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downloadBeau-père (1981) - writer/director Monsiuer Bertrand Blier
Beau Pere is about the coming of age of a young
woman. While some think that it deals with incest
and other such tripe, This in
fact, is
sheer nonsense, the young woman is of marriageable age in most
countries
(although it would be a waste of her life, no doubt) and
is simply the daughter
of the woman
formerly the lover of the man in question here, in this movie that
takes on her education as it were,
as to what the world thinks of her budding
emotions in such respects.
The importance in this movie it seems to me is
that it shows that the proper handling of human emotions
is critical to
emotional and the overall psychological well being of each individual and indeed
the whole
of society and that this cannot be left up to a charlatan when it comes to the raising of children, or the
initiation into the world of loving
relationships by those ill equipped to do so.
That is my opinion of the particular dynamics
between the two souls here that are flung together by
the tragic death of a
beautiful young woman, the mother in question that I refer to in the paragraph
above. While the young daughter displays a desire for genuine love caring
compassion and a real hug,
she is in fact been matched with the personality of
what we would call a "geek" by any comparison at all.
This is what
makes the movie important.
If you analyze the interactions closely, you will
find she is merely being manipulated and abused in
fact by a personality type
that cannot do her justice in fact as they are altogether from different
orientations on the matter. Sensitivity has more to do with substance than
merely superficiality in
style that merely seeks to assert itself as adequate in
this regard. It must actually accomplish its
aim in the minds of a truly sensitive viewer and certainly the recipient of such treatment and
interactions
generally. The young woman therefore needs a "real Frenchman" that has
earned his
great reputation among men, rather than simply a default "member
of the French club" as it were.
This important movie better teaches us to care and
to do so in honest manner by matching people
appropriately. And it takes the
willingness to call a spade a spade, if abusive outcomes are to be
avoided
altogether in fact, as "you cannot teach an old dog new tricks" as it
were.
Michael Rizzo Chessman
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