Chloe sneezed exaggeratedly, her hair flying forward. She said, "I think I'm coming down with something."
A prophecy, it is not an exaggeration to say so.
She falls in love, falls down the balcony and falls out of life.
【Salome: Love only should one consider】
The film's breath of death and doom smells very much like Wilde's Salome. In the opening chapter, David leads the students to count the number of Don Juan's lovers, implying that his Aquaman is misleading. He is like King Yelu who covets his stepdaughter. David's coveting of many women only stays at the spiritual level and has not been put into action. Just like King Yelu's lust only through his eyes, he hopes to satisfy his desires by watching a seven-layered gauze dance. They were all first seen as licentious, and then proved to be the ultimate obedience and enforcement of the law. Catherine is facing a mid-life crisis (to be precise, a long-term age crisis and lack of confidence), feeling that she has lost her once-familiar husband and son, and has reached a situation where she is emotionally and subjectively isolated. If you can live with the blunt analogies and correspondences, she's the prophet John in a prison cage objectively cut off from the world - all alone catching the signs of doom, getting farther and farther from the beloved (lover/God), changing It comes from being madly infatuated by people whom you despise. And Chloe, the modern version of Princess Salome, is just as crazy and neurotic as her predecessor, and will do anything for love (infatuation). Salome can cut off his lover's head to kiss him, he can dance naked to cut off his head; Chloe can also sleep with her son to get Catherine's lies. They all kill for love, but one kills and one kills himself. But no matter what, they were all dead, was that kiss all that was frozen in their minds before they died?
[twice the distance]
This can't be called a love movie, and such complicated feelings don't have to be classified under the name of love. Love is a matter of direct contact between two or more people, but the lovers in the show rarely meet directly and candidly, and there is a sense of indirectness pervading their relationship. Catherine wants to re-experience her husband's sexual excitement and passion through the middleman Chloe, Chloe wants to get her orgasm through Catherine's son, and David is also detached from his wife. This feeling is accentuated by the ubiquitous mirror and glass reflections in the film. The distance between the virtual image and the real object in the mirror is twice the actual distance. The audience and the characters look out through the mirror, giving people a sense of distance that is not directly looking at the virtual image.
And rather than love, the key words between CD couples are more family affection and communication, while CC is unequal infatuation. Is Chloe in love with Catherine? That should be obsessive attachment of unknown origin, and the sublimation of his superb performance and his ability to please others. Or is this also a kind of love, after all, this word is like a trash can that contains everything, whose definition should we listen to?
【Linguistically】
Chloe's infatuation with Catherine is real, apart from the visible plot, Chloe's tone is also very interesting, with weird accents like "I want you to have it" "I want you to kiss me " "-What do you like ? -What are you having (the statement tone sounds like "I like what you are having.")", revealing the firmness of "I want you". It's hard for the audience to see when this feeling was ignited. Is the latter concerned about her knees and colds? Is it when being comforted in the bathroom? Or had she felt her circling gaze when Cathrine looked down at her in the office before? After all, in her own words, she "feels everything."
【Disappear】
Chloe said in her opening remarks that everything she does in her work is to tell the client's own story with his own mouth, and eventually she can disappear. Catherine said to her husband after the showdown You are so perfect. I feel if you blow on me I will disappear. I am not sure what this sentence means, but for the time being, I understand disappear as the disappearance of fluttering, no longer enduring life, but the impact is still the same .
Back to the important question: was that kiss that was frozen between Chloe and Salome before they died? Such a beautiful idea is not complicated enough. In my imagination, Salome finally got her "love" through her crazy venting, which must be very cool. Chloe is more like making a smart bet - I disappeared, but I am confident that even if I no longer exist, I can still freely and dominate your life...
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