Adele was still a high school girl, once met the handsome Thomas on the bus, and then the two started dating, kissing, and even having sex. It all happened quickly, but Adele still found the problem, she couldn't fall in love This excellent boy, she has a strange emotion in her heart, which makes her feel helpless and frightened. It wasn't until one day she ran into Josh, a blue-haired female painter, in the square that she figured out herself. She and Josh start a relationship and quickly fall into a crazy love affair with Josh. It turns out that when the emotions get out of hand, it's the little things that can make lovers squirm, but that's just the trigger, and the real reason for their sad end is an unalterable difference.
This is actually a typical heterosexual model, so what interests me more about this movie is here: if the Josh Adele fell in love with was a boy, once the story became such a standard heterosexual love model, the film could still Can't get rid of the stereotype of love tragedy, or can it be successful?
To answer this question, we have to go back to the essence of this movie. Adele comes from a family of ordinary people and has no exact views and pursuits on life. She is an immature girl, so she has a traditional obsession and fascination with love. Josh, a girl from the middle class, is a young painter who has achieved a little in the field of art and has a bright future. Her feelings for Adele are real, but it cannot be denied that part of it comes from her artistic vision of a teenage girl who looks charming enough in itself. It's revealed in the film on their first date in the park, where Adele's eyes, lips, hairstyle, or any one of her raw textures can be seen by Josh, and even aroused by her desire. She drew a sketch for Adele and their love began. In the middle of the film, there is an obvious turning point, when Josh completes Adele's nude painting, the relationship between the two takes a sharp turn for the worse, and then it breaks down, which is ultimately irreversible, because, in the eyes of the artist, the imagination When they don't perfectly coincide with reality, they usually have a hard time accepting reality. At this time, it's not really over. The two met in a cafe after 3 years of separation. Adele didn't give up. Thinking that the most effective way to launch a final pursuit of Josh, do everything possible to seduce Josh, trying to warm her with the residual warmth of sex, this is a girl's last bargaining chip to face her lover, she can't provide more. This scene is believable, because the film has used bold, lengthy, and straightforward footage to "live" their sex in bed more than once, and the level of joy is unprecedented. Here, too, we should wake up to the fact that all the previous "overcooked" sex was to set the scene for the heartbreaking final moments of the cafe. Josh wasn't tempted by poor Adele to get back in love because they were so different!
This film is the fifth feature film of Ke Xixu. His works are simple and realistic, delicate and precise, yet calm. His images sometimes make people question whether the actors who are active in it know that there is a camera. Is "monitoring" their every move. In my impression, France is a country that advocates freedom and individuality. It is famous for its fashion and red wine, full of elegance and romance. However, under the lens of Cauchy, it is an extraordinarily realistic life state. , rich storyline, smooth and natural character situation, what it presents is a civilian French life that basically eliminates the visual pleasure and the impact of passion.
"Adele's Life" does not seem to be such a film. It was released as "the largest lesbian-themed film in film history", which shocked the film industry and became an annual topic of work, just like the combination of "Lust, Caution" and "Brokeback Mountain". However, its success is of course not borrowed from the east wind of large-scale and same-sex love, but the infinite focus on the tenderness of love that makes "Adele's Life" a veritable Adele's life.
The film can be completely divided into 24 paragraphs, each of which is a clear day for Adele. During this period, Adele did not leave the camera. The single-mindedness of the image and Adele's focus on her own emotions reached a kind of The morbid match, she was eating, going to school, she was combing her hair, searching aimlessly, curling up in a corner to write a diary, having nightmares... all this was documenting her life, showing her loneliness, watching In the process, we can directly feel the torment of loneliness on a person. For a girl who has not yet stood the test of life, she will definitely find something against loneliness - love. At this time, the girl Josh burst into the frame, and the camera began to disperse and move away from Adele's face, but only framed the two of them, indicating that Josh became a part of Adele's life. Even in the party, the big scene of the parade was only Adele, or Adele and her. When their love ended, as Ainis (Brokeback Mountain) said: you can't change, you can only accept. The music plays, Adele leaves, and she's left on camera, but it's still her life.
However, Millet and Crucian Carp is still my favorite Cauchy's work, and Adele's Life is another affirmation of the former, because it is the real taste of the world.
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