After watching this film, the overall feeling is not bad, but the low expectation brings a not bad viewing experience. It is still a movie dominated by plot and story as a whole. As long as the two actresses are full of emotional details, they are still doing a good job in this regard. In addition, don’t expect anything for the audience who are looking forward to two sexy performances. Although Sophie Marceau changes clothes when the film comes up, the whole film has neither too passionate pictures nor artistic nudity, so, including me Inside, let the memory of lust stay in "Days on the Clouds" and "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", not to mention that, as we will talk about later, the core of this movie is not actually an actor.
In terms of plot, this is a movie that I call "near death experience" + schizophrenia. As far as "near death experience" works, there are many similar masterpieces, such as "Sixth Sense" and "Stay", but This movie is more like a not-so-famous movie "The Life Before You", a story about a girl who was killed in a shooting and found out that she was dead only after she "grows up", that is, it puts "near death" The time of "experience" is prolonged, and the two-dimensional space grows simultaneously until one day, when they meet and merge, the truth is learned. However, it is another kind of "near death experience" movie, that is, it is not the dead, but the unwillingness of the living who do not know the truth. The extension of the plot of "experience" has indeed brought a warm and schizophrenic ending. The "near-death experience" movie mode is often the process of continuous suspense, but the progress is slow, and the audience is confused, and then the end is reversed, so it is very important that the intermediate process can capture the audience. The film seems to be too literary and mysterious in this regard. The film is basically divided into two parts. Sophie Marceau leads the first half. She has a very happy family, but she feels supernatural at home. In the incident, I saw another woman’s face in the mirror for a while, and then I saw another woman in the photo on the wall. The woman next to her husband also changed to another person. As a result, she was often hysterical, and her personal mental state and family life were both Appears precarious.
Generally speaking, the plot development of this film is not new in similar films, but there is a feature in the middle section, which has a weird transition. You can imagine how terrible it would be if you choose two of the faces of the Zhang Yangqi women who were once popular on the Internet in China, and then take half of them and stitch them together. What about the faces of two beauties? Unfortunately, the result is also uncomfortable. During the transition to the second half led by Monica Bellucci, the faces of two women are strangely spliced together, and there are some mutual conversions between them, which can be described as distorted. Occasion. I am not very comfortable with such face-to-face games, but it can also be seen as a hint to the ending, because the protagonist’s life itself is in a distorted state, she doesn’t know who she is, and the audience at this moment also thinks. In the fog, if you don’t know it, the director simply puts on the fire. Let the two faces join together. It seems to tell us that the life we see at this moment is a split and twisted life, a life that is intertwined in different spaces. For the audience familiar with such subjects, the suspense at this moment has been solved, and the rest is to guess who is the reality and who is the illusion.
Returning from illusion to reality requires cost and a painful self-recognition. Since the director makes the audience have to experience such a discomfort in the face of the weird "twin face", let alone the process of Monica Bellucci's pursuit of the truth. . I feel that in this episode, Monica gave a performance that exceeded her average level. The particular emotional fluctuations, the stunnedness of gradually understanding the truth and other details were very sensible. In this episode, the director added fire to the chaos. Suddenly there was a mother, another man, and another photo that brought a turning point. This photo is like a snapshot in the depths of memory, which suddenly aroused. After Monica’s vague memory, she finally gradually approached the truth of the memory. The car accident that caused her life and schizophrenia, a good sister left her, and brought her a huge trauma. The wound lingered so much that it ruled her heart and made her willingly to be another person. In the previous paragraph, when the main lines of life in different spaces were revealed, I thought it was a story of pure near-death experience. The emotional trajectory of the living, facing the departure of the loved one, we often do not want to believe in reality, even if the reality is right in front of us, so the short-term self-deception itself is a kind of tender self-defense. This film lengthens and deepens this self-emotional defense process, without the hideous and cruel truths that are common in schizophrenia films. At the end of this film, it looks warm and affectionate, which makes people feel a touch of warmth. Finally, Sophie Ma The scene where Suo and Monica Bellucci are typing side by side, foreshadowing that their souls are no longer tangled together, but exist in parallel. One is reality and the other is memory. With the nostalgia for their sisters, the living finally Let go of the sadness, bring that memory, and start a new life with a smile.
Like the plot, the positioning of this movie is also tangled. Two stars who look like a dream goddess in the eyes of many movie fans will appear, and people will involuntarily brand it as a commercial movie. The expectation is also a long history of literature and art, but also The fragrant and moving performance, that is, what people expected in this movie is to take the lead actor as the core. However, the film is full of niche tastes and the director’s personal taste. It uses a confusing plot structure. The director is still experimenting with some techniques in it. At the same time, there are many clues and the content is very deep. In this regard, I always feel It’s a bit too skillful in processing, and it seems to be a personal intellectual game. The narrative is somewhat unnecessarily mysterious. It also finds two actresses, which seem to be too costly for him and the audience. . Therefore, just like the distortion of the double faces in the film, this film lacks an effective excessive and natural connection between the commercial and literary faces, but it has deep rifts. Although the emotion of the film is delicate and sincere, I insist on watching it. It’s also a long time, but I feel a little regretful that I combined the expected collaboration of the two actresses to shoot such a film with the director’s personal style.
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