"Personal Shopper" can be counted as a standard horror movie. The layout of the film and the two clues are very clear, but at the intersection of these two clues, the chaos suddenly arises. Perhaps even the director himself did not think clearly about how to connect these two supernatural phenomena. The ambiguous ending part made the audience see Confused, the story also feels like it will end. The most controversial is that a very spiritual ending was added to the end of the film, expounding that the love of relatives surpasses life and death, and the force that Assayas had worked so hard before was destroyed. Although the ending of the film greatly affects the audience’s judgment of the entire film, there are still many evocative aspects of "Personal Shopper". Assayas's gentle manner and the slow way of constructing ghost stories are similar to traditional horror films. The cheap means of rendering by people's audiovisual is completely different.
Personal Shopper Pertinent evaluation of
2022-01-10 08:01
Extended Reading
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[last lines]
Maureen Cartwright: Lewis, is it you?
[pauses]
Maureen Cartwright: Or is it just me?
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Erwin: [to Maureen] You know how they say the dead watch over the living? I've thought about that a lot. Not just because Lewis was a medium. I don't know what that means. For me, he was someone deeply intuitive of others. He, uh... understood things that went unspoken. He did. Maybe because he knew he was going to die. I mean, I felt that he saw things which I didn't. Maybe you do too. He thought you had the same gifts...