In a film full of close-ups, there seems to be no object more conspicuous than the heroine's lips.
Not at all objectively speaking, I really don't like a mouth that stays half-open forever. Because it doesn't look shrewd, stupid, or even stupid. Adele's pouting expression always seemed to be out of state, and sometimes looked very dull. Director Ke Xixu said that when he saw Adele's mouth and the way she was eating, he knew that he had found the heroine. "The shape of the lips of the two leading ladies was one of the inspirations for the way the film was shot." "The shape of the lips of the leading lady was very important to this film." They ate together after that and saw her eating bolognese The look of spaghetti inspired him to shoot. So there is the scene: the camera suddenly turns away from Adele's school, and the sudden close-up is aimed at the mouth full of sauce Lips sucking fingers, almost viciously rude.
In this shot, the family's attention is on the TV, and there is little communication between them. And the audience seems to be forced to put their eyes on such a mundane ugly picture at the beginning of the film - with a bit of discomfort. And yet I can barely take my attention away from Adele - she has a magic, I think it's something to do with youthful zeal, but the more ordinary kind, unlike Emma, Adele is just a ordinary people.
Therefore, perhaps her desire is also our desire, and her confusion is also our confusion.
I've always felt that it's all about her, Adele. She talked frankly about her love of food and eats everything. Adele loves the whole life, the food, the symbol of life. And the oyster that Emma loves, the symbol of the female genitalia, presumably simply serves as a symbolic element of desire. Emma only represents a part of life. She is the collision between part of Adele's life and the outside world. Love, desire, and the unreachable two may be her.
At the beginning of the film, Adele lifted her trousers and walked out of the house. The trousers were very low and always fell down, probably not fitting. Maybe she was too casual in life, or maybe she just bought these pants casually. With an indifferent expression, she walked out of the house leisurely, but missed the bus. The footage that swept through Adele's life at this time was colorless, even like the trousers that fell from time to time, mundane, trivial, and slightly uncomfortable.
Adele was talking to her friends and kept her mouth open, showing her pearl-like teeth, which was very beautiful. Opening her lips seemed to be her reflection. In the next shot, she writes in a diary on the bed, her lips pursed. Then there is a close-up of the sudden access, sleep, lips open, mouth twitching, drooling, very ugly.
The countless close-ups seem to force Adele's life into the viewer's eyes, and one can even feel the greasy smell of life mixed with the smell of sebum. She met Thomas on the bus. At first, she opened her mouth unconsciously, pursed her lips, and a lock of hair was always floating at the corner of her mouth. Friend Marianne revealed a bit of vulgarity in her ambiguous words. She said that Thomas looked good and seemed to be interested in you.
And Adele was at a loss.
Ordinary people don't know what they want. Ordinary people do not read Sartre, do not think about freedom, but are surrounded by trivialities.
However, everything seems to be rehearsed, perhaps not only in movies, but also in life. What kind of people will encounter what kind of things. In similar episodes, once, twice, with endless ups and downs. In the literature class, the discussion about love at first sight, in the sunshine of the date day, the lip line that rises comfortably, when I see Emma for the first time, she is slightly opened in surprise, she is lost, and the fateful music plays.
She was even wearing those ill-fitting trousers at the time.
The preview, the text in the textbook, the nude statue in the museum, the kiss between Adele and the beautiful girl in her class. Everything indicates the future and destiny. Those subtle hints are like the hopeless romance of a fatalist.
Because she was bound to go there, another world of gender inversion. In the gay bar, the lights are blue, and Adele looked at the blue world with fawn-like panicked eyes. Then she moved on, les, a warm orange-red, symbolizing femininity. She hesitated for a long time, still searching and exploring, until Emma appeared. She took off her coat, revealing her blue dress.
"Blue is the warmest color."
Unlike the previous sex scene with Thomas, where Adele was a bit of a drama, she obviously didn't have a real orgasm, mouth wide open, like a fish in a rut. And the moan betrayed her. At last she turned her head perfunctorily and wearily, and lied, her lips pressed together. The camera switched quickly. In the first few minutes of this daze, pieces were torn apart, with a haggard face, Adele's lips were slightly open, and she was speechless for a long time, until her friend said "say something" to her. In the following conversation, She wept, just as she had cried after masturbating the night before, her lips parted and every now and then the tears and snot that ran down the tip of her nose.
There will always be a stage where you seem to know what you want, but you can't reach it, you can't face it. Even reassure yourself that it's just a cycle of ups and downs. Adele's cowardice has long been permeated through the film's beginning. She has a face that is habitually hurt, hurt by others, and hurt by herself, but this is the life of an ordinary person. Fortunately, she also has passion. Adele has a full of vitality in her body. Fortunately, she also knows how to love, which allows her to ignore the incomprehension and malice of others. However, what comes and goes is her own heart.
The literature teacher began to talk about the second lesson, fate.
Destiny, for most people, represents family, where you were born, and already points to the next step in your life. Adele can't squeeze lemon juice to eat oysters, and Emma comes from an intellectual family. Adele doesn't understand their life, and the life she yearns for is just a "submission" in their eyes.
Emma's mother talks about things that are always more about herself, "my ex", "we want to know more about your life", and she's personable and aloof. Adele's mother, by contrast, is an average housewife, and her conversation focuses on children, food and Adele's schoolwork.
Adele's father is a dignified middle-aged man who, like most people, thinks age is an achievement for him. In fact, he doesn't have many opinions of his own, nor is he funny. The meeting was more embarrassing than at Emma's house. Adele has been eating, seldom speaks, and has a helpless look from time to time. They are just ordinary Facebook-style elders, and what they say can be satisfied only by constantly answering.
Because of family, class, education... Countless small congenital factors combine what we call "destiny". Adele's fate is that she is not destined to be a person who completely dominates herself. She can only hate while making decisions that she hates. For example, when Emma came home late, Adele opened her mouth and walked out of the house in a daze. The Spanish Adagio sounded, the music of fate, she walked into the "normal" world, and the man called her from a distance. She dances, takes off her clothes and flirts with her hair, and in the third dance, her seductive gesture symbolizes conscious infidelity.
She chose to leave. Just as she chose to follow Emma and leave the "normal" world - this seemingly violent conflict was deliberately omitted. The bifurcation point of "Fate" may be that party, where Adele's heart is projected into a panicked heroine in a black and white movie. She is lonely. Unable to integrate into Emma and her friends' topic of art, she has been covering up her inner uneasiness with hustle and bustle. She probably needs someone to talk to her about pasta, but she's only needed in two places: food and painted nudes.
Emma once expressed the hope that she can change, but Adele seems to be pulling away deliberately, but she is still lonely. No one knows Adele's heart. She has shown her beautiful carcass, her joy in love, but never her ambitions. The camera then shows Adele's work, nothing special. She pouted at the sleeping child - was this the life she wanted?
The camera at this time has become a little more peaceful, and there is no more direct gaze, but Adele's smile is getting less and less.
Emma's career is not going well, Adele is drinking coffee in bed, eating bread with butter, she makes her eat, but can't communicate, can't help, she doesn't realize she's saying banal things like her own mother.
Fate has been written. In Adele's vision, everything should be stable and limited. But Emma understands life is tied to a speeding train. She couldn't stop herself because she was taught that she was worthy of conquering the world and worthy of everything.
Adele chased the train that took Emma away in silence. She ran hard and even ran out of her own world bravely. She saw a wall, but Emma couldn't. Terrified, she stopped wearily. Emma, however, looked at her suspiciously.
"Why can't you change...?"
Because of fate.
Under Emma's questioning, Adele opened her mouth in surprise, her lips formed a half-open cavity in the lower half of her face, the weak line of defense collapsed, her face twisted, tears and snot flowing into her mouth. Emma broke out, shoving Adele brutally. She was like a child who was kicked out of the house. And Emma didn't cry during the whole scene. In the last shot, A is sobbing loudly on the street in the middle of the night, not like a woman, but like a sad horse.
Adele asked Emma to meet in the restaurant, dressed in blue, and the conversation gradually deepened by temptation. Finally, she wrapped her hand with her mouth, and the rich and sensitive nerve endings on the other side, like a damp jungle, wrapped her lover's breath, desperate and passionate.
They had kissed the sunset on a bench in the autumn light. Emma's sketch, one stroke, two strokes, focused on Adele's plump lip line. Provocation, intimacy, lingering like death, warmth and unobstructed embrace, it has been many years since we parted.
Many years later, Adele was right and Emma was right. Time washes everything, and the latter always maintains its own decision. She knew too well what she wanted and where she was going.
But Adele didn't understand. Her definition is vague, and she is always washed away by feelings, desires, and countless surprises. She spends that time alone in black and takes the kids to the beach. The blue umbrella on the beach was blown down by the wind, and this relationship never healed.
She pushed herself into that azure, floating, reminiscent of a PJ Harvey album cover, and she opened her mouth again, the sun hitting her face.
"You won't forgive me?"
"I have forgiven you."
"You don't love me anymore?"
"Yes."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm going to be with someone else, you know."
"But I have infinite tenderness for you, forever. For a lifetime."
Video Separate "Chapter 1" and "Chapter 2", but there are no following chapters, maybe Cauchy doesn't know what other chapters will be like. At the end of the film, A dresses up carefully, and still comes to the exhibition dressed in blue, with her lips still slightly pursed. She looks for blue in the void, but she finds nothing and finds nothing.
Adele, the name symbolizes the sun. Fairness, passion, justice. Fairness may be a false proposition, but we really need enthusiasm, Adele's enthusiasm, embrace the light and heat, accept the parting, and then travel through the darkness alone, return, and turn the whole life into a full chew.
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