You are a secret journey from night to night, from the bottom of your eyes to your heart, from hell to heaven. You are the painter, the poet, the executioner, the secret fire in my body. You are sharp as a knife and soft as lips, with both you cut me. We burn like fire and fire and more silent than soot, we love infinitely and get lost in fear. You are not the sea breeze blowing back and forth, you are the fate that I cannot get out of, the claws and teeth of fate.
Beauty, the movie is so beautiful, every frame of the night is an oil painting, and seeing the women walking around on the screen is like the beauties in the oil painting come to life.
The stamina of the movie is too strong, and it is hard to let go after watching it for a long time.
The story begins with female painter Marian coming to a house around the sea to paint a portrait of the heroine Eloise. After the portrait is completed, she will marry a strange man she has never met. Eloise was not happy with such a marriage, and was already angry with other painters. Therefore, the mother told the female painter to observe secretly in the name of taking a walk with Eloise.
The movie seems to recall this love from the perspective of the painter Marianne, but I prefer to understand this love from the perspective of the painted woman Eloise.
Gaze is the tone that runs through the entire emotional line of the two heroines. When we are secretly stared at by our eyes for a long time, we can detect it.
"When you're staring at me, I'm staring at you."
It means that when you are secretly looking at me, I am actually looking at you. Through mother's narration, we know that when the two girls go out for a walk every day, Eloise is very fond of the painter Marian. One night she went to talk to Marianne and asked her what was love and what was symphony. She had never felt love or heard a symphony.
So Marian sat on the piano bench and started to play the piano. Because she couldn't remember the score, she played in a panic, but she still looked very hard. Eloise's heart fluttered at this moment, and she stared at Marianne, wanting to kiss her for the first time.
When Eloise got permission to go out for a walk alone, she felt free, but also lonely, and this loneliness came from the lack of Marianne around her.
"I think of your words again, but they remind you of your absence."
And yet you tell me that all your stares are actually due to the need to complete the portrait. Eloise was of course angry, she rushed into the sea, trying to use the cold water to quench the enthusiasm, longing, love and anger in her heart.
Fire is the theme of the film. Fire is warmth, desire, kisses, and heartbreak. Fire is also destruction.
The portrait in the eyes of the painter Marianne caught fire, indicating that she was also attracted to Eloise. She completed the portrait for the first time, but Eloise was not satisfied. The portrait was patchwork, lifeless and lacking in soul. So Marianne destroyed it, so she was also expelled by her mother.
Eloise was naturally reluctant to leave Marianne, so she volunteered to be a model for her, even at the expense of her marriage.
I'm resisting fate, but I can't resist you.
Artist Marianne told Eloise when she painted her: "When you're shy, you bite your lip; when you're angry, you don't blink." This is what she observed.
And Eloise quickly responded: "When you don't know what to say, you massage your forehead; when you lose control, I raise my eyebrows; when you are troubled, you breathe through your mouth."
How about you, are you more detailed in my eyes?
Such straightforward flirting makes the atmosphere ambiguous, with temptation, with lust, with caution. You almost kissed me, but no, I almost kissed you, but didn't, the moment your lips were about to touch, you woke up.
The movie entered into clarity, when a wave of vocal music sounded higher than a wave at a bonfire party. Eloise's skirt is on fire, this is the most classic scene in the whole movie, the burning woman is extremely beautiful, and the desire has reached a climax, you stare at me again, I stare at you again, confirm through the eyes, we can't control ourselves in love. So I sneaked to the beach to kiss.
At this time, the movie gave us a dark line, and Eloise read a Greek myth. Saint Orpheus of the lyre went to the underworld to rescue his wife, on the condition that he could not turn back on the way back, but Orpheus turned back in the end. Eloise thought it was him who couldn't resist thinking about his wife and turned back. On the other hand, Marianne thought that it was his wife who told him to turn back, and he turned back. He made an artist's choice, not a lover but a memory.
Marianne is undoubtedly an artist, that's why she thought so, and in the end she did make the same choice. Maybe this short-lived and hopeless beauty is in line with an artist's thinking and temperament.
Regarding the erotic drama, it is not direct enough, and it is very lustful. Whether it is the posture of smearing the armpit to metaphorize the posture of entering the body, or placing a mirror on the lower body of the other party's red fruit to reflect his own image, he is very lustful. It is not the lust brought by the flesh, but the higher lust brought by art.
Marian painted a small portrait of Eloise as a souvenir, and Eloise asked: When you think about me, you can look at the portrait to solve the lovesickness. What should I do when I think of you? So there is the scene above where Marianne looks at Eloise Chiguo's lower body and draws a portrait of Chiguo herself in the mirror. Let's just say, who can stand such an intimate and romantic scene full of eroticism and art? As a movie watcher, I really want to immediately pick up my drawing board, dip it in paint and start painting. I want to paint this extremely beautiful scene. Thinking about it, I will give up if I don’t have this level.
I wonder if Marianne had such a picture when she painted Eloise's draft, she couldn't help it, she couldn't help it, and she didn't have a purpose. I remember, there was. She is fast asleep, you hold the lamp and describe how she fell asleep.
Portraits are always done, sooner or later, the day will always come. Once the portrait is completed, it is sent to the man's house, and the marriage is imminent. The two heroines had a dispute. Although Eloise did not hear her words, she could hear her heart. She said, as long as you hold my hand, I am willing to go with you, as long as you nod my head. Willing to give up everything for you, the ends of the earth, follow closely.
"You're not as brave as I thought."
"Neither did you."
"You want me to resist don't you?"
"yes."
"But do you dare to tell me in person? Answer me."
"cannot."
In that era of low status for women, perhaps Marianne could not afford another woman's future, and even her own identity as a painter could only be borrowed from her father's name. Maybe Marianne felt that Eloise was definitely better off marrying a man than herself. Maybe… we bowed our heads to the world and weren’t brave enough, and maybe the good memories are worth preserving more than the foreseeable bad reality.
Marianne chose to give up. She turned her head back when Vision Eloise called her "turn back", she abandoned her lover and left alone.
Since then, Marianne has only seen Eloise twice. The first time was at an art exhibition in the past few years. I saw Eloise's current portrait, and there was a little girl next to it. It should be Eloise's daughter. And Eloise still holds the Greek mythology in his hand, and his fingers are inserted into page 28, which is painted with Marion's self-portrait. On that passionate and romantic night, they also had a small portrait of each other.
The second time Marianne saw Eloise at a concert, she saw Eloise from a distance and stared at her secretly again for a long time. The symphony sounded ceremoniously, and the movie reached its climax at the end. A few minutes long headed Eloise's face and saw her go from silent to tears, from silent weeping to heartbreak. This song was exactly the one that Marianne played to her in a panic.
It seems as if all the emotional restraint of the characters in the movie is exploding at the last minute, and it seems that the restraint of the director is exploding at the last minute.
I know you're staring at me, and I can't look back at you anymore. You have already made the choice of a poet, and I am not a poet, I just want to love, I am alone, and always firmly guard our love.
You are a secret journey from night to night, from the bottom of your eyes to your heart, from hell to heaven. You are the painter, the poet, the executioner, the secret fire in my body. You are not the sea breeze blowing back and forth, you are the fate that I cannot get out of, the claws and teeth of fate.
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