"Seriously Wounded in Love" directed by Louis Mahler has been translated into "Fire Lover" and "Destruction". About 10 years ago, I saw the introduction of this film for the first time in "Movie World". In the stills, Jeremy Irons is close to Juliet Binoche, as if to squeeze into her body. Go, both of them closed their eyes tightly, and the blinds cast shadows on their faces. A proud British MP fell in love with his son's girlfriend. What kind of uncontrollable feeling is that, I especially want to know. At that time, Hou believed in love, thinking that when love came, people would be dragged and run by it without knowing the direction. It was too late to think that there was a cliff or the sea in front of him.
About 1999, I bought the VCD of "Love Severely Injured". In the past few years, I have experienced some things and feelings, but I still retain the curiosity or expectation of this movie. I don't know why, I think I will like it. That disc is funny. The first film turned out to be the first half of "Queen Margot", and the second film was the second half of "Love Severely Injured". My first contact with it was incomplete. There was no beginning but only results. . The English name of the movie "damage" has the meaning of being broken, which is a kind of destiny to think about.
In the past few years in my memory, there is also a British film, forget the director and actors, only remember the name is "Tunnel". The heroine is very beautiful, with long black hair, elegant posture, and has an excellent appreciation for art; the hero is a painter, and fell in love with her at first sight in his painting exhibition, perhaps it is more appropriate to call it crazy. She has a husband, and she is ambiguous with her cousin, and at the same time does not reject the painter’s love; he loves her, but is burned by the flames of jealousy every day, and finally, one late night, in the pouring rain, he stabbed a knife Into her body. I especially like the name of this movie. I imagine a man's heart is walking through a dark tunnel, the only beam of sunlight shining through the cracks, and then disappearing quickly, he can only destroy himself in the burning.
Such men are mostly natural indulgence, and genius men are easily destroyed by emotion. Because they are excellent and lonely, they yearn for love more than ordinary people. They want to use love to drive away the emptiness. The ubiquitous emptiness is full of life, and Van Gogh cut off his ears.
A few days ago, I bought the DVD of "Seriously Injured in Love" at the disc market. In the silent night, I saw the beginning and the end completely for the first time and felt very familiar. Those plots have appeared thousands of times in my imagination.
Fleming, played by British actor Jeremy Irons in "Seriously Wounded in Love", is the most handsome middle-aged man I have ever seen. He is thin, white shirt, dark suit, and meticulous hair. It was chiseled out by a hammer and a carving knife, and the eyes were wrapped in ice, and there was turbulent water under the ice. When he was upstairs in the Paris hotel, watching Anna and his son in the opposite room making each other, the man curled up on the bed, crushed by loneliness.
This is an inexplicable feeling, just look at it, everything is confirmed. Fleming looked directly at Anna, eyes full of nothingness before the universe was born. He was confused and helpless, and didn't know what to do with the woman in front of him. He walked over, Anna slid off the corner of the bed and stretched her arms back. She looked at him, her body was obedient, and her eyes were challenged. Fleming stood in front of Anna, trying to hold her in his palm, coax her, rub her gently, begging her not to leave, wishing to tear her to pieces, swallow every piece of her flesh, and make her suffer. Weeping. Everything ends in sex, and the body and will fall into the abyss together, so terrifying and so sad.
Juliet Binoche often plays such a woman with a story-a dual character, both a prey and a hunter, fragile and independent, self-protective and unruly. Pale Anna walks on the dark streets of London, a trap and a boon for all men. She can't contain her frenzy in her black clothes. A phone call, a bunch of keys, an abyss, dangerous and charming, she wants to marry Son, without giving up on his father, when Fleming’s son Mark witnessed their perverse love, after falling down the stairs, she disappeared among the crowd on the street corner. The famous line, "The wounded are the most dangerous. They know how to survive."
Louis Mahler was born on October 30, 1932. He was one of the new wave directors who emerged in the 1950s in France. He died of cancer in 1995. "Seriously Injured in Love" was released in 1992 and was Mahler’s penultimate work. Mahler was already 60 years old. He said: "The longer I live, the less I believe in thoughts, but the more I believe in feelings."
At the end of the film, many years have passed. Framing, wearing leggings, carried a bag of fruits, and walked around the silent streets of a foreign land. "It's easy for people to live alone. I travel until I find my own life. I don't know what people do. "In the simple room, there was the photo with his son and Anna back then, and he muttered to himself, "I only saw her once, at the airport. She didn't see me. She was with Pete and hugging him. A child, nothing like other women." He said calmly, and the camera slowly moved towards the photo, towards Anna's pale face and dark eyes.
I think "Tunnel" is also like Louis Mahler's work. The painter who killed his lover stayed in a narrow cell. A beam of skylight shot down from a small window high on the wall. He fell on a small table and calmly Write your own memories.
How cute is such a man who is ruined by emotions.
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