In 2015, a film "The Tailor" comparable to the Dior fashion show was born. It not only made people unable to take their eyes off the clothing design, but also Kate Winslet once again conquered the hearts of countless fans with her amazing acting skills and beauty. .
The film "The Tailor" is adapted from the best-selling novel "Dress Maker" by Australian writer Rosalie Hamm. It tells the story of Tilly, who has been bullied since childhood, and was expelled by the residents of the small town because she was accused of murdering her classmate Stuart. Away from her hometown, she studied with fashion industry bigwigs and became an outstanding fashion designer. Years later, Tilly returned to her hometown and decided to find out the truth about her childhood murder.
The film opens with a gloomy and atmospheric music and flashbacks frame by frame, bringing the audience into a suspenseful atmosphere. But the film is not only satisfied with this, it combines comedy, feminism, dark humor and other elements in the seemingly suspenseful plot, which is dizzying.
In addition, it can be said that the audience feasted their eyes on this film. A set of gorgeous fashions appearing in remote towns full of yellow sand has created a kind of spectacle, and in the cast, because of the addition of a number of powerful movie stars, this film is also full of highlights. Among them, the transvestite policeman played by Hugo Weaving is still fresh in memory. Judy Davis, who plays the heroine's mother, is almost full of drama, and Kate Winslet, who plays a very layered performance, is even more shaped A three-dimensional plump heroine.
In short, under the influence of various factors in the film, the most direct look and feel of this film is very amazing and interesting.
Although from the script point of view, "The Tailor" is an absurd comedy about revenge. In the film, after the heroine Tilly returned to the town to uncover the truth, facing the town residents who had bullied and framed her, she used her outstanding talent to carry out an elegant and gorgeous revenge. But in essence, the whole film is more like the heroine's journey to find identity.
In my personal opinion, the subconscious search for identity is the psychological motive that drives the heroine to return to her hometown. According to the experience of the heroine Tilly, after she left her hometown, she went to London, Milan, Paris and other places. In the 1950s, these cities had irreplaceable positions in both culture and fashion. Tilly is inevitably baptized by modern civilization in it, and her self-consciousness is also awakened. However, the shadows of her childhood were always with her and made her feel that she still belonged to the small town of Dengota, even though she had already become a high-level tailor.
So, in order to find the missing identity, Tilly returned to her hometown of Denggeta again. Even in order to change the attitude of the town people towards her and her mother and make them accept her (although ostensibly to find the truth), Tilly custom-made gorgeous dresses for them regardless of previous suspicions. The residents of the town have been reborn, and everyone is like a model from a fashion show.
Just as everything was developing in the ideal direction, the truth of the case gradually surfaced. At the wedding of her childhood classmate, Tilly tried to clarify the fact that she was not a murderer, so as to make everyone truly accept her, but unexpectedly, it attracted deeper hatred and misunderstanding, and she and her mother were once again ostracized by the town residents. Obviously, this is another setback for Tilly in her search for identity.
Gorgeous clothing can change a person's appearance, but it cannot change the ugliness in human nature. So far, the beautiful hope of the heroine Tilly's desire to be accepted by others is broken again.
Not only that, but Tilly's lover Teddy also died in a subsequent accident, and she fell into extreme depression. Under the persuasion of her mother, Tilly's spirit gradually improved. At the same time, Tilly no longer seems to have any illusions about the acceptance of the people in this small town. In the end, at the urging of his mother, a gorgeous revenge unfolded. She helped the villagers in the next town design the costumes for the music festival performance, which made the people of her own town lose the competition of the music festival.
At the end of the film, when Tilly burns the whole town with a fire before leaving, it means that she personally destroyed the past self and created a new self. In the last shot, Tilly embarked on the train to Paris, which also means that she has completed the journey of finding her identity with a new self.
Therefore, the deeper theme of the film "The Tailor" is actually a discussion of identity. In a series of shots, it is not difficult for us to see that before the heroine Tilly regained her missing identity, although she seemed fierce and confident, in front of her dear mother and beloved Teddy, she was vulnerable, Anxiety and pain can't help but come out. And when Tilly finally stopped pinning her hopes on others and re-established a new identity through self-identity, the perseverance and confidence emanating from her is the most real.
Still, "The Tailor" has some flaws, but overall it's still an impressive work. As a film with a strong female color, in addition to depicting the theme of identity, many scenes in the film show the audience the liberation of women's ideology and the rise of self-consciousness, thus also invisibly triggering our concerns about many women's issues. Thinking.
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