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After the Oscars ended, one of my favorite films, The Phantom Thread, passed silently. The Oscars are a gathering of films and filmmakers, and surprises are normal. Here, we all have the opportunity to choose our favorite movie.
The film stars the powerful actor Daniel Day-Lewis, and I can't get out of my mind for his impressive roles in the days of film-only youth. "My Left Foot", "In the Name of My Father", "Prague Love", "The Age of Innocence"... This time he will end his acting career with a eccentric, fragile and paranoid costume designer. But we hope that he is another Hayao Miyazaki, who always talks about retiring, but he can't restrain the desire to create and come out again.
three women
This is a story about love, but outside of this relationship, there are two other women.
The deceased mother is his shadow and inner refuge. A kind of Oedipus complex, very suitable for his melancholy. The mother would "show up" when he was ill and hallucinated, and then the mother became a listener. No one answered, only talking to himself, the walls blocked the progress of words, a self-release.
My sister has never been married. She is my brother's companion in life and a business partner. As a designer's brother, I have to meet all kinds of women, and they will eventually become passers-by. My sister also hopes that he can have a good home. She feels sorry for the women who failed to enter the family, but for those who challenge the rules of the family and the rules of the game, she is full of indifference, and even shows her due dignity. and hegemony.
The person who dares to challenge the rules is the heroine of this film, the lover of the costume designer, and later his wife. As a bystander, she could clearly see the stubborn and rigid so-called principles behind this clothing empire. It was the paranoid designer and his sister who made this decay a habit of their lives. So, she has to come out to challenge and take action. Compared with the designer's sister, she is another strong person. In order to win love, she will do things that others dare not do, so she will not be a passer-by.
The "medicinal effect" of poisonous mushrooms
The designer's heart is fragile, and he always shows how authoritative he is. He regards his career as more important than anything else, and regards his lover's care and tenderness as a distraction and damage to his work state.
The lover who picked mushrooms outside, checked the instructions in the book, and found the poisonous mushrooms. She put the pieces of the poisonous mushrooms into the teapot that the designer often drank.
He finally fell ill, and could no longer pretend to be strong, he began to feel fear and fear, and the mother's spirit stood quietly, against the opposite wall. He began to act like an obedient child, only obeying his lover's arrangement, and even the doctor arranged by his sister was scolded away by him. But when his body recovers, he becomes paranoid and unreasonable again. After they got married, he tried to change, and when his wife ran out of the house, he finally learned to go back desperately.
But the nature is hard to change. In order to tie the designer's heart, his wife did the same again, and poisonous mushrooms became her powerful weapon. It seems that the designer also understands the routine, and he is willing to accept this strange and even deformed drama. He said: Kiss me before I get sick.
"Hu Lai" in the name of love
Judging by the poisonous mushroom thing, they really do match up because the wife still loves her husband. A person who is not living a routine life also needs unconventional treatment. The wife did not abandon the marriage because of her husband's paranoia and strangeness. This is what sets her apart from other women, and what she needs is coping and change, not total obedience and compromise. Since she came to this family, she has become a disruptor of order. He has had conflicts with her husband and her husband's sister, but she has successfully subdued this stubborn sister group. Will the game of poisonous mushrooms continue? The wife is also worried that this trick is played too much and will kill her husband. And the reality of life tells them that there is always a way to "run wild" in the name of love, so that their marriage and family can go a long way. When a baby carriage appears in the camera and a family of four travels, you know that this method is feasible.
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