| Ren Guoyuan
About the author: a senior media person, former editor-in-chief of "Movie World" and editor-in-chief of "Popular Film".
Ou Rong's new film "Double-sided Lover" is almost a new low in his directorial career. This is mainly because the story of "Two-sided Lover" relies too much on fantasy. In the psychological thriller genre, reality and fantasy are often combined with reality and reality. However, like this film, the main body is occupied in length, and even the main story, important characters and climax scenes are completely occupied by fiction. It is indeed very rare, and this is also The main reason for the film's ultimate failure.
In the past, Ou Rong’s films had strange emotions and spectacles. Odd emotions are the main reason why some people compare Ou Rong’s films with Hitchcock. They are all good at digging into the dark heart of human beings and constructing them with certain psychological factors. The foundation of the entire typified story is Ou Jong's own style. He often comes to mind, intertwining fiction and reality to do unusual visual processing, because this time the wonder is too divorced from reality, as a result, it only applies to movies. The surface of the movie is not as shocking as the previous Ou Rong movies.
The classic lines of "Double-sided Lover".
Ou Rong’s films have their own good-looking places. "Double-sided Lover" still has a unique suspense and thriller effect. The erotic and symbolic elements are used boldly and freely. The opening of the chapter is the overlap of the vagina and pupils, and the inversion of the use of dildos in the middle. Sexuality will often be mentioned, although to some extent the function of visual spectacle is greater than meaning. The following is an attempt to interpret the visual elements of the film. Because of the combination of reality and fiction, this film has many things that are not easy to understand. The interpretation of these elements may be a little helpful to the understanding of the plot.
1. In the hair cutting scene, the heroine's only long hair style appears, paving the way for the unfolding of the twins' two-sided plot.
2. The vagina and pupils are superimposed, and the vagina connects directly to the soul. Part of the psychotherapy is centered on sex, and it also implies twin sisters hidden in the female subject.
3. Spiral staircase, special for psychological thrillers, because the spiral is easy to cause visual illusions.
4. Orchid, Paul and Louis both have orchids outside the clinic. Louis's orchids are planted without soil, suggesting that this character is not real.
5. The interior layout of Paul and Louis's clinic, Paul's casual and messy daily life, behind is warm sunlight, Louis's modern cold lines are straight and hard, and behind is a mirror representing the image.
6. In Paul’s consultation, the first time the hostess only mentioned her symptoms, the background was indoors, and the second time to Paul’s consultation, the background was sunny and warm, the hostess told her sexual fantasies, and an innovative one was used here. Dissolving the lens, suggesting that the relationship between the two is going further.
7. When the heroine expressed her illusion of having twin sisters to protect herself, the cooperation provided by the picture.
8. There are two scenes with rain in the background. Both times when the heroine gets along with Paul, the first time the heroine talks about her mother, the second time the cat suddenly breaks in, so the cat has a strong connection with the mother.
9. In the art gallery where the heroine worked for the first time, the exhibits are photos of innocent and romantic children, which gradually become abstract. The content of the exhibits is a more physiological flesh and blood organization, deformed and full of dual-business-oriented limbs.
10. In Paul's clinic, Paul refused to treat the female lead again because he felt that he was in love with the female lead. The camera came outside for the first time, and a window frame separated the two. They were no longer in a medical relationship.
11. Functionally, this female neighbor is part of the suspense, but in fact, she is only a representative of the image of a mother. The mother is full of intemperate enthusiasm like her, and breaks into the room regardless of privacy. The design and design of her sick daughter The situation of the heroine coincides. The habit of raising cats with the heroine is a way for them to transform the cat into their own relatives. She and the heroine have an internal connection similar to a mother and daughter, and the heroine seeks asylum when Paul is away. , The neighbor put her daughter's pajamas on the hostess's body.
12. The cat symbolizes the hostess’s mother. In the story of the hostess’s visit, she always felt watched when she was away from her mother. In the sex scene, the cat’s gaze was magnified, combined with the dialogue with the neighbor, the cat was treated as As a symbol of relatives, the cat's brooch was finally pinned to the mother's sweater.
13. Before going to work, the hostess told Paul that she had a very bad dream. After work, her image was intertwined with abstract exhibits. All of these implied that she had a fantasy that a fictional character was about to be born. All the movies before this time were realistic.
14. The first time I came to Louis’s consultation room, there was a one-second spiral staircase, followed by the way of entering Paul's room by ringing the bell. The orchids on the table and the mirror images suggest fictitious individuals. Experience to complete the fantasy.
15. This three-person sex implies that the heroine has more desire for sexual experience. In Paul's previous performance, he has always been gentle and conservative, and the heroine imagined Louis is her idealization. More bold and rude, such as the kiss of twin brothers in this sex, such as Louis and the heroine’s unusual posture, running red light tasks, such as the heroine’s sexual inversion using equipment, are the heroine’s exploration and breakthroughs in the sexual relationship, she Completed the healing of love and incompetence for oneself in the fantasy.
16. The hostess said that Louis's gift reminded her of Milo, and this brooch was actually her mother's and was borrowed from her memory. She said that this reminded her of Milo, which also proved that the cat is a symbol of mother.
17. The license plate that the hostess was tracked when she visited Sandra was the same as the last mother's license plate. In the hostess's description, the mother had been watching her, and a large part of the illusion of being tracked and persecuted came from her mother.
18. On the way the hostess was discharged from the hospital, she passed through a tunnel to enter the sunshine, but her first question still asked Paul if she wanted to have a brother. Her inner illness was not cured.
19. At the end of the sex between the heroine and Paul, it can be seen that Paul also had similar actions like Louis strangling his neck, indicating that the two are actually just one person, and everything else has not changed. The cat’s gaze and fantasy reappeared only by the male To become a female, the heroine's problem is her mother. She feels that her mother doesn't love her, but she has been monitoring her all the time.
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