At that time, I discovered that all kinds of love and joys and sorrows are the inescapable reality that women will face. Although they have different trajectories, although they are in different parts of the earth, and although they belong to different races, they still have Too much of the same sadness and helplessness. Life is always unsatisfactory, and no one can easily get rid of some kind of trouble.
This film is just like the title. The whole shot is filled with warm tones like caramel. In an unremarkable beauty salon on the streets of Beirut, five women staged stories belonging to that background, with caramel-like colors. The translucent adhesiveness and toughness, in the process of painful plucking again and again, experience the pain and happiness after coming to the world.
This is a film about female subjects from a female director, with a touch of warm colors and a bland life in the sun, Layari, who is always waiting for the phone, and Nisri, who is looking forward to getting married and lost because of her hymen. Homosexual Rima who concealed her true love, Jamel, a divorced woman who has lost her youth, and Rose who abandoned her life to take care of her sister. It turns out that sugar will change from a single sweetness to a strong scorching under high temperature. The taste, which is deposited there, turned out to be the ultimate irreversibility of a woman, the bitterness and sweetness of love.
What we cry out in our hearts is the cruel shirk of reality and the wisdom of sticking to the bottom line of ourselves. No matter what kind of pain there will be in life that needs to be abandoned and continued, we will all see that between the cities in the warm morning light , and that colorful and unknown corner, there is a gaze staring at us, although there is no sign from the window with the shutters down, but just like Layari, gently open That window, is it not our face that is beautiful.
Persistence and embracing good wishes are the foundation for a woman to break out of the cocoon. I watched this movie three times, and it stopped in a different position three times, maybe more than three times, but in fact I have forgotten it. I don't know why I couldn't read it all at once, and now I can't find any real traces in retrospect. Just like those beautiful and fantasy movies I have seen before, the plot is always so calm and always so plain, there are no special events that trigger noble motives, and there are no unreal and unreal scenes that drive the senses, but you can't put it together. The eyes are detached from the delicate and possibly fleeting emotion, accompanied by soft and soft music, the bitterness and nothingness of life, overflowing in the beauty salon and tailor shop in Beirut between reality.
We can't escape the misfortunes of life, and we can't completely isolate ourselves in a loveless self-world, just like philosophy, you give up sweetness when you leave suffering. When I finally saw that in the warmth, in the throbbing pulse of exotic music, Lily, who was always waiting for her lover's letter, actually said the end of her sister's love; Layari threw that person out of her body alive and stiffened Dancing over the wedding; Nisri being the perfect bride; Rema finally cutting off her long black hair, smiling brightly in front of the window in the face of her true emotions; The last power of tenacious love. My tears, left in the bottom of my heart and in my eyes, reminded me of the unbearable pain in tears. It was not full, but it was not insufficient. Because it is deep in the bottom of our hearts and flows, but the faces are full of happy smiles. It is not fake happiness, it is not a petty bourgeoisie, it is not a self-consolation to escape. Under that lens, we are alive and well. of warmth and happiness.
2010-4-26
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