The key to the success of this film lies in the screenwriting. Patrick Marber once again demonstrated his ability to perfectly convert mixed emotions into dialogues and shots. Compared with the adaptation of his original script in "Closer", this diary style will be slightly boring. The adaptation of the novel is even more difficult. Whether it's Barbara Covett's voiceover, or every time Sheba Hart and Barbara's inner cognition angle changes from language, it's just right and interlocking.
The performance of the actors is the most attractive part of this film. It can be said that the performance of the two protagonists is quite astonishing. Of course, my two favorite scenes are when Barbara cat died and asked Sheba to accompany her, but she met Sheba who was preparing to spend time with the whole family. Going to watch the performance of the Mongolian son, this is a small climax of the whole film, and the bigger climax is the confrontation between the two after Sheba found out the truth. I haven't seen two such strong actresses in such a big show for a long time. The two are like a symphony, with wind and string music complementing each other, interspersed with the percussion of the viewer's own heart. In addition, the performances of the two in other scenes are all flawless, such as Barbara's opportunistic harassment of Sheba, Sheba's performance of discovering her adultery twice in the face of Barbara, and so on. In addition, she plays Sheba's husband, Bill Nighy, who enjoys the warm happiness of the family, the disappointment, helplessness and even remorse of Sheba's adultery, and the relief of re-accepting Sheba.
The film was shot by two-time Oscar-winning Chris Menges ("The Mission", "The Killing Fields"), and the handling of individual shots is astounding, such as Sheba rushing out of Barbara's house and ranting at the reporters The lens is memorable. Philip Glass's music has always been very fond of, for the film it feels a bit "The Hours" shadow, of course, it is very appropriate. Other aspects of art, art direction, clothing, makeup should be good, but limited to the type and expression of the film, there is nothing particularly outstanding (in fact, it does not need to be overwhelming), but such as how much Cate's hair hangs, and finally The heavy makeup and the eye-catching blue shirt, as well as Judi's deliberately shaved hairline that looks mean, still makes people feel the filmmakers' intentions.
In general, the film is a very introverted niche film. Like other such films, everyone will have their own viewing points, entry points, and comparison points, and every time they watch more, there will be new gains: watching movies , inwardly.
2007-10-28
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