"ordinary" woman

Jana 2022-03-09 08:01:58

It will be a movie I want to watch a second time. Why is the face of the woman on the poster colorful? The monochromatic photography with shrouded lights gave me the answer. It won’t be a vulgar electronic psychedelic atmosphere. Every time it appears, it is aimed at the emotions. The life-like and restrained photography language is not enough to highlight the flash but is charming enough. It is a single person occupying the lonely scene, there is no fascinating novel plot full of curiosity, composed of trivial life, not like the European and American way of life, not the local daily life, there is no earth-shattering action because of the focus on LGBTQ theme, but there are novel things The familiar and realistic feeling of the film makes me have the patience to look forward to the next step. I think this is the director's original intention to tell an ordinary woman's "ordinary" story in an ordinary tone. I found out that the director is also the director of the same-sex movie "Disobedience", this one is so much better

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Extended Reading
  • Emilia 2022-03-23 09:03:26

    This is 2017's To Die Like a Man. Even tighter and better. Layers upon layers of social critique, each overlapping with another just a bit, highlighting a different aspect of her experience of this particular positionality. And just the right amount of surrealism.

  • Darius 2022-03-22 09:02:57

    Not only how to be a woman, but also how to be a complete person who is independent and not subservient to society and others' grievances and not showing weakness. The casting of the heroine is bold and successful. A fantastic woman exactly.

A Fantastic Woman quotes

  • Profesor de Canto: Saint Francis says, Make me an instrument of your love, make me a channel of your peace.

  • Sonia: [to Marina] Sorry if it's crude and blunt of me to say this, but I really think that this is just perversion. Sorry, but... When I look at you, I don't know what I'm seeing. A chimera, that's what I see.

    Marina Vidal: A chimera... yeah.

    Sonia: Sorry.

    Marina Vidal: There's no need to be sorry. You're normal, ma'am. You're fine, ma'am.

    [walks away]