"Stranger by the Lake" focuses its vision on a private territory where reality is eliminated. Here, there is no difference between a lumberjack and a fruit seller, and some are just a white body. After washing away the shackles of social identity and symbols, only the fat or fit body is left as the measure of the relationship between people. Only then can we peel off the original desire and get a glimpse of the cruel truth of love itself.
And "Adele's Life" is just the opposite. It starts from the awakening consciousness of the female body, and the camera passes all the way through street riots, literary recitations, philosophical discussions, black and white films, sculpture and painting exhibitions, reggae, hard rocking... "Art" , in the name of the movie, all the time wraps those heavy fleshly bodies that are deeply in love. They, and life, are like bodily straitjackets that touch day after day, year after year, and alter the resilience of the female body. Along with the hurts and mistakes that can easily happen inadvertently, in the end, the love that hides here is torn apart.
The film always puts Adele in the foreground of the story, holding it, telephoto, jumping and cutting. With a seemingly sloppy way, Kexix accurately and sensitively captures the delicate mood of a girl who has accidentally fallen in love. Those shyness, the blush on the face, the slight twitching of the corner of the mouth, all let us directly see the naked instinct of the flesh, the wonderful spring heart sprouting.
And the blue-haired Emma, who always showed a free and easy smile in the invisible background, hid the shadows and sadness that flashed across her face in her paintings. Those paintings that are nailed to the wall and judged, such as the "art" that is repeatedly mentioned in the film. like the movie itself. Because, "life is too serious, art is interesting". Because what defeats love is always life. And because, life always comes to an end. Years later, when there are only good colleagues and work left in life, when nail polish and high heels finally replace sweatshirts and jeans, we can still see through the mist of the movie, many years ago, there was in life. That pure blue is still warm and tearing at the old and rusty heart.
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