What it gives you is not a grand feeling, but a trickle that clearly originates from the top of the snow-capped mountains, but after continuous aggregation, it can break down the dams that people painstakingly built. I haven't seen a movie in a long time that I can't stop thinking about it, and "Portrait of a Burning Woman" even made me watch it almost ten times in just half a month. Every time I look back, I can taste more details - almost every frame is full of emotion, and it makes me think how talented the creators of this movie are.
To put it simply, this is a love story in which a painter and a lady fell in love with each other, but they could not stay together, and in the end they could only put their love in the bottom of their hearts and blend them into the painting. It's a love between two women. Some people can't accept lesbian romance and choose not to watch the movie, which is actually a great loss. In fact, this love can be established whether it is between two women, a man and a woman, or between two men. Expressing this story through women can have a more delicate emotional flow and a more tactful expression of desire. If one man and one woman are used, the story may be bloody; if two men are used, the story may be rough.
About staring
The gaze between the two is the clue that runs through the whole process of this emotional flow, and it is also the gaze that makes the perspective switch between subject and object. It witnesses how the fire of love arises, how it develops, and where it ends . And every gaze is so accurate that it is worth savoring over and over again.
In order to paint a portrait of Eloise, Marianne secretly began to observe Eloise by the sea, and this was the beginning of the stare, full of caution . On the stairs after going back, Eloise walked in front, and Marianne followed behind and stared at Eloise who was going up. The sun shone on Eloise's face. Marianne begins to describe Eloise with the technique of painting, but ends by saying that Eloise "can't take one's eyes away", which is clearly a description with her own emotions. Upstairs, when Eloise turns around, the camera turns to Marianne, her eyes telling of her slump. In this moment of staring, I think Marianne has fallen in love with Eloise. Compared to Marianne's restraint, Eloise's gaze was more direct and intense at first. Eloise, I think, also had a crush on Marianne after the first meeting. When borrowing books in Marianne's room, Eloise kept staring at Marianne, probably borrowing books was also a careful opportunity for her to create common topics and meet again.
Then the gaze later evolved into an interaction between the two . Marianne told Eloise about her favorite tune, her hands on the piano, but her eyes kept watching Eloise to see if she was interested. And when Marian forgot how to play the keys in a panic, Eloise not only couldn't bear to leave Marian, but the corners of his mouth couldn't stop raising. This is probably the state of staring at the person you like, and all the secret joy is quietly betrayed by the body.
Marianne had this state of stare, too, when Eloise was wearily asleep in bed. Marianne took out the drawing board and stared at Eloise, trying to secretly draw Eloise's sleeping position, but was discovered by Eloise. Eloise looked back at Marianne and smiled, and Marianne smiled back with joy.
This is the first meaningful mutual gaze in the film , indicating that the relationship between the two is about to become clear from ambiguity and temptation .
The next stare was when Eloise sat opposite Marianne and took the initiative to become Marianne's model. They stared at each other and revealed their feelings in conversation.
At the highest point of staring, at the bonfire party, Marianne and Eloise looked at each other in the sound of a cappella, which was a silent confession-the love was already clear . But prosperity and decline is always a well-known saying, after the highest point, it must go downhill.
The midpoint of the downhill was when they were lying on the bed together after the portrait to be delivered was completed. Eloise asked Marianne to draw a portrait of herself on page 28 of the book as a souvenir, and Marianne looked at herself in the mirror, while Eloise looked at herself painting. The gaze at this time is always filled with helplessness and helplessness.
The bottom is undoubtedly the last in the theater, where Marianne watched the married Eloise cry to the sound of the tune she had played for her. This is the true end of this relationship. This relationship will no longer echo, and the gaze of the lover will no longer have a fair and bright look, but it also implies to us that this relationship has not passed away, it will live forever in love. people's hearts.
Before the last stare, there was actually another time Marianne crossed the crowd to the portrait of Eloise. Eloise in the painting has given birth to a daughter, but still carries the book turned to page 28. Marianne smiled knowingly when she saw it - this was a secret exclusive to the two, and it was Eloise who reminded Marianne that he had never forgotten her. Thinking back to what Eloise once said, it is tantamount to killing people and killing their hearts. It is like madly stuffing glass in sugar...
About the painting
In the film, a total of seven paintings by Marianne are mentioned, namely the portrait of a burning woman, three portraits for Eloise, the abortion of the handmaid, the self-portrait painted on page 28, and Myth of Orpheus.
Two of the portraits of Eloise are the inspiration for the story and the red thread of love. After the completion of the first painting, Eloise gave a very low evaluation of "not fresh". The painter's professional skills were questioned and he became angry and destroyed his work. Although Eloise's assessment is true, it would be a bit tricky to say it through her mouth - you can leave Marianne for a while longer. In fact, under the pressure of knowing that she must marry when the painting is completed, she asked her mother to leave Marianne to paint for herself again (the trick was successful). With Eloise's active participation in the second painting, the final result is indeed much better than the first.
These two paintings add to the sadness of the film, and they don't want to but have to complete the painting that will separate them. At the same time, these two paintings also endow the film with a more realistic meaning - equality. The film has been trying to break the concept of the "muse", and one of the reasons for the failure of the first painting may be that the "muse" is at fault: Eloise is only one-sided as an object portrayed by Marianne, without any activity. The second painting, when Marianne and Eloise were on an equal footing, was much more alive, and it was they who created this painting together. "Muse" comes with creativity in the process of artistic creation, not a simple tool. People need to rely on the discovery of others.
The same is true for several other works, so I will not repeat them.
About love words
Eloise's love words began to bombard indiscriminately after the two were slightly familiar (the output ability is really powerful).
"I feel the freedom you speak of when I'm alone, but at the same time, it's a reminder of your absence."
"It's not that everything in the world is so short-lived. For example, a deep love comes from the heart."
Every love sentence is like a needle-pointed wheat awn. It seems insignificant, but it can accurately penetrate into Marianne's heart, causing a great shock.
Compared with Eloise's exposure, Marianne is much more vague: First, when Eloise asked Marianne if she knew what it was like to be a lover, Marianne answered yes and did not use the past tense. The second is when Eloise asked Marianne what she would say to models to lighten the mood, Marianne said
"You are like a spring breeze today,
You are elegant and dignified today,
You are graceful,
You are beyond beautiful. "
Look at this smile and tell Eloise "Baby I'm complimenting you" okay! Be sure to add "that's what I told them" at the end.
In the interview, the director said that love words are appreciation, debate, evaluation, analysis, how to think together and how to be touched.
I think the insights of this love story can be said to be penetrating, and it is even shown as my favorite love story in the film. At the same time, it is also the only interactive love story, so I took it out separately:
When you're nervous, you clasp your hands
Biting your lower lip when you're embarrassed
When you're grumpy, you can't take your eyes off
When you look at the person in the picture, who am I looking at?
When you are at a loss for words, you will nod and support your forehead
When you are in trouble, you will raise your eyebrows lightly
When you're cramped, you're out of breath
The observation of the lover is so meticulous, at the moment when the other party does not know it. The love for your lover is etched into your bones and will never die.
Anger about Eloise
Eloise said she couldn't smile because she was angry, Marianne thought it was her deceit that made Eloise angry, and later, Marianne thought that she didn't have the courage to take Eloise away. anger. I don't think Eloise was ever mad at Marianne, after all she regretted wasting her short time and should have shown her love earlier, how could she waste her time being mad at Marianne?
So I think Eloise was always angry that she didn't have a choice. She doesn't know anything about her future husband, and even she knows as many people as she has nothing to do with her husband. How absurd and ridiculous? She was angry at her plight at first, then at her inability to stay with her lover.
about sex
There are fewer nudity scenes in the movie, and the sex scenes are more directed by the armpits instead of the genitals. The picture will definitely make people imagine, but it actually shows more lust and lust than the direct expression. The leaves they bought at the campfire party on the bed, accompanied by the ambiguous sentence "will make you fly", and the discolored pupils, all make people blush more than the empty movement. This may be the delicateness from a female perspective.
About the soundtrack
The film's only soundtrack, at the end of the film, is Vivaldi's "Four Seasons Summer," the same piece that Marianne attempted to play for Eloise at first. At first, I did not find that this film has no soundtrack, but I can still experience the emotional ups and downs with the progress of the plot, which shows the exquisite structure of the script and the superb acting skills of the actors. Even I, who had no knowledge of symphony and fell asleep shamefully to the sound of symphony in music class, could actually re-listen to it again and again and appreciate the beauty of "Four Seasons", its "unhappy, but alive", It's not miraculous.
This love only lasted for twelve days, but its intensity increased exponentially every day. The crazy undercurrent surged, and the depression was condensed into the last summer thunderbolt. ". As a viewer, I want every romance I watch to have a happy ending, but the shackles of reality usually hit them. None of them have the courage to say "Take me away" or "I'll take you away", they are clearly real, they all know that courage is just a momentary dizziness, and will undoubtedly end in the eighteenth century. It is to be sentenced to death by love, but this is also the meaning of the times. So in our opinion, the bad ending may be regarded as a happy ending in that era.
This film is a love letter that the director wrote to his ex-girlfriend, Adela, who plays Eloise in reality. Eloise is also based on it, so it is more real than the emotion of many movies.
I should admit that the reason it impressed me so much was the fact that it brought actual specimens of my fantasy love. To be able to have such a deep and forever memorable relationship, to be able to love someone and be loved by someone so purely, is probably blessed by the goddess of luck - I have a pessimistic attitude towards my luck, but its appearance has given me hope.
The 12-year relationship between the director and Adela has finally ended, but their deep affection still exists in each other and is pinned on this i-movie.
Maybe it's true, it's enough to keep love in the bottom of my heart, not all feelings have to be together for a long time.
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