It is more appropriate to position this film as an erotic and suspenseful type of film. Not only can we see a few scenes of hot women who are so daring and daring that they can't take their eyes off the skin, we can also faintly feel a faint and depressing scene. The suspense of Liam Neeson permeates the whole story. Even in the recently released
Amanda Seyfried's acting tends to be mature and round. From "Mamma Mia", "Jennifer's Body" to the recently aired "Breakup Letter" co-starring Channing Tatum, her acting talent has become more and more stable, tepid and like shape. As a young actress who is growing up, her brilliance in the camera is no less than that of Julianne Moore, an old drama goddess who is over fifty years old. Therefore, in addition to having a director In addition to Igoyan's successful shooting and excellent camera language, Seyfried and Moore have become the "keel" of the film. Those R-rated plot screens, the highlights of the film, will undoubtedly be reduced a lot. Playing erotic cards is the speciality of Italian director Atom Igoyan. He is good at revealing the chaotic desires in human nature. Just like the "Erotic Hotel" he filmed before, he is willing to use his own perspective and point of view to discuss softly and meticulously. Family and marital issues and the crises of desire derived from related themes, but in the end, often some good hopes will light up the film's ending again.
In this film, Amanda Seyfried incarnates Chloe, a senior recruiter who is active in a high-end private club. She exudes the smell of dust in her youth, and her mysterious but restrained expression adds to the film. element of suspense. Her encounter with Catherine may have been arranged by God, but in the end, she broke the mystery in one word. A middle-aged woman like Catherine has all kinds of crises in her life: age, physical, etc. All these crises make her no longer confident, and she no longer believes that when she was 19 years old, she met her husband for the first time. David (Liam Neeson) has seen her as an integral part of his life. Suspicion arises from lack of self-confidence, and some clues may not be the truth. In order to confirm her suspicions, Katherine, a middle-aged woman, fell into the quagmire she designed for herself step by step.
The film has its successes and its failures. The commendable part is that the theme is close to the people and profound, the views and perspectives of life expressed by the director are unique, and they take place in the surrounding life of the public, it is easy to make people move and produce a lot of feelings. The narrative method adopted in the film, the restricted narrative method, amazes the author. This is why the suspense and doubts in the film are like snowballs, expanding layer by layer, making the audience eager to find out. The director did not give any details about the further relationship between David and Chloe. When Chloe reported to Katherine and her husband's dating situation, we can only see Chloe's calm and somewhat illusory eyes, and with Chloe. I heard her words when she acted as the narrator of the film, and even sometimes, the director would insert some associative pictures of "adultery facts" described by Chloe to confuse the audience, and then let the audience pass through such an associative plot that makes all wives unbearable. , to experience Katherine's state of pain, anger, and despair.
Therefore, the doubts of the film are set more obscurely, but they are everywhere prompting audiences like Sherlock Holmes to smell some interesting plot parts. But why is there such an indescribable affection between the two women? Is it sympathy, self-pity, or feeling a little bit connected to the disease? Assuming that they both have a common man, David, and have had a skin-to-skin relationship with him. To a certain extent, Catherine envies and admires Chloe. Although Chloe is a high-end prostitute, she has unique taste and She is so smart and observant, she has the skills to attract the opposite sex, and she knows how to achieve her goals. This is a very enviable thing in Catherine's view. She must have a huge sense of loss because of her lost youth, Chloe. Yi is like a fragrant apple, which makes Catherine, who does not have these "advantages", feel a certain attraction; in the film, Catherine is a repressed and introverted female gynecologist, and there is a lack of communication with her family. big question. This also indirectly reflects a common phenomenon: the alienation of the relationship between urbanites. Chloe and Katherine have an almost Oedipus complex because of the difference in the age of women, so some subtle and unspeakable friendships quietly bloom. Chloe's accidental encounter with Catherine was, in the end, apparently a little deliberate. The images of the subtleties of these plots are all expressed in a subtle and gradual way through the images of the camera. For the complex emotions between the two of them, an action and a language are slowly used as a foreshadowing to show such a special relationship. relationship with patrons.
The flaw is like a crack on blue-and-white porcelain. The film has put a lot of effort into rendering the emotional crisis of middle-aged women: Catherine's career, friends, children and husband, she interacts with them, so Catherine presented to the audience is a very three-dimensional character. However, the setting of Chloe, the character who secretly drives the film, is somewhat conceptual and not full of flesh and blood. The simplest example is that she mostly appears in the appointment with Catherine. In addition, her inner thoughts and psychological activities are not given by the director. Fully exposed, her personality is mysterious, but as audiences, we must see more activities that belong to her own space in order to understand this character. So, this leads to why Chloe in the end did such an amazing thing in the ending, which makes the audience feel that the ending is a bit too rigid and has to go on a devastatingly poignant route.
The thematic elements of the film touch on two sensitive topics, marriage derailment and the ambiguous feelings of women and girls. Julianne Moore outlines the main play, Amanda Seyfried will play for her, and sexy old man Liam Neeson will deal with these two. It's really a passionate love triangle between two beauties.
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