Catherine's real needs
The mission of chloe, the most critical character in the film, was explained at the beginning of the film-meeting different people's different inner needs, even if sometimes they don't directly say what their real needs are. When Catherine found Chloe and asked her to experiment with David, Catherine said an extremely important sentence "my husband is not the client". So in fact, for chloe, she was not satisfied with David, but Catherine. catherine is the clinet. What is the real need of Catherine? On the surface, it is to find out whether her husband is really cheating, but in fact Catherine's inner need is love. In the film, it was explained that Catherine and her husband were once glued together, but the distance between the two in the later marriage life is getting farther and farther. Catherine watched that because of her own age, she became less confident about her appearance and body. In fact, the root of this lack of confidence comes from the exhaustion of her love with her husband David. The reason why she suspected that her husband was cheating at first was ostensibly his husband’s various behaviors, and the root cause was nothing more than she felt that david loved her less than before. When she finds chloe and clearly tells chloe that his husband is not a client (the subtext client is herself), chloe knows that the object of her "service" is Catherine and not David (the service here is quoted because of chloe's role) It's not just as simple as a prostitute). And since Catherine approached her, Chloe knew that what Catherine really needed was not to confirm that her husband was cheating from the facts. Determine the specific object), but love. The subsequent development of the film also proved that chloe brought Catherine to this point.
David's derailment
There are many different opinions on whether David really cheated. Based on my understanding of the whole film, David did cheat on Catherine, but Chloe was not the target of cheating (Chloe should not have had any intersection with David until the three people met in the coffee shop). The director's portrayal of David in the film is actually very negative. Like Chloe, the portrayal of director David's first appearance is also full of meaning. David's first appearance was to explain Mozart's opera don giovanni. Don giovanni has another well-known name, don juan (Don Juan). Don Juan is a notorious slutty boy who has been to countless women and never repents of his own nature, and finally went to hell. However, in this scene, David highlights the specific number of women Don Juan has visited and understates "a very busy man". Obviously, David's evaluation of Don Juan is not negative here, and it can even be said to be a positive joke. The director used this arrangement to imply the similarity between David's character and Don Juan-a cheater and liar. Later, David lied to Catherine that he missed the plane and actually had a private meeting with the student Miranda, including later flirting with other young women in most of the appearances, which is also the director's depiction of the nature of his character. In addition, in terms of lens language, most of David’s exits were in dark surroundings or shadows, and most of his communication with Catherine took place at night and in dark surroundings, which also hinted at David’s infidelity and infidelity. Honesty (even the scene where Catherine seems to be reconciling and kissing him takes place in the dark, with intense and weird music and disturbing rain). And the only scene where David was exposed to the bright light and Catherine was in a frontal negotiation scene. It appears hidden with two layers of glass), David quarreled with Catherine and overthrew Catherine, revealing a violent and guilty conscience. It can be seen that he does not love Catherine in a completely exposed environment.
chloe's portrayal
I believe that the essence of a movie is a moving image, and its roots come from visual art, so the image information in the movie should actually be the leading role of the movie. In Chloe, the lens language used by the director on Chloe cannot be ignored in understanding this character. Contrary to David, chloe appears in brightly lit environments most of the time in the film. When she talks with Catherine, she always appears in a bright place by the window of a cafe. In the night environment, she also appears under a light source, even in In the bed scene with Catherine, there is also a gentle and sometimes warm light shining on the body (in contrast, David and Catherine's kiss is in the dark and cold light). Most of the time, Chloe’s head is always glowing, and her own image looks more pure (Amanda’s baby face makes her look purer rather than sexy. I believe that the director must choose the role. This is also considered), even the smell that attracted Catherine to her came from moisturizer (relatively natural and pure) rather than perfume (relatively mature and seductive), and the lily that she gave to Catherine was in Western culture. A symbol of holiness (not only purity, but there is actually a very subtle clue that the scent on her body is similar to that of lilies, when she gave Catherine flowers the first sentence she said was smell it). In addition, and most importantly, in the scene of Chloe's death near the end of the film, three very important clues suggest that the character of Chloe is not as simple as a senior prostitute with an Oedipus complex. 1) Chloe was kissed by Catherine, and the latter indirectly led to her death 2) Chloe was stabbed in her palm, leaving a mark 3) Chloe's fallen body state was similar to that of Jesus on the cross, with a glowing head Halo. These three points actually constitute an analogy. The first point corresponds to the kiss of Judas of Jesus, the second point corresponds to the sacred wound (the scar that appears on the palm or the head resembles the scar caused by the crucifixion of Jesus on the cross), and the third Needless to say (because this is a Western movie, the religious elements
Many people may not understand). Therefore, I think that the director’s arrangement of chloe and Jesus analogously, if it does not imply that chloe is the existence of the Holy Spirit on a certain level in the film (it is not impossible, but I think this statement may be difficult for everyone to accept), it is understandable. For Catherine, chloe is a savior-like existence (how to save it will be discussed later), her death (note that it is suicide) is a self-sacrifice to Catherine.
chloe's rescue of Catherine
I said earlier that Chloe’s mission in the film is to satisfy Catherine. Catherine, not david, is her real client. And what Catherine needs in her heart is love. The long-term inability to feel the love of her husband and the long-term lack of passion for love made her lose self-confidence. The lack of self-confidence is the source of her lack of charm (a person with confidence and love, no matter how old, will not feel that she lacks charm). And what Chloe gave her was passionate love. In fact, Catherine has always been attracted to chloe (she realized this by herself) and loved her in her heart (before she was not clear until after chloe died). In fact, Chloe’s attraction to Catherine was reflected in the first meeting between the two of them. After coming out of the bathroom, Chloe returned to a man. Catherine kept staring at her. In the hospital, Catherine looked at Chloe by the window. I think Catherine was in contact on the surface. In order for chloe to experiment with David, in fact, deep down in her heart, she wanted to contact her because she was attracted by chloe (the heart was looking for love). Many details show Catherine’s desire for chloe (a direct desire rather than approaching her husband through chloe). I won’t repeat them one by one. The more obvious one is that the director used a parallel montage to depict the scene of having sex with David in chloe’s narrative. In the scene of masturbating with Catherine in the bathroom, Catherine is in the position of david in another scene, and like David, he presses the glass with his hand, implying that Catherine's masturbation object is Chloe and not David. There are two proofs that Catherine actually loves chloe. One is that in the confrontation between the cafe and David, David said that Catherine is having a fling (just for fun), and Catherine immediately subconsciously said it' s not a fling (the subtext is serious about chloe's feelings). When David said here, he didn't know that the existence of chloe was just a general reference, and Catherine naturally thought of chloe who had just slept before. . . Another point is the end of the film. Catherine wears a bunch of black flowers on her chest (to commemorate chloe, at this time she has realized that chloe has saved her), and she puts her hair back in the bun that chloe gave her, and looks bright The glow looks younger and more attractive. Catherine walked down the stairs. David was with a bunch of women in one corner of the house, Michale was alone in the other corner, and Catherine stood far away from them. The camera focuses on Chloe's bun, advancing and finally fading out. Judging from the picture information, the ending of the film is that Catherine chooses to turn her back to her husband and son, who are far away from her, while "chloe" (hair bun) is in the place closest to her. It was chloe who awakened Catherine’s passion and brought her the love she longed for, thus regaining her self-confidence and vitality. Therefore, we can see that Catherine at the end of the film looks younger, beautiful and attractive (be realistic) The actor's makeup is obviously different...), this is chloe's rescue of Catherine. And chloe’s last sentence in the opening monologue "all i know is that if i do it just right, i can become your living, breathing, unflinching dream, and then i can actually disappear" is also a fable of the whole film, she satisfies Catherine The fantasy of David's derailment (this one is a fact), the sexual fantasy of Chloe herself, and most fundamentally, the fantasy of love, and then disappear (die)
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