This movie should be the most simple and easy-to-understand movie of PTA, focusing only on the love of two people. Some people call the film lackluster, and I disagree. Thousands of words would be enough to talk about Alma and Woodcock's relationship alone, not to mention the costumes in this Oscar-winning film.
The original impetus to watch the film at first came from a natural interest in costume design. As dior's fashion notes write: luxury is the opposite of elegance. Elegance can be bold, but it can never be extravagant. Extravagant luxury is the embodiment of poor taste. Elegance is written in every shot in the film, which is the right combination of personality, naturalness, sophistication and simplicity. Every costume in the movie has something worth learning and appreciating. In addition, what makes people want to explore is nothing more than love between men and women.
At the beginning of the film, Alma and Woodcock's relationship itself is one that spans classes. Woodcock thought alma was his muse, his inspiration. Hard-hitting class-flowing lover, love is just a false concept.
The beginning of the relationship was misshapen. Alma is the parasite and Woodcock is the arbor. There was an insurmountable chasm between him and her, which lasted until that dinner prepared by alma, and the relationship between the two has changed subtly since then. Until alma gave Woodcock a poisonous mushroom for the first time, making him sick. His strength, his arrogance and self-esteem were all defeated when he fell ill.
With the help of poisonous mushrooms, alma changed from parasite of arbor to python, forming a strange symbiotic relationship with woodcock. The film uses the lens to describe this kind of gothic romance, which makes people feel depressed, and the emotional control of this game also brings people a lot of feelings.
Just like alcohol and tobacco, they are poisonous mushrooms in life. It allows us to unleash our stupidity, arrogance, lust in the dark, it is a tool for us to try to escape reality, it makes us willing to fall. But it is worth reminding that stupidity and depravity are allowed. It's unnecessary to hide it, but it's not the norm in life, it must not be.
Among the deformed descriptions of the art of the film, the last thing that should not appear is the values. But in life, the most important thing is values, which is the difference between art and life. Deformed love is not worthy of encouragement. Regarding such love, it is equivalent to drinking poison to quench thirst for a person's redemption.
We don't talk about love, love is the most ethereal and uncontrollable thing. Love is a perfume that can only be secretly released at night, and it is invisible.
I just ask: what am I keeping you for?
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