In my last post, I
have already given the brief introduction of Le Hérisson. Through the camera of an 11 year old girl,
she gave her insightful observations of her parents and neighbors. Like I said
before, Le Hérisson means the elegance of hedgehog.
Among all the
characters in the film, Renee, a 54 year old resident janitor of the building, impressed
me deeply.
She is exactly
like a hedgehog that few people pay attention to her. Renee had a very plain
and quite life. She didn’t care about her appearance, never be intimate to
others.
However, after she
closed the door of her room, we see a quiet different world of Renee. She is a very
elegant woman who reads lots of books and has insightful opinion on many
literatures.
Before she meet
that Japanese man who newly moved in, no one knows her secrets. She refuses and
afraid to expose her inner world to others. She is afraid to fall in love with
that Japanese man. In the end, when she finally convinced herself to be ready
for a new life with that man she loves, a car accident took her life a way.
The end of this film
is quite tragedy. In the end of the film, Renee died peacefully. And there is a
sentence below: never too late to love.
