François Ozon is undoubtedly one of the most high-profile directors at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Since his first entry to the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, "Murder in the Pool", his works have been shortlisted in Cannes twice. Three shortlisted for Venice, four shortlisted for Berlin. As one of the most vocal directors at this year's Cannes Film Festival, while people lament that Cannes owes Au Rong a Palme d'Or, they are also full of expectations for his new work.
Plot:
Chloé, a 25-year-old only daughter, was supposed to have her own twin sister, but during her mother's pregnancy, Chloé devoured the fertilized egg of her original sister. Chloé fell in love with psychiatrist Paul and became pregnant with a child, which made her think of the past when she had eaten the fertilized egg of her original sister. She fantasized about Paul's twin brother, and their other lover. An imaginary about the dominant and the dominated twins and falling in love with two people at the same time began to play out, and the child in Chloé's belly was actually her original sister.
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The film is reminiscent of Bergman's "Masquerade" and Cronenberg's "Never Button", and even the film's poster is similar to "Masquerade". "Double Lover" establishes a double self-image of Paul. Paul and his twin brother are the dominant and dominant of the twins. Chloé falls in love with the twins, and she has sex with both at the same time. The elder brother, who is the ruler, sees sex with Chloé as domination over his younger brother, while Paul proposes to Chloé, hoping that she will be his eternal wife. Aside from the ending of the film, this fantasy love triangle first explores the identity of PAUL. We can regard Paul's brother and Paul as two sides of the same person, which reflects the division of desire. PAUL and his brother are like white roses and red roses in a person's heart, playing two different desires of domination/dominated and extroverted/introverted. Likewise, they can be regarded as separate individuals within the twins, thus embodying the game between the ruler and the ruled. This game is primitive and wild, and behind it is the exploration of the most primitive desire for rights in human nature and the formation of the most primitive rights mechanism of human beings. In this case, Chloé's body is the medium of the game of power, and the three constitute the simplest picture of power in human society: the actual ruler, the possessive seizer, and the ruled.
As a film that considers the overall situation, "Double-Faced Lover" discusses the reproduction of human beings, the natural selection of all things in the world, and the reflection on human beings as winners. We can think of Chloé's devouring of his twin sister as an embryo as a natural selection in the process of human reproduction and evolution. Chloé finally became the winner of this competition, but her childhood was not happy. The conflict with his mother became the epitome of childhood unhappiness, and the pregnancy plunged Chloé into the never-ending fears and unhappiness that can be seen as the crises facing humanity today as a victor. War, ecological destruction, loss of biodiversity, and climate change are the creations of the victorious human beings, and human beings today are equally mired in fear of these outcomes. We are worried that sea level rise will submerge our homes, we are worried that ecological destruction will bring mankind into crisis, we are worried that war and technology will destroy the achievements of human civilization... And the fantasy produced by Chloé after pregnancy is human reflection on the past, she is pregnant again Losing the sister he devoured can be seen as an attempt to rebuild the past. In the same way, current human beings have begun to advocate protecting the environment, opposing war and vegetarianism, which are all attempts by human beings to return to nature. In the ending, the miscarriage of Chloé's sister once again made people question the effectiveness of reflection and redemption. The question The Two Faces asks us is, can the last of humanity save humanity itself?
General Comments:
"Double Lover" is Ou Rong's return to a psychoanalytical film after the propositional composition of last year's "Franz". However, this film is significantly different from his predecessor, and the film no longer focuses on portraying delicate character emotions. Under this, suspense has become the main theme of the film. The fast rhythm, Hollywood-style editing and thrilling sound effects make the whole film tend to be a TV series with a compact plot. It can be expected that "Double-Faced Lover" will be a commercial film that can bring a huge box office and has a profound meaning.
Originally published by Phoenix Entertainment: http://ent.ifeng.com/a/20170527/42937894_0.shtml
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