Many people have such doubts when watching movies. The heroine’s character is a 16-year-old beautiful model, not only very beautiful, but also special, the beauty is not limited to the body beauty of the modeling industry, the body is beautiful, the heroine Her face was also highly praised, admired, and amazing in the movie, and the heroine’s appearance and figure are not outstanding in Hollywood, whether it is compared with her predecessors or her age, but she was given such a personality. What does the director really mean? It reminds us of the memory of the long-paved oiran in childhood costume dramas but let us deeply disappointed, and the director of this film is obviously not a failure in casting, at least in my eyes, it is not meaningful.
There are three scenes that made me aware of the director's intention. The first two took place when the makeup artist took Jesse to an underground party:
In the first scene, the female partner 1 can say that I really like your hair. Is it a natural hair color?
The hostess said yes, her blonde hair did look good in texture, but after a few scenes, we saw the hostess’s deep black hair roots. We all know that the pure blonde hair roots are also golden, while the black hair roots only The blond hair that can represent the heroine is dyed. Is this the director hinting at the fictional nature of the story like us? The dyed hair can be fake, but after a few months, the dark hair roots still cannot be covered.
Scene 2, another female partner said enviously and jealously, is your nose real?
Such a scene must have a very beautiful nose that fits the scene, but the hostess's nose can be said to be the most awkward part of the whole face. It is too short and a bit upturned, a bit like a pig nose, which is quite obvious. Yes, although there is no need to find an actor with a beautiful nose, but such obvious lines close to irony are confusing, and the beautiful woman in the play makes this sentence obviously not irony, but two The nose of a female partner is actually at least pretty good. I think this is more of a director’s technique. In dreams, the more imperfect the place is, the more amazing it is. In the fantasy of a girl, the chubby figure is sensual and cute. , A thick nose like a pig can also be jealous
The noses of the two female partners can only be regarded as quite satisfactory in foreign countries, but at least they will not be noticed by others.
But the heroine’s is not the case. It is this nose that makes her cute face a bit simple and honest, which has widened the distance from the model.
The third scene is a comparison with the long-legged model. The long-legged model is amazing and has straight and long legs as soon as it appears. The body is very beautiful, but it is compared with the heroine who kills everyone as soon as it appears.
The body of the heroine is not outstanding for ordinary actors, the waist is not thin, the legs are not long, not straight, the calf is thick and even obviously without ankles, and the manners are far from the requirements of the model devil.
This brings us back to the fact that the stunning beauty that we saw as a child was not enough to make us disappointed. I think the director of this film used this model to express a concept:
The daydreaming of young girls
Who didn't have such a dream when he was 16 years old? I am extraordinary, even pure and flawless (the heroine of this film is beautiful but never has a boyfriend pure and flawless), unlike them, they all envy me, jealous of me, I am the most beautiful, grab everyone’s attention, everyone Want to be me
This is very similar to the novels that many girls write in their books when they are 16 years old. They may be ordinary, absolutely not ugly, and may be a little cute (just like Fanning, they have a youthful appearance, fair skin and nice Hair quality), these small advantages make them fantasize about their extraordinary, exaggerate their beauty in their hearts, and when such fantasies are brought into reality, they will have a sense of incompatible absurdity, just like our heroine with a pig nose With Apple’s face, ordinary figure and manners that are far from the model, but doing nothing can kill a lot of supermodels, Zhongxing Pengyue
This kind of thinking is undoubtedly bold and interesting. Unfortunately, the director didn’t seem to deliberately mention what he meant to the audience, and his hints were too vague, and the worst part was that he stuffed too many other things in the later stages of the film. Something blurs the important points that are worth pondering, especially the disgusting and incomprehensible operations at the end of the film make people feel that the film may be in the bloody competition in the metaphor model circle, competition is everywhere, but it is not so hard. Too much, of course, I am not sure that this is indeed the director’s idea, but I do feel this kind of strong hint in the film, otherwise such an arrangement is accompanied by a line of shame in the second stage, for example, everyone wants to be The inferior lines of me combined with the heroine's simple and cute face make this film a total shame Mary Su.
So the heroine was later killed. Her pride, the confidence and the triumphant smile on the corners of her mouth were all killed, just like every girl’s perfect dream will be killed.
The female protagonist always opens her mouth slightly in the movie, as if she is in a daze or not waking up. The same is true during shooting. Only when she is proud of her peerless beauty, the smile at the corners of her mouth appears a bit vivid, not corresponding. Does it seem to be in a dream? Those neon lights, scenes of real and virtual, with the slightly opened lips and dreamlike eyes of the heroine, in the dreamland, the cute but ordinary little girl is the future superstar, the most beautiful, purest and most enviable existence. .
So she was killed, just as she had to wake up.
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