Perfect script, strong director's control ability, blank everywhere, meaningful everywhere, superb narrative technique, the performance of the director, screenwriter, and actors are all at the highest level, and there is no imperfection. The progress of the story is just right, the plot setting is clever and not deliberate, naturally not artificial, the rhythm is excellent, and the ending is very touching! Perfect!
The script strikes the right balance between the funny and the sad. Every time it slides toward tragedy, it pulls back in time, like walking a tightrope in the sky, keeping the audience's heart hanging. As a master of comedy with unique style, Wilder's comedy is full of satire and banter, but the core is sad. Lemmon is not only good at funny roles, but also plays the role of ordinary people with tragic colors.
The heroine's acting performance is also very good. She did not simply portray the role as a silly girl who was coaxed by sweet words, but as a young woman who has been deceived. Although she has a good heart, she is willing to do the necessary things in order to become the president's wife. compromise. She's thoughtful and purposeful, not a mindless naive blond, and the seriousness of her consideration adds to the quality of the whole film, rather than degenerating into an emotional farce.
"Peachy Apartment" is a serious adult movie, not a simple romantic comedy. The reactions of the actors are very real, with three-dimensional and multi-faceted faces, and even most of the time they don't think about love, but survival and life. They were all realists at one time, giving up their yearning for love and preferring to pursue promotion and salary increase.
Jack Lemmon's acting is amazing! The little person played is a little funny, but not exaggerated, but not too hot.
Wilder is a great director. His excellent works will not fade with time. As long as human nature exists and society exists, his works can hit our hearts directly. So "Hot Like Fire" is always fun, "Sunset Boulevard" is still a great character comedy, and "Peachy Apartment" still feels the poignancy and brutality of it. It has a depth that is unattainable in ordinary works. Wilder's keen insight into human nature, he endows characters with never formulaic character and plot, like they don't have to work, they don't have to survive. Just like "Peachy Apartment", the characters always think about work and survival, and they have gone through all kinds of difficulties. Finally, they find that there is something more worth pursuing besides work, which leaves us with a happy ending and hope.
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