symbol & personnage
Three and a half stars, and half a star for Fei Wen's super-anxious acting, I couldn't sit still in the movie theater with anxiety~ This role is so suitable for her! A person who cannot identify with his self-identity, and who always relies on the outside world to complete his self-identification, will indeed encounter more and more entanglements with increasing age and increasing difficulties in life in real life. , they always want to "escape", escape the difficulties they encounter, escape their lost youth, and escape the regret that they are getting farther and farther from the "self" they set at the beginning. They think that they can just leave this place and start a new life. To get rid of all difficulties, in fact, it happened that they could not identify themselves and were not strong enough to change their hearts, so they turned their attention to the outside world, thinking that the so-called "love", a "perfect lover", would save themselves from fire and water, Take yourself away from this "mess" in front of you. In fact, they did not love this person, but longed for their own fantasy world. From the first time the female protagonist recounted her past when she had an affair with the male protagonist on the beach, it can be seen that the male protagonist suddenly flashed into the screen from the camera. Kissing her and interrupting her when she was supposed to be watching the other person talking reveals that she doesn't really care who she talks to, she just wants to talk to someone. Looking at the movie poster again, the huge Ferris wheel outside the window behind the heroine symbolizes a fairytale-like imaginary world, but she is locked in an iron cage and cannot move. However, it was not her marriage that held her up, but herself. And the identity of the male protagonist is also set very carefully. The beach needs a lifeguard. He sits high and sees a lot. Whenever there is danger on the beach, he goes to the rescue, but the lifeguard can only save people. Unable to accompany the survivors home to continue living.
light
The lighting of the whole film is full of magical colors, in the fat temperature in the fantasy, there is always a mild to unreal orange light behind it, and even the hair radiates the luster of the Virgin, but when it comes back to reality , Facing her husband, the lights became dim, and even in the second half of the conversation with the second female, it suddenly turned into a dark blue and exotic lighting atmosphere, which deepened the character's inner feelings at the moment.
narration & dialogue
Since "Annie Hall", Woody Allen's films have been obsessed with the protagonist's sudden departure from the country and began to narrate directly to the camera, as if it was a commentary reporter who led the audience to interview the people in the play. And this time, from the very beginning, the male protagonist told the audience the stories he encountered in a narration. (I prefer to believe that this male protagonist somewhat reflects Woody Allen's own character characteristics: a woman who knows how to seduce these women who are not satisfactory in their existing lives, just talk about the travel they have not heard of, talk to them The dream they have fantasized about, and give them a romantic love that seems to be able to save them from the real predicament~ and the most important thing is to send a picture when it is time to "dump the blame" "I don't know why, but I am willing to be so sincere. Good guy card to tell you how I really feel"...really angry to see that).
It has always been Woody Allen's advantage to have many and deep dialogues. Usually he is good at giving dialogue a petty bourgeois mood (the soundtrack of this film reproduces this petty bourgeois and vintage style), but this time he will The inner world of a middle-aged woman from the bottom of society who was divorced, remarried, and was so poor that she stole a small vault under her husband's bed to buy a birthday gift for her lover was vividly shaped through nagging dialogues. It's not good, and it's easy to be criticized for drama. This is also the situation where Woody Allen's script goes to the edge every time. The dialogue either adds to the film's icing on the cake or slows down the camera and the rhythm of the plot.
To sum up, this film is very successful in shaping the character of the heroine, especially Fei Wen's neurotic performance is extremely in place, which makes people scratch their claws and scratch their hearts. But old Woody's films have always been good at portraying the inner stories of the characters (minor plots) rather than the ups and downs of the external plots (big plots), so if you are not good at exploring the spiritual world, you may find this film annoying and a little annoying dull.
PS Finally, I want to say a few words to the heroine in the play: In fact, escaping can never solve the problem, let alone hope in any external world other than yourself, don't imagine that someone will save you, no matter how difficult it is, face yourself bravely , learn to be calm, even if it is a failed, regretful, and unable to succeed again, accept her as she is now! Even if it takes a whole year to just learn to stop judging yourself... After self-identification, you will find that you have the strength to deal with external difficulties.
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