A great work that has a great influence on modern art cinema. The big dick at the beginning, the film footage, and the scorched, swayed shot of Marta's anger after discovering Elizabeth's letter to the doctor was also used in Fight Club to show Tyler Durton talking to himself. condition. Obviously, "Fight Club" has absorbed a lot of this film, and it can even be said to be a continuation of "Masquerade". Of course, there are quite a few movies inspired by this film, such as "Mulholland Drive" and so on, but the depth and breadth of this film cannot be surpassed.
In terms of photography, lighting, composition, and sound processing, "Masquerade" is very avant-garde and rebellious even now. This is an all-around subversive movie.
At the beginning, a little boy who seems to be lying on a morgue bed looks at the woman's face on the screen in the distance, sometimes blurred and sometimes clear. After reading the following story and looking back at the face on the screen, it is obvious that the faces of Marta and Elizabeth are constantly changing. If you think of this child as the son that Elizabeth said she hated and hated, Then the theme of the film has been told by Bergman at this time with the prompt board. This is a story about secrets and lies that deliberately hides the darkness, releases sunlight, and unfolds in the game of truth and falsehood.
Elizabeth's career as an actress is also quite symbolic. Actors perform others on the stage, and be themselves off the stage, but the audience (others) will always see what they are on the stage. display. Elizabeth fell into silence after a performance, stopped speaking, and she completely became the role of silencer and observer. She was so terrified of the world that she hid in the corner of the room in horror when she saw TV reports of people who set themselves on fire during the Vietnam War. At this time, the nurse Marta came as a talker and a confidant. Marta took good care of Elizabeth and naively told her story in front of Elizabeth. She was so innocent, so sunny, and she was so comfortable with Elizabeth, because Elizabeth was the only one who would listen to her. That all changed when Marta told a story about her promiscuous sex with two men and one woman at the beach behind her boyfriend's back and eventually having to have an abortion. Elizabeth's letter to the doctor mentioned Marta's promiscuity, abortion, and said that Marta was a good observer. The letter was seen by Marta, who had such a dark secret under her sunny and innocent appearance. When her secrets are brought out to share, she changes her attitude towards Elizabeth. From then on, she started doing things that hurt Elizabeth, such as putting shards of glass on the ground and stabbing Elizabeth's feet. And the two most symbolic points are 1: She found the photos of Elizabeth's dead son, so she revealed that Elizabeth chose to get pregnant because she was said to lack maternal love. Dead, after giving birth to her son, she hated and hated him. This shady revelation of humanity is told twice, once on Elizabeth's face and once on Marta's. In the end, their faces merged into one 2: Elizabeth's husband came to visit her, but it was Marta who interacted with her husband from beginning to end, even though Elizabeth was always on camera, her husband didn't feel there was Her existence, at this time, Marta is her husband's wife. In bed, Marta uncharacteristically uttered the world-weary words that the world is full of lies, like a mental patient. From beginning to end, Elizabeth's face was facing the camera before her husband and Marta. These two paragraphs have already paved the way for the combination of the two later.
As Marta looked in the mirror Elizabeth put her arm around her and stroked her hair. In the ward, Marta said to Elizabeth: You can never influence me. Finally, Marta looks in the mirror and straightens her hair as she moves out of the beach house, which coincides with the previous sight of Elizabeth stroking her hair in front of the mirror. At this point, the two individuals representing the outer and inner, the real and the false are completely merged into a complete personality, a complete person. Looking back at the whole movie, it seems like a person's dialogue with himself in the spiritual realm, his own examination, his disgust and acceptance of himself. Sunlight and darkness coexist, falsehood and truth coexist, silence and discourse intertwined.
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