What do you think of the controversial love in "The Phantom of the Seamstress"?

Van 2021-12-03 08:01:45

病态与毁灭,或者,是爱与救赎? 很多观点认为这部电影展示的是SM,病态扭曲的感情,被毁灭的艺术,我不这么认为。SM、掌控欲和依恋,与艺术争夺爱人等因素,我相信影片里都有,虽然这些因素在普通爱情里都或多或少地存在,但在本片中它们确是重要情节。然而,我还是将这个故事看作一份普通的爱情,一份温暖——暗黑但温暖的爱情。

First of all, Reynolds' sensitiveness is the rule of their house. His sister Cyril is the protector of his sensitivity, and Alma is the only person who disagrees with this. She questioned Reynolds' various rules to be too exaggerated. Reynolds is a hard-to-reach person, but the more difficult thing is to fall in love with him. Reynolds is brilliant, but he also gave him the whole person to work, not to mention that he puts his rules above all feelings, which makes people feel indifferent. Unlike Joanna, Alma only shows resentful eyes. She insists on exploring love in her own way, not only because of her character, but also because she knows that Reynolds's way should not be like love. Reynolds controls the sovereignty of love because he is self-enclosed and expresses his feelings like charity: Alma helps him get the dress back and he kisses her excitedly, but it is like an emotional expression that Alma earns in daily life. The morning when the princess came, Reynolds was happy, relaxed, and friendly to Alma. Alma smiled and lost consciousness. This lack of consciousness can explain the rarity of Reynolds's state. So in that disputed dinner Alma said, "I want to be with you, I want to own you." Alma created the state of Reynolds that he liked. Helpless, confessed, dependent, and like a spoiled child, Reynolds is back again, perhaps as if he was still a child, and his mother could be attached, and he did not step into isolation on the road to work and loneliness. The weak body made him no longer conceal the fragility of his heart. Now, he is real and natural only in this situation, and no longer confronts the concealment. In his weakest time, Reynolds saw the phantom of his mother, and he confided in his deep thoughts of her. When Alma walked into the room, under the dim light, taking care of him beside his mother's phantom, maybe at that time he confirmed what he wanted most-human warmth. It may have originated from the curse when Reynolds gave his mother a wedding dress at the age of sixteen, but nothing can stop him from doing it. After the mother was away, there was only one thing left in Reynolds' life with make dress. He has a brilliant career, but he has no partner. His only beloved mother has passed away. No one shares his life with Huafu. Regardless of the past, he almost believed the curse now. But after this night of weakness, hallucinations, and longing, Reynolds believed that he could break the curse and be loved. He happily proposed to Alma to marry him, hoping to get a normal relationship, Bring life to this house. The regret afterwards is inevitable. I believe Reynolds knows that the so-called curse comes from itself to a large extent. On the first date, Alma asked him why he didn't get married. He said, "I have no cure." Alma's ugly eating and vulgar behavior is a sting to Reynolds; but for her (to any normal person) For example), love must cross the boundary, and it can bear it. Reynolds loves Alma. After the quarrel, he didn't let Alma leave. He proposed marriage (although it was a weak effect, but at least produced a relatively large relationship), and went to the party to find her worried. When he finally couldn't bear to tell his sister that Alma was not suitable for this house, she made them stand on the opposite side and brought a continuous shadow, he wanted to get rid of her because he couldn't bear it: it is more bearable than loving someone. His torture, the loneliness of past life, and the expectation of love made him more familiar and easier for him. The curse of Reynolds is that he contradicts himself. Before complaining about Alma, he and his sister were talking about the first customer to appear, Countess Henriata. The countess went to other tailors, and Reynolds said he didn't like being abandoned; when Cyril mentioned chic, he showed extreme anger. Reynolds will not follow the trend of fashion, just like his loneliness and acquired isolation, so he had to endure the departure of the countess, and had to endure the pain of not being able to establish a relationship with others. Before falling into weakness for the third time, Alma said to Reynolds: "I want you to lie quietly, helpless, vulnerable, and unreserved. Only I will help you, and then I want you to be strong again..." I want you to return to the original state, and I want you to be truly strong with the love and company of someone, instead of pretending to be strong again. Reynolds accepts all this not only because he loves Alma, not only because he has a tendency to be abused, but not only because he can be attached to someone in the future. But because Alma is right to a large extent, he knows that the root of his pain lies in himself; because there is no way out in his life. This story is about life, about love, not just SM, morbid feelings. Alma really wants to control, want to occupy a place in Reynolds' life, Reynolds is really attached to other people's character. Those subcultures can be the subject of a work, but here, from a pathological point of view, the whole story cannot be explained. Every move that looks like "darkness" has practical reasons behind it. Combining darkness with reality, we will get a unique love and redemption. Later, Alma took care of Reynolds' dress. She admitted that when she matured, she understood Reynolds better, and might be more able to appreciate his persistence and picky. But it might not be correct to say that Alma ruined Reynolds' genius and art. The departure of the Countess has heralded a change in the fashion industry. In fact, this is a very dangerous blow and test for Reynolds. But more importantly, this view ignores the destruction of art to Reynolds' life. In the final analysis, no one-even an artist, or especially an artist, does not need love in life.

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Extended Reading
  • Alvina 2022-03-24 09:01:51

    If this is in China, if Reynolds no longer pretends to be strong, but shows a gentle, vulnerable, and honest side, so as to get the opportunity to take care of him, there is no need to risk poisoning, just find a restaurant or supermarket to buy some Sudan Red Eggs, waste oil hot pot, clenbuterol pork, melamine milk, methanol wine, stinky tofu, rat and mutton skewers, gelatin vermicelli, poisonous steamed buns, waxed apples, paper stuffed buns, and corpse oil Mala Tang will do.

  • Viviane 2022-03-24 09:01:51

    Hitchcock has many fans, and it is rare to see someone as fanatical as the PTA. Tailor = director, clothes are sewn, and private goods can be hidden; movies are cut, and cameo can also be hidden. Rebecca reappears, a lady secretary married to a nobleman in an ancient house, and a skilled craftsman married to a restaurant waitress. Woodcock = Hitchcock, both lovers are named Alma, they all changed his life

Phantom Thread quotes

  • [first lines]

    Alma: Reynolds has made my dreams come true. And I have given him what he desires most in return.

    Dr. Robert Hardy: And what's that?

    Alma: Every piece of me.

    Dr. Robert Hardy: He's a very demanding man, isn't he? Must be quite a challenge to be with him.

    Alma: Yes. Maybe he is the most demanding man.

  • [from trailer]

    Alma: If you want to have a staring contest with me, you will lose.

    [long pause]

    Reynolds Woodcock: [laughs]