Author: Liu Qing, the
charming hotel proprietress Jenny Adler, divorced in middle age, single with three children, living in In a big house on the coast of Southern California, living a leisurely life of "facing the sea and blooming in spring", the rare trouble is that love brings an ex-husband to knock on the door... As far as the setting of the story is concerned, "Love is complicated" is like Fruit candy, sweet and nutritious, is naturally not seen by the male judges, and it is not the turn of the judges. But for female audiences, such as me, I think it’s very appropriate to be coaxed by the director Nancy Meyers, and I recommend that my sisters and sisters have a good time.
No matter how you look at it, "Love is Complicated" is the kind of movie that makes women very useful. Meryl Streep’s Jenny has a glamorous life, her career, life and feelings are all-round long-sleeved dancers, 20-year-old splendid, 30-year-old experience, 40-year-old sophistication, 50-year-old open-minded, all in her body NS. As she set off, the little wife married by her ex-husband suddenly became a boring puppet doll, which naturally provokes some "superfluous stories".
If you speculate with the mind of a villain, the role of Jenny or the whole story of the director Meyers in middle age has projected her narcissistic mentality to some extent. Fortunately, even if it is narcissism, it is not too much, at least there is still self-deprecating understanding and dispelling the pretense of "Lin Shui Zhao Hua". What's more, in Hollywood, who only wants to see young girls like fresh fruits, Streep can play a shining half-aged milf, which can be regarded as a snobbery Vanity Fair.
I have a deeper impression of a scene in the film. It was Jenny and her ex-husband. You came and I played a few love ping-pong games. One time when you met me, the ex-husband felt that the years were not forgiving the people beside her. At this time, Jenny I got up and put on my nightgown, looked at the man condescendingly, and said: "I have changed over the years, but you are not much better." At that moment, Streep's eyes made this sugar water The film has some meaning. This look is neither strong nor provocative. It is a woman who looks at the man calmly and directly. Only this simple look is rare on the Hollywood screen.
Regarding mainstream American movies, at the time when the feminist movement was the most violent in the 1970s, Laura Mulvey, a group of vanguards, once concluded that they were mostly subject to the "view" of men. Correspondingly, women are " To be seen". Nowadays, feminism is no longer fierce, but this summary is outdated. For example, a film critic of the "New York Times" summed it up very interestingly. Looking back several years, female audiences and female-centered movies can be counted with one hand. Among them, one faction is the literary and artistic route represented by Campion, who struggled so hard, and sometimes inevitably slipped into the quagmire of "persecution delusion"; as for the Cinderella fairy tales sold in "Twilight", they can only coax 10 years old. The little girl in her early days.
In this situation, "Love is complicated" appeared, light and sophisticated, neither was confronting a man hoarsely, nor was it like a silly and innocent girl dreaming of a prince from heaven. The look that a man once placed on a woman is returned as it is, not to be indecent. I like the posture of Meyers and Streep in this film, neither confrontation nor showing weakness, this is self-confidence. They even reminded me of Manet's "Lunch on the Grass." The naked girl in the painting looked directly outside the painting and calmly responded to the look at her.
Some people say that the little entanglement between Jenny and her ex-husband in the movie is really sorry for the title "Love Is So Complicated." Hey, if we want to seriously ponder the myth of "men and women", we should revisit Godard. As for what Meyers provided, it was originally a soft drink for pastime. It was a bit sweet, but fortunately it was not greasy.
View more about It's Complicated reviews
