"Fingersmith Love Picks" is a good novel, and the lesbian theme is very curious, which can make many audiences stop. The reversal of the plot is the icing on the cake. The sudden change of the character's personality will affect the acting skills of the actors, and the acting skills and the plot echo each other. I haven't read the original book, but watched the bbc version of the TV series, which should respect the original book, meaningful and smooth. I stopped watching the second part, it was not as attractive to me as the Korean version.
One of the great things about "Miss" is that Park Chan-wook put this Mission Impossible swindle into North Korea during the Japanese occupation. In every colonized country or city, its past and future collide and merge. Just like the protagonist in the movie, the maid grew up in a silver shop specializing in counterfeiting. Like her mother before her death, she learned practical techniques such as pickpocketing, and survived in the den of thieves as a matter of course. Make a living from it. The Earl is from Jeju Island, from a cold background and yearns for the powerful. After hearing the story of Hideko Izumi reading aloud in European bookstores, he learned a skill and became a Japanese earl who speaks Japanese and wears a kimono. My uncle was even worse. During the colonial period, he used to be a Japanese and Korean translator for convenience. In the turbulent social structure, he made a fortune in wars. Later, he got the right to mine gold mines and married a Japanese. He also changed his name to a famous Japanese name. . The young lady is a Japanese noble. After her mother passed away, she became an orphan. She was brought to North Korea by her uncle and trained since she was a child to become a speaker.
The special social background makes the protagonist's identity more historical, mysterious, and storytelling. If you want to understand their character, you must peel off the appearance one by one, based on people's distorted desire for money and status; The most blatant and staggering bad taste of men and women.
Let's talk about the audio-visual elements. The owner of the mansion is a Japanese nationality, a North Korean daughter-in-law, and loves the United Kingdom, so the whole building is a combination of Western-style buildings and Japanese-style wooden houses. Because the two are quite individual, they cannot be mixed, only simple and blunt juxtaposition. The interior furnishings are also classical British style. At the corner of the stairs, there are portraits of one person in green and one in red, various dresses of the lady, leather shoes, gloves, hair accessories, corsets, tables and chairs in the living room, carved iron beds in the bedroom, because of the quilt. Teach to be like an English lady, to learn line and color, that is, drawing and painting. Japanese elements can be seen everywhere, the lady's various nightgowns, the door of the bedroom, the cherry tree in the courtyard~~ Such a diverse and complicated social background is a very good treatment, it creates the heroine's multiple complex personalities, and also makes them The fate of the people is clear at a glance. Only by fleeing from North Korea can we find hope and light.
I watched it twice and noticed a lot of details. It also made the already vague impression even more profound. The maid who appeared first grew up in a silver shop specializing in counterfeiting. After her mother died, she followed her aunt's old path and learned to pickpocket, and she was still a thief. The bare baby in the silver shop is an abandoned orphan. In those days, they raised them because there was a deal: they could be sold to the Japanese and made the young lady of a rich family. When Xiuzi first arrived in North Korea, because she hated those erotic descriptions, she claimed that she was not a bad woman and refused to learn to read aloud. Hideko and her aunt became mad and submissive under her uncle's perverted control. After her aunt hanged herself, Hideko became a real reader. When Hideko was young, she asked her uncle why her aunt did not, as the book says, turn black on the tongue and pull out the stool when a person who hangs dies. The uncle took her to the ground, what kind of place is that? There, my uncle gave my aunt special training, so my aunt's lower body was clean. Since then, Hideko no longer resisted. The film involves a lot of erotic literature or paintings, abstract, figurative, sound, text, paper, and glass, filling my uncle's library. When she was young, Xiuzi was already able to read "Jin Ping Mei" vividly (many people said that taking a good photo of our Jin Ping Mei is absolutely amazing, there are not a few people who want to take pictures, the censorship mechanism is there, no matter how good the filming is, the audience will be castrated long ago. People are not ghosts or ghosts). When the count finally got his fingers chopped off, the uncle's collection was even more chilling, sticky and disgusting octopuses, and male and female genitals sealed in glass jars.
The maid is the most innocent and lovable character in the film. He was involved in a conspiracy because of his covetousness for money. Although he was the mantis stared at by the oriole, he finally succeeded and gained love and wealth. The director once said that this film is his loveliest work to date. This cuteness must be inseparable from the silly and innocent Yuzi. When she first arrived at the mansion, Miss Peeping was discovered and hid under the covers. When coaxing the young lady to sleep, she used the method of her aunt to put sugar on her mouth to teach the young lady to appreciate the sweetness of the kiss. After the young lady hanged herself, she learned that she was the pawn being used by others. Yuzi's cuteness can be seen everywhere, which makes this film warm and poignant even though it is full of violent sex and terrible desires.
Izumi Hideko is beautiful. In the English version, she is more lovely and sweet. But I still love Zhang Minxi's face. Not petite, but charming, not delicate in facial features, but charming and lovable. She is indeed not a beauty who closes her eyes. At first glance, her face is slightly larger and her lips are slightly thicker. So what, men, the audience still loves her. In the first part, Xiuzi is a passive character, like a young girl who is loved and taken care of by Yuzi. The speech is also extremely soft, even more so when speaking Japanese. Her eyes are always dodging, without desire, like the pink and purple robe she wears, and like her long hair, flowing and directionless. Zhang Minxi already has the charm and charm of a big woman, but Xiuzi is young and like jade. The combination of the two is not inconsistent. In the bathtub, accompanied by the dense steam, her face was covered with a thin layer of sweat, lollipops, and she was extremely youthful. Dressed in a dignified dress, beautiful makeup and hair, and mature, beyond the reach of men in this world. Yuzi was proud of herself, because the beauty of the young lady benefited from her own craftsmanship, washing her hands, serving and dressing herself, such beauty made her fascinated. What is the attraction? All people are fascinated and nostalgic for her taste.
In the second part, the many facets of her personality are revealed. Fan Sasaki Slap ~ Fan slaps the maid who stole Yuzi's shoes~ In order to gain freedom, unites with the earl and uses Yuko as a scapegoat~ Relying on the blood after masturbation to create the illusion of the earl's wedding night~ After pouring opium into the earl, give it to my uncle Write a letter and fly away with Yuzi~~ This is the complete Izumi Hideko, both weak and strong, kind and fierce, pure and dirty.
The Earl was a typical wartime speculator looking to make a fortune. Like many screen images we know. Poor and young, living in the upper class all day, trying to contaminate other people's extravagance, one day I will be able to order red wine without looking at the price. Love seduces women and is loved by women. He's not dark, he's not weird, he's hungry for wealth, he wants Hideko.
Uncle is too disgusting, disgusting image. Just like at the beginning of the film, when the Earl briefly described his background in the silver shop, the stuttering guy on the side even said disgusting, abandoning his Korean wife to marry a Japanese, disgusting! For wealth, planning to marry a niece, disgusting!
Let's talk about his history first. During Japan's rule of Korea, he learned Japanese and obtained the post of translator, thereby obtaining wealth, status, and gold mining rights. In order to become a real Japanese, he abandoned his North Korean wife Sasaki, married a Japanese woman, and changed his surname (it seemed to follow his Japanese wife's surname). Sasaki and Sasaki are still inseparable. Sasaki is like the head of the mansion, the manipulator and manager behind it. His underground library has a lot of erotic books, and it is also a secret club where gentlemen from all walks of life come to listen to the reading. The beautiful woman, the excellent reading, and the restoration of the posture and posture, made the gentlemen gasp hard, clench their fists, and blushed. This is also a trading place. This kind of book is very popular among the high society secrets. After reading aloud, they can't stop, and then they start the auction. He is the controller of Xiuzi, and the person who can most kill her. He tortured and tormented Hideko when he was young, which gave birth to the dark side of Hideko's character. He symbolized the weird and terrible. He tortured the body and soul of women, except of course, Sasaki by his side. After Aunt Hideko died, Sasaki still slept with Uncle Hideko, cooperating with his reading work in the library. The two had long been a kind of monster, expressionless and emotionless. Sasaki was no longer a woman.
His bad taste is most prominent in the third installment. Cut off the earl's fingers, and the adultery tempted the earl to tell the sexual experience with Hideko, with a hideous face, such as the octopus and snake he raised. His eyes are full of desire for Hideko, and here he is also revealed that he is a strange old man, obsessed with sex descriptions converted from words into voices, which is the source of the evil of cultivating readers. The most disgusting thing is the cans of genitals soaked in water. At that time, I was thinking, what kind of director is this, what kind of props group is this, and what kind of mood and attitude do you have when preparing props in the 21st century today.
The director made drastic adaptations and deletions of the original work. The first part was half-covered, and gradually expanded and became clear in the follow-up, and the truth slowly emerged. At the end, Hideko gives the sinful man to the sinful man to solve. The two masters and servants had taken a boat to Shanghai, and the men committed suicide and murdered with cigarettes after intoxication.
I like the mix and match of social backgrounds, the innocence of new actors and the beauty and suffering of Miss Clumsy. I also think it's a lovely work.
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