It doesn't look like gossip. And this matter is also interpreted from different angles. For example: American law is really awesome. An old case committed by a world-renowned film director 31 years ago is still being pursued, no matter how famous you are. But the girl involved, it is said that she has already forgiven Polanski, why did the American police pursue it? In addition, Polanski's own tragic experience of the murder of his wife and children, as well as the classic films he made during his 31 years of fleeing the United States, added a lot to him and the whole thing.
If the fact is basically like this, there are probably only words like sigh and sigh to describe my mood - and I am a strong audience of Polanski movies. It's an old story, I don't have much say, but I finally know that I owe some words to Polanski's film.
Polanski's most successful film is, of course, The Pianist. Although this World War II-themed film does not have the grand historical perspective of "Schindler's List", it is better in terms of compassion, and the fate of the characters is even more worrying. This is not only an excellent film among all World War II-themed films, but also the best of all "piano films" (with the word "piano" in the title), although "Piano Lesson", "Piano Teacher", "Piano" The "Piano Films" of The Pianist at Sea are also classics.
"The Pianist" is so good, but I would like to dedicate more words to "The Bitter Moon" - although this movie has not received as many honors as "The Pianist", it is unique in my opinion. Compared with "The Pianist", "Bitter Moon" is a relatively niche film, and the content and image it expresses is also aimed at specific emotional individuals; as for the fate of the characters in the film must be added to the background of the times , and then come to the fate of the middle class, which is considered to be playing the wrong piano.
"Bitter Moon" is all about its "bitterness," a kind of suffering that is condensed by loneliness, sadness, and despair. From ancient times to the present, the moon has always been the companion of human emotions. You can see that there are so many "Yue Yue poems" in Tang poetry. The moon itself has no emotions, but the moon has the richest emotions, and it all depends on the person under the moon. The ancients chanted the moon, most of which revolved around lovesickness, melancholy, affection, etc. It seems that the word "bitter" has never been used to directly describe the moon, so the translation of "bitter moon" in Polanski's film is really good (the English title is "Bitter Moon"). I remember that the moon did not actually appear in the film, and the moon has become synonymous with emotion here.
The moon is bright and bitter, what kind of life is this? Oscar and Mimi, the couple who used to love each other madly and abused each other madly in the movie, the end of their life is the word "bitter". What does Polanski want to say? From an outsider's point of view, Polanski's life was full of glory and halo, but he couldn't escape suffering.
Look at the characters in "Bitter Moon": At first, Oscar was satisfied with the carnival of the flesh, and he was really overjoyed - a down-and-out writer living in a foreign country, Lonely Liao is obviously his frequent visitor, and suddenly one day he met on the street A beautiful woman, can he not be delighted that this encounter radiates the enthusiasm and energy of his life? And it's maddening - all the loneliness and loneliness are driven away by the same wild woman. However, under the carnival, the old man's extreme spiritual emptiness and the flaws of his personality were increasingly exposed. Not only did he fail to save him from having sex with a woman in a foreign country, but instead led him to an uncontrollable path of seeking pleasure— - It was after designing and sending Mimi away that the old man began to indulge in short, fresh and exciting sex games with strange women.
I think Mimi is a unique female character designed by Polanski. In my opinion, this female character is not sexy and beautiful, but she has a unique taste and is very easy to remember; even when she is very melancholy, she cannot hide the wildness of her body. No wonder Hugh Grant's character couldn't hold her back on the boat, even though he knew he shouldn't touch her.
"Bitter Moon" is such a film. The emotional entanglement of the whole film lies in the deformed love and madness of Oscar and Mimi. Polanski is known as the "Master of Guilty Movies", and this movie is only suitable for those who watch this movie, where sex is at the heart of everything, it tries to break through, tries to save, but ends up at the gunpoint ; however willingly - even if sex is bitter, it cannot stop lonely people from pursuing sex willingly and fearlessly. However, the lonely man yearns for sex because of loneliness, but sex makes him fall into a vortex of deeper loneliness, so he has to choose the highest form of life: death.
Of the Polanski films I've seen, I think this one is the most unique, which is why I'm willing to spend more words here. Polanski probably had a bitter moon in his heart to make such a film. Loneliness and despair are the emotional tone of this film. In terms of the realistic feeling of despair in life, I think "Bitter Moon" is better than "Last Tango in Paris". Other old Bo movies, like the early "Sailor Knife", are also very distinctive. There are only three characters in the whole film, and the scene is very simple. In addition, like "Oliver Twist", "Tess", "The Ninth Door", "Chinatown", etc., are all good films. If a generation of film masters really spend the rest of their lives in prison in their old age, this joke is really big enough. Polanski's life was not enough for him to make films.
-by Feng Mai Di 2009.9.28 night
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