The chaotic scent of summer

Kirstin 2022-02-07 14:51:33

Most of the films that intend to express cultural conflict are arrogant and dignified, but "Stealing Fragrance" is so soft, brisk, and bright. In a warm orange light, the beauty of the Italian countryside smears the director's strong nostalgia. 24 years after Bertolucci took out this work in "Last Tango in Paris", whether compared with the "Dreamers" before and after, she is more like a prose poem with sharp edges and corners - more than aesthetic, powerful insufficient.

This is due to the fact that Liv Tyler is too beautiful, too beautiful, and the classical style in the charm is much closer to Greece than to the United States. Because she melted into this exotic town too quickly—in temperament and appearance—it reduced the conflict and tension it should have, and simplifies the story. Shouldn't it be a sudden beauty, because her appearance broke the original balance?

This secular town had deposited too many secrets, and Lucy's arrival obviously meant a reckoning. Since beauty is an abstract concept, how can it be stolen? Lucy just used youth to awaken youth, and used beauty to lure out the pursuit of beauty, but in the end, youth and beauty are as fragile as a virgin's chastity, full of chance, precarious, and gone forever.

With the only clues and the girl's calculations, Lucy embarks on this adventure. She had sincerely hoped to be recognized by every man, although none of them were perfect, but in any case, it was better than nothing. Because in this confused summer, the knot she most wanted to untie was called "loneliness".

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  • Gabe 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    An unintelligible film, the whole film only said two things, finally figured out who his father was, and finally gave his chastity. Purely Liv Tyler's sexy one-man show.

  • Mortimer 2022-03-15 09:01:10

    The princess at that time was so beautiful, it was wild and maiden beauty

Stealing Beauty quotes

  • Ian: Why does he suddenly want Lucy to come here?

    Diana: Maybe it was Lucy who wanted to come. Now she's here - stranded with us old fogies

    Ian: Speak for yourself.

    Diana: I'm sure she'd rather be out chasing boys around on the beach somewhere.

    Ian: She seemed rather serious to me.

    Diana: Or, being chased. Nineteen is all about boys.

  • Ian: You were nineteen once, I suppose, weren't you?

    Diana: I suppose I must have been.