hard and cold, I can't kill you Choking your words, expressionless, indifferent face, completely undressed appearance... This is at least the impression I get from middle-aged British women. If the hairstyle and glasses are replaced by Jiang Qing's style, she is a Chinese old lady of Marxism-Leninism.
The film basically tells a very perverted story... Barbara played by Judi Dench is a middle school teacher somewhere in London, single, living in a dilapidated old house, and living a boring life, like most old British women. , walking to see the sky, smoking, being indifferent to students, and seeming to have little contact with colleagues. The entire film is narrated by her diary.
A new female art teacher, Sheba, has come to the school in the new term. Sheba isn't pretty, but the cast is very charismatic, with the charm and charm of a mature woman (actors Cate Blanchett played Elizabeth I as did Judi Dench, but I can't really compare the charming teacher in this film with the young but staid the indifferent Elizabeth I). Barbara's eyes were attracted by her. Barbara saw Sheba's weakness in discouraging students from fighting, so she became Sheba and calmed down the storm with her usual iron fist. very close. Barbara also entered into Sheba's life. Sheba's husband is much older than Sheba. He is a typical British old man with warm water. His speech is boring, his movements are slow, and his clothes are sloppy. One of Sheba's two children has Down syndrome (an idiot, to put it simply) and the other is very rebellious. All of this made Barbara determine in her diary that Sheba's life was not happy. Of course, she had the opportunity to enter Sheba's life more deeply and establish an "intimate" relationship with her...
Sheba didn't show up at a school party (it seemed to be New Year's), Barbara, who had been preparing for a long time to have an intimate conversation with her, was very anxious, disappointed, and sad. When she walked out of the auditorium, she found that Sheba was in In the classroom, we just finished having fun and were dressing, and the male protagonist was the guy who beat the guy at the beginning of the film, and he was only 15 years old. Shocked, Barbara then asked Sheba out, and asked directly about the indecent love in a roadside tavern. The pure Sheba confessed the whole story of this incestuous love with almost no resistance: very old-fashioned and classic... Young passionate boys fight for the female teacher, then they go to bed, and when they are in love, they can It's strange to go to the abandoned railway at night to have fun. Barbara is very sophisticated and expresses that she wants to keep a secret for Sheba, and that it is based on their friendship. Obviously, Barbara does this. She thought that Sheba was already her prey, but after a
while, things were always unexpected. Barbara's cat suddenly had no medicine and was euthanized at the veterinary hospital. Barbara thinks Sheba should accompany her to bury her beloved cat, whether it's based on their friendship or the secret... But when she finds Shaomen, Sheba's family is about to attend a show for her mentally retarded son. Of course, Sheba couldn't avoid his son's performance in order to bury a dead cat. Under the entanglement, Sheba's husband yelled at Barbara who was holding on to his wife on the street. The two sides parted unhappily. Conflict intensified.
Barbara decided to take revenge. While she was planning, another wretched middle-aged male teacher came to the door. After a few words, it turned out that this wretched uncle had a crush on Sheba for a long time, and wanted to ask Barbara to plan how to seduce Sheba. This is a godsend, Barbara very cleverly told her colleague, and competitor, Sheba had an affair with a certain boy.
So, on a certain night, the boy's mother beat up Sheba's house, and the adultery was exposed. Sheba had a hard time standing at home. In addition to facing her husband's snarling scolding, she also had to face her daughter's accusation: You How can I fuck a guy younger than me? The ubiquitous paparazzi then surrounded Sheba's house. Barbara generously offered to move into her own house if Sheba wanted to. It seems that Barbara has a good chance of winning, how do you see how Sheba looks like a sheep who has thrown herself into the wolf's den... Barbara has already started to YY her and Sheba's subsequent happy life...
Unfortunately, Sheba turned to Barbara In the diary, I found that not only was I regarded as the protagonist of lust, but now I am so passive and helpless and have to suffer a lawsuit, all thanks to this so-called close friend in the boudoir, you can imagine what happened later, she and Barbara fought back and returned to her home, where she later served 10 months in prison for an adulterous affair with a male student.
To the surprise of the audience, the principal had a big quarrel with Barbara because of the Sheba incident (forgot the reason), and the furious principal taught Barbara: Don't forget that you have harassed female colleagues before! The court bans you from being within 500 yards of her! ! ...It turns out that this old-fashioned Barbara is so boring.
The ending of the story is a little bit old-fashioned, with Barbara sitting in the park feeding the pigeons and starting a conversation with another woman who looks a lot like Sheba...
This film feels embarrassing and shocking from beginning to end to me... Probably only the British can make this kind of film calmly. Although the whole film is based on Barbara's diary, it is very objective and neutral, as calm and ruthless as the British. It just presents the embarrassing real world scene after scene. come out.
The story between lesbians has always been popular with men, but the story of an old woman and a married woman is obviously not the type that most men like... But that doesn't mean it can't happen in reality.
The incestuous love between a female teacher and a male student in a middle school is a taboo topic, and in this story, it is also mixed with the obscenity and design of a perverted old woman to her colleagues, and the wretched middle-aged male whimsical and A beautiful female colleague is engaged in an office romance, and after finding out that she has been caught by a student, she insidiously stabs the matter to the student's parents and the newspaper office to get the pleasure of Ah Q. None of these episodes were bright enough or interesting enough, but they definitely could have happened in real life.
The environment shown in the whole film should be the people of the middle and lower classes in the UK, from the shabby school, to Barbara's cigarettes, and her dilapidated and old house, even Sheba's house, is a very bad house, as for the man. Children, it seems that the whole family is crowded in the welfare room provided by the government... All these details imply that this kind of story will never only appear in the plane of petty bourgeoisie.
All in all, this film is well done, and it's embarrassingly real...
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