This is a fairy tale. There are also stories of gray boys in fairy tales. First of all, gray boys must be kind and brave, such as the pauper who sweeps the chimney in "The King and the Bird" and Mr. Shrek in "Shrek".
But these are all fairy tales, and reality is much more real than fairy tales. Even if Cinderella is a beautiful woman, she has not become a Cinderella in the true sense. Cinderella is far from being kind and brave as we imagined. There is one word missing, justice.
It's hard to believe that this is the work of the skinny old Woody Allen, known as a geek, "Match Point", a standard drama, no comedy, only Yu Hao, so terrible Dare to face reality again.
The plot is very simple. A gray boy is lucky enough to get in touch with the upper class, and is lucky enough to be seen by the daughter of the upper class, so it is logical to squeeze into the upper class, and the more mixed the better. But the gray boy found a lover, and the lover was untimely pregnant, so the gray boy killed the lover, and then got rid of the suspicion with great luck, and gave birth to a fat boy.
Let's be honest, Woody Allen's drama is unbelievable, and the plot is so ordinary, it's even more surprising.
It is said that the film received rave reviews, so the author carefully looked for the excellent points in the film, but unfortunately, due to the level of problems, no matter how I looked at it, I could not see the wisdom of Woody Allen. It seems that I am too stupid.
Without further ado, just look at that grey guy named Wilton!
As mentioned earlier, in many fairy tales, the gray boy must have many good qualities, such as kindness, bravery, justice, etc. Of course, being handsome is also necessary. Shrek is an exception and is not within the scope of discussion.
Needless to say, handsome, Wilton is a tennis player, and the figure of the athlete is of course not bad. Therefore, we know that the gray boy must not be too ugly. This is the same as Cinderella. Lao Zhuang has to become a dog-like person before he can join the family, which is a natural advantage.
As a result, Wilton was spotted by the rich girl Chloe and began to enter the upper class.
Will the gray guy be horny? The traditional answer is of course no, so I prefer to attribute Wilton's feelings for Nora to the same fate.
Nora is the girlfriend of Chloe's brother Tom. As a Cinderella, her approach to high society is almost exactly the same as Wilton's, but unlike Wilton, Nora has her own ideals, and she doesn't want to because To enter the upper class and change herself, she was hostile to Tom's mother. Think about Cinderella, the prince probably doesn't have a mother, so with the crystal slipper, the prince can go his own way to find Cinderella, but Tom can't.
Perhaps it was the same feeling of being under the fence that Wilton had an affair with Nora.
Seeing this, the author deeply sympathizes with the two of them. This kind of personal relationship is reasonable and reasonable. If it continues to develop, this will be a very good romance film. Although there is a gap between goodness and kindness.
But life is cruel, love and morality should be placed on both sides at the same time.
So, Wilton and Chloe married, this wedding established Wilton's identity in high society. Although everyone knows that Wilton's identity is still somewhat controlled by Croy, becoming a member of the upper class is the main thing.
But Nora and Tom broke up in the end, and the reason needless to say. Since ancient times, the most difficult thing for Cinderella to become a princess is naturally the prince's mother. Moreover, Nora always seeks her own dreams, which is not a kind of thinking with high society at all.
Wilton begins his journey to find Nora. We can think of pre-marital affairs as love, but when Wilton accepted a marriage he didn't like and went to find Nora, the love was actually gone, only sexual desire.
The result of sexual outbursts is of course trouble, and while Chloe worries about having a baby, Nora is pregnant. This is extremely dire news for Wilton.
Wilton wandered, Nora on the one hand, symbolizing love or sexuality, and Chloe, on the other, symbolizing life in high society, how to choose?
In the end, Wilton decided to choose a life in the upper class by abstinence.
He killed Nora and included an additional victim, including an unborn child.
This is the climax of the show.
Nora was in several stages in Wilton's mind. When she first saw her, she was amazed. It was a man's instinct. It was understandable. can be believed. But when Wilton finds Nora again, love and man's desire are in conflict. With the several passionate meetings between Nora and Wilton shown by the camera, the desire is more prominent, so love instead Take the next step.
At this time, the director asked Wilton to kill three people in a row, the innocent old lady, which symbolized the annihilation of Wilton's conscience, and Nora, which symbolized the loss of Wilton's desire as a man. man), and the child in Nora's womb symbolizes the destruction of Wilton's love.
Murder is terrible. For Wilton, he was condemned by his conscience, and a dialogue in a dream completely abandoned those Xu Liangzhi (as a person's minimum morality) in the deepest part of his soul.
To add to the irony, Chloe became pregnant around the same time that Wilton killed Nora. I don't want to say that this child means Wilton's guilt, which is somewhat far-fetched, but the birth of this child makes it clear to Wilton that he no longer has a Gray Boy background. The children born in the wealthy family gave Wilton a legitimacy to his status in high society. Of course, Wilton wasn't among the happy crowd, and he stayed aside thinking about Nora's death so much that he was left out of high society.
There is an old saying that the mother honors the child, but now the father honors the child.
Having said that, we can look at the luck that the director said at the beginning.
Wilton's luck? Well, he can know Tom, Chloe can like him, and even the innocent old lady's ring turned out to be evidence of his exoneration in the end. Such luck is indeed very good.
But it's not right to think about it carefully. When he had an affair with Nora, he chose to marry Chloe. When he couldn't bear the consequences that Nora's pregnancy would bring to him, he chose to kill.
None of this has anything to do with luck.
So what is luck? In fact, this film does not give a clear answer, but just tells the audience that luck exists and may determine life, but luck must be related to their own choices.
The film's acclaim was beyond my expectations. Although the film seems to be so perfect, so smooth and sophisticated in terms of characters, plot setting and even camera language, I still think it is a good movie but not so good.
Looking back and looking at those praises, most of them were placed on Woody, which made me a little suspicious. Is this film because of Woody's reputation? Or is it because Woody consciously jumps out of the personal label?
The concept of luck may be the only shining point of Woody's style in this film, but how does it help a drama in the popular consciousness? Without Woody's brilliance, such a good film seems to be of little real value.
Or to paraphrase the old saying, a master is a master.
Woody is a master, so the film is also a master, which is no different from a thief's child who must be a thief!
Here, pay homage to the masters, to those words that have been praised too much!
2006-9-4
Han Xi in Tong County
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