Judi Dench - Barbara Covett
Cate Blanchett - Sheba Hart
, the meaning in the name: Barbara is the one who covets, Sheba is the one who follows her heart.
It's great. Needless to say, the performance of the two of them.
The old woman's gaze was a cold observation, the kind that made people's back cold. She only cried like that when her cat was dead, which made me feel incongruous. . . It's no wonder that she is the only one who depends on the cat, that fat old cat that makes all cats in the northern district inferior. I almost sympathize with this lonely and perverted old woman. But a few details came to mind: she gently stroked Sheba's forearm with her old wrinkled skin, and she reached out to touch Sheba's clean calf. . . It was so chilling and almost nauseating.
In contrast, young women are warm, soft, and vulnerable. Blanchett's dress is amazing, Sheba is dressed in bohemian, art teacher's sake, Blanchett's tall and slender figure, crystal white skin, small floral top, long skirt... That's really... Ah, I digress Okay, well, speaking of her performance, alas, she has changed so much, what is the role of the Queen in Elizabeth... What is the role of Sheba, and Katherine Hepburn in Aviator, she controls everything just right. She is too fragile here, so fragile that she can't resist the seduction of a 15-year-old boy. But it's hard to imagine such a boy...at least not in China. In the Christmas scene, she took the phone and saw the text message from him, and at that moment I seemed to be her: dry mouth, rapid heartbeat, vertigo.
Bill Nighy is good, he does a good job. The family, the elderly husband, the silly son with Down syndrome, and the young, beautiful and artistic wife were of course in trouble, not to mention her weak will.
Dench writes a diary in the voiceover, and her descriptions in the diary are also unique and have some literary value, hehe. It's a shame, how could she play such a perverted and complicated old woman so well: at first she observed her from a distance, like observing the habits of prey; later they became friends, and she expressed her joy in her diary... ...until the end, you look at her diary: full of words, sticking to her booty: group photo, hair, gold stars, briefing... Suddenly you find that the perverts in the movie always have a sticker Briefings, pictures and diaries of various items: like the red dragon, like the seven deadly sins.
The last few shots are very impressive: Sheba was released from prison after 10 months of prison, her plain face is still beautiful, she returned to the door in the police station car, knocked on the door with an uneasy mood... At the same time, the montage: Barbara went to the store and bought an identical black leather diary, she went back to her single basement home, sat at the table, opened the new book and meditated... sigh, life went on, Sheba went on with her life, while Barbara found her new prey. On the hill outside, she found her potential new friend on the chair she used to sit on...
Ai is really perverted. I really want to find the original book to see what some amazed authors do Would come up with stories like this with characters like this, convincing, but at the same time so troubling... The novel is said to be nominated for a Booker Award? I remembered that at the beginning of February this year, I happened to stay in Cambridge for two days, and spent an afternoon scouring Borders (probably the largest chain bookstore in the UK), when a middle-aged blond beauty came, she called the clerk and said: I' m looking for a fiction, Notes on a Scandal.
Oh forgot to mention, the screenwriter of the movie is Patrick Marber, the one who wrote Closer, um, he's said to be good at this kind of modern man-woman relationship.
All in all a good story, about loneliness, about confession, about the ethics of twisted minds. There is still such a good performance, give it an A.
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