Gashua fell in love overnight, and the title alone is enough to make adult audiences have ambiguous expectations for it. It also reminds you that you should choose your viewing companions carefully. Colleagues, family members or ordinary friends are not suitable for watching together; although it is ambiguous, it is not suitable for lovers in love, otherwise it may make them feel depressed , prematurely preparing for things that are still far away in future life; similarly, it may not be suitable for audiences who are full of fantasies about the love in the movie, and ambiguous does not necessarily equal romance. It is destined to disappoint these people or combinations.
Although the title states that the story takes place "one night," the film actually involves two nights. Joanna (Keira Knightley) and Michael (Sam Worthington) are a glamorous couple with an enviable beautiful home, their own careers, and a married couple. The love and troubles that young couples of three years often have with each other. On the first night, the two went to a party together, and the wife discovered that her husband's female colleague, Lola, never took her eyes off him. With a woman's intuition, she senses "a little bit of an affair" between Laura (played by Eva Mendes) and her husband, and this suspicion gradually escalates into a fight and a reconciliation on the first night. Interestingly, the director did not confine the ambiguity between the two characters, but also used it as a way of hinting at the audience's perception of the film: the camera alternated back and forth between the wife's eyes, the husband's tiny movements, and Lola's eyes, showing The relationship between the characters also brings a clear perception. The audience quickly agreed with his wife's suspicions, and then unguardedly accepted the entire film's presupposition of ambiguity. "First Night" is quite immersive and entertaining for the audience.
The movies that followed were lackluster. Both the plot and the senses are too rigid at the beginning of the presupposition, and the lack of dramatic plot allows the audience to guess the motives and endings of the characters early, lacking highlights and surprises. The entire film is immersed in ambiguity and melancholy, no real love and emotion are aroused, and the ethics and responsibilities involved are not clearly discussed. In this soothing, melancholy, and seductive mood, the film becomes ever more boring.
The next day, when Joanna runs into her "old lover" Alex (Guillaume Canet) who was in Paris two years ago on the street, we know she has only one thing left to do So tangled: should I continue with him again. At the same time, we also learn that she is a writer, of course, a "beauty writer": Keira's performance convincingly acknowledges that this type of writer is all about appearance, never her intellectual side. Keira Knightley and Guillaume Canet, known as "France's Sexiest Man", are undoubtedly the perfect on-screen lovers, preferably in entertainment idol films with serious themes. The film also needs a more layered performance, which is what the two of them lack in "One Night Love".
Fortunately, husband Michael was on a business trip, and Joanna had a whole night to make a decision; unfortunately, Michael was on a business trip with Lola. The first night's experience tells us what Laura is sure to do. There will be trials for both husband and wife. In the following time, the two dated, drank, chatted with their lovers, and did what they should and should not do. For these four, it was a scene full of temptation, ambiguity, memories, and shame. , The painful night, for the audience, there is one more feeling, boring.
While "One Night Love" keeps the film's entertainment to a minimum with its mediocre narrative and soothing pacing, it's not a serious discussion of marriage, family, and responsibilities. It also has nothing to do with love. In some of the best films about affairs, we clearly feel that extramarital affairs can also be the truest form of love, and can be a profound life experience. In "Love One Night", rather than saying that the protagonists are not really in love, it is better to say that they do not have the ability and perception of love. Joanna told Alex that she was with Michael only because she met him first, she loved him, and of course she was deeply attracted to Alex. For her, the object of love can actually be replaced. There is no essential difference between love and temptation. Temptation and time advantage are the basis of her marriage. The four protagonists of this film are four unusually monotonous people. They are writers with no personality, a French lover who only understands romance, a husband who lacks responsibility and willpower, and a seducer who is accustomed to exerting charm. The four fall into temptation. In the ambiguous game, there is not much content outside the game.
"One Night Love" seems to have a sort of Puritan spirit at its core, assuming that the natural attraction between man and woman is subdued so that family love is safe. He does not seem to see that there is a vast void between sensual temptation and true love, between family responsibilities and conjugal love. When the frustrated Alex left alone, the void left in the dry tears on his bloodless face; when the guilty Michael rushed back to his wife and continued to exchange lies for her comfort When it comes to peace of mind, what the audience sees is also this void.
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