This is a typical European film. It is difficult to be produced in the industrialized American film industry in its original form, and it is also unimaginable that it will appear in the culture where straight male cancer is prosperous. In other words, Although this "She" is roughly classified as a thriller, it is actually a standard work about questioning the identity of women. Under the shell of a crude and absurd rape case, it is full of irony and criticism. , Humorous and speculative spark. When many people hear the plot of "She", they will naturally think of Paul Van Hoven's famous "Instinct", which explores the haze of human nature and hearts through violence and eroticism. The 77-year-old director Paul Van Hoven brought a weird work that partly meets expectations and is full of distortions.
"She" begins with a rape scene. After a sudden scuffle and tearing, Yu Pell's strange and meaningful face appears in a mess. The next direction of the story shows people a kind of The weird silence, as if nothing had happened. Michel, played by Huppert, is the boss of a video game company. She goes to work as usual, discussing trivial matters, dealing with her childish son, boring ex-husband, hypocritical lover and best friend, and keeping her handsome neighbors. Fantasy, pretending to forget about the rape, but things started to go in weird directions.
In many people’s expectations, this should be a story about revenge, but Paul Van Hoven’s taste has not turned into commonplace. This work adapted from a French novel just uses violence and sex as a fuse, igniting it. It is the damp desire in people's hearts that detonated the extremely powerful bomb of life itself. "She" was able to nominate Palme d'Or, obviously not because of an unsettled case, but because of the pursuit of identity, female roles and female consciousness permeated in it. It is full of ironic dialogues. At the dinner table, people choke each other to talk, shaking off a place of absurd debris. People's minds and desires are clearly extinguished, and they want to cover it. In addition, there is also that video game that is useful to real life. The blatant symbol is used precisely and arrogantly.
"She" actually hides several layers of very interesting content. As a daughter, Michelle has been struggling to avoid the imprint left by her father. Her father was a notorious serial killer. When she was a child, when his father was arrested, her helpless and bewildered face was continuously disclosed by the news media on the program. Until now, it has not been forgotten by others. This identity harmed her, but it also gave her some kind of weird power. The panic and panic in her childhood created her personality in the future. Now, she looks back at her images in the news time and time again in a masochistic manner. This is a kind of A subtle examination and reflection on one's original identity.
If the first level of identity is retrieving, then the second level, her identity search in the adult world is to use "sex" as an intermediary and symbol, separation from her ex-husband, entanglement with her lover, and her neighbors Desire, and even certain same-sex desires with her girlfriends, have become her way of self-exploration. From a secular sense, this is nothing more than the private life of dog blood, but in fact, it is all about identity recognition. Seeing through his self, he sometimes confirms and sometimes overthrows and rejects his various role identities.
On the third level, the exploration of her own desires. The rape became the catalyst. The most ingenious thing is that her imaginary handsome neighbor turned out to be the rapist in black. Her desire and disgust were revealed in the truth. Distorted and weirdly merged into one in an instant, and after that, everything evolved into a weird game in which the two were tacitly aware of each other. Rape, the harm and control of women, was suddenly reversed and diluted. The movie sets the heroine’s career as the boss of a video game company. The game images full of sex and violence form a care for her real experience. The violent monsters and exaggerated violations have become a model of her life. And ridicule, and this game is an illusion created by her personal supervision. This makes the film's evil, ironic and sad poetry.
All the stories in "She" are actually revolving around Michelle's female identity. As a mother, her son was cowardly and incompetent, and married a grumpy wife. He did not dare to admit that the child she gave birth was not his own flesh and blood; as a daughter, her mother had to marry a man younger than herself; as a wife, The husband has already left... If all of this is placed from the perspective of male power, Michelle is destined to be a sad character, but in the story of "She", everything is just the opposite. Every male character looks trivial and suffers from being abandoned. It's like the ending of a clog, and in the last scene, Michelle and his girlfriend walked into the distance, holding hands. This is a standard feminist reunion ending, casting a glimpse of masculine pride with almost evil taste.
Initially, it was said that many actresses rejected Paul van Hoeven’s casting, and only Hupel agreed to the director. But I have to say that no one but Hupel seemed to be able to support this role, she absolutely deserved it. The director’s almost eulogizing compliment. Her expression has an indifferent and sharp coexisting temperament to life, but she is also sober, confident and confused. That expression is a manifestation of the common inner patterns of contemporary people. The so-called stunning in "She" is not just a grasp of the storyline, but an ambitious freehand brushwork of contemporary people's inner desires and indescribable gray areas.
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