In the eyes of the daughters, the mother's taste is always elegant, perfect, and otherworldly, and they have been adored since childhood. What prudence shows in Eve is a seemingly low-key arrogance.
At the beginning of the film, Eve brought an expensive porcelain bottle with no practical value that she selected. This antique Chinese porcelain is a model of official kilns in the Song Dynasty at first glance. Neo-Confucianism pursues the aesthetic reflection of the elegant literati style. Eve's connoisseurship was revealed by the bottle.
Eve is good at interior decoration and prefers white and beige, these cool colors that most people find too plain. Eve carefully fiddled with three unglazed white pottery vases with white roses in them in the bedroom, repeatedly pondering the best effect of the ratio of the length of the flower branches to the height of the bottle on the angle of the flower branches, which can be described as meticulous.
Eve likes white roses the most, so she was given white roses before and after her death.
Eve's dressing style is a classical Greek style, with simple and elegant lines, and is limited to the most discerning colors of beige, white, black, and gray champagne. Always a soft material with a natural drape. The smoothness and fineness of the silk make people take care of it in every possible way.
The charm exuded from all this shows the aesthetic taste of the middle class. Its beauty and elegance are not acceptable to the general public. Its posture, speech and gestures are all to please an inner mysterious hint: the self is incomparable.
Prudence is a style of refinement, the impeccable interpretation and performance of explicit class symbols and identity attribution. We can't accuse the hypocrisy and hypocrisy of the taste of the middle class represented by Eve. It's just that after demanding and arrogant taste becomes a habit, the art decoration that originally belonged to the aesthetic category has become fussy and loses its human touch, and gradually becomes boring. Finally, the daughters got tired of Eve too, saying behind her back that she was "sick", and things like beauty suddenly became fragile.
Prudence requires understanding and pampering. On Eve's birthday, the daughters carefully selected gifts for their mother, silk clothes and white roses, which made Eve very happy. However, once the unquestionable core position is shifted in the family relationship, Eve can't tolerate her "falling out of favor", so she has a morbid attack.
The first suicide, Eve chose gas. She sealed the door and window with black tape. The camera looked at Eve's hand sealing the tape, and saw that she was a little indignant, disheartened, and a little angry, tearing the tape. The sound was extremely harsh. At this time, Eve didn't care whether the seal was flat or not. After the black tape was used up, she used a narrower white tape to make it up. At the scene of suicide, she lost her prudent persistence. Eve restored the normal state of ordinary people, except for the one that The posture of the sofa is still so beautiful.
Another hysteria. Eve led her estranged husband to visit an Orthodox church, and talked elegantly about mosaic art, but her husband had filed for divorce in her heart. But still out of control, regardless of the state of prudence, like a woman. (It's hard to say that Woody Allen is trying to satirize Eve, but he doesn't make the audience sympathize with her. Woody Allen is a psychiatrist, he is good at diagnosis, not good at treatment. Because he knows that drugs and psychiatrists are ineffective against middle-class insomnia. )
Eve is finally completely defeated by her daughter's truth about "self-willed and capricious", all prudent material charms and spiritual appeals suddenly lose their value, and they are insignificant at the most simple emotional level of life. At this time, Eve could not allow herself to return to the basic level of life. She walked towards the turbulent seaside, towards the reality that was exposed by others and acknowledged by herself. For a prudent person like Eve, this reality was absolutely unacceptable. of. Death is dignity.
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