Fool in May (MayFool, 1989, France, directed by Louis? Mahler) Dining table-the most common scene of French movies at the altar: drinking and eating around the table and talking endlessly, drinking more wine than eating food, and talking more than drinking wine. For the French, it is not so much the church as the dining table, which is their altar and the origin of French thought. In the petty bourgeoisie movies of Houmai and Gotha, the hero and heroine often sit at the table, having coffee, red wine, desserts, and gossiping, carefree feelings. The dining table is of course a central scene of the French family. In movies about French families, the dining table scene will never be missed. My Father's Glory, My Mother's Castle and Sunday in the Country are all nostalgic movies about life in France before the First World War. The middle-class families in it took the train to the countryside for a holiday on weekends and holidays, and the whole family sat around the table, which was a good old time. ?

in Louis? Mahler's Fool in May is already a revolutionary era in the middle of the century, but even observing the revolution is inseparable from "inviting guests to dinner". At the beginning of the film, the grandmother from other provinces, who represents the traditional aftertaste, died in the broadcast of the storm in May 1968-she was cutting onions in the kitchen to prepare lunch before she died. The children living in the city came to attend the funeral, and a family reunion under the background of the May storm constituted the story of the film. The film made in 1989 took such a perspective on the performance of the May revolutionary storm, which was smart and interesting, with a leap-forward examination after the dust settled, and made a generous mockery of the French middle-class families-good and bad-with a smile, in which food was also looming. When the old lady died, her son Milu was very sad. Lunch was a plate and a bottle of red wine, but he hardly moved. He was in a bad mood. Next, the daughters, granddaughters and others came back. This is a well-off family with real estate, drinking red wine, eating beef bone marrow and bread. But at this dinner table, before the old lady's bones were cold, the selfish granddaughter took the lead in arguing about how to divide the inheritance, and the old lady's son didn't eat well. The next day, he took the children to catch shrimp in the stream, and the next day's dinner was boiled shrimp. Milu still remembered to say "Don't forget to put vinegar!" " He and his mother have been living in the country, and they still insist on tradition and don't want to sell their house. As for the granddaughter who is obsessed with her grandmother's legacy, the first thing to do is jewelry-sets of tableware. ?

The constant broadcast of revolutionary storms on the radio has paralyzed the economy, and the prices of gasoline and food are rising. At night, because the shops were closed and the traffic was blocked, the family was about to break up. The revolutionary nephew appeared in a truck carrying Spanish tomatoes, but the road to Paris was blocked and the truck couldn't go to Paris, so the driver simply gave the tomatoes to the villagers. Because the funeral home was closed, the Milu family couldn't hold a funeral, so they simply had a picnic on the grass, munched on Spanish tomatoes known as "apples of love", ate cherry cream pie and shared marijuana, and the topic became relaxed, talking about women's orgasm freedom. This is undoubtedly the scene of the sixties-free love and sex save everything, picnics on the grass and Spanish tomatoes all represent the cheerful side of the May Storm Party. Milu and his sister-in-law enjoy red wine in the wine cellar, which also conveys flirting and goodwill; Milu's daughter ran to the top floor with her childhood sweetheart to get eggs and renew the old love; Milu's unmarried sister brought a girlfriend, but this girlfriend is going to form a "revolutionary comrade-in-arms" with Milu's nephew on the grass, and she is going to Paris to participate in sports the next day ... The air is full of romance and sex, but soon the Milu family's mood turned to a low ebb, because I heard that the revolution was to overthrow the capitalists, and the Milu family was a landlord anyway. The family got scared and hid in the Woods. Fortunately, the neighbor also brought a roast leg of lamb, but before he finished eating, he fled because he heard someone coming! Roast leg of lamb is a classic French dish. The situation that it is thrown on the grass represents the impact of the revolutionary storm on the traditional system, while Spanish tomatoes represent the atmosphere of freedom and liberation brought by the revolution. After the revolutionary storm subsided, everyone went back to their own lives. But when they left, the shrimp-catching stream in Milu flowed into the sewage discharged from the factory-the capitalists were not overthrown, but even more rampant. Louis? Milu wrote a complex emotion about the May storm, accompanied by roast leg of lamb and red tomato, which became an unforgettable taste in French memory.