etc. you watch the film because you like it.
Rating
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Susbtitles: English
Video Quality: Medium- Good
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