"Carol" has really been on my mind for more than half a year. Until now, two days after watching the movie, from waiting to brewing movie reviews, it's all worth it. Worth the goosebumps as I sat in front of my computer preparing to codeword the episode "Taxi" from the movie.
I decided to start writing this movie review, so I replaced the desktop of my mobile phone with a movie poster, downloaded the soundtrack of the movie, watched the clips I was impressed by again and again, and tried to restore myself here as much as possible. In the context of the movie, exiled in the United States in the 1950s, even trying to find "a mint julep (mint julie)" sung in the interlude to get drunk. Maybe by doing this, I will be closer to the movie - the kind of love that happens between women will be more subjectively experienced, and will not live up to the emotions that break down and cry with the plot.
However, until the film review was finally written, I didn’t quickly withdraw from my emotions. As everyone said, “Hines understands women better than women”-he expected that there were not many women who really understood the film. One can escape from the plot and escape from the emotions.
They will probably experience Carol's life and live like her - whether or not they find Therese in their lives, live weak but not fragile, face life with compassion and pride, take your heart well and accept it. responsible for the changes.
Let’s look back at a few memorable movie clips:
(1)
The story is reversed. The heroines were chatting while dining in a restaurant, and were interrupted by a reckless man wearing a top hat. Then the two separated, and on the return car, Therese, a young woman sitting in the car, looked at the fast-running heroine Carol through the foggy window. The persistence and eagerness in her eyes had long since betrayed her dashing calmness in the scene of saying goodbye to each other.
If you pay attention to the background music at this time, the melodious and lonely melody of "christmas trees" is like an aphasia patient who is eager to tell you the whole story, but can't speak. He can only express it by playing the musical instruments around him.
As Therese captures Carol's figure, it gets more and more ups and downs, and when she finally locks her eyes on Carol, the love that is about to come out coincides perfectly with the climax of the music.
However, in the interlacing of light and shadow that stretched farther and farther, the light of hope in the eyes slowly faded away, and the melody of the music seemed to have lost its vitality.
The ensemble parts were stripped away one by one, leaving the last violin at the end with Therese's eyes, and it stopped abruptly in the night.
(Rooney's profile is perfect like an illusion, but it is also the profile that brings the repressed reluctance to the extreme)
(2)
Then, Carol, who made countless fans exclaimed, appeared in the film, no matter from the soundtrack, color tone, shooting technique , showing a retro and simple atmosphere, even if Cate wears a mink coat, it may make the Northeast women who are "no mink not happy" proud.
Carol's appearance is to choose gifts for her daughter. She browses the merchandise without purpose, wearing a light brown mink coat, playing with the leather gloves in her hands bored (this is also the main foreshadowing of her follow-up story with Therese),
The red lips highlight the strong character of this character. The popular hats for women in the 1950s are more refined. Coupled with the pompousness between the eyebrows, Therese will eventually make Therese from the first sight. He was shocked, and his eyes never left this woman with a story.
(The image of Therese has been in my heart for a long time, she is like everyone's first contact with love - so eager for love, and trying her best to show lightness, she can always get from her In his eyes, the comical feeling of "the teenager is forced to express his sorrow for the creation of new words" is immature and lovable.)
(3)
Then, like all the protagonists, they met at the beginning of the story, and many people will honor Kate " Girl flirting maniac", when I think about it now, it's really like this - just a few words, making Therese, who was already in love at first sight, willingly pay and hurt her heart -
"I'll buy whatever you recommend"
"Come to my house for dinner another day. Come on, I'll pick you up"
"Pack up your things and travel with me across the United States, I'll drive"
(Only watching the movie, I feel the deepest feeling is the soul-stirring beauty of the two heroines and the incomparable match !)
(four)
This scene that moved countless audiences happened when Therese left Carol's residence for the first time. She sat in the car and broke down and cried.
Therese, who has never been involved in Carol's life and visited Carol's house for the first time, has never been married and doesn't even know what marriage is, but she witnessed Carol quarrel with her husband who is in the process of divorce.
The kind of Desperate Housewives-like pain and full of grievances, like electric waves, reached Therese's heart, making her heart sting like this after witnessing Carol's life, and the tears in her eyes became more and more turbulent.
I think this is probably the best interpretation of "pain what you hurt".
(5)
Of course, I am also willing to add some bright pictures to the retelling of the plot, which is the beauty of love.
As long as they are together, no matter what unknowns they are facing, what they will not lose is their passion for getting to know each other better.
Carol says she doesn't know what her four-year-old daughter likes, talks about her marriage, Therese says she loves photography, knows about trains, plays Carol's piano, smells each other's perfume, even a joke that the audience can't laugh at will make them happy for a long time .
Compared with other romance films, the protagonists have very few dialogues, but it is this kind of "love that is more accustomed to silent love than chatting" that allows this lust to bloom most wanton in the smallest format...
(6 )
Therese went to Carol's house and played "Easy living", Carol was attracted by the sound of the piano, came over and stroked Therese's shoulder calmly, praising her for her talent, but the ripples in Therese's heart were aroused. never left...
(7)
On Christmas Eve, Carol came to Therses' house with a box of cameras and film as gifts. Therese understood Carol's pain with just one traumatic gesture. This time, she patted her back gently. , like her backing, and asked Carol, "Is there any other way?", and then they came to the rooftop. Carol said that the divorce made her very upset and wanted to go out to relax. Therese's eyes flashed a trace of disappointment, Carol's sentence "would you come with me?" cut through the night like redemption, "yes yes I would!"
They are each other's support, they are the stars in each other's night sky, and they are the guiding lights when each other loses their way, so they are fearless and brave!
(8)
The next picture of them being in the same frame, whether it is the initial acquaintance with each other, mutual affection, intense sex, or later silence, or even a meeting after a temporary farewell - as long as they are together Yes, the viewer's emotions are warm, and they are illuminated by this warm tone, even if they are sad or disappointed.
the first road trip of the two heroines, Therese quickly adjusted the camera nervously and uncomfortably, just to capture her every move when Carol hadn't noticed, but Carol, who had already noticed it, almost Before she was captured by the camera, she posed calmly, seemingly casual but charming. This aura, which only belongs to Queen Kate, perfectly explains why Therese fell in love at first sight and fell into the arms of this woman like a moth.
(9)
"my angel. Flung out of space" Carol said,
"Don't turn off the light, I want to look at you" Therese said,
and then this lust, in the smallest pattern, bloomed most wanton
There is no doubt that this is the mutual attraction of two people. We
definitely call it love .
That 's it .
Carol and Therese's romantic road trip came to an abrupt end. Because of Carol's ex-husband's obstruction, they forcibly tore each other's bodies and their lives apart without even saying goodbye. Not only did Carol quit Therese's life, she didn't even allow them to have any more contact. Therese went home, and when she developed the film with a depressed mood, she couldn't take it anymore - dialed Carol's phone, and shouted "I miss you I miss over and over again to the hung up phone. you Carol I miss you". The audience's heart fell into the abyss while the story fell to the bottom, as if it would never meet the light again.
(12)
The so-called unforgettable must have memories, no matter how heavy the rain, there will be sunny sunshine. Carol finally stood up bravely and chose to divorce. Carol in the original book even gave up custody of her daughter because of her obsession with Therese. Therese grew up as fast as Carol had hoped and became a true "photo editor". When they meet again, what is hidden under the seemingly unfamiliar sense of alienation is still the souls that they can't wait to hug each other tightly.
After going through their respective stages of life, Therese forgives Carol for leaving without saying goodbye. Carol was at a business party with a man, and the girl who waited for her came to her firmly - as the camera got closer to each other, they finally saw each other in the crowd. These eyes have longed for thousands of times in their hearts. With the slightly raised smiles at the corners of the heroines' mouths, they ushered in happy ending.
(13) A film review with too many personal touches in the
final words
is bound to be a meager work that ignores other characters in the play. This profound enough experience will make me willing to live under the halo of the film, The experience of love that is greater than desire brings life to life, whether it be laughter or tears, Hines should enjoy the most intuitive feeling of the audience, because his interpretation of "love between women" is just right.
Thanks to Cate and Rooney for their light-hearted but amazing acting skills, which made the audience lick the screen without any image and worth the price.
Finally, I put an off-screen photo of the female protagonists. After choosing for a long time, only this picture of Cate's doting on Rooney seems to continue the plot in the movie, which makes us believe that their love is inexhaustible. In time, it lasts forever.
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